Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born Courtney Taylor, 20 July, 1967) is the primary 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 majority of the songs are written by Taylor-Taylor, including hits "We Used to Be Friends" and "Bohemian Like You". He appears in and narrates the film DiG!, a documentary about the relationship between his band,... more

Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born Courtney Taylor, 20 July, 1967) is the primary 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 majority of the songs are written by Taylor-Taylor, including hits "We Used to Be Friends" and "Bohemian Like You". 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. He once dated Jane Pratt, the founder of Jane and Sassy magazines. On 22 December 2007, he married his long-time girlfriend Lockett Allbritton. Taylor-Taylor's cousin, Michael E. Armagost, was Third Mate on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank on Lake Superior in 1975, drowning all... less