The video for the debut single Planet Earth opens with a shot of a reclining, bare-chested Taylor looking slowly up to the sky. Taylor became an international star with the other members of Duran Duran as they rose to fame in the early 1980s. He became known as 'the quiet one' and has said that he has always preferred to speak through his drums. After Scent Organs split in 1979, he joined Duran Duran. After being inspired by the punk bands playing at Barbarellas club in Birmingham, he formed the new wave/punk outfit Scent Organs, who became regional finalists in the Melody Maker young band of the year in 1978, and was briefly a member of post-punk band Cult Figures. Taylor has cited drummers Paul Thompson of Roxy Music, Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones and Tony Thompson of Chic as his key musical influences growing up.īefore joining Duran Duran, Taylor performed with several school (Park Hall School in Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire) and local club bands. He would eventually "play" at Villa Park but as Duran Duran's drummer for their 1983 charity concert there. His first ambition was to be a goalkeeper for English football club Aston Villa, and as a child he was taken to every home match by his father. He began drumming at around the age of 12, teaching himself by playing along with his favourite records. Roger Andrew Taylor was born into a modest family and was brought up in the Shard End area of Birmingham until the age of 11, and then a small suburban house in Castle Bromwich (15 Hawthorne Road).
Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in November 2022 as a member of Duran Duran. Duran Duran have sold over 100 million records worldwide. Very tied into Andy Warhol etc….Roger Andrew Taylor (born 26 April 1960) is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the new wave band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985, and again from 2001 onwards. Songs like The Chauffeur, Save a Prayer, and well.all their early stuff encapsulated the energy of that time in art, style, and culture. Part of that was that the songs were not so conventional for pop music…I hope they remember that. I don’t want to set such high expectations…but I hope DD finally recapture the sound that made them unique. Yeah, I think they’ve got to turn up the drums and make them thicker and edgier with some of those great dance-rock, tom-tom fills that Roger used to do.īands like The Killers and Franz Ferdinand owe a lot to DD. I hope they’re listening! when these guys are on fire, it’s hard to deny their greatness. I like Duran to be on their darker, more mysterious exotic side and less on their shiny-pop side. I hope he steers them towards Rio and their 1st self-titled album…and also towards Arcadia. first off i’m a massive old-school Duran fan, and Mark Ronson seems pretty cool.
In a video message to fans last month, Nick Rhodes said the sessions nearly are over, and “we will have a record done this year and out in the first quarter of next year.” You can hear the sample in the clip embedded above as hinted at by the band’s members and Ronson, it’s got a decidedly old-school DD vibe.ĭuran Duran began work on its follow-up to 2007’s Red Carpet Massacre in February 2009, with guitarist Dom Brown filling in for the (once again) departed Andy Taylor. The first taste of Duran Duran’s long-in-the-works 13th studio album hit the Internet this evening after Mark Ronson - who’s producing the disc - played 30 seconds of “Blame the Machine” on his East Village Radio show.
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