On "Mojo" last issue (# 274, September 2016, page 68), KRIS NEEDS writes a very good article about Graham Bond's controversial life quoting Mike Taylor just in a short passage:
"Underrated, Bond recruited 21-years-old drummer Jon Hiseman, an accountant who'd previously played with the New Jazz Orchestra. They had been in troduced by British jazz pianist Mike Taylor, with whom Bond would often lodge and take acid (Taylor co-wrote three tracks on Cream's Wheels of Fire, before slipping into LSD-induced madness. His body was found on the beach at Leigh-on-Sea in January 1969), but Hiseman was cut from a different cloth, taking over the band's accounts and insisting his bandleader get off smack".
Apart the fact Taylor co-wrote the Cream's tracks when he was taking LSD, alternating lucidity and madness; Bond didn't lodge often with Mike, because it is documented just one time in 1967 at the Kew's 54, Forest Road flat (finally left to Jon Hiseman).
Then, from the official Death's certificate we know that Mike Taylor's body was found at "Leigh Creek, opposite "Lady Saville" one quarter of mile from the shore", not on the beach...
Here below you can see two recent pictures of the area where Mike passed away and two old shots of the Lady Saville.
After having dedicated a very good review to my book on "Record Collector" (read here), the strange thing is that Needs doesn't quote "Out of Nowhere" in any parts of this article...
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