Duran Duran's Andy Taylor is 'fighting as hard as he can' as they issue update

Duran Duran vocalist Simon Le Bon said the set was with Andy Taylor successful his combat against crab arsenic the guitarist missed a large festival successful Italy

Duran Duran person fixed an update connected guitarist Andy Taylor pursuing his lack astatine a large event.

The Tynemouth-born prima is fighting signifier 4 metastatic prostate cancer, which is incurable. The quality of Andy’s unwellness was breached by the set backmost successful 2022, erstwhile helium was incapable to articulation them astatine their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

On Thursday, Andy, 63, was again incapable to articulation his long-time collaborators astatine the Sanremo Music Festival successful Italy, but Duran Duran pb vocalist Simon Le Bon explained his friend’s lack and updated fans connected Andy’s health.

“I americium definite helium would emotion to beryllium here. As you astir apt know, he's got prostate cancer. It's precise precocious stage, fourth-stage metastasised cancer. He's warring arsenic hard arsenic helium can, and we are with him successful that fight,” helium said astatine the event’s property conference.

Later, helium added of the existent set dynamic: “There is thing betwixt america that keeps america together. First of all, we emotion the euphony we marque together. Nobody other makes euphony similar we do. We've each tried to bash things connected our own, and it conscionable doesn't look arsenic breathtaking arsenic erstwhile the 4 of america get unneurotic and work.

“We marque each different laugh, and I deliberation that's precise important successful a agelong relationship. When we are nether stress, we laughter each the mode done it, and it keeps everything airy and fun. And the different happening is, we divided each the proceeds equally. No 1 takes each the publishing. We each stock the finances equally.

Andy has chiefly focused connected euphony arsenic a solo creator successful caller years, but existent to Simon’s words inactive seems heavy invested successful his aged band. The radical shared a video to YouTube successful October 2024, showing that helium was backmost successful the workplace with Duran Duran jamming away.

While Andy’s crab is incurable, successful 2023 helium spoke astir being administered Lutetium-177 - a atomic cause designed to people crab cells successful the bones - which allowed him to unrecorded overmuch better portion inactive warring the disease.

Appearing connected Lorraine, helium shared: "I'm doing great. I've had 2 rounds of attraction implicit the past mates of months. I'm similar from the walking dormant to the singing and dancing." Lorraine enthused: "It's incredible, due to the fact that successful galore ways, you shouldn't beryllium here."

Andy was speedy to hold with the ITV host, revealing that he'd initially been told helium would lone person a fewer years to live. "When I was diagnosed 5 years agone that was the clip span... I had to unrecorded with that and truthful did my family," helium explained, earlier adding that helium believes that he's been visited by "an angel" since starting Lutetium-177.

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