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Dick Taylor (de son vrai nom Richard Clifford Taylor, né le 28 janvier 1943, à Dartford, Kent) est un musicien britannique, qui fut entre autres le premier bassiste des Rolling Stones (très brièvement).
Richard Clifford Taylor (born 28 January 1943) is an English musician, best known as the guitarist and founding member of The Pretty Things . Taylor was an early member of the Rolling Stones, [1] playing guitar and bass guitar, but left the band to resume his studies at Sidcup Art College.
26 avr. 2021 · Here’s how it works. The Pretty Things: life, legacy, and the original bad boys of rock'n'roll. In 1962, guitarist Dick Taylor formed Little Boy Blue And The Blues Boys with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards . Upon bringing in Brian Jones the band changed their name to the Rolling Stones, and Taylor switched to bass.
17 oct. 2021 · Here's an interview with founding member and guitarist of legendary English band The Pretty Things, Dick Taylor recorded prior to the band's farewell tour of...
- 1962–1964: Formation
- 1964–1966: Early Career
- 1967–1971: S. F. Sorrow and Parachute
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s to Present
Pretty Things were preceded by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, which consisted of Dick Taylor, fellow Sidcup Art College student Keith Richards, and Mick Jagger, among others. When Brian Jones was recruiting for his own band, all three joined Brian and Ian Stewart and were dubbed "Rollin' Stones" by Jones in June 1962. Because there were too man...
Pretty Things' first three singles appeared in the UK Singles Chart in 1964 and 1965: "Rosalyn" No. 41, "Don't Bring Me Down" No. 10, and the self-penned "Honey I Need" at No. 13. They never had a hitin the United States, but had considerable success in their native United Kingdom and in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands. Their ap...
Their final album for Fontana Records was a contractual obligation produced by Steve Rowland and the subject of controversy, since Emotions was laden with brass and string arrangements arranged by Reg Tilsley. EMI producer Norman Smith expressed interest in working with them and at the end of September 1967, the Pretty Things signed to EMI's Columb...
Pretty Things reformed in late 1971. Wally Waller, who had become assistant producer at EMI, was replaced by Stuart Brooks (born January 1951, Hertfordshire) (ex-Black Cat Bones). They signed with Warner Bros. Records and released Freeway Madness at the end of 1972.Although Waller was no longer a member of the band, he produced the album under a ps...
The 1967 line-up of Alan, May, Povey, Taylor and Waller reformed in 1978 for a one-off gig in the Netherlands. Adding Pete Tolson, the six-piece recorded Cross Talk for Warner Bros. Records in 1980. The new wave sounds did not improve their sales figures, and Pretty Things split up again in 1981, after an appearance in the horror film The Monster C...
May and Taylor, together with former Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty, recorded two albums in Chicago as Pretty Things/Yardbird Blues Band. They were The Chicago Blues Tapes 1991 and Wine, Women, Whiskey, both produced by George Paulus. May and Taylor - along with Barkley McKay (credited as Barclay Mackay) - also recorded one album with members of the...
Original rhythm guitarist Brian Pendleton died of lung cancer on 16 May 2001 in Maidstone. Their ex-guitarist and keyboard player Gordon John Edwards, who also played for the Kinksin the late 1970s, died on 28 February 2003 due to depression-related suicide. In 1999, they released the studio album Rage Before Beauty and in the early 2000s, they rel...
29 mars 2023 · Dick Taylor, Pretty Things founder on the story of their music, “We wanted to put our own mark on things” in our MAY 2023 issue of Uncut, available to buy here. How would you summarise The ...
6 janv. 2023 · Dick Taylor by Judy Totton. Dick Taylor of The Pretty Things gives an extensive podcast interview. We start with Dick’s childhood friendship with Mick Jagger, his time in The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things in the 1960s including recording SF Sorrow, producing Hawkwind, rejoining, their final show and album and the passing of ...
