Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Im
Founding Duran Duran member and guitarist Andy Taylor’s battle with stage 4 prostate cancer is getting tougher, his bandmate revealed at a Thursday press conference according to the Daily Mail. Taylor’s bandmate Simon Le Bon made the comments to explain Taylor’s absence at the band’s Sanremo Music Festival performance in Italy. “As you probably know, he’s got prostate cancer,” Le Bon said at a press conference for their show. Taylor first revealed his diagnosis in 2022, though he’d known since 2018. “It’s very late stage, fourth-stage metastasised cancer,” Le Bon continued, but Taylor is “fighting as hard as he can, and we are with him in that fight.” The disease seemed to be improving after a miracle treatment made Taylor “asymptomatic” despite receiving “palliative, end-of-life care” he told the Times in 2022. However, Le Bon said Thursday Taylor still has a fight ahead. “I am sure he would love to be here.”
