John Taylor, left, performs with Duran Duran at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (2011/File Photo)
One category that always makes it onto my Christmas list is music biographies/autobiographies.
There are a few out this year that I’m interested in, but none moreso than John Taylor’s “In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran.”
I’m a big Duran Duran fan and I enjoyed Andy Taylor’s “Wild Boy.” I will tell anyone who will listen about why “Rio” is one of the most underrated albums of the last 30 years and one of my all-time favorite Coachella moments was seeing the band in 2011.
I’m hoping the book gets a little bit into the making of “Rio” and his bass work, too. I’m also hoping that while this band didn’t make it into the title, he will discuss his time with Power Station, which included Robert Palmer, Andy Taylor and Tony Thompson from Chic.
Palmer ended up leaving the band after his solo career started having a renaissance with the smash album “Riptide.”
Fun fact: Andy Taylor played guitar on that album’s biggest hit–“Addicted to Love.”
However, my favorite Palmer song is one from way back–“Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)” off his 1979 album “Secrets.”