Creativity Quote by Roger Andrew Taylor

Six months is both a flex and a confession. In one flat sentence, Roger Taylor turns Seven and the Ragged Tiger from just another Duran Duran album into a visible unit of labor: time logged, tempers tested, money spent, instincts second-guessed. It’s the kind of detail musicians drop when they want to puncture the fantasy that pop happens by accident, or that the early-’80s sheen was simply a product of hair, eyeliner, and MTV lighting.

The intent reads as quiet credibility. Taylor isn’t selling the mythology of effortless cool; he’s staking a claim to craft. Saying it “took six months” frames the record as built, not merely performed. It nods to the studio as an instrument and to the era’s increasingly technical production demands: layered vocals, gated drums, synth textures, meticulous mixing. That timeline also signals pressure. By 1983, Duran Duran weren’t a band with time to tinker in obscurity; they were a global brand expected to deliver. Six months can imply perfectionism, but it can also hint at the stress of sustaining momentum while the culture’s attention span shrank.

The subtext is about legitimacy in a genre often dismissed as glossy. New wave and pop were routinely treated as disposable compared to “real” rock. Taylor’s line pushes back: this was work, and it was hard. Contextually, it lands in the post-MTV moment when records had to sound like the future and look like it too. The ragged tiger isn’t just in the title; it’s in the process.