<P> "Hungry Like the Wolf" was written and recorded on a Saturday in the spring of 1982 at the basement studios of EMI's London headquarters . Nick Rhodes started the song's demo in the morning with a sequencer; the song was built throughout the day as each band member arrived, and by the evening it was essentially complete . </P> <P> "That track came from fiddling with the new technology that was starting to come in", guitarist Andy Taylor said in an interview with Blender magazine . This refers to the rhythmic backing track they came up with by joining a Roland TR - 808 drum machine with a sequencer and a Roland Jupiter - 8 keyboard . </P> <P> Rhodes came up with an idea for the backing track in the car while he was going to the studio . He started playing with the Roland Jupiter 8 keyboard, while singer Simon Le Bon was working with the lyrics . The lyrics were inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, and the repeating of the word "do" at the end of each verse takes its melody from the instrumentals in Gordon Lightfoot's song "If You Could Read My Mind". Andy Taylor worked out a Marc Bolan - ish guitar part, a very Marshall - sounding Les Paul guitar lick that was added to the track . Then the bass and drums were added, and the whole track was finished that day, including Le Bon's vocal melody and lyrics . The laugh at the beginning of the song and the screams during the song's fade - out were performed and recorded live by Rhodes' girlfriend at the time . </P> <P> The group re-recorded the song for the Rio album a few months later at London's AIR Studios with producer Colin Thurston, who also recorded the hits "Too Shy" for Kajagoogoo, and "I Want Candy" for Bow Wow Wow . Andy Taylor remembers: "He was a great organizer and arranger, we gave him far more ideas and music than the track actually needed, and he was important in the process of whittling them down to the essential elements ." Thurston and the band decided to keep the demo's original electronic backing track and just re-record the other instruments and vocals . </P>

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