![]() ![]() Looking back to their Platinum Party appearance when Nile and Chic appeared with them, Roger said: “I think it was an amazing moment that they were with us.” And we love having Chic play with us and – wow! - what a great act!” And Nile has always been there and it’s great to share that with him. “But those guys managed to bring out the best in us and we made some great records with them. “So when we got to work with Nile and of course Bernard Edwards it WAS like working with gods, it was quite intimidating actually. “Those guys were like gods to us because they really knew how to play and they really knew how to create a groove and to write amazing records. “As a band we grew up listening to Chic records,” Roger said. ![]() Roger also includes Chic’s drummer Tony Thompson in his own top three drummers. ![]() “I think he is probably a lot more than that,” Roger said. Does the band maybe consider Niles a kind of touchstone for them? Picture: John Swannellīut Duran Duran were joined by Nile Rodgers who has worked with them a lot over the years and will join them on their upcoming tour of America. “I think you probably saw me for about a tenth of a second there!”. “There was a great interview with Ringo Starr and he said ‘To be a drummer you have to be a certain type of person to accept the fact that by the time you have got down to the front of the stage for the interview, it’s over!’. He laughed: “That is one of the problems of being a drummer. The band played the Platinum Party At The Palace, though it was hard to spot Roger in the footage of the band. “But I’ve been back for twentysomething years now. “I still had the energy and the appetite for it, I just tuned out for a number of years. “The band carried on working without me which was the right thing to do. I hadn’t had the chance to have a lot of ordinary experiences and thought ‘I’m going to live my life for a while’, so I moved up to the Cotswolds. A car was sent for me, I’d be taken to the airport. “I didn’t know how to get on an airplane on my own. I did think I hadn’t had the chance, the space or the opportunity to grow up as a normal adult. “I felt ‘I need a break from this’ and I’d been doing it since I was 19. So you can imagine how it was outside my house in London. “My parents had people camping outside their house and I wasn’t even living there. The attention of the fans was of an intensity that you couldn’t imagine. “I couldn’t shut my door and be normal Roger. “But, of course, in the early days, it got to the point that I couldn’t do that. “I’ve never been the kind of person who goes to premieres or had to have my ego fed by stuff outside of playing. “I’d always liked coming offstage and being a normal person. He jokes: “Nick Rhodes says I went out for cigarettes and didn’t come back for 15 years!īut then Roger explains: “It wasn’t meant to be a long break. Roger is famously the band member who walked away when Duran Duran were one of the biggest names in the 80s. “We are still getting them now which is a wonderful thing – and hopefully Inverness will be one of those as well!” “We don’t have to say ‘That was a great moment’ – and looking back. “Another one is playing at Hyde Park, another huge milestone. “I just looked out and saw a sea of people and it was a huge moment after 40 years. “We played in New York the other night and I think it must have been the biggest audience we’ve played to! It was our own show. There might be lots of reasons why Duran Duran would be enjoying looking back this year – but as drummer Roger Taylor reveals, there are still too many reasons to keep looking forward.
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