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| name = Tot Taylor | image = File:Tot_Taylor_photo_by_Peter_Ashworth.jpg | caption = Photograph by Peter Ashworth | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Cambridge | genre = Music | occupation = Songwriter Composer Record producer Author Art curator | years_active = 1973–present | website = Riflemaker Gallery {{official|http://www.riflemaker.org/s-index}} }}Tot Taylor is a Cambridge-born, London-based songwriter, composer, record producer and author. He was a songwriter, singer, performer and band member throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties[1] as well as composer of film soundtracks and theatre scores including stage-productions for the UK's National Theatre. In 2003 he founded the Riflemaker Gallery in London with the curator Virginia Damtsa, which featured feminist, audio and performative art for galleries and museums.[2] His first novel, The Story of John Nightly, was published by Unbound/Penguin in 2017.[3][4] Early musical careerA song writer guitarist since the age of 10 and a pianist from 13,[5] while still at school, Taylor’s first group, A Special Moment, were signed to Chris Blackwell’s Island label to record the single "Let’s Socialize",[6] though the record was never issued.[7] Taylor then formed the group, Advertising, with guitarist Simon Boswell, releasing two singles and one album, Jingles, on EMI.[8] As a solo artist, Taylor then signed to Blackhill Enterprises (managers of Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and The Clash), releasing three singles and an album, Playtime, in 1981 for GTO/CBS Records under the name Tot Taylor and his Orchestra.[9] His second solo album, The Inside Story, and two singles, "The Girl with Everything" and "Poptown", were released in 1983 (this time simply under the name Tot Taylor).[10] He then released a further three albums over three years: Box-office Poison(1986), My Blue Period(1987) and Menswear Pt1(1988),[11] whilst also composing the song "Selling Out"[12] for the 1986 David Bowie-starring, Julien Temple-directed film, Absolute Beginners and compiling the soundtrack for the films Dance with a Stranger and Alan Bleasdale's No Surrender.[13] During this period, Taylor began a career as a songwriter for other artists and founded the independent record label, The Compact Organization, which issued the debut album for the Swedish singer Virna Lindt, Shiver, (produced and co-written by Taylor and Lindt).[14] Teddy JohnsUnder the pseudonym ‘Teddy Johns’, Taylor wrote all the original compositions on Mari Wilson’s debut album, Showpeople,[15] which was released on Taylor and Paul Kinder’s Compact Organization label and achieved a top 30 UK chart position.[16] The album produced a UK chart top ten hit in "Just What I Always Wanted", reaching no.8 in 1982, as well as two other singles, "Baby, It’s True" and "Beware Boyfriend". ComposingFollowing his solo career, Taylor moved into theatre and film soundtrack scoring, relocating to Los Angeles, and working for the BBC as an arranger and composer. He composed a six-hour long piano score for the National Theatre’s eight-hour long production of the play Picasso’s Women.[17][18][19] The play was also staged in Edinburgh, toured the UK, and returned to London in 2018. Other theatre scores include productions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest for the AJTC Theatre Company, and Charles Thomas‘s ‘Blood Royal’. Taylor has composed for film, television and video games, including Muela, Sparkhouse, The Grimleys, My Wonderful Life, Shatterer/Sicilian Connection and Dark Tomorrow. His compositions, production and compilation work have featured in the Tom Hardy-starring Kray twins film Legend, the Joaquin Phoenix film, Buffalo Soldiers Julien Temple’s Absolute Beginners, Dance With a Stranger, No Surrender and Mike Leigh's Career Girls.,[20][21] For the BBC, Taylor composed and produced the soundtrack for the series, Early Travellers in North America.[22][23] He was the music director for the BBC short films A Different Perspective (2001) on Paul McCartney and Michael Stipe, directed by Kevin Macdonald. Instrumental workTaylor has released two instrumental albums: Music for the Left Handed (with Mick Bass)[24] and ‘Waterland’.[25] He was the producer of a compilation album of modern interpretations of the music of Bach, entitled Bachology (EMI).[26] Art curating & Riflemaker galleryIn 2003, with Virginia Damsta, he co-founded the gallery Riflemaker in Beak Street in Soho. The gallery was so-named because it was on the premises of a former gunmaker’s workshop.[27] The gallery has exhibited the work of William S. Burroughs, Juan Fontanive, Judy Chicago, Liliane Lijn, Wen Wu, Penelope Slinger, Chosil Kil and Leah Gordon.[28] Selected discographyAdvertising (band)
Solo artist
Tot Taylor and the In-Group
Writer, composer and producer
Stage
Film and TV
Teddy Johns
Video Games
AuthorTaylor is the author of several books and monographs on artists and the visual arts including ‘Me as Him’ about the artists Gavin Turk and Andy Warhol, Analog (trends in Sound & Picture) and Indica, the story of the famous 1960s art space. .[29] His debut novel, the 900-page The Story of John Nightly was published by Unbound/Penguin Random House in the UK in 2017.[30][31][32] External links
References1. ^[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tot-taylor-mn0001251113/credits All Music: Credits: Tot Taylor] {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Tot}}2. ^[https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1080240/tot-taylor.html?tab=penguin-biography Penguin: Author biography] 3. ^[https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1080240/tot-taylor.html?tab=penguin-books Penguin Books: Tot Taylor: The Story of John Nightly] 4. ^[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JEr6DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT180&lpg=PT180&dq=the+guardian+tot+taylor&source=bl&ots=Ev66cMqvyV&sig=eyEcc1Q1HIcug9f04qWPs1keYhk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmiq39yZvfAhVyu3EKHXSsCL0Q6AEwDnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20guardian%20tot%20taylor&f=false Google Books: ‘The Story of John Nightly’] 5. ^[https://www.musicworks.gr/en/project/mw-questionnaire-tot-taylor/ Music Works interview: Tot Taylor] 6. ^[https://www.last.fm/music/Tot+Taylor/+wiki Last FM musical biographies] 7. ^[https://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/interviews/interview-tot-taylor/ M Magazine interviews: Tot Taylor] 8. ^[https://www.discogs.com/artist/277865-Advertising Advertising discography] 9. ^[https://www.discogs.com/Tot-Taylor-Playtime/master/123163 Tot Taylor discography: ‘Playtime’] 10. ^[https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-inside-story-mw0000888196 All Music discography: ‘The Inside Story’] 11. ^[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tot-taylor-mn0001251113/credits All Music: Tot Taylor discography] 12. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090585/soundtrack IMDB credits: ‘Absolute Beginners’] 13. ^[https://www.allmusic.com/album/absolute-beginners-mw0000202298/credits All Music credits: ‘Absolute Beginners’] 14. ^[https://www.allmusic.com/album/shiver-mw0000480460 All Music credits: Virna Lindt: ‘Shiver’] 15. ^[https://www.discogs.com/Mari-Wilson-With-The-Wilsations-Showpeople/master/123149 Mari Wilson: ‘Showpeople’] 16. ^[https://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/showpeople/ Official UK Charts data: Mari Wilson: ‘Showpeople’] 17. ^[https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1080240/tot-taylor.html?tab=penguin-biography Penguin Books: Biography] 18. ^[https://www.m-magazine.co.uk/features/interviews/interview-tot-taylor/ m Magazine interview: Tot Taylor] 19. ^Edinburgh festival News: ‘Picasso’s Women’ 20. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853283/ IMDB; Tot Taylor filmography] 21. ^[https://www.discogs.com/Tot-Taylor-The-Shatterer-Original-Soundtrack-Recording/master/866136 ‘The Shaterrer’ credits] 22. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371596/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 IMDB: Early Travellers] 23. ^[https://www.allmusic.com/album/early-travellers-mw0000739298 All Music credits: ‘The Early Travellers’] 24. ^[https://itunes.apple.com/bw/album/music-for-the-left-handed/id317674815 iTunes: ‘Music for the Left handed’] 25. ^[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waterland-Tot-Taylor/dp/B001M37VR4 Amazon: ‘Waterland’] 26. ^[https://www.discogs.com/Various-Bachology-Todays-Innovators-To-The-Bach-Thing/release/9072226 Discogs credits: ‘Bachology’] 27. ^Riflemaker Gallery 28. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/picture-preview-leah-gordon-portraits-of-caste-7826859.html The Independent: Leah Gordon] 29. ^[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tot-Taylor/e/B074ZZYN12/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 Amazon bibliography: Tot Taylor] 30. ^[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JEr6DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT180&lpg=PT180&dq=the+guardian+tot+taylor&source=bl&ots=Ev66cMqvyV&sig=eyEcc1Q1HIcug9f04qWPs1keYhk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmiq39yZvfAhVyu3EKHXSsCL0Q6AEwDnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20guardian%20tot%20taylor&f=false Google Books: ‘The Story of John Nightly’] 31. ^[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-John-Nightly-Tot-Taylor/dp/1783523204] 32. ^[ISBN 9978-178352320778-1613743379] 16 : 20th-century English singers|21st-century English singers|EMI Records artists|English composers|English music arrangers|English male singers|English pop singers|English singer-songwriters|English novelists|People from Cambridge|Musicians from Cambridgeshire|Art curators|Living people|Year of birth missing (living people)|20th-century male singers|21st-century male singers |
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