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Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born Courtney Taylor on 20 July 1967) is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. The vast majority of the band's songs are written by Taylor-Taylor, including hits "We Used to Be Friends" and "Bohemian Like You". Taylor-Taylor co-wrote a graphic novel titled One Model Nation about a fictional 1970s German krautrock band, which was released in 2009. This was accompanied by studio album titled Totalwerks, Vol. 1 (1969-1977), a fake greatest hits album... MORE

Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born Courtney Taylor on 20 July 1967) is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. The vast majority of the band's songs are written by Taylor-Taylor, including hits "We Used to Be Friends" and "Bohemian Like You". Taylor-Taylor co-wrote a graphic novel titled One Model Nation about a fictional 1970s German krautrock band, which was released in 2009. This was accompanied by studio album titled Totalwerks, Vol. 1 (1969-1977), a fake greatest hits album by the fictional band, released on 2012. Taylor-Taylor attended Sunset High School in Beaverton, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, and studied sociology, psychology, and music at Cascade College, also in Portland. He recalls sticking out as a teenager: "You don't fit in if you're a make-up-wearing weirdo, surrounded by large, clumsy guys and cheerleaders." He found refuge in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Kurt Vonnegut, both of which have been referenced in The Dandy Warhols' work – "Nietzsche" from Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, and Vonnegut in the title of the band's fourth studio album, LESS