![]() ![]() With the guidance of producer Bernard Edwards, they released one album, The Power Station, which produced the hit singles "Some Like It Hot" and the T.Rex cover song " Bang a Gong (Get It On)". John Taylor and Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor joined forces with former Chic drummer Tony Thompson and Robert Palmer, who earlier met at Duran Duran's charity concert at Aston Villa football ground 1983, to form the band The Power Station. In 1985, after recording the theme song to the Bond movie A View to a Kill, Duran Duran split into two side projects. Duran Duran released their first album in 1981, and went on to worldwide success in the early 1980s. He has frequently cited Chic's Bernard Edwards and The Clash's Paul Simonon as his strongest influences, in addition to Paul McCartney, James Jamerson, and Roxy Music players Graham Simpson and John Porter. Taylor played guitar when Duran Duran was founded, but switched to bass guitar after discovering the funky rhythms of Chic, and learned to enjoy playing in the rhythm section with Duran's newly recruited drummer Roger Taylor. He stopped using the name "Nigel", and has been known throughout his professional career as John Taylor. Soon after Taylor underwent an " ugly duckling" transformation-ditching the glasses for contact lenses, adopting the ruffles and sashes of the fashion that would become known as the New Romantic style, and learning to wear eyeliner and lipstick. In 1978, Taylor and school friend Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran with Stephen Duffy while attending the School of Foundation Studies & Experimental Workshop at Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University). His first band was called Shock Treatment.Ĭareer 1978–1997: Duran Duran and Power Station In his early teen years, he discovered music, choosing Roxy Music as his favourite band, and before long was collecting records and teaching himself to play the piano. As a child, he attended Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic school and the Abbey High School, in Redditch, wore glasses (due to severe myopia, over -10 dioptres), enjoyed James Bond movies and was interested in the hobby of wargaming with hand-painted model soldiers. Taylor was also a member of two supergroups: The Power Station and Neurotic Outsiders.īorn in Solihull, which was then in Warwickshire, John Taylor grew up in nearby Hollywood, Worcestershire, England. ![]() He rejoined Duran Duran for a reunion of the original five members of the group in 2001 and has remained with the group since. He recorded a dozen solo releases (albums, EPs, and video projects) through his private record label B5 Records over the next four years, had a lead role in the movie Sugar Town, and made appearances in a half dozen other film projects. Taylor played with Duran Duran from its founding in 1978 until 1997, when he left to pursue a solo recording and film career. Duran Duran was one of the most popular bands in the world during the 1980s due in part to their music videos which played in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV. Nigel John Taylor (born 20 June 1960) is a British musician who is best known as the bass guitarist for new romantic band Duran Duran, of which he was a founding member.
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