Taylor started writing songs during a stay at a psychiatric hospital, McLean, outside Boston. His parents committed him there when he was just 17, after he was diagnosed as suicidal.

James Taylor impressed by “American Idol ”hopeful Thunderstorm Artis: 'I see him as a version of me' Shania Russell April 28, 2025 James Taylor/Instagram James Taylor and Thunderstorm Artis ...

FILE – James Taylor performs at the 7th annual Love Rocks NYC concert in New York on March 9, 2023. He's gone to Carolina in his mind and on tour for much of 2024.

I don't think I would have become a songwriter if I had not had all of those free days to let my imagination roam." Taylor was 19 when he wrote "Carolina in My Mind," during a trip to Spain, where ...

Ask James Taylor about his songs, his Broadway-bound stage musical, “Fire and Rain,” and some of the triumphs and challenges in his very well-documented life, and he’ll happily respond.

The failure of James Taylor 's Beatles -backed 1968 self-titled debut hit him hard, and in more ways than one. He left Apple Records for Warner Bros., in a move that coincided with a more stripped ...

I had a one-way ticket.” The English capital was the kaleidoscopic epicenter of the Swinging Sixties, and Taylor found himself in a nexus of art, culture and free thinking.

1. “There We Are” (James Taylor) Taylor mentions Simon by name in this 1977 track singing, So though I never say that I love you, I love you / Darling I do / Carly, I do love you.