Firing Up ‘The Power Station’ for a 40th Anniversary Boxed Set: Duran Duran’s John Taylor on Coralling Robert Palmer and Members of Chic for a True Pop Supergroup

As a founding member of Duran Duran, you wouldn’t think that much could surprise John Taylor. By 1984, each of the British ...

Duran Duran, The Offspring and James Taylor Tapped As BeachLife Festival ’26 Headliners

The BeachLife Festival ’26 line-up is out. Duran Duran, The Offspring and James Taylor and His All-Star Band will take the ...
American Songwriter

Duran Duran’s John Taylor: “The Day of the [Music] Group Is Almost Gone”

Duran Duran’s famed bassist John Taylor thinks the age of bands and music groups is coming to an end. And it’s hard to not agree with him. During a panel Taylor was part of at the Sanremo Music ...
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John Taylor Named Greatest Bassist Of All Time In New Poll

Duran Duran star John Taylor has been named the Greatest Bassist of All Time in a new poll. The British musician beat Rush's Geddy Lee and The Cure's Simon Gallup to claim the title in the survey ...
The Aspen Times

Jazz Aspen Labor Day: Duran Duran’s John Taylor, still ‘Hungry’

More info: Duran Duran will be preceded by Corinne Bailey Rae at 3 p.m. and followed by Stevie Wonder at 7:30 p.m. At some point in the late 1980s, as Duran Duran was coming down slightly from the ...
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Duran Duran’s John Taylor breaks down the group’s landmark album and his Rio-inspired signature bass

Whether you liked it or not, in 1982 the British pop world was in thrall to the New Romantics. Perhaps the musicians were just too pretty to ignore, and the prettiest of all were undoubtedly Duran ...