Lewis Taylor
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Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor (Island) **** £9.99
Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 August 1996
BRITISH SOUL stars are invariably compared to some American counterpart. Mark Morrison is derided as an R Kelly imitator and Seal as a composite of ...
Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor (Island/All formats)
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 24 August 1996
THINGS COULD be a lot worse, of course. Lewis Taylor could turn out to be the new George Michael. Either that or his renaissance soul-man ...
Lewis Taylor: Jazz Cafe, London
Live Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 14 September 1996
OH DEAR. Mick Talbot's here. Perhaps as an innocent punter, perhaps as an Emissary from Pope Paul Weller. My only fleeting concern with "white soul ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, unpublished, Summer 1996
This previously unpublished interview was conducted in the summer of 1996 — around the release of Lewis Taylor's self-titled debut album — for a short, ...
Lewis Taylor: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 19 March 1997
Saving our soul ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, July 1997
"I'M FASCINATED WITH THE IDEA OF ART born of a disintegrated mind," says Lewis Taylor, all coal-black curls and kohl-kissed eyes, crouched in the semi-darkness ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2000
Long-awaited second album from R&B retro whiz in lovelorn mode. ...
Lewis Taylor: Hanover Grand, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 9 October 2000
IF ADORATION always equalled wealth, Lewis Taylor would be living in a Regent's Park penthouse rather than a first- floor flat in the North London ...
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, 2004
SHORTLY AFTER HIS brilliant debut, Taylor declared his next album would be an even more ambitious blend of soul and West Coast pop, proper ...
Soul Enigma: Lewis Taylor Comes to America
Report and Interview by Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 8 February 2006
FOR MUCH OF THE LAST DECADE, arguably the most brilliant R&B artist of this generation has toiled in relative obscurity in Britain. ...
Lost and Found: Lewis Taylor's Pop-Rock Masterpiece
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2007
IF LOS ANGELES is the perfect place to fall in love with an album-as-road-soundtrack – as aural companion to the zen ebb and flow of ...
Review by Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2012
The strange and beguiling debut from one of UK soul's most fascinating artists. ...
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