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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S4E33: Andy Taylor

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode of this series, Gary and Guy chat to Andy Taylor. Andy continues to enjoy a remarkable career that has taken him from Duran Duran, and The Power Station, to Thunder, Reef and his solo career. much more. Plus, we get an emotional update on his health situation and the lowdown on his new album ‘Man’s a Wolf to Man’. Rockonteurs returns in September.

Rockonteurs is produced by Ben Jones and Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Productions.


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0:00.0

Hello guy. So it's an old mucker today isn't it?

0:03.5

It is and apparently you might be in trouble. I am in trouble. I am going to be in trouble and but first

0:09.8

before before whatever starts flying, it wasn't my fault.

0:16.0

So what exactly happened?

0:18.0

When they did the remake of the power, when the power station got back together in 1996, Bernard Edwards, unfortunately sadly died while

0:26.9

they were making it and so they had these dates books so I got asked to and

0:31.5

then John Taylor was going to do it and then John didn't do it.

0:33.6

And so I was kind of a third wheel. I got asked to play bass and I said, yeah, I can do this Japanese tour

0:40.0

but I have to come from New York and I did and I and the the problem was United Airlines my

0:45.7

plane was I was going to get in at midday on the day of the show my plane was two hours

0:50.1

late leaving New York and then had a mechanical problem in San Francisco was stuck there for about eight hours and I didn't make the show.

0:57.0

Of course we're talking about Andy Taylor who's coming on and obviously played in

1:00.4

Dran and the Power Station but hang on on who played that show that night?

1:05.2

Here's the thing Luke Morley who was the second guitarist from Thunder who they had to go and find

1:10.7

a left-handed baseball. Oh no. And have you spoken to Andy since?

1:16.1

Well, we did the whole tour. I mean, I did the whole rest of the tour. It was fine after that.

1:22.0

But, okay. I wonder if we should even be giving this away now. I wonder if maybe we should. No, I just wanted I wanted your evidence within a closed and safe space.

1:36.0

before we introduce the story to Andy.

1:40.0

I wrote a few things down here guy and I'm it's a kind of a quiz which other

1:44.8

which listeners can sort of keep up with and shout at their devices about because Andy is

1:50.8

our third member of a band.

1:54.0

But we've never had that before.

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