James Alistair Taylor was an English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles.
18 Facts About Alistair Taylor
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Alistair Taylor subsequently worked as the group's so-called "Mr Fixit", devising escape routes from crazed fans and assisting the band members in purchasing property.
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Alistair Taylor later became general manager of Apple Corps but was fired soon after Allen Klein arrived to address the company's financial problems.
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Alistair Taylor published various memoirs of his years in the Beatles' employ, including Yesterday: The Beatles Remembered and With the Beatles.
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Alistair Taylor was then successfully interviewed by Brian Epstein for a job as a salesman at North End Music Stores in 1960.
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Alistair Taylor later claimed to have invented the name of Raymond Jones and placed an order for "My Bonnie" at the main NEMS shop.
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Alistair Taylor accompanied Epstein to the Cavern Club when the latter first saw the Beatles play, at a lunchtime performance on 9 November 1961.
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In 1962, Alistair Taylor worked for Pye Records for 15 months, and moved to London due to his wife's asthma.
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Alistair Taylor was responsible for resolving the copyright issues surrounding the group's use of celebrity photographs on Peter Blake's cover for Sgt.
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When George Harrison and Pattie Boyd were house-hunting in 1969, the couple sought anonymity by having Alistair Taylor act as Boyd's respectable husband while Harrison adopted the role of chauffeur.
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In what author Ian MacDonald describes as "a whimsical control-room exchange", Alistair Taylor can be heard apologising to George Martin, the Beatles' producer, asking forgiveness for not bringing him a bottle of claret.
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Alistair Taylor considered Eastman a "hard-faced star-chaser from the United States", eager to separate McCartney from any friends who had been close to his former fiancee, Jane Asher.
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Alistair Taylor moved into record producing for a short time but, along with his wife, Lesley, whom he had married in 1959, he felt it was time for a change.
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The couple ran a tea-room in nearby Lea, and Alistair Taylor later worked in a factory and in a hotel before his retirement.
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Alistair Taylor enjoyed participating in Beatles fan conventions around the world and he regularly appeared on radio both in the UK and the US.
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Alistair Taylor served as the "business development director", promoting a new musical act called Smoke.
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Alistair Taylor died in his sleep on 9 June 2004 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, after a short bronchial illness.
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In 2016 Alistair Taylor was honoured with a blue heritage plaque at The Brindley theatre in Runcorn.