![]() Simon Le Bon spoke to Rolling Stone earlier this year about being inducted with the group’s past members. I’m sure as hell glad I’m around to see the day.” Drummer Roger Taylor was the first to jump ship, with Andy Taylor following suit shortly after, in 1986. “I’m so very proud of these four brothers I’m amazed at their durability, and I’m overjoyed at accepting this award,” the letter read. Andy Taylor was not the first member of Duran Duran to leave the group at the pinnacle of their fame and fortune. Taylor closed the letter saying he was “massively disappointed” to not be there celebrating with the group, and that he had “bought a new guitar” for the occasion. Encouraged by his father, Andy Taylor took lessons in playing the guitar from a jazz guitarist who lived across the road from him and started to play. He added, “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.” Andy Taylor, the former guitarist of the British rock group Duran Duran, is opening up about his life with stage 4 prostate cancer. “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. The overwhelming happiness of finally being recognized by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 was marred by a deeply sad message that Duran Duran delivered to fans. Duran Duran on a street corner in NYC, NYC, September 1981. What happened to Andy Taylor His bandmates revealed hes battling stage four prostate cancer. ![]() Duran Duran at photo studio in Tokyo, May 2, 1982. Taylor acknowledged getting world-class treatment, but that he recently suffered a “setback,” and though his condition is “not immediately life-threatening, there is no cure.” Andy Taylor, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor backstage at The Roxy at the Duran Duran show presented by DKNY Jeans and The. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction was meant to serve as a reunion for the group - currently comprising Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, and Simon Le Bon - with past members Taylor and Warren Cucurullo. ![]() “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.” Many families have experienced the slow burn of this disease and of course, we are no different,” Taylor wrote in his letter. By 1984, the band's popularity exploded on the strength of hits. According to All Music, Duran Duran formed in Birmingham, England in 1978, inspired by post-punk, David Bowie, and Roxy Music. “Just over four years ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. Understanding the public and private dilemma Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor endured at that time reveals the real reason he left the group in the '80s. Taylor did not join the band during Saturday’s ceremony. I’m sure as hell glad I’m around to see the day.”Īlso inducted to the Hall of Fame on Saturday were Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Eminem, Eurythmics, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon.As Duran Duran accepted its induction into the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, frontman Simon Le Bon read a letter on behalf of former member Andy Taylor that revealed he’s been battling prostate cancer for years. “I’m so very proud of these four brothers I’m amazed at their durability, and I’m overjoyed at accepting this award,” the letter read. “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?” Taylor said in his letter.īandmates Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, and Le Bon were present at the event. He played guitar on the band’s first three albums, which included the hit songs “Rio” and “Hungry Like the Wolf.” Taylor was a member of Duran Duran from 1980 to 1986, and again from 2001 to 2006. Andy Taylor Artist Andy Taylor shares his passion for painting with Ann Korologos Gallery Andy Taylor, is known for large oil paintings in his colorful. “However, none of this needs to or should detract from what this band (with or without me) has achieved and sustained for 44 years.” 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.
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