James Taylor Tickets

James Taylor grew up playing music with his family and dropped out of high school when he was sixteen to start a band with his brother. Not long after he went into a mental hospital for depression where he earned a high school diploma. After coming out, he rejoined his band mates and recorded an album with a small record label that never went anywhere.

By the late sixties, James Taylor was living in London to try overcoming heroin where he hooked up with the Beatles Apple Records and cut his first solo album. It failed to register until after he went through rehab for his heroin addiction and went to California where he recorded his second album. That album, Sweet Baby James, was popular enough to boost sales in the first James Taylor album and his former bands recordings. This set up James Taylor having three albums on the 1970 charts at once and a Time cover that dubbed him as the first of the singer-songwriter trend.

Using the formula of a cover song for a single, introspective and soft singing albums, and a rigorous touring schedule James Taylor was one of the biggest names in the seventies. With an occasional duet with his wife Carly Simon, James Taylor released an album almost every year. By the end of the decade, he did not even need a successful radio single for a platinum album as proven with the album Flag.

In the eighties, James Taylor slowed down with recording, but stepped up in touring. Through the eighties and nineties, James Taylor rarely put out an album, never had a successful single, but still sold almost as many records as concert tickets as he continued to constantly tour the world as he does today.