As a founding member of Duran Duran, you wouldn’t think that much could surprise John Taylor.
By 1984, each of the British new wave gods’ first three albums had gone platinum, their cinematic videos were regularly rotated on MTV, and nonstop global touring attracted Swiftian levels of excitable fans. So, to get away from it all, and rock harder than the synth-pop-driven Duran Duran, bassist Taylor and his guitarist bandmate Andy Taylor hooked up with Chic drummer Tony Thompson, invited Chic bassist Bernard Edwards to produce, and brought in blue-eyed soul legend Robert Palmer to sing a few songs. The next thing Taylor knew, his sidepiece supergroup, the Power Station
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