Wild Boy: My Life with Duran Duran - Hardcover

Taylor, Andy

3.76

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9780752897271: Wild Boy: My Life with Duran Duran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752897276 ISBN 13: 9780752897271

Publisher: Orion, 2008

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When 19-year-old Andy Taylor returned from his band's tour of military bases in Germany and saw an advert in Melody Maker in April 1980 asking for a 'live wire guitarist' to audition in Birmingham, he saw his chance. Even he could not have predicted what happened next. The group, Duran Duran, released their first single, 'Planet Earth', ten months later and soon became the biggest band since the Beatles. Emerging in the post-punk era, Duran headed the New Romantic movement and with their stunning videos and style consciousness, they set the trend for the consumerist 1980s. Popular with everyone from rockers to Princess Diana, they had a string of massive worldwide hits such as 'Rio', 'The Reflex' and 'A View to a Kill'. They won Grammys and an Ivor Novello award among many other things.

By Live Aid, in 1985, they were at their very pinnacle of success - and then the band began to fall apart. At the centre of it all, giving the group its musical pulse, was lead guitarist Andy Taylor. In this revealing and raw memoir, Taylor recalls the highs and lows of an unbelievable period where the squeaky clean facade hid the truth of wild partying as five young men took just about every opportunity that was offered to them.

Andy Taylor's story is of an era when MTV was new, the media allowed superstars to get away with lots and rock stars knew how to party like there was no tomorrow. Wild Boy is a book that millions of fans of Duran Duran around the world will want to read to know the full story of what really happened.

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Even when recounting the "paranoia and insanity" [Andy Taylor] comes across as a solid likeable bloke... It's the small details that make this book so entertaining.**** (LONDON LITE - 16/09/08)

Wild Boy is a likeable, capably written autobiography that lifts the few remaining lids on Duran's 80s excesses.**** (TIME OUT)

Book Description:

The first member of Duran Duran to write his memoirs tells the full story of the excesses, glamour and excitement they lived through in the 1980s

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