Duran Duran Drummer Roger Taylor Exits Group and Retires Following Tinnitus Diagnosis
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
1 in the 3 before
Emerging
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 11:54am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 75% of the past week’s 4175 stories, and number 81 of 529 in Film & TV.Part of a bigger story
Roger Taylor: 2 developments since Mon 9 Nov.
1File photo: Duran Duran
Band’s longtime drummer said stepping down was ‘one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make’
Variety didn’t include a summary, so this is The Independent’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English pop rock band. Formed in Birmingham in 1978 by keyboardist Nick Rhodes, guitarist John Taylor and singer/bassist Stephen Duffy. The band went through several early changes before the band's line-up settled in May 1980 as Rhodes, Taylor, singer Simon Le Bon, guitarist Andy Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor.4
The bigger story: Roger Taylor
2 developments since Mon 9 Nov.
Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor Retires From Group After Tinnitus Diagnosis: “I Must Now Listen to My Body and My Doctors”
You’re here4 newsrooms. Linked by Roger Taylor, recent
The story so far
4 newsroomsEmerging- Reports
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- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (3 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: The Independent, 3 hr 10 min before anyone else.
Reported by 4 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Over
- 3.9 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 3.4 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1:58am AEDT | The Independent | 1 |
| 5:08am AEDT | Variety | 2 |
| 5:24am AEDT | Los Angeles Times | 3 |
| 5:54am AEDT | The Hollywood Reporter | 4 |
Sources and credits
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Photo: Brian Aris; Distributed by Capitol Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Variety: Duran Duran Drummer Roger Taylor Exits Group and Retires Following Tinnitus Diagnosis
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The Independent: Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor to step down from band after recent diagnosis
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Background: “Duran Duran”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

