Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Born:: July 20, 1967, he's 44 and American.
Birthname:: Courtney Taylor.
Snapshot:: A member of 1 group, and credited once on others' music. 1 collaboration.

Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born Courtney Taylor, 20 July, 1967) is an American songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist for The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. He attended Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. The vast majority of the songs are written by Taylor-Taylor, including hits "We Used to Be Friends" and "Bohemian Like You".

Courtney informally added the second Taylor to his last name around 1999. One theory for this name change involves Courtney repeating his last name for clarity while leaving a message on the telephone. The taker of the message mistook his name as "Taylor-Taylor."

He appears in and narrates the film DiG!, a documentary about the relationship between his band, The Dandy Warhols, and sometime friends/rivals The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Taylor also appeared in the second season of the TV show Veronica Mars performing the song "Love Hurts".

He was the drummer in the Portland-based glam rock/pop music band The Beauty Stab.

Courtney is one of the contributors to the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles to be published by Omnibus Press in July 2010..

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