Roger Taylor

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Roger Meddows Taylor was born on the 26th July 1949 and is best known for being the drummer in famous rock group, Queen. He was the first member of Queen to launch a solo career, although it was not wildly successful. He has released four albums; Fun In Space (1981), Strange Frontier (1984), Happiness? (1994) and Electric Fire (1998).

Taylor also fronted another band, The Cross from 1987 to 1991. The first album, Shove it (1988) was a solo album by Taylor in all but name - he wrote all the songs and played most of the instruments himself. This was an experiment that didn’t really work for Taylor and in the other two albums by The Cross he allowed the other members of the band to contribute more, resulting in more traditionally styled rock albums.

Out of the four original members of Queen Taylor and guitarist Brian May continue to play as Queen + Paul Rodgers to this day. Of the other original members singer Freddie Mercury tragically died in 1991 and bassist John Deacon retired from music business in the mid-1990’s.

Foreign Sand was recently voted one of the worst songs of all time.

Happiness?
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Strange Frontier
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Top Tracks

1	Nazis 1994	114
2	Happiness	102
3	Foreign Sand	87
4	Old Friends	79
5	Laugh or Cry	74
6	Abandonfire	73
7	Man on Fire	70
8	Working Class Hero	67
8	Let's Get Crazy	67
10	No Violins	64
10	Future Management	64
12	Revelations	62
13	Strange Frontier	59
14	You Had to Be There	58
15	The Whisperers	56

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athaiya wrote:
3 hours ago

great drummer!

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ATKINS175 wrote:
last month

Best Drummer EVAR

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neeuqfonafamai wrote:
August 2008

Definatly. And cute

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mctali wrote:
August 2008

when he was young he was so pretty!!

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wearethesergio wrote:
July 2008

happy birthday, roger

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Montgomerry wrote:
July 2008

His solo albums are even better than Queen's ones.

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BiggestStar wrote:
July 2008

that picture of him makes him look like he's in N-SYNC or something

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MRKILLINGJOKE wrote:
June 2008

Love all of his solo cds. Still my alltime favorite is "Strange Frontier".

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Shizwoo wrote:
May 2008

i've heard Roger Taylor play drums at Live Earth Wembley Stadium along with Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters and Chad Smith from Red Hot Chillis

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mrsmercury wrote:
May 2008

He is still beautiful!

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RogerRabbit13 wrote:
May 2008

he was so beautiful,when he was young!

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RattyMcSpade wrote:
April 2008

Do you have any links to that interview or anything? Sounds interesting...

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RogerRabbit13 wrote:
April 2008

In a one of his interviews,he said,he didn't love Debbie Leng,his children were mistakes and his sex video was PR.

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RogerRabbit13 wrote:
April 2008

LOVE OF MY LYFE!

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RogerRabbit13 wrote:
April 2008

I Adore Roger!He has phylosophical position in his songs!

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noyouralredyded wrote:
April 2008

roger influenced me to start playing the drums when i was 7, 10 years later and i'm still drummin

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watram wrote:
April 2008

hahahah, Roger a boring drummer... better have a look at some of Queen's live stuff! Anyway, the fact that he didn't get a big solo in every second song doesn't make him boring!

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drowse03 wrote:
March 2008

he may be a boring drummer, but thats what made him good. a drummer that could keep tempo and didn't outshine Freddie.

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ToxicMDA wrote:
March 2008

Boring Drummer LOL!

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X-atenea-X wrote:
February 2008

Great Roger!!!!

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