Andy Taylor

Currently working on Duran Duran's new album in London. [March 2006]

currently on the Astronaut tour with Duran Duran in Europe. Will be returning to the United States in July of 2005 for the last leg of the tour. [June 2005]

Rejoined Duran Duran in 2001 and released the album Astronaut with the original lineup of John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes in October of 2004.

The band was Duran Duran, he successfully auditioned and the group went on to become one of the most successful acts of Britain's early 1980s' "New Romantic" movement, scoring many big hits, including two British number one singles, "Is There Something I Should Know?" and "The Reflex". They were also Princess Diana's favourite band. Andy Taylor married Tracey Wilson, the band's hair stylist and opened a wine bar, Rio, in Whitley Bay.

Encouraged by his father, Andy Taylor took lessons in playing the guitar from a jazz guitarist who lived across the road from him and started to play the instrument seriously from the age of 11. He left school in 1976 and joined a punk band called The Gigolos. They became Motorway and released a single that didn't chart. He had played nearly 600 gigs in a variety of working men's clubs, strip joints and military bases before responding to an advert in Melody Maker placed by a band needing a guitarist.

He and Duran Duran were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1770 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.