Mick Taylor

He married Rose Millar in 1975. Chloe, his daughter with Rose was born on January 6, 1971. The couple later divorced.

His second marriage was with Valerie which also didn’t last.

Emma, his second daughter was born out of his short-lived relationship with an American woman who once performed as a backing vocal artist with his band.

He was born on January 17, 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, England in a working-class English family. His father served the ‘De Havilland’ aircraft company as a fitter. He was brought up in the town of Hatfield in Hertfordshire.

Taylor started playing guitar when he was only nine years old. He learnt it from his maternal uncle.

As a child he accompanied his parents to see the show of ‘Bill Haley & the Comets’ and was fascinated by the performance of the American rock and roll band that infused in him an interest to join a rock band.

He formed different bands in his teens along with his school friends and performed at various concerts. One such band was ‘The Juniors and the Strangers’, a part of which was later inducted for a new band titled ‘The Gods’.

Once in 1965, he and his schoolmates went to ‘The Hop’ Community Centre in Welwyn Garden City to watch the show of English blues rock band ‘John Mayall's Bluesbreakers’. Upon seeing absence of the band’s ace guitarist Eric Clapton, Taylor approached John Mayall and told him that he knew some songs of the band and could play with them for the rest of the night’s show if the latter allowed.

John Mayall allowed the young Taylor, still in his teens, to play the second set with the band and the teenager with his performance left an impression on John Mayall. This incident played a significant part in Taylor’s musical career.

In 1966, while Mayall was searching for a guitarist to fill up the vacancy of Peter Green, when the latter left the band to form ‘Fleetwood Mac’, he invited Taylor to fill up the position.

Subsequently Taylor made his debut with the ‘John Mayall's Bluesbreakers’ at an old blues club called ‘Manor House’ in north London, while the music enthusiasts were eager to see how the new lad fit in the shoes of Eric Clapton.

For the next three years Taylor toured with ‘John Mayall's Bluesbreakers’ and performed in noted albums of the band like ‘Crusade’ in 1967 and ‘Bare Wires’ and ‘Blues from Laurel Canyon’ in 1968. Gradually he developed a blues-based guitar style with influences of Latin and jazz styles.