hoping, dreaming, smiling, laughing, feeling,
crying, wanting something, touching, living:

Back at the Plaza Athenee, there was bedlam. Nick's wife Julie Anne had locked him out of their suite and was screaming at the top of her voice out on the balcony. People thought she was going to fall off. The fire brigade were called and the whole thing descended into a farce, with Nick charging up and down the corridors, until they managed to calm Julie Anne down.
When I woke up early the next morning, a wave of depression hit me. I felt embarrassed at the memory of John staggering around at the Stones session, and exhausted by the nastiness of the commotion at the hotel.
Suddenly, I found myself crying uncontrollably. This can't go on, I realised.
The booze, the drugs and the carnage that surrounded my life in Duran Duran were all too much. I knew I was heading for a nervous breakdown if I didn't change my lifestyle. That's when I made up my mind that I'd just do the Bond video and get the hell out of there.
I put on my dark sunglasses and went to the shoot. Then I left the Plaza Athenee and I've never been back since.
Looking back, I can see that Duran Duran had already split up months ago. We just didn't know it.

Ahora sí, TU regalo.
FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS :)
Lo planeamos con las chicas, pero no era nada seguro. Pero cuando con Vane quedamos atrapadas entre la gente y no podiamos salir y teniamos a S ENFRENTE nuestro, fue nuestra oportunidad :) Así que tambien agradecele a Vane, que es la otra chica que se escucha diciendo: can you say hi to Cecilia ? jajajaja fue muy gracioso aunque desesperante a la vez, encima no nos habiamos dado cuenta que ya lo había dicho .. y medio que le estabamos rompiendo las bolas .. o la ? jajajajaj
TE AMO MUCHISIMO CB; y esos 16 minutos y segundos que acabamos de hablar, me hicieron sentir mucho mejor, aunque me haya quedado con 20 centavos de credito y aunque no te pude terminar de decir lo que te quería decir, pero bueno..lee lo de abajo que es lo mismo :)
TE AMO MITAD, FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!
When you burn the candle at both ends, pretty soon something has to give - and it happened in April 1984 in San Francisco.
"By the time of Live Aid (1985), though, the fun had fizzled away and I was apprehensive about seeing the rest of the group again. We were all starting to feel pretty frayed, one way or another.
Simon Le Bon - whose two big passions at that time were sailing and his future wife, the model Yasmin Parvaneh - seemed bloated and distracted. Meanwhile, Roger Taylor, our drummer, had started to become agoraphobic.
Roger was naturally a shy person and the pressure of the constant attention and travelling had become too much for him. He was going through a private hell.
Nick Rhodes, our keyboard player, was locked in an unhappy marriage (he later divorced), and his finances were far from healthy due to his lavish lifestyle.
John Taylor, with whom I'd been touring, was in danger of slowly killing himself through drugs.
As for me, I'd come close to a nervous breakdown from the stresses of our crazy life and my own cocaine problem. I had also nearly lost my wife, Tracey - the band's hair stylist whom I'd married in 1982 - to severe post-natal depression.
We hadn't all been together on the road since the previous year, and when we started playing it showed. Combine that with all the shouting matches and the icy silences - well, I just knew I had to get out. So I did.
[...]
John Taylor and I went back to touring with our breakaway group, The Power Station. Then, one day, I turned on the TV news, only to get a bizarre shock - '. . . a yacht belonging to Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon has capsized in rough seas. The singer is believed to have been on board.'
At first I was numb. Was Simon alive? Was he missing, or had he been rescued? A million questions were going through my head.
The sea looked dangerous and stormy in the grainy television images showing Simon's upturned yacht, and I knew that nobody could survive for very long in water like that.
John and I began to make plans to cancel that night's show. Hell, if Simon was dead, we'd cancel the whole tour and be on the first flight back to the UK.
Fortunately, news eventually reached us that he had been rescued. But it was just another example of how our lifestyle threatened to destroy all of us.
'You know, one of us is going to die,' I told John. 'What are you talking about?' he said.
'If we keep going like this we're going to die. It could be a drug thing, it could be an alcohol thing, a car crash or something else. How many more times does something bad have to happen before one of us goes all the way?' "
*Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor


Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving, all looking for a new place to drive. You sit beside me, so newly charming, sweating dew drops glisten freshen your side. Way down the lane away, living for another day, the aphids swarm up in the drifting haze. Swim seagull in the sky towards that hollow western isle. My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze. And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling. What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind ? To tear out from your eyes with a thought to stiffin brooding lies and I'll only watch you leave me further behind. And the sun drips down bedding heavy behind the front of your dress all shadowy lined, and the droning engine throbs in time with your beating heart. Sing blue silver, sing sing blue silver