![]() And yes, they’ll taste as impressive as how Nick, Simon, John and Roger have aged. Many of the drink names are his.įor this project, I had help from some of my favorite bartenders, who were all cherry ice cream smiles when I assigned them the task of creating cocktails based on specific songs and lyrics. So as a little gift to myself, and for John Taylor (fully aware he no longer imbibes), and for all you Durannies out there ahead of their 40th anniversary as a band (minus one of the Taylors who left a few years ago to spend more time with his crunchy guitar riffs), I am making good on a proposal Jason Bylan, my brother-once-removed, made to me last fall: to create a list of Duran Duran-inspired cocktails. I was even able to meet John Taylor at his book signing years ago, and waited in line with a cross section of fans - gay, straight, male, female, black, white, tan, brown, green, blue, pink, trans, punk, new wave, old wave, buttoned up, dressed up, dressed down - who all wanted their moment with him in an otherwise ordinary world of a midtown Barnes & Noble.Ī few of us in that crowd had something else in common - we share a birthday with JT. Now it’s easy enough to follow them on instagram, watch any of their videos on demand and access their rare B-side recordings (finding the limited edition vinyl 12” singles with the deep cuts was the 1980s equivalent of scoring a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle in a mom and pop liquor store at regular markup). I had to keep seeing and hearing what the “Duran Brothers,” as my friend Liz’s dad referred to them, were up to. And broke because I had to own everything - every record, poster, magazine, book. The first time I saw a Duran Duran video, and caught a glimpse of their bassist John Taylor - that cute, wiry guy with the square chin, bleached bangs and grey fedora - and his fetching bandmates singer Simon LeBon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor (none of the Taylors are related) - riding elephants in the hot sun and calling one night stands “paradise” - I was enthralled. I'd wait for hours to hear/see it again, transfixed and shutting out the rest of the world when my patience finally paid off. When I was in my early teens in the 1980s, before my family even considered a cable subscription or owned a VCR, watching something on analog TV or hearing a piece of music on the radio still had a fatalistic thrill, because I never knew when it would come on again, or if I’d even have the reception for it. ![]() ![]() We sometimes forget that before the internet and YouTube, a nostalgic whim to hear a song or watch a video clip couldn't be instantly gratified.
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