Courtney A. Taylor (born July 20, 1967), known as Courtney Taylor-Taylor, is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. He is the lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. Taylor-Taylor has written the majority of the band's songs.[2][3]
Taylor-Taylor has co-written a graphic novel entitled One Model Nation, about a fictional 1970s German krautrock band. It was released in 2009.[4] This was accompanied by a studio album titled Totalwerks, Vol. 1 (1969–1977), a fake greatest hits album by the fictional band, released in 2012.
After graduating, Taylor-Taylor worked as a mechanic while playing drums for local band Nero's Rome.[5] He was also the drummer in the Portland-based glam rock/pop band The Beauty Stab.[6]
Taylor-Taylor appears in and narrates the film Dig!, a documentary chronicling the early years of the relationship between his band, The Dandy Warhols, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Non-music career
Taylor-Taylor appeared in an episode of the second season of the TV show Veronica Mars, "Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang", performing the song "Love Hurts".[7] He appeared in the 2009 music documentary film The Heart Is a Drum Machine,[8] as well as a 2011 episode of the Australian music quiz television show Spicks and Specks.[9]
As the chief songwriter for "Bohemian Like You", Taylor-Taylor earned approximately 1.5 million US dollars in royalties for Vodafone's use of the song in television commercials in the telecommunications company's native United Kingdom (and other territories Vodafone operate in, including Australia and Greece) in late-2001. With part of these earnings, he purchased a quarter-of-a-city block in Portland and turned it into a complex with space for recording, film editing, and web design.[15]
On December 22, 2007, Taylor-Taylor married long-time girlfriend Lockett Allbritton at the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Oregon.[16][17][18] Lockett Taylor is a yoga practitioner and instructor.[19] On February 1, 2010, she gave birth to their first child, a son.[20][21]
Taylor-Taylor has expressed a dislike of politics. After then-UK Home Secretary Theresa May exited a stage to the accompaniment of "Bohemian Like You," Taylor-Taylor was incensed. He said "I tend to really dislike ANY people who take sides in politics. It is the single greatest contributor to getting nothing done. Fuck 'politics'. What a joke."[22]
References
^The Dandy Warhols (November 11, 2008). "Courtney Taylor-Taylor". The Dandy Warhols – Official. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
^Timoner, Ondi (April 13, 2005), Dig! (Documentary, Music), Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood, Interloper Films, retrieved February 18, 2021
^"BMI". bmi.com. Archived from the original on December 13, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
