Work As An Author
In 1973 he wrote a very informal memoir, As Time Goes By, published by Sphere Books and reprinted by its Abacus imprint the following year.
In 1980, Taylor collaborated again with George Harrison, helping Harrison to complete his autobiography I Me Mine. In 1981, his on-set account of the production of Raiders Of The Lost Ark was published as The Making of Raiders of The Lost Ark by Ballantine Books. Taylor subsequently wrote his own autobiography Fifty Years Adrift (In An Open Necked Shirt), published in December 1983 by Genesis Publications for which Harrison provided a glowing introduction to the signed, limited edition volume. Only 2,000 were printed, and the book quickly became a collectors' item.
In 1987, It Was Twenty Years Ago Today (Fireside for Simon & Schuster), celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, providing a detailed documentary of the people and events that shaped the album and the wider events of the Summer Of Love counterculture. The book includes archive interviews and photographs as well as extensive transcripts from a Granada TV documentary instigated by Taylor also titled It Was Twenty Years Ago Today.
As Time Goes by: Living in the Sixties (Rock and Roll Remembrances Series No 3) (Popular Culture Ink) was published in June 1990 in the US, while in the UK Bois Books published What You Cannot Finish and Take A Sad Song in 1995, coinciding with the release of the Beatles Anthology. Posthumous volumes include Beatles (Ebury Press 1999). In addition, an audio CD, Here There and Everywhere: Derek Taylor Interviews The Beatles, was released on the Thunderbolt label in 2001.
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In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
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