A trusted confidant of the Beatles, Taylor remained particularly close to George Harrison long after the band's break-up and maintained a friendship with John Lennon until the latter's death in 1980. In addition to working as editor on Harrison's 1980 autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", Taylor authored books such as "As Time Goes By", "The Making of Raiders of The Lost Ark", "Fifty Years Adrift (In An Open Necked Shirt)" and "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today". Having returned to Apple in the early 1990s, Taylor died of cancer in September 1997 while working on the "Beatles Anthology" book.