Dead Taylor

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Tot Taylor (* in Cambridge , England ) is a British songwriter , musician , composer , record producer , arranger , author and gallery owner .

biography

At the age of 10, Taylor played guitar and wrote songs, and at 13 he learned to play the piano. His first group during school, "A Special Moment", recorded the single Let's Socialize for Island Records , but it was never released. His next group was called "Advertising" with Simon Boswell on guitar; they released two singles and an album called Jingles .

Taylor started a solo career at Blackhill Enterprises . Here he released three singles in 1981 and the album Playtime as "Tot Taylor and his Orchestra". 1983 followed two more singles and the second album The Inside Story under the name "Tot Taylor". In the next few years three more albums were released: Box-office Poison (1986), My Blue Period (1987) and Menswear Pt1 (1988).

During this time, Taylor began working as a songwriter for other artists. He founded the music label "The Compact Organization", on which the debut album Shiver by the Swedish singer Virna Lindt appeared, written and produced jointly by Taylor and Lindt.

Under the pseudonym "Teddy Johns" Taylor wrote all the tracks for Mari Wilson's debut album Showpeople , which reached the top 30 of the UK album charts. The released single Just What I Always Wanted rose to number 8 in the UK singles chart.

Tayler worked as a theater and film composer and arranger in Los Angeles and for the BBC . Among other things, he composed a six-hour piano score for the eight-hour play "Picasso's Women". He wrote music for feature films, television and video games.

Taylor released two instrumental albums: Music for the Left Handed (with Mick Bass) and Waterland . He produced a compilation of modern interpretations of Bach's music entitled Bachology .

In 2003, Taylor founded the Riflemaker art gallery in Soho with Virginia Damsta . The gallery showed works by William S. Burroughs , Juan Fontanive , Judy Chicago , Liliane Lijn , Wen Wu , Penelope Slinger , Chosil Kil and Leah Gordon , among others .

Taylor wrote several books on visual arts and artists, including Me as Him on Gavin Turk and Andy Warhol , Analog (trends in Sound & Picture) and Indica on the legendary art gallery of the 1960s . His debut novel The Story of John Nightly was published in 2017 (under the same title in German 2019).

After a 15-year hiatus from music, Taylor began recording again in 2019. In an interview with the online radio station ByteFM , Taylor said he needed a reason to go to the studio. On his first single, Yoko, Oh, it was John Lennon's song Oh Yoko! . Tot Taylor thought the piece about Yoko Ono deserved an answer song. He had worked with Ono as a gallery owner. In the same year Taylor wrote and produced again music for Virna Lindt, whose single Avant Garde he released on his own label The Campus.

Discography (selection)

Advertising (band)

  • 1977: Lipstick - single
  • 1977: Stolen Love - single
  • 1978: Jingles album

Solo albums

  • 1981: Playtime
  • 1983: The Inside Story
  • 1986: Box-office Poison
  • 1987: My Blue Period
  • 1987: menswear
  • 1990: Music For The Left-Handed - with Mick Bass
  • 1997: Waterland

Dead Taylor and the In-Group

  • 2000: PopFolkJazz

Songwriter, composer and producer

  • 1983: Showpeople by Mari Wilson (author and arranger as "Teddy Johns")
  • 1984: Shiver by Virna Lindt (co-author / co-producer)
  • 1985: Play / Record by Virna Lindt (co-author / co-producer)
  • Suburbia Suite by The Sound Barrier (Writer / Producer)
  • 1993: St Marks Place by World of leather (producer / co-author)
  • 1995: Jesus Christ Superstore by World of Leather (producer / co-author)
  • 1995: Bachology (producer)
  • 1996: Maria Callous by Gretchen Hofner

theatre

  • Picasso's Women (National Theater) (Composer)
  • The Tempest (AJTC Theater) (Composer)
  • Blood Royal (King's Head Theater) (composer r)

Movie and TV

  • 1987: Shatterer (composer)
  • 1988: Macbeth
  • 1999: The Early Travelers (composer / producer)

Video games

  • Batman: Dark Tomorrow (composer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tot Taylor on last.fm
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Interview with Tot Taylor in M magazine, October 3, 2017 (English)
  3. ↑ Interview with Tot Taylor in FAD magazine, September 22, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ VF Team: The 10 best new vinyl releases this week (November 1st). In: The Vinyl Factory. November 1, 2019, accessed June 3, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Tot Taylor - "Yoko, Oh" - ByteFM Blog - Tot Taylor. In: ByteFM Blog - News and reviews from our editorial team. October 10, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Henning Tudor-Kasbohm: Tot Taylor - "Yoko, Oh" - ByteFM Blog - Tot Taylor. In: ByteFM Blog - News and reviews from our editorial team. ByteFM, October 10, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2020 (German, approx. At minute 45: studio motivation, answer songs and Yoko Ono).
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, dead
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, arranger, author and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge