Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor recently joined a conversation with Retropop magazine and shared the reasons behind his solo career choice over a collaboration.
The guitarist reflected on how he decided to work on his first solo album in more than three decades when he received a call from BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch, saying:
“He’s [Masuch] a big fan of Duran and all my solo stuff — his knowledge of what I’ve done is phenomenal! So he said, ‘Do you want to make a record? A solo record or maybe a [Duran Duran side project] Power Station record?'”
Before entering into the studio, Taylor also had a different option in his mind, as he disclosed:
“I did contact John [Taylor], but at the time, the Duran thing was happening, and he was too busy, so we dropped that idea, and I just said, ‘I’m gonna put it out as a solo record.'”
Through the end of his interview, the musician also looked back on his past with Duran Duran and stated:
“When they announced the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination, it felt good that it was a picture of the five of us because the definitive aspect of how any of us got wherever we are is down to what the five of us did when we first got together. It’s down to the fact that, including the Power Station and Arcadia, we did five albums in five years. And that’s why all of us are where we are today…”
Taylor’s third solo album, titled ‘Man’s A Wolf To Man,’ was released on September 8. Besides that, the guitarist will also appear on a few songs of Duran Duran’s new record, ‘Danse Macabre,’ which is set to arrive on October 27.
