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
trigger
We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.
happening hardly hear loud reactions similar threw
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.
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.
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.
beatles complete plug room
It's a complete collaboration. We just set up our instruments in a room and plug in, much as The Beatles would have done 30 years ago.
chemistry days discovered dormant instantly played together
It was great. The first 10 days we played together were amazing. Instantly we discovered this chemistry that had been dormant all these years.
finished period recorded time
It was over a three-year period that we recorded this album. Everything sounded very different by the time we finished the album.
deciding drum everybody groove guitar involved process
We're a real democracy. We go through a whole process where everybody is involved in deciding on everything from a drum groove to a guitar sound.