Roger Andrew Taylor
Roger Andrew Taylor
Roger Andrew Tayloris an English musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985, and again from 2001 onwards, the band selling in excess of 70 million records in the process...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 April 1960
album compared guess knew original
I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.
burned constant five
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
needed
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
music pro putting record stuff taking
We used Pro Tools, a music system, to record the album. You can just keep putting stuff on and taking stuff off and re-recording.
trigger
We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.
lucky reclaim special
We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.
months ragged record seven six tiger took
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
almost band call drift finally moment music slowly
I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed.
people
Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.
initial
You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
people power
Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
andy duran english-musician
As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.
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At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.
directions five gone lives people together
That's incredible, if you think of five people who have all gone off in different directions in their lives and come back together again.