Duran Duran are reportedly within the technique of working with former guitarist Andy Taylor on a brand new album.
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Taylor – who performed with the band on-and-off between 1980 and 2001 – was identified with stage 4 metastatic prostate most cancers 4 years in the past.
He was set to reunite with Duran Duran final yr after they had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame however a setback together with his therapy pressured him to overlook the event.
Bassist John Taylor has now confirmed that the band are working with the guitarist once more. “When he dropped the bomb two days earlier than the Corridor of Fame, it was actually surprising and terribly unhappy,” he stated (by way of The Mirror). “We’re engaged on an album proper now that’s going to be popping out on the finish of the yr and he’s enjoying guitar.
“There’s a variety of cowl songs on the album, songs significant to us after we had been children. So having him be part of that undertaking is nice.”
Taylor continued: “LeBon is flying to Ibiza to work with Andy. I sort of want I used to be there. I feel it’ll be nice. It’ll be actually profound for them. They haven’t been within the studio collectively in possibly 10 to twenty years.”
Andy Taylor opened up about his ongoing battle with most cancers earlier this yr.
Talking with 5 Information, Taylor defined that he’d discovered of his most cancers shortly after he’d seen “what you’d assume was an arthritic form of ache” throughout a jog. “I by no means thought extra of it than that,” he stated of the primary signs, assuming the ache was attributable to his age, earlier than he’d begun noticing different signs – resembling “what felt like tumours” on his neck.
He continued: “I went and had a biopsy finished, and I got here again for the outcomes – and no-one could possibly be ready for that mistake. And truly, the guide was somewhat late, and he sat down and stated, ‘I’m sorry, I’m so sorry’ – and I assumed he was apologising as a result of he was late. And he stated, ‘It’s prostate [cancer],’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, properly, my dad had that. I perceive.’ He stated, ‘Nevertheless it’s stage 4, metastatic… which is a dying sentence.’”
In the meantime, Duran Duran are gearing as much as embark on an area tour of the UK and Eire on the finish of April. They’ll carry out (with out Taylor) in Manchester, London, Leeds, Birmingham, Dublin and Glasgow.
Scissor Sisters frontman and solo artist Jake Shears can be becoming a member of the band as a particular visitor opening act on the live shows together with Lia Lia. Yow will discover any remaining tickets for Duran Duran’s 2023 ‘Future Previous’ tour right here.
