![]() He liked to learn to play lots of different things. I think because my dad was a bit of a budding musician. I have asked her what her 12-year-old self would have asked you, and here are some of the questions that she’s given me to ask.Ī. And she loved Duran Duran, and she was unequivocally a Roger girl. Great songs are easy to play, and songs like “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone” are great songs. But I’ve grown into them, and I’ve played them so many times that I’ve kind of made them mine, I think, now. That was probably the most challenging part of the reunion, playing other people’s parts. So I had to really sit down and focus on those and put my own imprint on them because I didn’t want to just copy them. But then I had to figure out songs that the drum parts were written by people like Steve Ferrone, who’s an amazing drummer. When I came back, I could play the songs that I’d played on very easily, of course, because I wrote those drum parts. And we found out at literally the last minute.”Ī. “We were so excited to be getting back onstage with Andy again,” says drummer Roger Taylor, ahead of Duran Duran’s date Sept. This particular moment in Duran Duran’s history is a rather bittersweet one, though, coming as it does in the wake of former guitarist Andy Taylor’s announcement, on the eve of reuniting with his old band for their Hall induction, that he had been diagnosed with incurable stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. There’s also the little matter of their induction last year into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their 2021 album “Future Past” got the new wave legends their best reviews this century, and they continue to fill arenas. More than four decades after their ‘80s-defining run of hits began and more than three decades after the one-two comeback punch of “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone” lifted them out of MTV-era nostalgia purgatory, it remains a good time to be Duran Duran.
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