Eve Taylor managed singers Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw and Val Doonican, and composer John Barry, among others.
10 Facts About Eve Taylor
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Eve Taylor's father, William Henshall, was a well-known show business impresario, and her mother, born Evelyn Taylor, was a music hall artiste.
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Eve Taylor married in 1941, but after the deaths of both her mother and her first husband in the early 1950s, she adopted her mother's maiden name, Taylor, and moved into show business management.
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From 1959 to 1961, Eve Taylor managed the Lana Sisters, who included Mary O'Brien prior to her adoption of the stage name Dusty Springfield.
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When she appreciated that his records were becoming popular, Eve Taylor enhanced popular interest by intimating that Faith would be issuing no more recordings, in favour of concentrating on his acting career.
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In 1961, at the age of twenty-one, Adam Faith signed a ten-year management contract with Eve Taylor, renegotiating previous contracts that had been signed by his parents.
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Eve Taylor disclosed to Shaw that, despite Eve Taylor being the manager of both Sandie Shaw and Adam Faith, Adam Faith had been taking a percentage of most of Shaw's earnings and had an interest in most of the publishing rights to her songs.
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Eve Taylor was responsible for rejecting "It's Not Unusual" to be sung by Sandie Shaw, which instead became the first international hit for Tom Jones.
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The song was written for Sandie Shaw by Les Reed and Gordon Mills, and was rejected by Eve Taylor, based on hearing the demo version, as sung by Tom Jones.
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Eve Taylor died in 1983, and was buried in what Shaw described as "an uncelebrated plot in a Jewish cemetery in North London".