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| 2 | * BreakingNewsInterruption: On July 20, 1969, Taylor was performing a set at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island and had just finished playing the newly written "Fire and Rain" when organizers stopped the festival to announce to the crowd that the Apollo 11 astronauts had landed on the moon. Taylor never got to finish his set because the festival instead showed the historic live broadcast of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon. Taylor eventually returned to play the festival in 1997, but he never got the chance to finish that 1969 performance. That is, [[https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/07/25/james-taylor-surprises-fans-newport-folk-fest-finally-finishes-set-from/jEVUJFOATBFNe3Au5e5MsO/story.html until 2015]], when Taylor performed an unannounced half-an-hour surprise set to finish his performance from 46 years prior. |
| 3 | * BreakthroughHit: "Fire and Rain". |
| 4 | * CareerResurrection: ''Gorilla'' was this in the mid-70's, and from the 90's onward he's been making a comeback. |
| 5 | * CreatorBreakdown: "Fire and Rain" was inspired by the suicide of a woman he'd become close to when they were in rehab together. And oddly enough, fans started an urban legend that a completely different one was involved, where his band secretly arranged for his girlfriend to visit him on tour, only for her plane to crash. |
| 6 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was under consideration to play at Film/{{Woodstock}} due to his connection to Music/TheBeatles. When the request for the Beatles to perform at Woodstock was sent to Apple Records, the label asked the promoters whether Taylor, their latest signing, could perform as well. When it looked like Music/TheBeatles were definitely not going to happen, Taylor's appearance fell apart too. |
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