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“The drummer from my band, The Flying Machine, was a heroin addict,” Taylor told Oprah Winfrey in 2015. “It was a matter of time before I got my first taste. And I was gone. As soon as I was...
Learn how James Taylor overcame his addiction to heroin, codeine, cocaine, and alcohol after a rough childhood and a bandmate's introduction. Find out how exercise and determination helped him achieve over 30 years of sobriety.
Learn about the singer-songwriter's struggles with depression, alcoholism, health issues, and drug abuse, from his childhood to his career. Find out how he overcame his heroin addiction and wrote songs like "Fire and Rain" inspired by personal tragedies.
Taylor associated with a motley group of people and began using heroin, to Kortchmar's dismay. [26] [32] In a late 1966 hasty recording session, the group cut a single, Taylor's "Night Owl", backed with his "Brighten Your Night with My Day". [33]
James Taylor interview: ‘I took legal heroin – it’s the safest way to be an addict’. One of the wisest, most influential voices of his age on his struggle with addiction, absent friends, and a...
People know about his marriage to Carly Simon, the Laurel Canyon scene, the songs he inspired Joni Mitchell to write on Blue, the heroin addiction – and Taylor has always considered himself “available” – but family, grief, trauma, makes you even more vulnerable.
An uncle warned James Taylor at a young age that opiate addiction ran in his family, that if he ever touched the powerful sedative drugs "you can just kiss your entire life goodbye." Taylor has told his heroin story many times.
