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dedicated to michael kevin taylor curated by cokesympathy

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Audience point-of-view shots of MICK TAYLOR during a performance with The Rolling Stones at the Frankfurt Festival Arena (Festhalle Messe Frankfurt) in Germany, September 30, 1973

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MICK TAYLOR performing Honky Tonk Women with The Rolling Stones for a broadcast of the BBC television program Top of the Pops, July 3, 1969 (aired on July 10)

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MICK TAYLOR and his Gibson Firebird photographed by Chris Walter on the set of the BBC television program Top of the Pops, July 3, 1969.

Just a couple of weeks after Mick Taylor had officially replaced original member Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones performed their latest single, Honky Tonk Women, which was their first single to feature Mick Taylor on guitar, set to be released the day after the band filmed their appearance. When this performance aired on July 10th, Honky Tonk Women had already debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart and reached number one just two weeks later. This Top of the Pops performance would be lost for decades before a rebroadcasted version of the footage that aired on the Swiss television program Hits a Go-Go resurfaced decades later.

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MICK TAYLOR photographed by Chris Walter during rehearsal at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, October 9, 1970

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MICK TAYLOR and KEITH RICHARDS photographed by Chris Walter during rehearsal at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, October 9, 1970

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MICK TAYLOR photographed by Wolfgang Heilemann, 1969

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MICK TAYLOR photographed by Bill Wyman

This candid photograph was taken around the period when The Rolling Stones retreated to the South of France—where they recorded the iconic album Exile on Main Street—and was later included in the exhibition for Wyman's original work, titled Stone Alone in Saint-Paul, which was held at the Musée de Saint-Paul de Vence from June 6 to September 30, 2010.

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THE ROLLING STONES photographed backstage at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, September 29, 1970

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MICK TAYLOR photographed by Jim Marshall as he practices guitar in preparation for The Rolling Stones' American Tour, or better known as the Stones Touring Party (STP), 1972

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Record Mirror article on the Altamont Free Concert tragedy. January 31, 1970

A lot of us insist on blaming The Rolling Stones for the tragedies that took place at the huge free concert. Mick testified that the Stones could not accept all the blame. "Some people always have to pin the blame on others and it might as well be us, I suppose—but we just can't accept it. We were all in Alabama when the thing was organised by the same officials that have always organised San Francisco's free concerts. We wanted to be there to do all the planning ourselves, but that wasn't possible, so it was left in good hands. All we wanted was a great free day for everyone to have fun so the tour would end on a good note. The trouble is that people haven't learned quite the large yet. I wonder what would have happened if one of us was injured instead, I think we'd received far less criticism. Some things were wrong with the layout of the show. We didn't need three hundred Hell's Angels to get boozed up before the show and then act as a security force. I guess you need some form of security, but when you bring in an army, that's the end."

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MICK TAYLOR featured as Player of the Month in Beat Instrumental magazine issue 77, September 1969

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MICK TAYLOR photographed by Christian Rose during a performance with The Alvin Lee Band at Théâtre Le Palace in Paris, November 12, 1981

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MICK TAYLOR photographed by Paul Natkin during a performance with The Alvin Lee Band at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, December 20, 1981

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MICK TAYLOR photographed during his time in his first music group, The Juniors, c. 1963

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 Discs by Patrick Doncaster. Daily Mirror, August 1964

The lads are a new group called The Juniors. The postman is the father of one of them. And the letter he delivers is a contract from top agent Harold Davison. The Juniors live at Hatfield, Herts., and started out in the twang business at school. They are postman's son Alan Shacklock, 14, Malcolm Collins, 15, John Glass, 13, Mike Taylor, 15, and Brian Glass, 16. They wanted to call themselves The Young Ones—but this title is a registered trade name. So they became The Juniors, kicking off on Columbia next week with an attractive side called There's a Pretty Girl.

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Record Mirror article feature on THE JUNIORS (billed as The Strangers in the first image), August 1964

Five young schoolboys, the oldest of whom is only 16 years of age, are shortly to make their debut on the pop world with a first disc, and signing with a major agency. And they have no pretensions about their age. They call themselves The Juniors, from Hatfield, Herts. Harold Davison has signed them up and their record There's A Pretty Girl backed with Pocket Size was written especially for them. It will be released by Columbia on August 21.

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Records by Stan Reed. Evening News, August 1964

Alan Shacklock, lead guitar of the group, who is 14, and John Glass (bass guitar), aged 13, only just top 5ft. and the 7-stone mark each. Malcolm Collins (vocalist) is 15, Mick Taylor (rhythm guitar) 15, and Bryan Glass (drums) 16. John and Bryan are brothers. The three eldest have only just left school, and a tutor is being arranged for the two others.