Editing John Taylor (bass guitarist) (section)

===1997–2001: Solo music career===
In January 1997, Taylor announced at a Duran Duran fan convention that he was leaving the band.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20070320075523/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/johntaylor2/articles/story/5924427/duran_duran_comes_undone  Duran Duran Comes Undone]", ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', 23 January 1997.</ref>

During 1997 and 1998, Taylor built and toured with a band called "John Taylor Terroristen" ([[Gerry Laffy]] on guitar, Michael Railton/Tio Banks on keyboard, Larry Aberman on drums, [[Crooks and Liars|John Amato]] on sax and flute) which played numerous shows in Southern California before touring the East and West Coasts of the United States. Terroristen released a live EP ''5.30.98'' and the accompanying video ''Better Off Alive'' through the Trust The Process website. After [[9/11]], Taylor said he would never use the band name "Terroristen" again.

Taylor also began making forays into acting. His long friendship with [[Allison Anders]] led to a starring role in her independent film, ''Sugar Town'', in 1998. He also appeared in small roles in several other movies and TV programmes over the next couple of years.

In 1999, Taylor released two albums of earlier material. The first, ''Résumé'', was made up of unreleased music that he and [[Jonathan Elias]] had worked on together during the 1985 sessions for the ''9½ Weeks'' movie soundtrack. The second, ''Meltdown'', was a collection of tracks Taylor had laid down in 1992, during the extensive delays in Duran Duran's recording of ''The Wedding Album''.

Later in 1999 Taylor signed a recording contract with the Japanese record label [[Avex Trax]], and released an album labelled simply ''John Taylor'' on the cover, but listed in his official discography as ''The Japan Album''. He continued recording for Avex in 2000, and early in 2001 released ''Techno for Two'' (featuring the international hit "6,000 Miles" co-written by [[Matthew Hager]]), a decidedly non-[[techno]] album filled with very personal songs. Shortly after, as talks began for a potential Duran Duran reunion, Taylor decided to create a retrospective package called ''Retreat into Art'' demonstrating his development over the previous five years.

Taylor's final solo release, completed after the Duran Duran reunion was under way, was the collection ''MetaFour'' released in 2002. It features a 17-minute Q&A interview with fellow bass player [[Christopher Maloney]] at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. 

In October 2012, Taylor released an autobiography called ''In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780525958000,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517182934/http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0%2C%2C9780525958000%2C00.html |archive-date=17 May 2013 |title=In the Pleasure Groove |url-status = dead}}</ref> In 2013, the Writers in Treatment organisation awarded Taylor with the "Experience, Strength and Hope" award for his work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.duranduran.com/wordpress/2013/duran-durans-john-taylor-to-receive-experience-strength-and-hope-award-on-february-15th-2013/ |title=Duran Duran's John Taylor to receive Experience, Strength and Hope Award on February 15th, 2013 |publisher=Duran Duran |access-date=2 August 2014}}</ref>