Andy Taylor (born Andrew Arthur Taylor 16 February 1961, Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, England) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Duran Duran and The Power Station.
He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, and served as a guitarist, songwriter and record producer for the likes of Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, The Almighty, Thunder, Love and Money, Mark Shaw, Then Jeric...
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Andy Taylor (born Andrew Arthur Taylor 16 February 1961, Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, England) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Duran Duran and The Power Station.
He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, and served as a guitarist, songwriter and record producer for the likes of Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, The Almighty, Thunder, Love and Money, Mark Shaw, Then Jerico, C. C. Catch, Paul Rodgers (with The Law), Belinda Carlisle, Gun and many more.
Taylor was born and raised in Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear in North East England, and attended Marden High School. He began playing guitar at the age of eleven, and was soon playing with local bands, even producing one at the age of sixteen. He dropped out of school early to tour England and Europe with several different bands, playing working men's clubs and air force bases. Then in April 1980, as Taylor puts it, "I made that fateful train journey down to...
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