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Duran Duran

White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)

1995 · via Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Duran Duran’s earliest release of “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)” on file came out in 1995. Grandmaster Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Melle-Mel’s, from 1983. Also recorded by Grandmaster Flash (released 1997), Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five (released 1984) and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (released 1995), among 135 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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The credit reads Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson, and the song wandered a long way from them: Duran Duran cut it, then came back years later with Mella Mel on the track. Even Jamie Cullum had a go.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Grandmaster Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson.

Earliest release on file: Melle-Mel, 1983.

Other recordings on file · first release year

135 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Grandmaster Melle Mel shares the writing credit on "White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)" with exactly one other name. Who co-wrote it with him?Sylvia Robinson
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