Andy Taylor was Duran Duran's original guitarist and the most (only) professionally experienced musician in the band, and he had a huge influence on their early success.

In this autobiographical look at his life with the band, we find out lots of details about the founding of the group and the wild and crazy times they experienced in the mayhem of the burgeoning MTV era.

Basically their managers, the Berrow brothers, kept them working non-stop on touring, making albums, then touring again for five years straight, so much so that none of the band members had time for a normal life. This, along with being fueled by copious amounts of money and cocaine led the band members to become estranged from each other, resulting in the inevitable breakup after Live Aid in '85.

The other interesting fact is that for the most part the members of the band didn't engage in much groupie-hopping. Given the circumstances that's kind of surprising.

Andy seems like a pretty level-headed guy who was looking for stability in his life. He seems to have finally found it away from the band after quitting them for the second time. A very interesting read.

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