Former Duran Duran Guitarist Andy Taylor Announces Solo Album 'Man's A Wolf To Man'
Thursday, 10 August 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Former Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor has announced his first solo album in over three decades.
'Man's A Wolf To Man' will arrive through BMG on September 8 and marks his first new music as a solo artist since 1990's 'Dangerous'.
The 62-year-old, who left Duran Duran in 2006, began writing the record in 2016. Its announcement comes several months after he revealed that he was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer, which has become terminal. His battle with the disease, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, delayed the LP's completion. He said:
"When I started writing this album, it was the beginning of the chaos – 2016, 2017. 'Man's A Wolf To Man' is pretty apt now. Having lived there, had kids there, had an amazing career there, I know America very well. And when you watch the breakdown, and the extremes of it, how quickly people became vicious enemies."
"'Man's A Wolf To Man' is about how man is his own worst enemy and will behave like a pack of wolves towards his other human enemy," he added. "What we saw bubbling when I started writing, it was all about getting even. Why do you get so mad trying to get even? Why do people get angry? Why don’t they just do better themselves? I was getting back to making records that are human, about something that mattered or matters, that are in the moment."
Check out the new single This Will Be Ours, an upbeat, acoustic bop, below. It follows the record's previously shared title track.
On August 19, Duran Duran will take time out from their current North American tour to perform a concert for Taylor at the intimate Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, California, benefitting UK charity The Cancer Awareness Trust.
'Man's A Wolf To Man' tracklist:
1. Man’s a Wolf to Man
2. Influential Blondes
3. Did It for You
4. Try to Get Even (featuring Tina Arena)
5. Reachin’ Out to You
6. Getting It Home
7. The Last Straw
8. This Will Be Ours
9. Gotta Give (featuring Gary Stringer)
10. Big Trigger
11. Man’s a Wolf to Man (reprise)
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