Taylor was a member of Duran Duran from 1980 to 1986, and again from 2001 to 2006. “However, none of this needs to or should detract from what this band (with or without me) has achieved and sustained for 44 years.” “Despite the exceptional efforts of my team, I had to be honest in that both physically and mentally, I would be pushing my boundaries,” the letter read. I'm sure as hell glad I'm around to see the day.Taylor said in his letter that he had recently suffered a “setback,” and acknowledged that while his condition is not immediately life-threatening, there is no cure. I'm so very proud of these four brothers I'm amazed at their durability, and I'm overjoyed at accepting this award. Let there be no doubt I was stoked about the whole thing, even bought a new guitar with the essential whammy! I'm truly sorry and massively disappointed I couldn’t make it.
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We've had a privileged life, we were a bit naughty but really nice, a bit shirty but very well dressed, a bit full of ourselves, because we had a lot to give, but as I’ve said many times, when you feel that collective, instinctive, kindred spirit of creativity mixed with ambition, armed with an über cool bunch of fans, well what could possibly go wrong? However, none of this needs to or should detract from what this band (with or without me) has achieved and sustained for 44 years. Recently I was doing okay after some very sophisticated life extending treatment, that was until a week or so ago when I suffered a setback, and despite the exceptional efforts of my team, I had to be honest in that both physically and mentally, I would be pushing my boundaries. Although my current condition is not immediately life threatening there is no cure. I have the Rodgers and Edwards of doctors and medical treatment that until very recently allowed me to just rock on. Many families have experienced the slow burn of this disease and of course we are no different so I speak from the perspective of a family-man but with profound humility to the band, the greatest fans a group could have and this exceptional accolade. Just over 4-years ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. What's the point? There's no stopping this 44-year thing called "Duran Duran”. Now for the bad blood, well the good news is that there is none, just pure love and respect for everything we wrote, recorded and achieved together. The Producers: Colin Thurston, Alex Sadkin, Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers - I've also really dug the work with Mark Ronson - I particularly admire 'All You Need Is Now’, that's a DD melody if ever I heard one. The original believers: Paul and Michael Berrow, Dave Ambrose, Terry Slater, Rob Hallett. My family: my incredibly sane wife of 40 years - Tracey - my amazing children, Andy, Georgie, Bethy and Izzy, not forgetting my grandson Albie, who's probably online listening or on Fortnite!!! I would like to thank each of my brothers in this great band. You can dream about what happened to us but to experience it, on one's own terms, as mates, was beyond incredible. Because we were instinctively the right fit, we evolved very quickly, writing RIO as our second album with the confidence our very early success with 'Girls On Film' and 'Planet Earth' inspired.
We were ripe to absorb what was the art of analogue recording, but with some different kit, Nick's artful obsession with synth technology was something I'd never seen before and I was introduced to layers. I loved going into the studio and recording our material nobody else sounded like us. I could go to all those places as a player and developed a hybrid guitar style that fitted this amazing concept OF A BAND… We all grew up on the same vinyl records and live gigs, from David Bowie to Roxy Music, The Sex Pistols and of course CHIC. As a guitar player in a progressive band from the synth days of the early eighties, literally from the day I met Nick, John, Simon and Roger they truly valued the contribution of a rather noisy, versatile Northern brat. I’m proud of everything we’ve achieved together and of the way you have continued. There’s nothing that comes close to such recognition. I wanted to send a personal note to pass along my sincerest respect to you all for what’s been an amazing career, and to also share what has happened to me.įirstly, can I say what an absolute honour it was to be nominated let alone be inducted into the RRHOF. The band acknowledged his absence by reading portions of a letter that he drafted to commemorate the occasion.ĭear Simon, John, Roger, Nick, my fellow inductees and countrymen Andy Taylor, who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Duran Duran tonight in Los Angeles, was not able to attend the ceremonies due to illness.
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