Не знаю, сюда ли это... но вот интервью Джона на каком-то радио в реал формате.
http://www.moremusic104.com/audio/johntaylor.ramА вот транскрипт его.
John Taylor Interview, 11/4/03
DC Radio Interviewer: Good Morning, John!
JT: How are you?
I: Very well, and you?
JT: Yeah great.
I: Are you fired up for the D.C. date? Everybody here, I daresay, is fired up to see you guys.
JT: Yeah. I’m incredibly fired up. I look forward to playing live more than almost anything else that I do. I mean, I’m so excited to be back on the road, and playing with my band.
I: The band’s back together, and we’re glad to have it! We started giving tickets away to the concert I want to say 2 weeks ago, and the response was INSANE. Does it ever surprise you that almost 25 years after this band was formed it seems as though the following is as rich and passionate as it was the year you guys first started?
JT: Well, I had an inkling…you know, that it might be a really powerful thing. I call it the “Love Train.” We’ve been on the “Love Train” since we started playing concerts end of June-July….and it’s been nothing but… love!
I: I was watching MTV last night, and doesn’t it seem funny that the video for Girls on Film was banned because of its sexual content, and now videos go WAY beyond that?
JT: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it’s funny because the DVD has just been released, and actually the running order now has two sexy videos… Girls on Film is the second video on it, and The Chauffeur is the third, which was a more kind of um….it was чихх-пыхх, but it was kind of very artsy, you know. And I’ve got an 11-year-old daughter, and a 13-year-old, and they’re really on the “train” with us; they’re really enjoying this Duran Duran revival, and they’re listening to the music now, which they never did before. And I kind of hung back as to giving them this DVD, you know? At first I was excited to give it to them, and then I thought….I don’t know that I really want to be…..and then a friend of mine was telling me that when Girls on Film came out, they were in the den, and they were watching it over and over and over again—and they were like, 10 or 11!! I said “Oh my god! You were 10 and you were watching this?” (laughs) ….I suppose I was about 10 when I saw my first porn magazine, in the bushes, you know you’re going to find it wherever, whether someone shows it to you on t.v., or it’s a magazine you find in the bushes on the way to school. (laughs). I’m just naturally drawn to, um, naked people. (laughs some more)
I: I gotta tell you John, there’s something that happens when the girls hear of Duran Duran. I was talking to (a coworker), and she’s a HUGE fan, and even has written her dream of marrying Simon when she grew up, and you know, YOU were MY favorite, so I was just wondering, you know, between you two, who got the most chicks?
JT: (laughs) Well, he got married too early, so it was a one-horse race from that point (everybody cracks up). I continued to experiment for some time. Although, I wouldn’t say that I was HAPPIER than him. We’re very competitive actually, Simon and I. There was a show recently (I probably shouldn’t say this, but the wife’s gone to work), a show we played quite recently, and I started FIXATING on this girl in the front row, right up against the front barrier, and I was thinking “Damn—she’s really cute!”, and of course I became, um, fixated, as you do, and I’m suddenly thinking “…She’s looking at Simon MUCH more than me!”. And then she realized she had a little bit of power, and she was going backwards and forwards from one to the other. And when we came off stage I said to Simon, “Did you see that girl? With the Farrah Fawcett hair?” And he said, “You mean the one that was looking at me more than you?” (everybody laughs)
I: 23 years later and you guys are still trying to one-up eachother!
JT: Yeah. Pathetic. But you know, it’s whatever drives you; whatever it takes.
I: You were with Power Station with Robert Palmer, and we had him on shortly before he passed, and I was just wondering if you had occasion to speak with him before he died, and if you could share what you guys talked about?
JT: Well, I was very fortunate because Robert was in Japan in July when we were there, and I hadn’t seen him for a long time, and we had dinner together, and he and I got to have a quiet moment together. He was as enthusiastic about music and life as he ever had been, and he was incredibly supportive of our band. …(his death) was really a terrible shock . I mean….these things happen (though), don’t they? He had an incredible life, though, I will say that, and he made some incredible music. He’s a guy I think is VERY underrated , and I think he should have been in the Rock-and-roll Hall of Fame a long time ago.
I: (regarding) the MTV music and video awards, you were receiving this huge honor, which you deserve so much, Duran Duran, Lifetime Achievement, and there’s Kelly Osbourne, and then Avril Levigne, and then audio went off—what happened there?!
JT: Yeah! what the hell happened there? (laughs) It wasn’t like U2, when they got theirs, was it, Jesus. You know, the whole SHOW was devoted to U2’s Lifetime Achievement Award (laughs). You know, I don’t really know. I think they were kind of embarrassed. I think they decided to do it, like a WEEK before the event. And I think they were kind of shamed into it, if you want to know my opinion. Everywhere I was going, people were saying, “You’re giving AWAY an award? And they’ve never given YOU one??”... I don’t think it was something that they had been planning from the get-go, when they were putting the show together, and this is just MY opinion, I DON’T know the truth of it, but I think that they reached a certain point, and they knew the band was coming on, and….it was just one of those, crazy, really, because we didn’t have a CLUE what was going on….in fact, when we were waiting to go on, we were waiting behind the staging, and there were five, whattya call them, “Moon Men”, lined up on the floor, and I said to the guy “Hey, we should all go out holding one of those!” and say to them “Look how good everybody looks with these!”…and we were joking, you know. But those were the five awards that they were going to bring out and give to us! (laughs)
I: They need to re-do that (part of the ceremony that got messed up).
JT: They actually did for the European broadcast, they actually got it,
I: …got it right?
JT: Well, they got it RIGHTER. (laughs)
I: Well listen John, we’re SO excited for you to come to town, we’ve started giving away more tickets to the show, and it’s November 9th at the Warner Theatre, and welcome back to the touring world!
JT: Thank you very much. It’s great to be here!
I: Well, thank you, all the girls will be waiting for you in the front row! (laughs)
JT: (laughing) Bye.