S1E7: John Taylor

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.

Presented by Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.

Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music. In episode 7 Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt speak to John Taylor from Duran Duran.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Rock On Tours podcast I am Gary Kemp.
0:05.6	And I am Guy Pratt. This week on the show we are talking about with
0:08.7	oh another of the country's finest bass players.
0:11.0	Singer, songwriter, producer and actor and founding member of
0:14.8	Duran Duran.
0:15.8	Please welcome, Mr. John Taylor.
0:18.6	Where did you spend your lockdown, John?
0:20.3	Yeah, in Los Angeles.
0:21.5	How was it for you? It was good actually. I got the virus like right at the beginning.
0:26.0	So I got it out of the way and I kind of I mean I had to really work on not being smug about it you, because obviously a lot of people were hurting,
0:33.7	but I was like, you know, it was a couple of really rough days.
0:36.5	Right. But then I kind of enjoyed not having to travel because I'm always back and forth a lot.
0:41.3	I feel like I'm either packing or unpacking.
0:44.0	You know the first few months I really I really enjoyed it.
0:48.0	And we got over to England about I got back about a month ago. We were there for three weeks and that was nice.
0:54.3	I'm getting a little restless. You know, you got to find things like you guys doing this,
0:59.5	isn't you just got to find things to do.
1:01.1	Well you were doing the same thing as me, John Well, you were doing videos showing,
1:05.1	breaking down your baselines.
1:07.2	Oh, did you do that?
1:08.1	I did do that.
1:09.1	He pretends he doesn't know.
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