Neil Taylor (journalist)

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Neil Taylor (born 1959), was an English music journalist. He was born in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, and worked for music magazine the NME from approximately 1983 to 1987. Taylor is most closely associated with the "Indie" rock of that period. His early work on such bands as The Jesus & Mary Chain, the Wedding Present, Primal Scream, Bogshed, Big Flame, We've Got A Fuzzbox... and others helped cement the fledgling indie scene in 1984 and 1985,^{[citation needed]} culminating in the release of the NME cassette tape C86. His influence on the paper at this time was such that he was once lampooned in a Ray Lowry cartoon for his indie stance.^{[citation needed]}

In the early 1990s, he went to work in publishing, eventually becoming the Publishing Director of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and then Orion, before leaving to set up a literary agency, neiltaylorassociates. During his publishing career he has commissioned and/or edited a number of eminent British literary authors, including Peter Ackroyd, David Mitchell, Lawrence Norfolk, Toby Litt, Tibor Fischer and Jake Arnott.^{[citation needed]}