Andy Taylor Music

Andy Taylor / Newcastle, England / Age 49

Guitarist / Singer / Writer / Producer...

Duran Duran / Powerstation / Robert Palmer / Rod Stewart / Then Jerico / Thunder / Belinda Carlisle / The Almighty / Love & Money / Gun...

''Andy Taylor'' born - Andrew Taylor - 16 February 1961, Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, England - Is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as a member of Duran Duran and The Power Station.

He has also recorded & 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, Eric Robinson and many more.

Born and raised in, Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear, North East England, he attended Whitley Bay Grammar School and 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 US force bases. Then as Taylor puts it, in April of 1980 "I made that fateful train journey down to Birmingham".