I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

Taylor spent six months getting treatment and making a tentative recovery; he also required a throat operation to fix vocal cords damaged from singing too harshly. I knew James had that thing.

3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first No. James Vernon Taylor (born March 12 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Following his 1977 album JT he has retained a large audience over the decades.