JOHN TAYLOR DURAN DURAN PROFESSIONAL

Publishing a memoir made sense to the father of three and husband of Juicy Couture co-founder Gela Nash-Taylor. I turn my life over to a power greater than myself every day, sometimes more than once a day.” That part has come back to me quite slowly, but now it’s there. It wasn’t the first thing I wanted to do, to get on my knees and start praying again. I was spiritually dead, so I’ve been brought back. I’m like coming back, coming back from the dead as it were. And my whole concept of prayer and spiritually is very vague. Once it’s afloat, I can have faith in it and pray to it. Then it was something I could pump air into and float it. I quite like the idea that why shouldn’t my God be this? Why shouldn’t my God be that? Once I kind of got this idea about what my God was. The higher power is the God of our understanding.

'One of the innovations of the 12-Step Program is that they teach that there’s a greater power. Having been raised with a very specific idea, somebody else’s very particular idea what God should be like,' he said before his book was launched in the US. I don’t know if I used this analogy in the book… You know that place Build-A-Bear where you can take kids to? And they can kind of build their own bear. In sobriety, I was invited to create a God of my own understanding. “I never was quite able to wrap my head around to be Catholic, the dogma. But he never felt a deep spiritual connection. Taylor was raised Catholic and attended mass every day until he went to Catholic school. The God that Taylor discovered through sobriety was rooting for him.

There’s not been a day where I’ve been sober where I’ve regretted it.”Īlong with a rebirth and rejuvenation of life, making peace with God also came into play. About 15 minutes later, the therapist said 'You need to get sober, because if you get sober, you could really be somebody.

JOHN TAYLOR DURAN DURAN PROFESSIONAL

The first therapist he saw spent 10 minutes with him and referred him to another professional in North London. He asked his therapist to find a therapist in London as he was still with the band. I was going downhill fast.”Īfter moving to Los Angeles in the early 90s with his first wife actress Amanda de Cadenet and a newborn baby, therapy was his saving grace as Taylor was clinging to solid ground. And I feel for the light to be appreciated that there had to be a lot darks.” “OK, where am I going go? How far am I willing to go?” I wanted there to be a lot of light in the book. “In one hand, one has to come to an understanding with oneself. Having said that, you don’t know what’s not in the book,” Taylor laughs. I guess at some point I’ve sort of become comfortable with sharing so much of myself. “I am definitely of the generation of over sharing. Taylor, 52, is articulate, warm and conversational, not reticent. In his new memoir, In the Pleasure Groove: Love Death & Duran Duran, Taylor digs into the rawness of his fame, cocaine abuse and finally making peace with his God. It meant staying sober, maturing, and eventually revealing who he really was. The only child born of Jack and Jean, Nigel John Taylor, needed to switch gears from self-destruction. Selling millions of albums followed while money poured like champagne, but this, too, brought little comfort. “Planet Earth”, “Rio”, “Hungry Like the Wolf”, “The Reflex”, rocked the charts in both Europe, Japan and on American soil. Flashing career credentials wouldn’t be an answer, as the band swept Generation X females off their feet with their boyish good looks and fashion.

John Taylor, founding member and bassist of the 80s mega British group Duran Duran, came to the end road, it was time to slay his demons.įame, drug use, and women aplenty, only catapulted this once shy kid from Birmingham, England towards destruction.

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