ABOUT DEREK TAYLOR
Liverpool newspaper writer who became the Beatles' press man and helped George Harrison on his autobiography.
He rose to the post of theater critic for the Daily Express to a national journalism assignment, he was sent to cover the Beatles during their early days.
His praise for the group made him a part of the Beatles' inner circle and as the group rose to fame he collaborated with George Harrison on a weekly ghostwritten column.
He was married to Joan Taylor, who appeared in his stead on the documentary George Harrison : Living in the Material World.
After the Beatles disbanded, he worked as a co-author on books written by Steven Spielberg and Michelle Phillips.
