Jeremy Taylor (singer)

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Jeremy Taylor (born 24 November 1937 in Newbury, Berkshire) is an English folk singer and songwriter who has spent much of his life in South Africa, but since 1994 has lived in Wales and in France.

Taylor began performing in clubs and coffee-bars such as the Cul de Sac in Hillbrow, Johannesburg in the 1960s and achieved massive success with the comedy song "Ballad of the Southern Suburbs" (better known as "Ag Pleez Deddy") in 1961. After returning to Britain to perform in the West End musical revue Wait a Minim, which opened in 1964, he joined the British folk music circuit and regularly appeared on British television.

His songs are often political and usually humorous, and were banned in South Africa by the South African Broadcasting Corporation during the apartheid era.

Some of his popular songs are: "Jobsworth", "Huberta, the hippopotamus", "The Pot song", "Mrs Harris" and "Prawns in the game". His song “Piece of Ground” was recorded in the US by Miriam Makeba.

Taylor was a long-term collaborator and performer with Spike Milligan and recorded a live album with Milligan entitled Spike Milligan and Jeremy Taylor: An Adult Entertainment.

Jeremy continues to write songs and to perform, in recent times in the UK, in France and in the United States. (as of 2006)