instance, the musicians briefly visited the music video set of Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" at Cannes; its director was Russell Mulcahy, who had directed Duran Duran's videos. Additionally, the band members individually flew back to the UK for other commitments on several occasions. Reflecting on the times in his 2008 memoir, guitarist Andy Taylor stated that "it was the start of the megadamage" due to the acceleration of his and John's cocaine addictions. "We were living the high life to the full, and soon we were partying in Cannes every night." Throughout the recording days, Duran Duran primarily wrote through jam sessions, receiving feedback from Little on which parts were worth developing further. The producer gave the band a songwriting method he had learned working with Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry and Phil Manzanera, wherein he would create a groove using a programmed drum with effects on top. "Bryan would then vamp on the keyboard and produce what he called a 'moody synth' sound, which was like a pad sound with plenty of movement and character. That would enable him to get a lot of feeling out of a couple of chords, and Duran Duran did the same thing." By the end, the group had yielded what Malins calls several "embryonic ideas", a demo of "Union of the Snake" and an unreleased track titled "Seven and the Ragged Tiger", parts of which evolved into "The Seventh Stranger". According to John's 2012 memoir, the band devised sketches of the tracks "Of Crime and Passion", "(I'm Looking for) Cracks in the Pavement", "I Take the Dice" and "Spidermouse", which became "New Moon on Monday", during their time in France. Caribbean sessions As a means to increase their concentration amid tabloid scrutiny and paparazzi bombardment, Duran Duran relocated to George Martin's AIR Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat to resume recording. According to John, the group viewed a BBC documentary chronicling the recording of the Police's fifth and final studio album Synchronicity (1983) at AIR and felt it would be a good fit for Duran Duran. Believing Little's inexperience as a producer was slowing down progress, EMI brought in the mixer of "Is There Something I Should Know?", Alex Sadkin, to replace Little before the new producer intervened, finding Little was important to the band's writing process. Little later said he contributed several ideas despite not receiving any writing credits on the