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Monday, September 26, 2005

R Dean Taylor rocks my boat

Been listening to R Dean Taylor over the weekend and the tunes made me all happy and bought back great memories of the early days with my man. There are only a few of us amongst our rather small group of friends who appreciate the wonders of R Dean, all stemming back to our time as mod and northern soul lovers many moons ago. The man, to me anyway, is greater than Scott Walker although many dudes and dudettes do compare the two with Walker usually walking (no pun intended) away with the title of the man and R Dean being likened to a poor copy. They both sing about relationships breaking up and where Walker leaves me wanting to kill myself, Taylor sort of makes me want to celebrate the lost loves. This is making sense while I type but it is in my head. R Dean Taylor a very white man with a very black voice and it's great, he hasn't done anything since the early 70s and is a producer somewhere (that bit of info I heard back in 1997, very out of date). Here's one thing though, if he was trying to get a record deal now he probably wouldn't because back in the "60's everyone sang about shagging 14 year olds yet none of the industry bosses ever seemed to mind or notice, look at Donovan as an example, he loves them young uns. This has turned into a ramble, all I wanted to say was go check out R Dean Taylor, listen to Ghost in my House or Gotta See Jane and I hope it brings a smile to your face.

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