Taste: I'll Remember
David Cavanagh, Uncut, September 2015
WHEN MELODY MAKER'S Roy Hollingworth broke the news to his readers in 1970 that Taste, the popular Irish trio, were disbanding, his tone was one of shock. "After one of the most ludicrous of upsets... You couldn't really believe what was actually going on." Many of the 600,000 attendees of the Isle Of Wight Festival, held six weeks earlier, would have agreed with him. Fronted by guitarist and singer Rory Gallagher, Taste had stormed the festival's Friday evening slot and seemed poised for a breakthrough, not a break-up.
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