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Literally! With Rob Lowe

John Taylor: Feed Each Other

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.812.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Duran Duran’s John Taylor and Rob Lowe definitely shared some Teen Beat magazine covers back in the day! In this episode, John Taylor joins Rob Lowe to discuss the spooky new Duran Duran album, “Danse Macabre,” what it’s like to record a James Bond theme song, John’s experience moving to Los Angeles, and much more. Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Your voicemail could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

You know, when you're at the top, you know, the pressure is such that you almost don't want to live there.

0:07.0

Nobody really wants to live there for long, you know, so you're going to kind of, you're going to parachute down from that one way or the other. Hey everybody welcome to literally. Thank you for taking the time out of your life to spend some time here.

0:37.0

John Taylor from Duran Duran is here today. That's right, I said it. Uh, Duran, F and Duran, come on. I lost more

0:49.5

girlfriends to this guy in the 80s probably than anybody else probably and and yet I remain a fan a huge fan and these guys are killing it today. I listen there's nothing I

1:07.3

love more than an 80s icon who's still killing it in 2023.

1:14.0

All right let's get at it.

1:15.0

John Taylor Good morning. How are you? How are you? How are you?

1:28.0

How are you? Yeah, great. Nice to be on your show. Oh, thank you.

1:33.0

I was tempted to call you the mayor of Montecito, but...

1:36.0

Oh my God.

1:37.0

Are you in Montecito or are you in Santa Barbara?

1:39.0

I'm in Montecito.

1:40.0

I mean, right now I'm in Santa Barbara, I I've been here for almost 30 years.

1:45.0

I love it I mean we get we got we come up to San Josejo that's that that's our getaway

1:50.0

we I love I love that part of the country it's's just that part of the state. It's beautiful.

1:54.4

Isn't it for you? Yeah, it's where do you spend most of your time these days?

1:59.2

Well, you know, LA's base, you know, that's where I go back to, you know the band the rest of the band will live in

2:05.6

London so how come you're the only one who escaped to I mean take the lucky

2:10.8

am I wrong it takes actually it takes, I think, to say nope, uh-uh. Yeah, it does. I mean, you know, actually my first wife, I got a, I got a credit her, she got me out of, she got me out of there. She got me out of her to

2:22.8

me out of there she got me to LA

2:24.3

30 years ago and you know she had strangely enough I mean I've been to LA

2:30.3

a number of times on tour never got a taste for it at all. Never imagined it would be a place that I'd want to live. But my first wife Amanda, her grandmother had lived in, like, Lookout Mountain, Laurel Canyon her whole life and so Amanda introduced me to that part of the city and I was like wow this is great and you know and I was like, wow, this is great.

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