Background
Melvyn Jeremy Taub was born in London, the only son of Wilfred Taub (originally Schlachtaub) and Adela Robin.
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He attended the Clapton Jewish Day School (now Simon Marks Jewish Primary School), where he met his future Jetset band mate Angus Nanan, before continuing his education at Central Foundation Boys" School.
Career
The band set about crafting perfectly executed and packaged bubblegum popular, inspired by the music and merchandising of The Monkees and The Beatles. From the beginning presented themselves as already every bit as famous as their Sixties heroes. The band’s marketing sowed the seeds of Jetset myth before they were even well known.
An eye-catching European Parliament sleeve included the band clowning around in stills “from their forthcoming television series”, hanging out of the Monkee-influenced ‘Jetsetmobile’ (a very English Ford Capri with customised ‘JETSET’ number plates).
Melvyn J added the trademark nasal vocals to "s authentic Sixties popular sound and the band went on to record five albums before their acrimonious split in 1988. As Paul Bevoir started to assume more control of the band"s direction and sound, and took on more of the singing duties, Bultitude and Taub quit the band, leaving Bevoir to finish the final Jetset album without them.
Bevoir had occasionally appeared live as without Taub, most notably on a tour of the United States of America in 1986. Through their connection with Bultitude, Bevoir and Taub had temporarily joined as backing vocalists in 1981.
Bevoir soon left to focus on his own music, while Melvyn J went on to enjoy chart success with the Wilsations, before returning to work with Bevoir in Early demos recorded by Melvyn J have subsequently been released under the name of Melvyn And the Smarties, but after the demise of he turned his back on the legend of the band and continued to work in the mainstream music industry as an international press & promotions manager for EastWest Records and Sony Music.
Upon leaving Sony in 2003, he continued to work with Oasis, Travis, Simple Minds, Big Audio Dynamite, Craig David, Taio Cruz, Orbital and Simply Red on a freelance basis. He later went on to form The International Department Link label, an international music promotion and marketing company, with Paul Bultitude and Doe Phillips. He continues to work closely with Manic Street Preachers, Beady Eye and Mick Hucknall, to name but a few, in promotional and tour management roles.
