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John Taylor, left, and Andy Taylor of Power Station perform on stage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, August 13, 1985. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) Getty Images By 1984, Duran Duran were the hottest group in pop music, with huge hits (among them “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Rio,” “Is There Something I Should Know,” “The Reflex,” and “The Wild Boys”) and their elaborate music videos. In that year, the British band had been in the midst of their large-scale Sing Blue Silver tour. But for two of the group’s members, bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor, that massive success brought pressures and a yearning to break out of the Duran Duran bubble. “There was so much going on,” John Taylor recalls recently. “When you’re hot, you’re hot, and you get these opportunities. We had Seven and the Ragged Tiger [Duran Duran’s third studio album, released in 1983], which was a difficult album to make. A lot of sitting around, a lot of waiting. And I just had energy for something else.” That “something else” turned out to be the Power Station, the hard rock/funk supergroup featuring the two Taylors, who are not related; singer Robert Palmer; and Chic drummer Tony Thompson. Released in March 1985, their self-titled debut album became a hit and contained two charting singles: “Some Like It Hot” and “Get It On” (a cover of T. Rex’s glam rock classic, “Bang a Gong”). For its 40th anniversary, The Power Station has been reissued as a deluxe edition featuring a previously unreleased live concert from the band’s 1985 tour, remixes and raw instrumentals. The genesis of the Power Station project can be traced to 1984, when the Taylors were working with model and singer Bebe Buell. “She was my girlfriend for really…

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