Duck Rock

Duck Rock
Studio album by Malcolm McLaren
Released	27 May 1983 [1]
Recorded	1982
Genre	World music, hip hop, novelty
Length	43:36
Label	Charisma, Island, Atco, Atlantic
Producer	Trevor Horn, Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm McLaren chronology
Duck Rock (1983) Fans (1985)
Singles from Duck Rock
"Buffalo Gals" Released: 19 November 1982 [2] "Soweto" Released: 21 February 1983 [3] "Double Dutch" Released: 24 June 1983 [4] "Duck for the Oyster" Released: December 1983

Duck Rock is an album released by British impresario Malcolm McLaren. It was originally issued in 1983 by Charisma Records, Virgin Records, and Chrysalis Records, and later re-released on CD in 1987. The album mixes up styles from South Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States, including hip hop. The album proved to be highly influential in bringing hip hop to a wider audience in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]} Two of the singles from the album, "Buffalo Gals" and "Double Dutch", became major chart hits on both sides of the Atlantic. Duck Rock was dedicated to Harry McClintock, better known as Haywire Mac. The album artwork was designed by Dondi White and Nick Egan, with the illustration by Keith Haring.

Guest musicians featured on this album include Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, J. J. Jeczalik, and Thomas Dolby. Side recordings that Horn, Dudley and Jeczalik made in between takes of Duck Rock would eventually become the first album of the Art of Noise, Into Battle with the Art of Noise. Clips of the World's Famous Supreme Team radio show appear between songs, which made the album one of the earliest recordings on which members of the Nation of Gods and Earths appear.

After being out of print for a long period of time, the UK label The state51 Conspiracy released a 40th Anniversary edition of Duck Rock as an LP with an extra 12" single of outtakes, B-sides and related songs in 2023. The packaging includes elements from an aborted 25th Anniversary edition McLaren intended to release in 2008.^[5]