The music icon recalls going from playing in the streets to playing for the most famous musicians on the planet — and the time George Harrison used his lyrics in a Beatles' classic
Image zoomFor an aspiring artist in the late ‘60s, Peter Asher was a good man to know. “I called Kootch up and said, ‘Do you still have a number for Peter Asher?’” Taylor recalls. “And he said, ‘I don’t know if it’s any good but this is the number that I’ve got.’ I called it up, Peter answered, and I said, ‘I’m a friend of Danny’s, a songwriter from North Carolina. I’ve got a demo. Could you take a listen to it?’” Asher liked what he heard and invited Taylor to.
With Asher acting as producer, Taylor recorded his first album in the fall of 1968, literally following the Beatles into London’s Trident Studios after they had recorded “Hey Jude” andI can’t believe this His time on Apple would be short-lived, but Taylor’s London excursion paved the way for the success just around the corner. By 1969 he’d moved to Los Angeles to record his commercial breakthrough,. “When we got to the States, we had a band that could really interpret the music, and I had a good batch of songs. I wasn’t just cobbling together everything I had ever found. I basically had material to do. So that was the difference, I think.
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