Duran Duran star Andy Taylor denies feud with former bandmates Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes

Andy Taylor has shared some perception into the many years of feud rumours making the rounds since he left Duran Duran.

The guitarist is understood for being a part of the Birmingham new wave band’s most well-known line-up, alongside with lead vocalist Simon Le Bon, keyboard participant Nick Rhodes, drummer Roger Taylor and bass participant John Taylor.

Andy Taylor joined Duran Duran in April 1980 and left in 1986 to pursue a solo profession. In 2001, Taylor rejoined the band for a sequence of profitable concert events and their 2004 album Astronaut earlier than leaving once more in 2006.

All through Taylor’s years of absence from the band, there have been a number of stories of unhealthy blood between him and the remaining group members.

Nonetheless, ideas of a really tempestuous relationship between Taylor and the guy “Rio” stars have been quelled when the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2022. Taylor, regardless of not being part of the group, was invited to the ceremony, however didn’t attend because of ailing well being from prostate most cancers.

Le Bon learn a letter from Taylor on the occasion that publicly revealed information of his most cancers for the primary time. In a brand new interview with The Times, Taylor spoke in regards to the affect he felt after being included in that means.

“It takes somebody with a really particular high quality from their coronary heart to try this and not drop a phrase,” Taylor stated of Le Bon. “Individuals don’t realise he’s truly fairly an aesthetic man.”

Taylor makes a visitor look on Duran Duran’s forthcoming studio album, Danse Macabre, and defined that it was straightforward to fit again into place with the band when recording. “There’s a sure place that everybody would naturally undertake – it’s like a reflex,” he stated.

Speaking in regards to the band butting heads over time, Taylor defined that it by no means descended into something “ungentlemanly”.

“As Simon has stated, we’ve all had our variations however we’ve remained gentlemanly about it. Simply because we’ve the identical identify [referring to John and Roger] doesn’t imply we’ve to slag one another off,” he famous. “And I don’t have an issue with Nick in any respect.”

Taylor went on to elucidate that his previous points with Rhodes got here from what he perceived because the keyboardist’s “head boy power”.

“I used to beat up the pinnacle boy . . . figuratively talking,” he instructed the publication. “However isn’t it in everybody’s curiosity – dozens of individuals on the label, the publishers and administration – to attempt their finest to resolve these issues? A number of what occurs lies exterior the 5 of us.”

Based on him, many issues which were written in regards to the band have been “f***ing bulls***, like I can’t stand Nick”.

Earlier this month, Taylor additionally mentioned how some “nuclear drugs” had prolonged his life expectancy by 5 years, after his stage 4 prostate most cancers analysis 4 years in the past.