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• You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

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• You can’t do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can’t sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

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• When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that – a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn’t have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

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• When you don’t have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

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• When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don’t have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there’s usually someone there to help you do that!

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• We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

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• We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

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• We play a long show, and you can’t beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

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• We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that’s cool, people will listen to it. If we don’t, we would be selling people short.

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• We didn’t just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.

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• We felt if we didn’t have new material in us and we didn’t have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn’t have done an 80’s revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that’s what we are as a bunch of people.

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• This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don’t sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

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• To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn’t have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

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• The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

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• The thing about Duran… that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

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• The five of us don’t know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

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• Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren’t expecting it.

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• Music is escapism, it’s entertainment.

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• Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

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• It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It’s great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

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Andy Taylor (25)

Birth:	16th February, 1961
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Guitarist, Record Producer, Singer, Songwriter

About

Andy Taylor was born in North East England. He is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a former member of both Duran Duran and The Power Station. He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, and served as a guitarist, songwriter and record producer for the likes of Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, The Almighty, Thunder, Love and Money, Mark Shaw, Then Jerico, C. C. Catch, Paul Rodgers, Belinda Carlisle, Gun and many more.  In 2008, Andy Taylor published an autobiography,Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran, in which he tells his life's story from youth in an extended family to his life with wife Tracey.

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