Terence Martin "Terry" Taylor (born 28 August 1948) is an
English
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guitarist
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,
arranger
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and
songwriter
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, who started to become known in the latter half of the 1960s as a band member of the group The End, who had a few singles and also a 1969 album release called Introspection. They were produced by Bill Wyman and the album included
Charlie Watts
Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
Originally trained as a graphic artist, Watts developed an i ...
playing
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on the song Shades of Orange. Taylor was one of the members that then played in the follow-up band
Tucky Buzzard
Tucky Buzzard were a British hard rock band formed in 1969 by three former members of The End. The original lineup was Jimmy Henderson (vocals), Terry Taylor (guitar), David Brown (bass), Paul Francis (drums), and Nick Graham (keyboards). Hal ...
, who were
produced by
Bill Wyman
William George Wyman (né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who achieved international fame as the bassist for the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member ...
.
Career
In 1979, after the ITV strike caused a curtailment in that year's autumn term schedules, Terry Taylor's guitar tunes "The May Dance" and "Les Trois Enfants", were used as interval tracks as an accompaniment for the schools programmes interval slides.
After Tucky Buzzard broke up, after an introduction by Wyman, Taylor joined the band
Arrows for their second television series, ''
The Arrows Show
''Arrows'' was a pop television series aimed at the teen market, which aired in 1976 and 1977 in the UK.
The show was produced by Muriel Young, and ran for two 14-week series on the ITV network, produced by Granada Television.
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''. After the death of Alan Merrill in March 2020, Taylor is now the last surviving member of Arrows.
Taylor co-founded the band
The Rhythm Kings with Wyman in 1997 and is currently a member.
Personal life
Taylor has one son, Daniel, a result of his relationship with ex-wife Eva Dyrinda Taylor.
References
External links
The Arrows Show informationTerry Taylor with the Rhythm Kings
*
1948 births
Living people
English rock guitarists
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings members
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