Roger Temperature ( born Roger Meddows Taylor ; July 26, 1949 , Dersingham , Norfolk ) - British drummer , multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer , singer . Best known as a member of the Queen and the lead singer of The Cross . As a drummer, he is widely known for his “volumetric” unique sound and is considered one of the most influential rock drummers of the 1970s and 80s.
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| Birth name | |
| Full name | Roger Meddouz-Taylor |
| Date of Birth | July 26, 1949 (70 years) |
| Place of Birth | Dersingham , Norfolk , UK |
| A country |  Great Britain |
| Professions | drummer , guitarist , keyboard player , bass player , songwriter , singer , dentist , |
| Years of activity | - present time |
| Singing voice | and |
| Instruments | drums , percussion , drum machine , keyboards , guitar , bass guitar , vocals |
| Genres | Queen : hard rock , progressive rock , pop rock , blues rock The Cross : pop rock , hard rock Solo career: hard rock , dance rock |
| Collectives | Smile , Queen , The Cross , Felix and Arty |
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| rogertaylorofficial.com | |
Taylor began writing his first songs while still a member of the group Smile (Blag). For Queen's early albums, Taylor personally performed his own songs, but later lost them to Freddie Mercury . Each of Queen 's 15 albums contains at least one song written by Taylor. [1] For his solo albums, Roger Taylor independently performed both bass , rhythm , keyboard , and drum parts .
In the past, he collaborated with many famous pop and rock musicians, such as: Eric Clapton , Roger Waters , Roger Daltry , Robert Plant , Phil Collins , Genesis , Jimmy Neil , Elton John , Gary Newman , Shakin 'Stevens , “ Foo Fighters , Al Stewart , Steve Wai , Yoshiki Hayashi and Bon Jovi .
In 2005 he entered the TOP-10 of the greatest drummers in the history of classic rock version of Planet Rock .
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Biography
At eight years old, Taylor saw his cousin retrieve guitar chords, and he also wanted to master this instrument. Instead of a guitar, he got the ukulele . His first band was called “The Bubblingover Boys” and tried to play the fashionable skiffle in those days. At the age of 11 he sang in the choir.
Taylor switched to drums, and his father gave him drums . In 1963, Taylor and his friends founded the band Cousin Jacks , in which he was first a guitarist and then a drummer. A year later, the group broke up, and in 1965 Taylor was in the composition of Johnny Quale and the Reaction .
After graduating from school in October 1967, Taylor arrived in London to study as a dentist . His last group broke up in the summer of 1968, and he teamed up with May and Staffel in the Smile group. They rehearsed throughout the fall and performed for the first time in the imperial college with Pink Floyd . Then they began to play regularly in London pubs and schools. By this time, Taylor took an academic leave to study music. May in 1968 already received a degree in physics and studied in graduate school.
Taylor was the first Queen to record as an independent musician. In 1977 he released his solo single I Wanna Testify , and in 1981 - the first solo album Fun in Space , which took 21st place in the annual British Top-100. In 1984 he released the second disc Strange Frontier , which went unnoticed .
10 years later came the new album Happiness? The hit of which was the Nazis anti-fascist song. In 1998, he released his fourth solo album, Electric Fire . In 2009, the single with the song " The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken) " was released, in 2011 - the single "updated version" Dear Mr. Murdoch .
In 2011, he founded the Queen Extravaganza project, performing songs by the Queen group. One of the vocalists was the leader of the Canadian rock band Downhere, Mark Martel .
In the fall of 2012, Taylor planned to release the album The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken) (according to him, 90% of the material was ready for July).
In 2012, the website CelebrityNetWorth.Com estimated his fortune at $ 105 million [2] .
In August 2013, it became known that the new Taylor album will be called Fun On Earth , and it will include 13 tracks, including the previously released One Night Stand! (as a bonus to Electric Fire ), Woman You're So Beautiful (song recorded by a duet with her son Felix) and Say It's Not True (released on The Cosmos Rocks album). The release was scheduled for October 25, along with the full anthology of his work The Lot , which should include all Taylor's solo works, as well as albums recorded as part of The Cross, and a lot of other material.
Personal Life
From 1978 to 1988, Taylor was in a de facto marriage with Frenchwoman Dominic Beirand, they had two children: a son Felix Luther (born May 22, 1980) and a daughter Rory Eleanor (born May 29, 1986). They were in a fictitious marriage from 1988 to 2010. From 1989 to 2002, Taylor lived with fashion model Debbie Lang, they had three children: Rufus Tiger (born March 8, 1991), Tiger Lily (born October 10, 1994) and Lola Daisy May (born April 2, 2000). On October 3, 2010, Taylor married Sarina Potgiter, with whom he had met six years before. [3] .
Discography
Solo career
Albums
- Fun in Space (1981)
- Strange Frontier (1984)
- Happy? (1994)
- Electric Fire (1998)
- Fun On Earth (2013)
- Solo Singles 1 (2013)
- Solo Singles 2 (2013)
Collections
- The Lot (2013)
- Roger Taylor: Best (2014)
Singles
- 1977: I Wanna Testify (B-side: "Turn on the TV")
- 1981: Future Management # 49 UK
- 1981: My Country
- 1981: Let's Get Crazy (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, USA)
- 1984: Man on Fire # 66 UK, # 11 South Africa
- 1984: Strange Frontier # 98 UK
- 1984: Beautiful Dreams (Portugal)
- 1994: Nazis 1994 # 22 UK
- 1994: Foreign Sand - with Yoshiki # 26 UK
- 1994: Happiness # 32 UK
- 1998: Pressure On # 45 UK
- 1999: Surrender # 38 UK
- 2009: The Unblinking Eye (Everything is Broken)
- 2011: Dear Mr Murdoch 2011
- 2013: Sunny Day (promo)
- 2017: Journey's End
Concerts
- 1998: Live at the Cyberbarn
Queen Songs Performed by Roger Taylor
- Modern Times Rock'n'Roll; ( Queen , 1973)
- The Loser In The End; ( Queen II , 1974)
- The March Of The Black Queen ( Queen II , 1974)
- Tenement Funster; ( Sheer Heart Attack , 1974)
- I'm in love with my car ; ( A Night at the Opera , 1975)
- Drowse; ( A Day at the Races , 1976)
- Fight From The Inside; ( News of the World , 1977)
- Sheer Heart Attack (with Freddie Mercury ) ( News of the World , 1977)
- Fun it; ( Jazz , 1978)
- More Of That Jazz; ( Jazz , 1978)
- Rock it; ( The Game , 1980)
- Human body; ( The Game , 1980)
- Hijack My Heart; ( The Miracle , 1989)
- Ride the Wild Wind ( Innuendo , 1991)
- Let Me Live ( Verse 2), ( Made in Heaven , 1995)
- No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young) (2nd verse), ( Queen Rocks , 1998)
Other Queen songs and soundtracks by Roger Taylor
- Coming soon ( The Game , 1980)
- In the Space Capsule (The Love Theme) ( Flash Gordon , 1980)
- In the Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise) ( Flash Gordon , 1980)
- Escape from the Swamp ( Flash Gordon , 1980)
- Marriage of Dale and Ming (with May ; Flash Gordon , 1980)
- Action This Day ( Hot Space , 1982)
- Calling All Girls ( Hot Space , 1982)
- Under Pressure (with others and Bowie ; Hot Space , 1982)
- Radio Ga Ga ( The Works , 1984)
- A Kind of Magic ( A Kind of Magic , 1986)
- One vision (with other participants; A Kind of Magic , 1986)
- Don't Lose Your Head ( A Kind of Magic , 1986)
- Breakthru ( The Miracle , 1989)
- The Invisible Man ( The Miracle , 1989)
- These Days of Our Lives ( Innuendo , 1991)
- Innuendo (with Mercury ; Innuendo , 1991)
- Heaven for everyone (Queen - Made in Heaven , 1995; The Cross - Shove it , 1988)
In The Cross
Albums
- 1988: Shove it
- 1990: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
- 1991: Blue Rock
Collections
- The Lot (2013)
- Best (2014)
Singles
- 1987: Cowboys and Indians (# 74 UK)
- 1988: Shove It (# 83 UK)
- 1988: Heaven for Everyone (# 84 UK)
- 1988: Manipulator
- 1990: Power to Love (# 83 UK)
- 1990: Liar
- 1990: Final Destination
- 1991: New Dark Ages
- 1991: Life Changes (only in Germany)
Drum set
Until 2008, Taylor used exclusively Ludwig and Sleishman drum kits or a combination of them (in 2005 during the Return of the Champions Tour ). For the 2008 Queen + Paul Rodgers tour of The Cosmos Rocks, he chose a drum kit from the Drum Workshop brand.
DW Maple Kit:
- Tom-toms - 10x8 ", 12x10" and 14x12 "
- Outdoor tom-toms - 16x16 "and 18x16"
- Bass drum - 26x18 "
- Snare Drum - 14x8 "(Ludwig Classic Maple)
- Rototomes - 12 and 14 "- Remo
Cymbals ( Zildjian ): Hi-hat - 15 "Avedis New Beat Crash: 17" K Dark Crash, 19 "K Dark Crash, 20" K Dark Crash Ride: 22 "Avedis Ping Ride China: 22" K China
Drum Pedal - DW 9002 (in all concert performances with Queen Taylor used the Ludwig Speed King pedal)
DW Black Nickel with 24-carat gold :
- Tom-toms - 10x8 ", 12x10" and 14x12 "
- floor tom-toms - 16x16 "and 18x16"
- bass drum - 24x18 "
- Sub-Bass Drum - 24x8 "
- Snare Drum - 14x6.5 "
- Rototomes - 12 "and 14" - Remo
Drumsticks Vic Firth X5B American Classic Extreme 5B (length: 16 1/2 ", diameter: 0.595").
Movie Aviation
Ben Hardy - “ Bohemian Rhapsody ”, USA, UK, 2018 .
Notes
- ↑ About Roger Taylor . Queen official site (queenonline.com) .
- ↑ The 30 Richest Drummers in the World
- “A mighty bash as Queen drummer Roger Taylor ties the knot” . Daily Mail. Retrieved May 15, 2012
Links
- Rogersmeadows.com - A Introspective Analysis of Roger Taylor and his Music
- Musician's Interview (July 2012) to Moscow-24 TV Channel (video)