<i>So Red the Rose</i>

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So Red the Rose

<p><i><b>So Red the Rose</b></i> is the only <a href="/en/Album" title="Album" class="wl">studio album</a> by the <a href="/en/Duran_Duran" title="Duran Duran" class="wl">Duran Duran</a>-spinoff group <a href="/en/Arcadia_(band)" title="Arcadia (band)" class="wl">Arcadia</a>, released in 1985. It included the singles "<a href="/en/Election_Day_(song)" title="Election Day (song)" class="wl">Election Day</a>", "<a href="/en/Goodbye_Is_Forever" title="Goodbye Is Forever" class="wl">Goodbye Is Forever</a>" and "<a href="/en/The_Flame_(Arcadia_song)" title="The Flame (Arcadia song)" class="wl">The Flame</a>". The album peaked at #23 on the Billboard 200 in January 1986 and at #30 on the UK Albums charts in December 1985.</p>

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background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">So Red the Rose</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:SoRedTheRose_albumcover_fairuse.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:SoRedTheRose_albumcover_fairuse.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/SoRedTheRose_albumcover_fairuse.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="197" data-file-type="bitmap" height="197" width="200" alt="SoRedTheRose_albumcover_fairuse.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/en/Album" title="Album" class="wl">Studio album</a><span> </span>by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/en/Arcadia_(band)" title="Arcadia (band)" class="wl">Arcadia</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">18 November 1985 <br> 12 April 2010 (boxset)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">April–June 1985</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Studio</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">Studio de la Grande Armée (<a href="/en/Paris" title="Paris" class="wl">Paris</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Music_genre" title="Music genre" class="wl">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist">
<ul><li><a href="/en/New_wave_music" title="New wave music" class="wl">New wave</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Synth-pop" title="Synth-pop" class="wl">synth-pop</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Art_rock" title="Art rock" class="wl">art rock</a></li></ul>
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">43</span>:<span class="s">36</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_label" title="Record label" class="wl">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">
<ul><li><a href="/en/Parlophone" title="Parlophone" class="wl">Parlophone</a> (UK)</li>
<li><a href="/en/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records" class="wl">Capitol</a>/<a href="/en/EMI" title="EMI" class="wl">EMI</a> (U.S.)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/en/Alex_Sadkin" title="Alex Sadkin" class="wl">Alex Sadkin</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Arcadia_(band)" title="Arcadia (band)" class="wl">Arcadia</a></li></ul>
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background: lightsteelblue"><a href="/en/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)" class="wl">Singles</a> from <i> So Red the Rose </i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left">
<ol><li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/Election_Day_(song)" title="Election Day (song)" class="wl">Election Day</a>"</span><br>Released: October 1985</span></li>
<li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/Goodbye_Is_Forever_(song)" title="Goodbye Is Forever (song)" class="mw-redirect wl">Goodbye Is Forever</a>"</span><br>Released: January 1986 (US)</span></li>
<li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/The_Promise_(Arcadia_song)" title="The Promise (Arcadia song)" class="wl">The Promise</a>"</span><br>Released: January 1986 (UK)</span></li>
<li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/en/The_Flame_(Arcadia_song)" title="The Flame (Arcadia song)" class="wl">The Flame</a>"</span><br>Released: July 1986</span></li></ol>
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<p>There were many musical guests on the album, including <a href="/en/David_Gilmour" title="David Gilmour" class="wl">David Gilmour</a> of <a href="/en/Pink_Floyd" title="Pink Floyd" class="wl">Pink Floyd</a>, <a href="/en/Herbie_Hancock" title="Herbie Hancock" class="wl">Herbie Hancock</a>, <a href="/en/Grace_Jones" title="Grace Jones" class="wl">Grace Jones</a>, and <a href="/en/Sting_(musician)" title="Sting (musician)" class="wl">Sting</a> (who provided backing vocals on "<a href="/en/The_Promise_(Arcadia_song)" title="The Promise (Arcadia song)" class="wl">The Promise</a>").</p>

<p>The album's artwork featured painted ink drawings by fashion <a href="/en/Illustrator" title="Illustrator" class="wl">illustrator</a> <a href="/en/Tony_Viramontes" title="Tony Viramontes" class="wl">Tony Viramontes</a><span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Rhys-Morgan,_Dean_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-Rhys-Morgan,_Dean-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> of fashion model Violeta Sanchez as well as an innovative "light space" photograph of the band by <a href="/en/Dean_Chamberlain" title="Dean Chamberlain" class="wl">Dean Chamberlain</a>, who also directed the video for the song "Missing."<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Flavorwire_2-0"><a href="#cite_note-Flavorwire-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span> <a href="/en/Nick_Rhodes" title="Nick Rhodes" class="wl">Nick Rhodes</a> said of the model Sanchez on the album cover, "She had an elegance to her, an old style classic beauty".<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Rhys-Morgan,_Dean_1-1"><a href="#cite_note-Rhys-Morgan,_Dean-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></p>



So Red the Rose is the only studio album by the Duran Duran-spinoff group Arcadia, released in 1985. It included the singles "Election Day", "Goodbye Is Forever" and "The Flame". The album peaked at #23 on the Billboard 200 in January 1986 and at #30 on the UK Albums charts in December 1985. There were many musical guests on the album, including David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Herbie Hancock, Grace Jones, and Sting . The album's artwork featured painted ink drawings by fashion illustrator Tony Viramontes 