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2 unusual facts about Roger Taylor


Roger Taylor

Roger Meddows Taylor (born 1949), drummer for Queen, solo artist, songwriter, and vocalist

The Lightyears

In October 2012, the band travelled to Gothenburg, Sweden, to perform with Roger Daltrey from The Who and Roger Taylor from Queen.


Alex Gaumond

In 2009 Alex Gaumond's career took to new levels when he was cast by Ben Elton, Brian May and Roger Taylor to play the lead role of Galileo Figaro in their co-written musical We Will Rock You.

Brigitte Oelke

From December 2004 to October 2006 she got the chance to work in the German production of We will rock you alongside with her teenage idols Brian May and Roger Taylor, playing the role of „Killer Queen“.

Jim Beach

His son Ol Beach is the frontman for the band Yellowire and was formerly the keyboard player for the rock band Wire Daisies, discovered by Queen's Roger Taylor.

Live Killers

Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor revealed on the US radio show In the Studio with Redbeard (which spotlighted the making of 1980's The Game) that the band was not happy with the album's final mix as the band mixed the album themselves.

SOS Allstars

The group performed a purely percussive track written for the event by Roger Taylor with SOS in Morse code being the prime motif, and finishing with the drum solo from Queen's We Will Rock You to open the Live Earth show in London.

Wings of Heaven

The original choice of producers for Wings of Heaven was Roger Taylor and Dave Richards, who had produced Vigilante.


see also

Hot Space

The first Roger Taylor song (however with Mercury on vocals) to be released as a single (albeit in selected countries, including the US and Australia, but not the UK), "Calling All Girls" failed to create much of an impact on the charts where it peaked at #60 in the US and #33 in Canada, despite its music video based on the George Lucas film THX 1138.

Man on Fire

"Man on Fire", a 1984 single from the album Strange Frontier by Roger Taylor, the drummer for the band Queen