![]() Wild Boy is Andy’s account of his life both inside and outside the band. They are my Sugar Smacks, my ridiculous obsession that I intend to make no excuses for. I still love them, to this day, even after the bad albums and cocaine lifestyle and even though (and this is where my Duran friends will flame me) there are so many other bands today making more relevant music than Duran Duran. I was born in rural Iowa, and after years of being surrounded by corn and dirt and rednecks, this upscale band with their slick sound and obscure poetic lyric and glamorous lifestyle and great clothes and models in body paint sailing on yachts seems like Nirvana. Now, right here, I have to admit, Duran Duran is my junkie addiction they are the music soundtrack to my adolescence. He rejoined the band for a reunion in 2001 and a new album, Astronaut, and then in 2006 he parted ways again. He left in 1985, soon after a disastrous show at Live Aid. Andy was there from near the beginning of the band through its heyday of the albums Rio (“Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Save a Prayer,” and the tile track), through Seven and the Ragged Tiger (“The Reflex,” “ New Moon on Monday”), into their live album (with the single “Wild Boys”) and their James Bond theme “A View to a Kill”. Given the total lack of perspective or responsibility in this his own chance to set the record straight, it’s no surprise Andy Taylor and Duran Duran parted ways…twice.įor those of you not in the know (and I assume that is most of you) Andy Taylor is the original guitarist for Duran Duran, a band that has sold 80 million albums and created some of the most iconic music of the 80s and early 90s. Moving from hilarious to harrowing at the turn of a page, Wild Boy is a must-read for anyone who lived through the 1980s, or who cares about music. Packed with more than twenty-five years worth of rock 'n' roll anecdotes, Andy tells of his time in the band The Power Station, and explains why Duran Duran reformed with its original line-up in 2003.īut Wild Boy is also a moving story on a human level, as Andy describes how the pressures of fame took a terrible personal toll on him and his family. He reveals the truth about the allegations of drug abuse and wild hedonism that dogged Duran Duran. He captures the glamour and excitement of the band's epic video shoots and the opulence of their world tours. With searing honesty, he charts every moment of Duran Duran's roller-coaster rise from their early days as club musicians through to international superstardom. Now Andy shares the story of what went wrong. Then, at the very height of their achievement in 1985, Duran Duran imploded. The band rose to conquer the globe with a string of unforgettable hits such as "Rio," "Hungry Like the Wolf," and "The Reflex." With Simon Le Bon as their frontman, they were the defining pop act of the 1980s, but Andy Taylor, the enigmatic lead guitarist, is widely acknowledged to have been their musical driving force. Wild Boy is the explosive first inside account of the rise and fall of Duran Duran.
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