Courtney Taylor-Taylor
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| Courtney Taylor-Taylor | |
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| Born | July 20, 1967 |
| Origin |  Oregon, USA |
Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born Courtney Taylor, 20 July 1967) is the primary songwriter, lead singer and guitarist for The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. He attended Sunset High School in Portland, Oregon. The majority of the songs are written by Taylor-Taylor, including hits "We Used to Be Friends" and "Bohemian Like You".
After a mixup involving a hotel receptionist, he changed his name from simply Courtney Taylor to Courtney Taylor-Taylor in 1999.[citation needed]
He once dated Jane Pratt, the founder of Jane and Sassy magazines. He has stated that he often has trouble finding a girlfriend. He appears in and narrates the film DiG!, a documentary about the relationship between his band, The Dandy Warhols, and sometime friends/rivals The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
On December 22nd 2007 he married his long time girlfriend Lockett Albritton.
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Taylor-Taylor's cousin, Michael E. Armagost, was Third Mate on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on Lake Superior in 1975, drowning all men on board. This was most likely the inspiration for the release of a cover of the Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on The Dandy Warhols' second album The Black Album.
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