In the early 1970s, Taylor was a member of various bands including Mandrake, Chum (
country rockers) and
the Windy City Strugglers (acoustic, blues) as well as performing solo gigs. Mammal were managed by
Graeme Nesbitt and were "playing basically dance-orientated music they soon got a reputation for being an arty band." Mammal attended the
Ngaruawahia Music Festival in January 1973, where they "gave one of their better performances". With Taylor on board, the group "eschewed the art-rock trappings for raunchier dance music." The band relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975. It had previously been recorded by Taylor with Mammal. He was a co-author of the compositions "Education", "Blacktown Boogie", "Street Between Your Feet" and "Magic". After Dragon's first breakup in 1979, Taylor participated in the successful 1982 reunion, which resulted in the album
Body and the Beat (1984) and the related single "
Rain", which reached number 2 on the Australian chart. Taylor participated in the recording of their acoustic album
Incarnations (1995) and reunited with former bandmates on stage when the band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2008. He was also honoured when Dragon was inducted into the
New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2011. == Personal life and death ==