Biography
Roger Taylor is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, vocalist and the author of the songs. Most of all popular around the world as the Queen Rock Group drummer. Music career men started in his youth. Using a unique player of the game on impact tools and a strong high voice, he almost immediately after the start of his creative biography earned great fame and the crowd of faithful fans.PLANET ROCK radio stakes in 2005 appropriated to Roger 8th place in the ranking "the greatest drummers of the 20th century." Roder Taylor's popularity and today not only does not fade, but also increases thanks to countless projects in which a cult musician takes part.
Childhood and youth
Roger Middowz-Taylor was born on July 26, 1949 in the British city of Kings-Lynn, Norfolk county. The hospital in which the future drummer was born, once visited Elizabeth second. In the course of this visit, the Queen of Great Britain presented 16 future mothers, among whom was Rodger's mother.
Having achieved 7 years of age, the boy together with his best friends shaped the music group in which he played at Ukulele. And already in 15 years, Taylor became a full participant in the semi-professional ensemble of Reaction, which began to tour frequently in a native country.
Initially, the young man was a guitarist of this team, but later decided to try his hand as a drummer, as he was strongly interested in shock instruments. His musical idol and the main inspiration of the young man considered China Muna from the Rock band The Who, so tried to fit the impressive sound of his drums.
Embed from getty imagesIn 1967, the guy went to the capital of Great Britain to get dental education at the local medical college. However, almost immediately Roger became uninteresting the science of teeth treatment, so he preferred to go to the Biological Faculty of the London Polytechnic Institute.
A year later, the student drew attention to the announcement of the search for the striker to the novice musical group, which hung in the Imperial College. After responding to him, Taylor first met with the Guitarist of the team of Brian Meem, as well as with a vocalist and bassist Tim Staffel at that time. During the audition, the drummer was invited to the team that existed for 2 years and broke after the soloist moved to another team.
Embed from getty imagesDuring this time, the musicians wrote 9 tracks, one of which later entered the album of the Queen group. In 1992, Smile was reunited in order to fulfill several songs within the framework of the Concert Roger Taylor and the CROSS team.
In 1969, the drummer was an employee of the Kensington Market store, in which he worked with Freddie Mercury. Moreover, young people were practically neighbors, so their acquaintance was only a matter of time. Freddie was at that time a huge fan of the SMILE group. Having learned about the collapse of the musical team, Freddie offered two former participants to form a new team. It was he who became the author of the catchy name Queen.
Music
Consore in Queen, Roger Taylor constantly composed musical works. As a composer, a man made an invaluable contribution to the formation of absolutely all groups of the group, starting with the debut. For each album, he came up with at least one song and always independently recorded the vocal batch for the works of his own authorship.In addition, Roger created a large number of songs together with Freddie Mercury. Three tracks, in the composition of which he was directly involved, reached a leading position in the British hit parade.
The most famous works of Roger Taylor include Innuendo, These Are The Days of Our Lives, Under Pressure, etc. In addition, the composer is called the main author of Music Bestseller ONE Vision, even though it was composed of all the group members.
In the process of recording and concert views, Taylor, in addition to the game on the drums, often performed the parties on the guitar, bass and keys. In the 1980s, he combined the work in the Queen group with performances and the creation of albums for his own team called The Cross. In this team, he was a frontman and a player on the rhythm guitar.
Roger released her debut song when a break in the 1977 lame of News of the World of the Queen group took place. The composition was called I Wanna Testify.
The first solo album of Taylor, entitled Fan in Space, was released in 1981. The musician performed itself and recorded the parties of all tools for him. Despite the work done, the record did not achieve a special popularity. The reason for this was the intense touring chart of the Queen group, because of which the musician did not have enough free time to competently unwind the disk.
To record records Strange Frontier 1984, Roder's colleagues were involved in the Queen rock band: Freddie Mercury, John Dicon and Brian May. This album literally duplicated the fate of the previous one, without having received special success. Since at that time Queen gave a huge number of concerts organized in support of the Plate of The Works, Taylor was not able to perform independently with its own material.
Embed from getty imagesTwo years later, Roger appeared in a new role for himself, becoming one of the producers of the Magnum plate recorder. At the same time, he collected his own musical team called The Cross. The group existed for 6 years and released 3 albums over this interval.
1994 became especially successful for Taylor - he released the most popular solo album called Happy. One of the tracks entered into it rose to a leading position in the English charts. In subsequent years, the man has released 3 more records, each of which highly appreciated musical critics.
In one of the 2013 interviews, Roger reported on the soon issue of the last solo album, as well as that the Queen group will reunite with Adam Lambert pop-rock performer in early 2015 to go to a joint tour. A year later, Taylor presented a collection of 18 of his main hits. In Roger Taylor: Best entered the compositions of various creative eras of the musician, starting with I Wanna Testify 1977 and ending with the songs from the album called Fun On Earth.
November 2014 became happy for the fans of the work of the drummer, as he released his full collected works placed on 12 disks. In addition, the kit includes DVDs with records of his clips and concerts, as well as a book with a photo about the work of a hardcover musician, consisting of 64 pages.
At about the same time, Roger spoke about the start of the sales of the Queen Forever plate, consisting of the best compositions of the cult rock band. The disk included 3 songs that have never been published before. One of them is Freddie Mercury duet and Michael Jackson, recorded in the late 80s. The joint track of two legendary artists was called There Must Be More to Life Than this.
A participant in the Foo Fighters Rock Group Taylor Hawkins offered Roger to take part in their concert in the fall of 2018. The musician gladly agreed to the proposal and together with the team collected for a single speech, executed the Onder Pressure Composition, which is the 1982 Duet of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie.
Roger himself for his creative career managed to rise with dozens of famous performers, such as Elton John, Robert Plant, Gary Newman, Al Stewart and many others.
Personal life
The personal life of the legendary drummer has developed enough saturated - his actual partner from 1978 to 2010 was the Frenchman Dominic Beirand. An interesting fact is that over the years they were first in a fictitious marriage, and then in civil, having time to have two children - the son of Felix Luther and the daughter of Rory Eleanor.
At the same time, at the same time, a man lived with the Dabby Lang model, which never became his official wife. For 13 years of joint life of the family, three children appeared - Rufus, Lily and Lola Daisy. In October 2010, after 6 years, Roger relationships himself tied himself as a marriage with a sirina.
The drummer growth is 177 cm, the current weight is not exactly known. Roger Taylor, despite the solid age, is an active user of the Social Network "Instagram".
Roger Taylor now
Now the cult musician continues to delight its fans with high-quality work and alive performances, as well as inspire art leaders.
So, the biographical film director Brian Singer "Bohemian Rhapsodia", telling about the history of the formation of the Queen group, took the 4 figurines for the Oscar premiums in 2019. Roger Taylor fulfilled a talented British actor Ben Hardy.
Discography
- 1981 - Fun in Space
- 1984 - Strange Frontier
- 1994 - Happiness?
- 1998 - ELECTRIC FIRE
- 2013 - Fun ON Earth
- 2013 - Solo Singles 1
- 2013 - Solo Singles 2
- 2013 - The Lot
- 2014 - Roger Taylor: Best