Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor is suffering from cancer and will not be “around for very long,” Simon Le Bon, the group’s lead singer, has revealed at a major ceremony.
Le Bon said it was “devastating news” that his 61-year-old bandmate was being treated for stage-four metastatic prostate cancer after his diagnosis with the disease four years ago.
Duran Duran, behind hits such as Save a Prayer and The Reflex, revealed the news at their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.
Taylor had been expected to be reunited with Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor, but he “suffered a setback” that prevented him from travelling from his home in Ibiza.
The ceremony was set to mark the first time the band – one of the UK’s biggest in the 1980s – had played together in the US in 17 years.