*1959 GB, Sutton Coldfield
UK music journalist. Taylor worked for NME from approximately 1983 to 1987 and is most closely associated with the 'C86' period of indie rock. In the early 1990s, he went to work in publishing, eventually becoming the Publishing Director of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, part of the Orion Publishing Group, before leaving to set up a literary agency, neiltaylorassociates.