{"id":806,"date":"2026-11-12T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2026-11-12T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:30:40","slug":"duran-duran-s-roger-taylor-steps-retires-playing-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran&#x27;s Roger Taylor steps down, retires from playing drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Roger Taylor is stepping away from Duran Duran and retiring from playing drums. The musician&#x27;s departure follows a tinnitus diagnosis that has worsened recently, forcing him to hang up his drumsticks.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor had been a member of the English pop-rock band Duran Duran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2026-11-12\/duran-duran-roger-taylor-retires-band-playing-drums\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latimes.com \u2014 Duran Duran&#x27;s Roger Taylor steps down, retires from playing drums<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/duran-duran-drummer-roger-taylor-exits-group-tinnitus-1236946365\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Duran Duran, Roger Taylor, drums, tinnitus, music retirement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Taylor is stepping away from Duran Duran and retiring from playing drums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[890,888,892,889,891],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-drums","tag-duran-duran","tag-music-retirement","tag-roger-taylor","tag-tinnitus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}