Adam Ant - 'Vince Taylor'

Check out my channel for lots of other Adam/Ants videos. Studio version synced to footage from The Hootenanny TV show. Excellent song from the flawed but mostly very good 2013 LP 'Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner's Daughter'. Dedicated to the memory of guitarist Tom Edwards who died prematurely on January 26, 2017 at the age of just 41. Wikisays; Vince Taylor, born Brian Maurice Holden in Isleworth, Middlesex in 1939, was an English rock & roll singer. As the lead singer of Vince Taylor & His Playboys he was successful primarily in France and other parts of Continental Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s, afterwards falling into obscurity amidst personal problems and drug abuse. He died aged 52. Taylor is best known for being a major inspiration for David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character and for his song, "Brand New Cadillac". Far Out magazine; In Bowie’s early days, when he was fronting his band the Lower Third, he regularly bumped into Vince Taylor. By this point, Taylor’s prime had come and gone, and he was something of a wash-out who began losing his mind after consuming too much acid & other substances. Bowie recalled his early encounters with Taylor, stating: “One day, on Tottenham Court road he took out a map of the world and put it on the pavement. All these people were walking past us, and he was showing me where the aliens were keeping their arms and encampments.” It was this disintegration of Taylor’s mental health & sanity that would later provide Bowie with a vital piece of the Ziggy Stardust character – Vince Taylor’s rock & roll religious fanaticism. Bowie also saw Vince perform later on and would comment on it. 'He came out on stage in white robes and said he was Jesus Christ, an extraterrestrial alien. It was the end of Vince – his career and everything else'. The character of Ziggy Stardust, a space alien who was, part rocker, part doomsday prophet, part androgynous high-priest and above else, a paradigm of sexual liberation, had begun to form at the back of Bowie's mind. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/vince-ta... Check out BioGraffiti's mini-doc;    • Vince Taylor: From Music to Madness