{"id":8343,"date":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-power-stations-cocaine-fueled-chaos-left-an-80s-masterpiece-still-revered-40-years-later\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:00:00","slug":"the-power-stations-cocaine-fueled-chaos-left-an-80s-masterpiece-still-revered-40-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-power-stations-cocaine-fueled-chaos-left-an-80s-masterpiece-still-revered-40-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Station\u2019s Cocaine-Fueled Chaos Left an \u201980s Masterpiece Still Revered 40+ Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It began, like so many memorable music stories do, with a British icon and the younger upstart who loved his style. The icon was one Robert Palmer\u2014brilliant, eclectic, a cosmopolitan gentleman of the world but criminally underrated. The upstart was a young troublemaker named Nigel John Taylor, the future bassist with Duran Duran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got into him around the [1978] Double Fun<\/em> album,\u201d says Taylor, now 65, from his home in London. \u201cI went to see him at Birmingham Odeon. It wasn\u2019t quite as immediate for me as Bryan Ferry or Queen, but there was something about him and the way he was operating, with that blue-eyed soul thing he had going. By the time I met him a few years later, he had become one of the most interesting journeyman artists, equal parts style and substance. We just hit it off. I was pretty charming at the time, you know, and it was only natural to talk about doing something together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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