[4] He moved to Fulham in November 1951 and scored a hat-trick in one of his early appearances against Middlesbrough,[2][5] before his music studies began to take precedence and he dropped out of the first team picture.
[6] While still a footballer, Taylor was able to use his wages to pay for his studies in singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music.
[6] Taylor moved on in 1962 to understudy Michel Roux in Pelléas et Mélisande and Walter Alberti and John Shirley-Quirk in L'incoronazione di Poppea at Glyndebourne.
[3] He appeared on the 1971 Unicorn recording A Peter Warlock Merry-Go-Down, subtitle "songs, catches and poems, sociable, amorous and bibulous", which was put together by Fred Tomlinson.
[7] Taylor failed fully to deliver on his promise as a performer, but found fulfilment when he was made Professor of Singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow and he remained in the role for 18 years.