Former Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor joined an episode of Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt’s Rockonteurs podcast and talked about starting a new treatment for his incurable stage four metastatic prostate cancer. Andy explained the process of this treatment in detail, which is new in the UK:
“Essentially it’s nuclear medicine. It’s put into your body and it detects the cancer on the outside of the cells and it only hits cancer cells in your bones, which is mainly where it is with me, and zaps them. But if there’s a healthy cell next to it, it doesn’t touch it. So it’s not curative, but it can knock out and then it’s got to start again and from what was kind of – I’ll not even say the term they used to have on the thing – but I can get back full fitness. I’ll be fine for five years.”
Taylor also mentioned Duran Duran is still active, although he planned ‘Man’s A Wolf to A Man’ would be his last album:
“The band have been great. We’ve got a lot of stuff that we’ve been working on under the radar. The solo album, I thought it was my last album, so that’s kind of where it changed.”
Andy also revealed that he started to work on a new album with Simon Le Bon after he visited Andy in Ibiza:
“I fired up the studio and [Simon] said ‘Can I come over and work?’ I said ‘Any time mate.’ So about five or six days later he called me and said ‘We’re going to do this album that’s kind of Halloween based but looking back on material that was quite influential on everybody and re-work some Duran tracks that are kind of dark like Night Boat.'”
In 2022, when Duran Duran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Simon Le Bon read Andy Taylor’s letter, announcing his cancer.
Andy Taylor’s first solo album in 30 years ‘Man’s A Wolf to A Man’ is expected to come out on September 8. You can listen to his single ‘This Will Be Ours’ below.
