Vince Taylor - Legacy

Legacy

According to David Bowie, Taylor was the main inspiration for Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust.

The band Golden Earring referred to Taylor in their 1976 live performances, and their recording, Live, with the song "Just Like Vince Taylor".

Northern Irish singer Van Morrison in his 1999 song "Goin' Down Geneva", mentioned Taylor, singing: "Vince Taylor used to live here/No one's even heard of him/Just who he was/Just where he fits in".

Taylor had a son, Ty Holden who stated on BBC Radio 4, that Vince Taylor was an absent father. Ty was in the indie band, Crown of Thorns, managed by Miles Copeland III. Ty Holden is now a DJ on the London underground dance scene.

On 18 August 2010 BBC Radio 4 broadcast the documentary Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth which, in the words of the producer, is a programme that "uncovers the truth about a singer whose wild lifestyle ultimately destroyed him, but in so doing he gave rise to a myth that transcended glam-rock and science fiction".

Adam Ant has recorded a track "Vince Taylor" (co-written with Boz Boorer) for his upcoming album Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter. The song is partly a tribute to Taylor and partly concerning a gold-plated chain given by Taylor to a paramour "French" Valerie which she later passed on to Ant. (Ant has further claimed to have later used the chain as a weapon, wrapped around his fist, in a confrontation with Sid Vicious.) The song has been setlisted on Ant's November/December 2011 UK Tour with the debut performance being in Frome on 10 November. Ant has also used Taylor's "Rock 'N Roll Station" as his entry music on all his 2011 tours.