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- ‘‘When I left the band after S.F. Sorrow, I thought we had made a really good album,” says guitarist Dick Taylor. “But it wasn’t about disappointment over the sales, which is what people think. ‘Oh did you leave because it should have been a hit?’ In fact, I left before it hadn’t started not selling, when it could still have been a hit.
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Feb 10, 2024 · The experience was to manifest itself years later in The Pretty Things’ most celebrated work. Guitarist Dick Taylor was a classmate of Mick Jagger at Dartford Grammar School, where they bonded over a shared love of American blues. In 1960 the pair formed Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys.
Nov 27, 2014 · Londonist caught up with Dick to ask him about his 50 years on the London music scene and his memories of various superstars and much-missed old venues. The Pretty Things started at the Central...
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Dec 2, 2012 · Dick Taylor of the Pretty Things says he can clearly remember when they cut a wide and notorious swathe of mayhem, drunkenness and shock-horror headlines through New Zealand in late 1965.
He left the Pretty Things in 1969, after the release of their concept album S.F. Sorrow. The band released a few more albums without Taylor and disbanded in 1976, but regrouped with Taylor in 1979 to release Cross Talk. Taylor remained with the Pretty Things until they broke up in 2018.
Oct 1, 2020 · Guitarist Taylor, 77, says the rethink was prompted by May’s ill-health from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema that halted the band’s touring in 2018.
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Mar 29, 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...
Feb 5, 2021 · His memoir The Grunge Diaries is in the Goldmine Store. Dick Taylor, guitarist and founding member of The Pretty Things, departed the band after their concept album "S.F. Sorrow," but returned in 1979 for the long haul, until the recently released (and last) album, "Bare As Bone, Bright As Bone."