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Сообщение SeriousGirl » Чт июн 21, 2012 4:51 pm

HE'S ONE OF US


Обалдеть - я думала, это только у нас выкручивались с желанием послушать музыку путём многократного перезаписывания на кассеты. :sh_ok:

I think songwriters and performers will survive. They just will. Maybe there isn’t as much money in the pot as there was in the mid-70s or mid-80s, but the good writers and the good performers will survive."


Абсолютно с ним согласна.
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Вт июл 17, 2012 6:38 pm

Duran days of sex & drugs

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Duran Duran was offered sex by so many young women during the group’s US debut, the band’s call sheets included the local age of consent in every state they played.
“Of absolute necessity for any touring musician is the itinerary,” bassist John Taylor recalls of his group’s first US tour, in 1981, in his upcoming autobiography, “In the Pleasure Groove.” “In the left-hand corner of each page of the US itinerary, there was a number, usually 18, 21, or 20. It was months before I was let in on the secret. The numbers referred to the legal age for sexual intercourse in that particular state.”

Taylor says he was in such a haze of sex and drugs that another sheet handed out daily included such basic information as “Today is October 3. It is Friday. You are in Chicago.”
Despite the adulation, Taylor says, in a manuscript obtained by Page Six, he began to use women and drugs to stave off loneliness on tour.
“I didn’t want to be lonely, and the drugs ensured I never was,” he writes in the book, out from Dutton this fall. “I’m a pinup on thousands of bedroom walls, but the fear of loneliness is turning me into a cokehead.”
Three years after Duran Duran — which includes Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes and will open the Olympics in London this month — debuted in America at New York’s Ritz, the band sold out Madison Square Garden, which he calls “the biggest ego venue in the world.”
They also recorded at the Power Station, where,“Dylan was down the hall,” as were Mick Jagger and Bryan Ferry. “I’d never seen more drugs in my life,” Taylor, now sober, writes. “The access to cocaine was unlimited.”
“Everyone wanted to party with me,” he recalls, “but behind the party face, I was caught up in a vortex of fear, arrogance, loneliness and extraordinary popularity.”
After heading to rehab and getting his life back together, Taylor, now married to Juicy Couture co-founder Gela Nash-Taylor, says, “The addictions are still there, and keeping them at bay requires work.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/duran_d ... as2YNyYRZO
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Ср сен 19, 2012 11:18 am

Former Duran Duran star John Taylor unveils new music suite

by Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post Sep 19 2012

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Duran Duran bassist John Taylor struck a chord with pupils when he returned to the site of his old school to open its new £200,000 music suite.

Taylor, fresh from a world tour with the Birmingham band and the launch of his autobiography, visited Trinity High School in Redditch to unveil its state-of-the-art centre.

The suite, equipped with a teaching space, a bank of the latest Apple iMac computers, a recording studio and practice rooms, is one of many projects set to improve the environment at Trinity.

Taylor, 52, was a pupil at The Abbey High School, on the same site, which closed in 2001.

“Coming back to Redditch and my old school bought back some very fond memories for me,” he said.

“It feels like only yesterday that I was here as a child and teenager.

“After the death of my father I realised I had lost my connection to Redditch and the city of Birmingham and that was the inspiration for writing my book.

“Coming back to Redditch and my old school has been a wonderful experience.”

Head teacher Marian Barton said she hoped the new centre would encourage even more pupils to take up music at GCSE level.

“The school is delighted that John found time in his hectic schedule to open our new music suite,” she said.

“Music is a popular subject at Trinity with the number of students choosing to study it at Key stage 4 and Post 16 increasing every year.”

The centre has been funded through a £661,800 grant from the Education Funding Agency, which will also go towards replacing windows, facades and roof coverings.
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Чт сен 20, 2012 4:42 pm

Pleasure Groove: Duran Duran stars had to be told age of consent in each state during 'sex' tour of US in 1981

By Mark Jefferies 15 Jul 2012

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Duran Duran had the chance to have sex with so many women while touring the US that they had to be told the age of consent in each state.

Band members including Simon Le Bon and John Taylor were given a sheet of paper that had the legal age for sex.

Organisers of the 1981 were worried that Taylor, Simon Le Bon, Roger Taylor and Nick Rhodes were sleeping with so many groupies they would get arrested for under age sex.

“Of absolute necessity for any touring musician is the itinerary,” said Taylor.

“In the left-hand corner of each page of the US itinerary, there was a number, usually 18, 21, or 20. It was months before I was let in on the secret. The numbers referred to the legal age for sexual intercourse in that particular state.”

Taylor,now aged 52, said their first tour of America passed in a haze of sex and drugs.

He writes about the tour in his upcoming autobiography “In the Pleasure Groove.”

Taylor said the tour was such a blur that they group had to be reminded by handlers where they were and what day it was.

But according to extracts obtained by the New York Post Taylor said she turned to sex and drugs to cope with the loneliness of being on tour.

I didn’t want to be lonely, and the drugs ensured I never was.”

“I’m a pinup on thousands of bedroom walls, but the fear of loneliness is turning me into a cokehead.”

Taylor, now married to the founder of fashion label Juicy Couture Gela Nash-Taylor, recalled one recording session overflowing with drugs.

“Dylan was down the hall,” as were Mick Jagger and Bryan Ferry. “I’d never seen more drugs in my life.

“The access to cocaine was unlimited.”

“Everyone wanted to party with me,” he recalls, “but behind the party face, I was caught up in a vortex of fear, arrogance, loneliness and extraordinary popularity.”

Taylor, who is now clean of drugs, admitted that it is a daily struggle to stay clean.

“The addictions are still there, and keeping them at bay requires work.”

Duran Duran, one of the biggest groups of the 1980s with hits like “Rio” and “Save and Prayer”, will take part in the Olympic opening celebrations later this month
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Чт сен 20, 2012 4:51 pm

Duran Duran star goes back to school

By Ian Dipple Wednesday 19 September 2012

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THE MAN who co-founded one of the most successful bands in British music history returned to his former school in Redditch this week to open a new music suite.

John Taylor, bass player in Duran Duran, unveiled a plaque on Tuesday (September 18) to officially open the £200,000 suite at Trinity High School, which he attended in the 1970s when it was known as the Abbey High School.

The suite includes a bank of the latest Apple iMac computers, practice rooms and its own recording studio.

"This is a very exciting moment for Redditch, this school and for me," he said.

"My journey started as a dream here. Being here gave me confidence - something along the lines of why not me? Instead of why me?"

As part of the celebrations the 52-year-old, who grew up in Hollywood near Wythall, listened to a performance of Coldplay's hit Fix You by the school's choir and also spent some time in the studio with one of Redditch's many aspiring young bands Stereojets, which list Duran Duran as one of their influences.

The group's vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Prescott said: "Performing for him was nervous and exciting at the same time and an experience we'll all remember."

Lead guitarist David Peace added: "Especially for someone from Redditch as it shows it's possible to do it."

Speaking to the Standard Mr Taylor said it was while at high school he discovered his passion for music but his dreams of being a pop star did not start well as he was thrown out of his first music class for singing out of tune and his careers officer was dismissive of his ambition to be a pop star.

"When I was here it was all about the orchestra. I remember asking if I could get guitar lessons and was told 'We don't teach guitar' so I said how about saxophone 'We don't do saxophone either'. There was a great pride in the orchestra and it was all about building up to the Christmas concert at St Stephen's but now it is much more contemporary and efforts to engage the kids in contemporary instruments and music," he said.

"The first time I ever played in front of anyone was the sixth form dance so it was just right at the end of my school experience I started to play music but I had to find my way to it. Parents today seem more encouraging of their kids doing music, but my parents were not hip to that I had to really want it, it was never really put on me."

He added he hoped the new music suite would 'give birth to some fantastic music and ideas'.

"There's something really fantastic about being able to record and hear your own voice. So much music today is self-engineered and self-produced so you are getting kids off to a start in engineering, sound recording and sound manipulation, so it's a great way to improve when you start hearing yourself back. If we'd had that it would have been an entirely different way of learning."

Staff and students were also eager to get the '80s pop star to sign copies of his new autobiography, In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran, which delves into all aspects of his life including his battle with drug addiction.

"I had to go into the dark side - I did not do a lot of self censorship I just went with it," he said.

"It seems to be fairly well balanced. What's amazing is we sold some serial rights and the Mirror just took the most sensational sentences - of which there aren't a lot, it's really not a nasty book it's not a kiss and tell but it's real - and they strung it all together and made it sound like the worst, most nastiest thing, but whatever, I want people to read it."

The revamp of the music room was inspired by head of music Clare Lyons, who after being appointed last year gave up her own time to paint it, which prompted headteacher Marian Barton to act, using money from the school's conversion to academy status and help from governors.

As a result the number of students applying to do music at A-Level has tripled and is growing at GCSE level as well.

"I already knew the music room wasn't fit for purpose, students had nowhere to practise, there was no proper equipment and when Clare came in she was so enthusiastic we found the funds to do it," Mrs Barton said.

"I'm hoping to improve GCSE music and A level results. It's not just about Maths and English, we've improved those, but we want to make sure every subject is improved right across the board."
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Duran Duran's John Taylor opens music suite at his old school in Redditch

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by Paul Suart, Birmingham Mail Sep 19 2012


DURAN Duran bass player John Taylor struck a chord with pupils when he returned to the site of his old school to open its new £200,000 music suite.

Taylor, fresh from a world tour with the Birmingham band and the launch of his autobiography, was at Trinity High School in Redditch to unveil its state-of-the-art centre.

The suite, equipped with a teaching space, a bank of the latest Apple iMac computers, a recording studio and practice rooms, is one of many projects set to improve the environment at Trinity.

Taylor, 52, was a pupil at The Abbey High School, on the same site, which closed in 2001.

“Coming back to Redditch and my old school bought back some very fond memories for me,” he said.

“It feels like only yesterday that I was here as a child and teenager.
“After the death of my father I realised I had lost my connection to Redditch and the city of Birmingham and that was the inspiration for writing my book.

“Coming back to Redditch and my old school has been a wonderful experience.”

Head teacher Marian Barton said she hoped the new centre would encourage even more pupils to take up music at GCSE level.

“The school is delighted that John found time in his hectic schedule to open our new music suite,” she said.

“Music is a popular subject at Trinity with the number of students choosing to study it at Key stage 4 and Post 16 increasing every year.”

The centre has been funded through a £661,800 grant from the Education Funding Agency, which will also go towards replacing windows, facades and roof coverings.
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top- ... -31863179/
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Сообщение CrazyFan » Вс сен 23, 2012 4:42 pm

What I know about women

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September 23, 2012

John Taylor
Rock star, 52
married for 13 years
I've got an extraordinary partner. She's a really amazing woman, Gela [Nash-Taylor, co-founder of the Juicy Couture fashion label]. We met in 1996 and married in 1999. She was evolved, shall we say, when I met her. She knew who she was and I still had a bit of catching up to do.
It took me a long time to figure out how to be a partner, in a marriage or relationship. Those early days with Duran Duran, I couldn't have been faithful to save my life. There was no way I could be monogamous.
I didn't know it back then, but as soon as you put a glass of alcohol in front of me, all bets were off. Without that, I think I'm a fairly moral guy and I'm not expecting to jump into bed with anyone I might meet, anywhere.

But you put that glass of alcohol in front of me and I'll have your girlfriend off you. There was an ego and drugs were a part of it, too: this feeling that it's all possible - I can have anybody in this room. That's a pretty powerful position to be in. You're alone with a make-up girl or some press person or PR, anybody. But when you're having sex with several different women in any given week, it starts to become unnatural and it starts to become damaging after a while.
It's a pretty crazy side effect of wanting to make music. And it messed me up for a long time. I found it very, very difficult to come down to earth and have an honest, authentic, monogamous relationship with anybody.
With my first wife [British socialite Amanda De Cadenet], the woman with whom I had my daughter Atlanta, who's now 20, I was almost ready. I did want it, I really wanted it, and I certainly didn't go screwing around on her, but I really struggled to just be a partner. I resented it.
Growing up, I had a profound relationship with my mum. I'm an only child and I didn't have to share her with anybody. I could come home at 5am and she would be up waiting for me and I could download everything. And she loved being there for me in that way.
But there came a point where it stopped being cool. I had such an identity crisis in the mid-'80s and I blamed my parents for that. I just started looking at Mum as someone who needed to be on a diet. I think that's necessary because, well, it's Oedipal in a way, with boys and their mothers. They are just this gold standard against which every subsequent relationship is measured. It's about that unconditional thing, it's about how they serve. I mean, my mother served me. I was a little prince - I didn't know it at the time. So relationships were difficult because you're expecting that same level of service.
When I met Gela, that's when I originally left the band, because I felt I needed to focus on making our relationship work. I became obsessed with the thought that I am not getting divorced for a second time. And we went through some shit, as you do. Life is full of it, right? Our experience is of a blended family [Gela has two children from a previous marriage], which is really challenging. Many times my wife would say, "We are never going to make it - don't you get it?" And I'd say, "Yes we f...ing well are! I'm not letting those kids break us up. If we break up, it's because we want it."
When I was growing up, I didn't want what my parents had. It seemed too boring. There was this level of familiarity; they almost finished each other's sentences. But I guess as you get older, what you want changes and I just want security now. I love having someone I can talk to about anything; that's a great privilege.
But in order to have that, you've got to be honest, so you've got to get your shit right. Having that openness and authenticity with one other person is so great, but you can't
be going into it if you are lying all the time. And for years, I had a secret life. I couldn't be honest with my partner.
So I really had to clean up my act and now I'm starting to see the joys and the effects of that honesty, and what can be gained from it. It is of infinite depth.
John Taylor's autobiography, In the Pleasure Groove, is out on Tuesday.
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Duran Duran's John Taylor revisits Smash Hits years

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23 September 2012


In 1985, Duran Duran were the best group in the world and their bassist John Taylor was most fanciable person and the second most wonderful human being alive (behind Bob Geldof). At least, that was according to that year's Smash Hits readers' poll.

Taylor was the most popular member of the most popular pop band in Britain. They epitomised the glamour and excess of the 1980s and Taylor has detailed his exploits in his autobiography In The Pleasure Groove.

Magazines like Smash Hits and No 1 could not get enough of them - so I dug into the National Pop Magazine Archive (otherwise known as my wife's collection in our cellar) to find questions from old interviews to put to Taylor again now, to see how his answers have changed.

"When I look at some of the interviews I can't believe how arrogant I was," he says.

Q: Do you still consider yourself a young man? If not when did you stop thinking you were? (No 1 magazine, December 1985)

John's answer now: "No, I made a very definite decision a couple of years ago [when he was 50] that I was now middle aged. And it was actually a really good decision to make, because I'd been feeling like a very tired young man for quite a few years, and making that acknowledgement, suddenly I felt like a very sprightly and hip middle aged guy."

Back in 1985, John said he ceased thinking of himself as in the first flush of youth that year. "That's not to say I consider myself old though. I just feel a more responsible human being," he told the magazine.

Q: Looking back, is there anything you regret doing? (No 1, around late 1985/early '86)

JT: "Not really. Maybe I wished I'd played on Come Undone. I'd gone back to LA. We'd put that album to bed and I said: 'I'm not coming back for one more song.' Maybe it would have been a different song if I'd been there, maybe it wouldn't have been such a great song. But I'm not one for regrets."

Back in the '80s, he said he did not like a couple of videos "where we're mincing about" and the title of their third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

Q: What would you be if you weren't a pop star? (Look-In magazine, 1984)

JT: "A graphic artist."

Wrong. The answer he gave to Look-In (the junior TV Times) was: "An idiot!"

Q: Favourite item of clothing? (Look-In again)

JT: "Right now it's a black Balmain jacket."

The 1984 answer was leather trousers. "I almost said leather trousers," he says. "I've got some nice leather trousers. I was looking at some this morning actually. Except now they're not really very appropriate very often."

Q: If you were a domestic appliance, what would it be? (Look-In)

JT: "Oh God… [he groans in agony] A domestic appliance? A toaster."

His original answer was: "A fridge so I could stay cool." He roars with delight at this reminder of his wit: "All right! See, you had to come up with hip one-liners like that all the time."

How do you react to being voted most fanciable person? (Smash Hits, December 1985)

JT: "That's a lot of pressure isn't it?"

His answer to the magazine was: "God! What do I have to do to be taken seriously?" adding, with singer Simon Le Bon in second: "How much did I win by?"

"Yeah, I hated all that popularity contest stuff actually," he says now. "Looking back, that wasn't such a good thing. We all got into that a little bit. Popular for what? I didn't take it seriously… my ego maybe did... In the naivety of the moment it probably did mess me up a bit. It's so meaningless and it will make you lazy and complacent when you should be working to prove your bass playing and your songwriting."

Q: What do you think of the new crop of pop stars? (Smash Hits, April 1989)

JT: "Not a lot. It's so dangerous when you get into 'in my day you had David Bowie and Queen in the pop charts'. Who's like that today? Who's written a song like Bohemian Rhapsody lately, played it themselves and put it at the top of the pop charts? It just doesn't happen any more.

"It's singers with producers, overly simplistic, lacking in soul, because it's all computer driven music that your ears will tire of very quickly. Adele is the exception I suppose."

At the time, Taylor's answer was: "Bros would never have been around if we hadn't been there first. I know that for a fact. They started off playing our songs." On hearing this, the present-day Taylor says of his younger self: "What an idiot."

Q: What makes you cynical? (No 1, December 1985)

JT: "Hypocrisy. People with a God complex who think they know what's best for others. I suppose people who try to control. I'm not terribly cynical actually."

In 1985, Taylor said he disliked lawyers but was not a very cynical person, adding: "I hate hypocrites and I hate it when anything that is artistic is controlled by non-artistic people." Not much change here.

Q: Why are you a tax exile? (Smash Hits Book of Personal Files, November 1986)

JT: "I didn't know I was. The only time we took a year out was '83 and I don't remember planning it in advance. It was just served up for us - this is what we're going to do. We were recording the difficult third album. We did it in the south of France, the Caribbean and finished it off in Sydney. These days I go backwards and forwards between the States and here and it's all the same tax wise."

In the Smash Hits grilling, he was quoted as saying he did not see why, "with a career that may at best last five years", he should give 70% of his earnings to the government. He says now: "I don't have a problem with tax."

The tax aspect aside, did he only expect his career to last for five years? "Back then, definitely," he says. "You couldn't take anything for granted. I still don't, although now I know we've got a legacy that will feed us. I don't think anybody believes they're going to be around for a long time. There's footage of John Lennon saying: 'We're hoping to get 12 months out of it.'"

Q: Are Duran Duran down the dumper? (headline from Smash Hits, 1987)

JT: "Well clearly not."

The original headline was completed by the word: "No!"

Q: Is there a lot of pressure now to become The Biggest again? (No 1, March 1986)

JT: "There was definitely a lot of pressure then. But I stopped thinking in terms of hits a long time ago.

"I've stopped thinking in terms of an end result because I realised I kept comparing [ourselves to] the sales and chart positions we had when we were young. And it seemed like for a long time: 'Oh God we're never gonna top that. It's going to be downhill.'"

Back in 1986, as the band were losing their grip at the top of the charts, the younger Taylor admitted: "Oh yeah. There's so much pressure."

Q: Would you give up being in Duran? (not a pop magazine but the Los Angeles Times, March 1985)

JT: "I did leave actually about 15 years ago. I thought I'd gone for good but it was the friendship that bought me back. I could [leave now] but I love what we get to do together. That stage time is precious and I love putting on stage shows. It's my favourite thing."

In March 1985, Taylor had just released an album with side-project The Power Station. "I'm a star because of Duran," he told the LA Times. "I love being a star. The whole circus aspect of being in Duran is a pain after a while, but it's great being a star, with the girls screaming and the money rolling in. I know it sounds greedy and awful and people will think I'm an egomaniac, but I don't care."

On hearing this answer read back to him, he says: "When I look at some of the interviews, I can't believe how arrogant I was. We all were. You can't help it."
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Duran Duran's John Taylor hits out at Duchess of Cambridge topless photos

Sep 23 2012 by Fionnuala Bourke, Sunday Mercury

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EIGHTIES heart-throb John Taylor has hit out at the paparazzi and editors who have published pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge topless.
The Brummie bass player, who has enjoyed decades of success with Duran Duran – favourite band of Prince William’s mum, the late Diana, Princess of Wales – said he was angered by the photos.
Speaking at his old school, Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre in Redditch, John, 52, said: “Every time I start talking about it I get into an argument. People in the privacy of their own home should feel free that they are not going to be photographed.

“Those photographs were not taken in a public place, and should not have ended up in the public domain.”
John was visiting Redditch and Birmingham on a trip from his home in LA, where he lives with his wife Gela, to promote his autobiography.
The couple have three children from previous relationships – John was previously married to former actress and TV presenter Amanda de Cadenet, with whom he has a daughter, Atlanta.
He revealed he was inspired to write his autobiography following the death of his father, Jack, three years ago.
Grief ignited a desire in him to stay connected with the city of his birth, the place where he launched his life-changing career as a musician with neighbour Nick Rhodes in Wythall. In the book he reveals he was devastated by his dad’s death, and found it hard to come to terms with the loss.
“Initially it was selling the house that I had grown up in and seeing all these boxes of memorabilia,” he told the Sunday Mercury. “Right away I wanted to memorialise dad. That was the initial motivation to start writing.
“Then, as part of the grieving process, I realised I didn’t have a great connection with the area where I grew up, and of which I was very proud.”
John and Nick are the original members of Duran Duran. They soon joined forces with drummer Roger Taylor from Castle Bromwich, singer Simon Le Bon, who was studying at Birmingham University, and guitarist Andy Taylor, who has since left the band.
The Durans enjoyed a long line of hits, including Rio, Save A Prayer and View To A Kill. But John was kicked out of his music class for singing out of tune when he was at school.
“I remember telling the careers officer that I wanted to be a pop star,” he recalled. He said ‘Yes, don’t we all? But what are you actually going to do?’
“My journey started when I was a student here. I think being here gave me the confidence and I began to see a possible direction that my life could take.”
John admits he wasn’t a great success at school. He rarely attended lessons and instead spent his days wondering around Birmingham, visiting Virgin Records and Oasis clothing market.
“I was lucky to find my way another way,” he said. “But I’m not suggesting that anyone else should behave as I did back then.”
In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran by John Taylor, priced £18.99, is published by Sphere.
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Groove is in the heart

MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2012

John Taylor puts his demons to rest in his autobiography, says Jonathan Geddes

Despite the salacious title, there's a surprising heart to the autobiography of Duran Duran bassist John Taylor.
In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran delves into many subjects, but his relationship with his parents forms the backbone.

It was after his father died in 2008 that he first pondered penning a book, and his parents' impact on his life is consistent throughout the good and the bad in the memoir.

"I got sober coming up on 18 years ago, and before I bottomed out I was so unhappy," he says. "I'd thought I'd had this fantastic opportunity in my early 20s and just blown it. I resented everyone I was close to. I'd get on the phone to my parents and go out of my way to try and make them feel bad, because I wanted them to feel my pain."

Now 52, Taylor is sitting in a plush Glasgow hotel, sipping sparking water. He's a relaxed, sometimes self-deprecating speaker, and with a striking presence certainly looks good for his age.

He is also a man of contrasts. At one stage in the book he recalls how a mere wink could get any woman he wanted back to his hotel room, but there's a shyness there too. Back in the early days he and his friends played in bands as if they were "like kids pretending at playing at war". Yet there was a steely self-confidence he would always succeed.

"I was lucky that at 18 I was saying, 'I don't want to go to college, I want to be a rock star'," he says. "My parents were horrified, they were like, 'You can't even play the guitar'. And I was like, 'I can play enough'. And they said they'd give me a year.

"That was the big break, them supporting me like that – my dad had been laid off at the age of 57, thinking he had another seven or eight years of work ahead of him, so we were signing on together for a few months.

"But when you're 18 you have a lot of energy, and then you meet a guy like Nick [Rhodes] who also has a lot of energy, and it all comes together."

There are contrasts in the book as well. Taylor describes at length his battle to get sober, and speaks of the "relief" he felt when he was told he was an alcoholic, as well as the hope it might help others realise they also have a problem.

Yet there's a mischievous nature there, that looks back on the excess with a wry smile and a raised eyebrow.

"I really feel I've kept a good sense of humour about it," he says. "You have to - you can't talk about the music business with a really heavy face on it. It's not like brain surgery; it's the entertainment business.

"But then there's the psychology of what that lifestyle can lead into, especially if, like me, you didn't have an off switch. I really struggled. By the time I was 30 I was at sea in a dinghy on choppy water and it seemed like the others in the band had all found a certain degree of balance as they'd got work and home lives. I hadn't been able to do that."

He has that balance now, though, and has been happily married to Gela Nash for 13 years, following a rather more turbulent first marriage to the model Amanda De Cadenet. Such stability has helped Taylor, as well as provide him with lessons to how to make a marriage work.

"I thought with the first separation; I can blame on her, the second one will be a bit harder," he states, dryly.

"You can't have too much pride in a marriage. You've got to be prepared to lose a lot of arguments – there's a saying about whether you want to be right or happy, and sometimes you have to let stuff go."

As for the band, they plan to return to the studio in February to begin work on another album, with producer Mark Ronson back on board after helming 2011's All You Need Is Now.

Taylor believes they are now approaching the status of elder statesmen of pop quite gracefully, and despite everything he's been through he seems a man content with that in his own life, too.

"I got in an argument with Simon [Le Bon] the other day because he was adamant he wasn't middle aged," he laughs.

"Well, I am, and I feel a lot better since I acknowledged that. I felt like a really tired young man till about 40, most people have given up on that before then. But I was holding onto being young into my 40s.

"But then I thought, 'You're a really cool middle-aged guy – you look good for your age so you can get away with appreciating your garden and not having to drive so fast now.'"

In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran by John Taylor is published by Sphere.
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Duran Duran’s John Taylor talks supermodels and style icons.

by Natalie Evans-Harding / 25 September 2012

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Duran Duran’s John Taylor talks supermodels and style icons.

WHO: John Taylor from Duran Duran

WHAT: His new book In the Pleasure Groove

WHERE: In book shops now

Bazaar: Who do you feel privileged to have got to know?

Taylor: I got to know all of my icons – The Sex Pistols, The Clash, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury – and, really, none of them disappointed me. The hardest thing is to put the fan away, until you do you can’t have a peer-to-peer conversation. You have to be realistic though, when I met David Bowie he wasn’t Ziggy Stardust any more. He was still an amazing guy but he wasn’t at the peak of his creative powers.
Bazaar: Talk to us about your style icons… Duran Duran developed such a signature look in the eighties…

Taylor: The two greatest style icons of the 70s, my formative years, were Bowie and The Sex Pistols. Bowie really nailed that androgynous look and took 70s style to the max; he created this otherworldly creature and took what men could wear to the edge. I still envy those platform shoes he wore. But it was The Sex Pistols who really set the bar for us with Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood. From the t-shirts to the strapping, and all those sexual, S&M overtones.
Bazaar: So talk us through the Duran Duran style…

Taylor: After that kind of education, all I knew was that our band had to have a look and it had to be unlike anyone else’s look. There was a little crossover in our first year; a little Spandeau Ballet, Adam Ant, and Brian Ferry in there, but it was our own thing developing, we quickly found our own groove. I think we’ve given more to fashion than any other band. There are individuals like Madonna, but, as a band, we’ve supported more labels and designers than anyone.

Bazaar: And Duran Duran is so linked to models too of course…

Taylor: That’s Le Bon’s joke: ‘Who do pop stars date? Models.’ It’s like, ‘Why does a dog lick its own balls? Because it can’. In the eighties there was this music/fashion thing, so Simon married Yasmin [Le Bon] and I dated Renée [Simonsen], the face of the 80s. But other than that, Andy married his hairdresser, Roger married his Brummy homegirl and Nick married a girl from the Mid West. It was one of those little things that got magnified.

Bazaar: But in your Girl Panic video that you made with Bazaar, the whole band was played by supermodels!

Taylor: That video was a huge amount of work, but it was the video of the year, really. Nothing touched it and if there were really any justice it would have won a MTV and Brit award. Those scenes of the girls performing that song, they have to be some of the most enduring images in the history of music video.
Bazaar: What did the girls bring to it?

Taylor: They were all absolutely magnificent. Everyone had real commitment but it was Naomi who knocked it out of the park. She was late of course but proved to everybody why she is a superstar; she sold that song, it was an extraordinary thing to witness. Cindy even studied up on me so she could actually talk like me and have my perspective on things.

Bazaar: What was your experience of Cindy Crawford playing you?

Taylor: She’s an extraordinarily flexible individual, I was watching her in a Helmut Newton documentary and she was just tireless doing these shots over and over again. Cindy is very patient; she has a steady, unflappable temperament. Actually, when I was driving her up and down the Thames for that scene in the Rolls Royce, I seriously thought about just heading for Scotland, kick the camera crew out and heading for the border.
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JOHN TAYLOR SPEAKS AT THE 92ND STREET Y TRIBECA, ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT ROAD RECOVERY
September 27th, 2012

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Join Duran Duran bass player and founding member John Taylor and Harper’s BAZAAR editor in chief Glenda Bailey OBE for a conversation about Taylor’s incredible life and career, full of dreams fulfilled, lessons learned and demons conquered. Audience Q&A and book signing to follow.

A shy only child, Nigel John Taylor wasn’t an obvious candidate for pop stardom and frenzied girl panic. But when he ditched his first name and picked up a bass guitar, everything changed. Taylor formed Duran Duran with his friend Nick Rhodes in the summer of 1978, and they were soon joined by Roger Taylor, then Andy Taylor and finally Simon Le Bon. Together they were an immediate, massive global success story, their pictures on millions of walls, every single a worldwide hit. Alongside these highs were lows—drug abuse and sex addiction—that brought him to the brink of self-destruction before turning his life around.

Duran Duran has sold over 80 million records worldwide and been awarded six prestigious Lifetime Achievement awards, including ones from the BRITs and MTV. Their latest album, All You Need is Now, debuted at number one in fifteen countries. John has also recorded and toured with members of Chic, The Sex Pistols and Guns N’ Roses. He is the author of the memoir In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran.

Glenda Bailey is editor in chief of Harper’s BAZAAR. She has also served as editor in chief of the U.S. and British editions of Marie Claire. Bailey received an O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire), from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her services to British journalism and fashion in the United States.

A portion of the proceeds from this event go to Road Recovery – Music Pros Mentoring At-Risk Youth through Creative Workshops, Live Concert Events & Recording Projects, since 1998.

Road Recovery is dedicated to helping young people battle addiction and other adversities by harnessing the influence of entertainment industry professionals who have confronted similar crises and now wish to share their experience, knowledge and resources. With support from the mental health field, Road Recovery provides hands-on mentorship training, educational/performance workshops, peer-support networking and “all access” to real-life opportunities by collaborating with young people to create and present live-concert events. Road Recovery empowers young people of all backgrounds to face their struggles and helps them develop comprehensive life skills, guided by professionals and supported by a community of like-minded peers.

John Taylor with Glenda Bailey: Love, Death & Duran Duran
Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 7:30 pm
Venue: 92YTribeca Mainstage
Location: 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St
Price: from $15.00
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My autobiography is like a love letter to my home city of Birmingham - John Taylor

The idea for a book came about when Duran Duran bassist John Taylor was clearing out the loft of his father’s Birmingham home.
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He found a hoard of Duran Duran memorabilia, which his parents had faithfully kept.

Little by little, Taylor began to write about fragments from his life. Gradually, the volume of documents grew and started to form his life story.

Taylor, whose autobiography In The Pleasure Groove was published this month and has become an instant bestseller, takes up the story.

“It began out of sadness. I lost my dad and I moved everything out of the family house in Hollywood, south Birmingham. I couldn’t believe how suddenly my connections were being severed; both with my mother and my father and with the place, the suburb, where I’d grown up.

“I’ve lived in Los Angeles and Wiltshire for a while. But I used to enjoy those trips back to the family home, I’d use them as an excuse to drive around those inner city neighbourhoods that I grew up in.”

Taylor’s book is a love letter to Birmingham. It recalls his passion for the city and also reveals how his ambition to become a pop star was formulated at the age of five.

“I remember seeing The Beatles when I was really young. I wanted brothers and I wanted to travel the world with those brothers.

“I was just the lucky one who met Nick, then Simon and Roger and Andy, and we had the power. But having gotten all that, I realised how precarious it all was.

"As a human being, around 1985, around the time of Live Aid, I realised just how fragile it was.”

Taylor enjoyed writing his life story, finding the process cathartic. He worked on it for three months last summer, when the band took an unexpected break from their All You Need Is Now world tour, after singer Simon Le Bon had lost his voice.

“I don’t think of myself as a perfectionist,” he adds. “As I read through it now I think some stuff could have been better. It was about capturing lightning in a way, we wanted to get it.

“I am a pretty kind of energetic kind of guy, that’s how I am. So we didn’t want the book to be laboured. We wanted to keep it moving. I felt driven to do it.”

There are fascinating tales in In The Pleasure Groove, including one about The Police lead singer Sting.

“I talk a lot about being a fan and really getting into music. It was a passion. I remember going to see one gig, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. The opening band was a trio I’d never heard of.

I remember the singer mouthing off about one of the bands on the bill. He was a very confident guy and a superhot bass player.

He was mixing with the students, getting them to buy him pints. And he told the audience that one of the bands couldn’t play and I just swore at him. I told him where to go.

“Years later, I saw him on Top Of The Pops, when we were recording Ordinary World.

“I was about to tell him that story when he came over and heard the track. He just said: ‘That’s amazing, I wish I’d done that’. I laughed.”

The book recalls tales of debauchery – at one point, while on tour in the USA, Duran Duran’s tour manager gave each member of the band a list of ages of consent for each of the states that they played in, to ensure they didn’t get in trouble with the law.

“There’s a lot about my upbringing in Birmingham. In many ways, the book is a love letter to Birmingham,” he said.

“The city doesn’t shout about itself in the way that Manchester, Liverpool or London do. But it’s an incredible city when it comes to music, fashion, art and culture.”

In The Pleasure Groove by John Taylor is available now.
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Duran Duran's John Taylor: Recovery 'Never Stops'

By JULIE K.L. DAM
10/06/2012

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If there were a class on How To Survive Pop Stardom 101, John Taylor didn't take it.

With his band Duran Duran, the bassist went from teen music geek to international pin-up almost overnight with '80s hits like "Rio" and "Girls on Film." But during the height of his fame, "I didn't know how to turn on the off switch," says Taylor, now 52.

As he recounts in his new memoir, In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran, Taylor became dependent on drugs – specifically, cocaine and Ecstasy – and alcohol, losing a decade to hard partying, band turmoil and failed relationships before going to rehab in 1994.

Even now, recovery "never really stops," says Taylor, who is now happily married to Juicy Couture designer Gela Nash-Taylor and planning to record a new album with Duran Duran next year. "You have to find the right direction for your energies."
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His life in Duran Duran was a blur of girls and drugs (and John Taylor says that like it was a bad thing)
by LARRY GETLEN
Last Updated: 12:01 AM, October 7, 2012


In The Pleasure Groove

Love, Death & Duran Duran

by John Taylor with Tom Sykes

Dutton

Over Christmas, 1984, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor was greeted at his parents’ house by four huge bags of fan mail. As his parents gushed with pride, Taylor, noting how his folks “sounded like two fans who found their way into the house and inhabited my parents’ shells,” lost his mind.

“I emptied the sacks in a rageful frenzy, dumping the contents violently on the floor . . . frothing at the mouth, tearing up the envelopes unopened. My parents watched the rampage, their mouths agape. ‘Don’t you get it, you two? I don’t f - - - ing care about any of this!’ ”

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Taylor’s memoir, written with former Post columnist Tom Sykes, could have been subtitled “Rich White Rock Star’s Problems,” as he continually bemoans the burden of too many drugs to consume and babes to take to bed.

At 13, Taylor, born Nigel, bonded with 11-year-old Nick Bates over their love of glam rockers like David Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson. As teens, the pair embraced the genre’s fashions, from the baggie double-breasted suits of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry — Taylor’s idol — to gender-bending chiffon and animal-print scarves.

Their attire made them targets in their blue-collar town of Birmingham.

“We often drew insults from construction workers,” he writes, noting one incident where the pair were accosted by “a gang of denim-clad bozos” who screamed, “We are gonna get you! You fairies are f - - - ing dead!”

Blending their glam-rock influences with punk and New Wave, and changing their names to John Taylor and Nick Rhodes, the pair hooked up with drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor (none of the Taylors are related), and singer Simon Le Bon, who showed up to the band’s first meeting in “skintight leopard-print ski pants with loops under the boots,” looking to Taylor like “Shakespeare’s idea of a rock star.”

The band signed to EMI and released their first single, “Planet Earth.” Taylor was 20 years old. There wasn’t much struggling after that.

What there was plenty of was cocaine.

“In London, in the music business, cocaine use was as normal as drinking a pint of bitter was in the pubs of Birmingham,” Taylor writes. “The business took account of the hours lost to hangovers and scrambled thoughts. Hundreds of grams were being charged to record-company accounts across the city every week.”

As the band’s profile rose, so too did the worship of teenage girls. Taylor, a self-declared former nerd, soon discovered the potency of mixing admiring fan girls with copious amounts of drugs.

“I discovered on tour in 1981 that girls in all languages liked taking drugs with me,” he says. “My horror of lonely hotel rooms meant I would go to any lengths to avoid sleeping in them alone. Coke, I was beginning to realize, was an effective insurance policy against that eventuality. I only have to wink in a girl’s direction in a hotel lobby, backstage, or at a record company party, and I have company until the morning.”

Such was the band’s Sodom and Gomorrah lifestyle that their printed tour itineraries in America included the age of consent for whatever state they were in, and band members would have a piece of paper slid under their door every morning reminding them of essentials like:
TODAY IS OCTOBER 3

IT IS FRIDAY

YOU ARE IN CHICAGO

TODAY IS A SHOW DAY

SOUND CHECK IS AT 4PM.

At several points in the book, Taylor recounts how he could barely walk down the street without bringing some young hottie to bed with him but makes it sound like a chore, as in this account of sleeping with his managers’ sister on a tour bus in October 1982.

“Is there any form of fornication less pleasant, less comfortable, than at mid-afternoon on a rumbling old tour bus?” he asks. “Coffin sex. Capsule sex. The smells of sweaty socks and diesel. No air. I should have been over this; this was high-school stuff.”

While turning the planet Earth into his sexual playground, Taylor found himself in the fraternity of rock-star elites.

“I first listened back to a mix of ‘Rio’ sitting beside Paul McCartney, who was working in the next-door studio and, at my beckoning, came to listen to what we were up to,” Taylor writes. “His approval was denoted by a highly satisfying two thumbs up.”

Duran Duran met and performed for Prince Charles and Princess Diana, as they were Diana’s favorite band, and also got to know Andy Warhol who, after a Duran show, approached Taylor while “sipping his drink through a straw” and slurred to him, “You should be the singerrr.”

And while visiting and jamming with the Rolling Stones at one of their Paris recording sessions, Taylor found himself in a spat with legendary Stones muse Anita Pallenberg, who obsessively (and incorrectly) accused Taylor of stealing her name (the band took its name from a character in the film “Barbarella,” but not the one Pallenberg played). He finally placated her with a promise of bass lessons.

The band spent a lot of their time at a hotspot called The Embassy Club, where Lemmy from Motorhead took up permanent residence on the club’s Space Invaders machine in what Taylor describes as, “like an art installation; just add amphetamines.”

It was understood that no one should attempt to interupt him,” Taylor says. “He had far too many scary tattoos, and his interest in the Third Reich was well documented.”

But sex, drugs and the pressures of fame were chipping away at Taylor’s sanity. After clubbing in Munich one night, he wound up in bandmate Roger’s hotel room. Roger, bloodied, had been involved in an altercation that landed him in the hospital. While John had apparently been present, he had blacked out, with no memory of the incident. Then, when his girlfriend tended to Roger’s wounds, the drugged-out bassist was suddenly consumed with jealousy and punched a glass fixture, making him the second band member to land in the hospital that night, and leading to the cancellation of the remainder of their tour.
Later on, Taylor was briefly ensnared in a love of Ecstasy. He recalls one night at a club in Sydney, dancing to the music of Grace Jones while high on the drug. “I have never felt so warmly comforted,” he writes. “I am opening up, open to everyone and anything, awake, receptive. My touch sense is exploding, gently. Touch me! Touch me again! The silk, the leather.”

Then, this “oneness with the universe” vanishes.

“Somewhere to the left of me, a reptilian tongue flickers, catches a fly that flew too close. Closer still, [a] record company executive has a tail, a piece of scaly dinosaur meat that is thumping the leather banquette steadily, patiently, like a windshield wiper stuck on slow. The trip will not stop, and along in my high-rise Sydney f - - - pad I am teetering on crazy. I am crying, ‘Stop it, God, make it go away.’ But there is no relief to be had, and the clock runs onward to another wasted dawn.”

Whatever turmoil ensnared the band, the fans remained rabid. Touring Japan, they required roadies to “continually sweep the stage, vainly trying to keep it clear of cuddly toys, flowers, bouquets, and other gifts showered on us.” At a show in Seattle, “even before the lights went down, girls were being stretchered away and treated for panic attacks and dehydration.” At home, meanwhile, the bandmates had 24-hour fan encampments outside each of their homes, perpetually “greeted by excitable fans squealing and snapping their cameras.”

Taylor says his favorite groupie moment was in Atlanta. “I had a cold and was sniffling into a series of tissues, absentmindedly throwing them into a wastepaper bin under the table. The next time in the city, a girl called out to me at another public appearance. ‘I was the girl who got your cold.’ I wondered what on earth she was talking about. ‘After you left the press conference last year, I stole your used tissues,’ she said. ‘I wanted to get your cold.’ ”

But female fans clamoring for band attention stood little chance unless they walked a runway. Taylor dated a succession of Scandinavian models, including one he’d inadvertently been rude to at the Limelight before learning she was a top Ford Model. He tracked her down to make amends, and they wound up dating for years. Similarly, singer Le Bon married a model he met after “leafing through some models’ cards, looking for someone who might look good on his arm at a film premiere.”

Taylor bought an apartment at the Park Belvedere with panoramic views of Central Park. He lived down the hall from Boy George, and “it was hard to tell which apartment partied harder.” George played a joke on Taylor one morning, leaving “a silver tray piled high with white powder” outside Taylor’s door in what he calls “a Georgian joke about my lifestyle.”

After a particularly bedraggled night of partying with Freddie Mercury and Queen, Taylor showed up “a complete mess” for a Saturday morning TV appearance, “slurring my words and clearly out of it.” He was rude to a fan on the air, and afterward, backstage, singer Bryan Adams suggested that he get some help. “The concern was so sincere,” Taylor writes. “I hated him for it.”

The band’s next few albums were met with shrinking audiences and record sales and a growing sense that the music world was leaving them behind. Taylor, who was jarred by seeing the singer for former pop sensations the Bay City Rollers working on an MTV film crew, “took a lot of long baths and escaped into books.”

After reading Albert Goldman’s biography of John Lennon and how “the myth was unable to bear up to the scrutiny,” Taylor “threw the book down on the floor and just broke down crying.”

“I was crying for John, but also for myself,” writes Taylor. “What chance did I have?”

After a therapist told him that “if you can get sober, you could really be somebody,” Taylor got clean in 1994. In the years that followed, he met Juicy Couture co-founder Gela Nash, who became his wife, and left Duran Duran in 1997.

He began raising a family and embarked on solo projects far smaller than he’d been used to. While Duran Duran would reunite a few years later, Taylor learned humility while touring his own, much more modestly received projects.

He recalls one solo gig in Miami which, thanks to “a terrifying storm,” found him, after years of performing for maddened crowds of thousands, playing to eight people.

“That’s when you find out if you are the real thing or not. If you got it in the blood,” he says. “Anyone can walk out onstage in front of 30,000 people who all have the records and know all the words and are having a good time. But if you can walk onstage in front of eight and enjoy yourself, then maybe you’ve got something.”
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