John says, 'Hey Rog, what's the beat from 'Honky Tonk Woman'?' Ah-ha! I play it since I know it from my school band days, it sounds great as JT kicks in with the now familiar delay effected bass line. JT comes in, sets up his bass, and Bernard says, 'Come on guys, hit me with a killer groove.' Shit! This is the already legendary bass player from Chic.he's played a great groove or two in his time! John and I look nervously at each other, fear coursing through our veins, and the phrase 'this is another fine mess you've gotten me into' coming to mind! I set my kit up in the mirror lined drum booth at Maison Rouge studios in London, hit the drums.Blat! Boosh!!Thwack!!! Enormous ambient sounds.'just what we were looking for' says the sound engineer Jason Casaro. Nile Rodgers was busy, so who do we call next?.Bernard Edwards! He had just produced the Power Station with John and Andy, we loved the drum sound on that, so the perfect choice, and another hero to boot!

It's not every day that you get asked to write and record a James Bond theme, but thanks to our somewhat cheeky bass player, we were in the position - and in a very short space of time. I recall that there was quite a lot of tension around the sessions, with pressure to deliver a hit in a week's time! What do I remember about the recording of 'A View to a Kill' 30 years ago?. On the anniversary of the song's release, he reflects on recording the track that would end up being the band's 2nd Number One single, and first James Bond theme to reach the top of the charts (a distinction that remains to this day) When Duran Duran's Roger Taylor recorded his drum part for the band's title track to the fourteenth James Bond film, 'A View to a Kill,' he didn't know that it would be the last time he filled that post for what would be close to twenty years.

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