In 1987, Taylor's "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today" (published by Bantam Press in the UK, and Fireside for Simon & Schuster in the US) celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It provides a detailed documentary of the people and events that shaped the album and the wider events of the Summer of Love counterculture. The book includes archive interviews and photographs as well as extensive transcripts from a Granada TV documentary, which was also titled "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today" and for which Taylor served as consultant.