Taylor Made
Mar 02, 2021
4 minutes
Interview: Ian Fortnam
Photo:
Kevin Nixon
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. Five months later, he swapped the Stones for art school, where he founded The Pretty Things with vocalist Phil May.
In December 2018, having metamorphosed from the bad boys of R&B into respected elder statesmen, via creating , the world’s first rock opera, The Pretty Things played their final live show, at London’s Indigo O2. After completing the recording of a stripped-back Pretty Things acoustic blues collection titled , May tragically died in May
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