He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, and served as a guitarist, songwriter, and record producer for the likes of Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, the Almighty, Thunder, Love and Money, Mark Shaw, Then Jerico, C. C. Catch, Paul Rodgers (with the Law), Belinda Carlisle, and Gun.

[1] Andrew Taylor was born in Tynemouth[2] and raised in the town of Cullercoats, Northumberland, in North East England, and attended Marden High School.

[4] He dropped out of school early to tour England and Europe with several different bands, playing working men's clubs and air force bases.

Andy Taylor joined the band in April 1980 and has been credited for playing a vital role in shaping and developing their early songs, working creatively with Nick Rhodes playing around the keyboardist's patterns and solidifying the melodies, and assisting in forming the band's "rough, undisciplined mixture[s]" of punk, disco and electronic styles into tight, cohesive structures.

After Palmer bowed out at the last moment to go back into the studio to further his newly revitalized solo career , the band toured and even played Live Aid with singer Michael Des Barres as well as making an appearance on a Miami Vice season two episode, "Whatever Works".

Palmer recruited Wally Badarou, another Compass Point Star, who had laid synthesizer tracks on the Power Station album plus his long-term drummer, Dony Wynn, for this production as well.

Taylor said: "I don't think any of us could have known at the time that this little venture would lead to the breakup of DD but it did or at least it exposed the cracks in the pavement.

In the meantime, he recorded the hit single "Take It Easy" (US number 24), which was used as the theme song for the movie American Anthem.

Ex-Missing Persons members Terry Bozzio and Patrick O'Hearn performed drums and bass, respectively, on the song and video.

Hanson, Valen and O'Hearn also appeared with Taylor in the music video for the second single from the Thunder album, "Don't Let Me Die Young".

Throughout 1987 and 1988, Taylor co-wrote and co-produced Rod Stewart's multi-platinum album Out of Order along with Chic members Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson (the latter of whom had also performed with him in Power Station), spawning the Billboard hits, "Lost in You", "Forever Young", and "My Heart Can't Tell You No".

He produced the debut album Back Street Symphony by London rockers Thunder and their follow up Laughing on Judgement Day.

They subsequently finished the album with Canadian engineer/producer Mike Fraser, with a Japanese and US tours to follow to promote the record.

[6] A short controversy followed as Taylor wrote in his 2008 autobiography that there was no "blunt message"[clarification needed] and that in addition to the problems of writing and recording Reportage, old conflicts between other band members and himself had resurfaced.

[7] After touring with British rock band Reef in 2020, Taylor went on to produce their new album Shoot Me Your Ace, which was released in April 2022.

During the event, Simon Le Bon read part of a letter that Taylor had written revealing he had been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer four years prior and a recent setback kept him from attending.