Former Duran Duran musician Andy Taylor has given a rare health update nine months after his bandmates revealed he has stage four cancer.
Taylor, who left Duran Duran in 2006, was noticably absent when the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last November.
Instead, the Hungry Like the Wolf hit-makers read out a letter written by Taylor disclosing his diagnosis.
Appearing on BBC Breakfast on Friday, Taylor was asked by hosts Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty about his decision not to attend the ceremony.
“I wasn’t there because I’ve had stage four prostate cancer for around about eight years and it caught up with me quite badly around about last September,” he said.
“As hard as I tried and all the preparation I made, when you do something like the Rock and Roll Hall Fame — which is basically like getting knighted for a guitar player — you’ve kind of got to be on 11, you can’t saunter in, and I couldn’t really stand up and play.
“It was sad and I hadn’t told the guys.”
Taylor then spoke about how he is doing now and revealed: “I had to get in very good shape to have this treatment, so I really took care of myself in a different way.
“And then after the first round of treatment, I said, ‘If I’m OK and you guys say I’m OK and you do your blood tests and that, is it OK to start work again?
“’Sort of light work, to get out?’
“I don’t want to be a patient stuck here, I want to be a working patient.”
He added: “A little beacon of hope because this stuff just drags you... cancer just drags you down into the darkness and your family, and I can work as a patient.”
