From scoring drugs for John Lennon to getting deferred from Vietnam, here are the best parts of Break Shot
1. He Traces His Fractured Family Life to One Moment in 1955
So he delves into his mother’s and father’s fractured marriage, which boils down to one decision his father made in 1955, when he volunteered to be a medical officer for 100 Navy Seabees, who were building a scientific base at McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. He spent two years there, while Trudy was left raising the five children on her own, inside the house she had designed. “Our family falls to either side of that decision,” he says.
Taylor was famously institutionalized at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts . He was living there when he turned 18 in 1966, and was quickly summoned to the Selective Service in Cambridge to register for the Vietnam War. Taylor also mentions one of the most frightening and morbid tales in classic rock history: that he had run into Mark David Chapman on the street in Manhattan the day before he murdered John Lennon in 1980. “A creepy, sweaty guy recognized me and got in my face,” Taylor recalls quietly. “He was talking fast, telling me about himself — that he was working on a project with John Lennon. I had spent nine months in a psychiatric hospital, and it seemed to me that he was mentally ill.
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