Roger Taylor
Roger
Andrew Taylor was born April 26, 1960 is the drummer for Duran Duran.
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He was
born in
Birmingham
,
England
and began drumming around the age of twelve, teaching himself by playing
along with his favorite records. He cites Paul Thompson of Roxy Music,
Charlie
Watts
of the Rolling Stones and Tony Thompson of Chic as his key influences. He
played with several school and local club bands, but was never paid for
his efforts.
Taylor
's first paying gig came when he joined Duran Duran in 1979. |
He
climbed with the band to fame and fortune in the early 1980s (see Duran Duran
for details).
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their huge world tour in 1984, he was burned out and exhausted. He worked
a little in 1985 with Duran bandmates Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes on the
album So Red The Rose for their side project
Arcadia
, but that band never toured, and he did not participate in its promotion.
He played a one-off show with Duran Duran at the Live Aid benefit concert
in
Philadelphia
, but at the end of 1985 he retired to the English countryside with his
wife and children. |
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In 1994,
he joined Duran Duran in
France
to play drums on a couple of tracks for the covers album Thank You.
In 1997,
after his children were grown,
Taylor
began flirting with the music industry again. He briefly formed the band
Freebass, which produced a single but never got a record deal.
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In
2001,
Taylor
rejoined Duran Duran, as all five of the original members reunited to
record new material.
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