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rogertaylorfacts · 4 years
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In order to exorcise nervous tension and warm up their voices, Fred and Roger would screech loudly at each other in high-pitched squeals, like a couple of late-night tom cats. Roger would have a pair of drumsticks in hand, repeatedly tapping and hitting things - including his assistant and former roadie, Chris Taylor.
Peter Hince - Queen Unseen: My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century
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Roger Taylor is one of the few living people to appear on a Royal Mail stamp. In 1999, The Royal Mail produced this controversial Freddie Mercury Millennium Stamp to commemorate the life of Queen frontman. The controversy stems from the fact that Queen’s drummer Roger Taylor appears in the background of the stamp. This is an unprecedented occurrence, since the only living people the Royal Mail is supposed to depict are members of the Royal Family.
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rogertaylorfacts · 5 years
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I feel obliged to tell you just how much bad luck RT has with his cars. When he bought his first Range Rover he claimed « You can park them on a sixpence. » We had to tow him out of a ditch. His Ferrari burst into flames on his way to the south of France, and his Aston Martin also burst into flames.
Crystal's Tales Part VIII - "Cars & Queenie Days"
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rogertaylorfacts · 5 years
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On 21 July, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. On the occasion, Smile’s entourage, including Brian May and Freddie Mercury, crowded round the TV at Roger’s mum to watch it. Winifred Taylor had agreed to accommodate the touring party for some nights, and found Roger’s dandyish friend Freddie a source of endless fascination. Despite being bussed around the country in the back of a van, he managed to maintain impeccable sartorial standards. “My mother could never work out how Freddie’s trousers had such a perfect crease in them” said Roger.
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rogertaylorfacts · 5 years
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Roger is exceedingly bright. Roger is intellectually extremely bright. You cannot keep up with Roger unless you have all your wits about you and don’t sleep. He’s sharp, he’s bright, he’s witty and he’s in touch with the world, which is different from us. He reads the papers. He reads even the music press. He’s aware of trends and stuff, he’s aware of fashion, of clothes, of who’s hot at the time, all that kind of stuff, and he’s into being a rock-and-roll star. Roger’s dream is to be the rock-and-roll star, to live it and breathe it, and he does. Freddie’s mind is kind of somewhere else ‘cause he’s into his creation and into the worlds which he spins in his mind. But Roger is 100% connected to the world.
A Night At The Opera Audio Commentary
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rogertaylorfacts · 5 years
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“These are the days of our lives” was originally written by Roger Taylor about his children, and how parenthood made him look back on his own life. Inevitably, the song took on new meaning when it was announced that Freddie Mercury had AIDS and knew he was going to die soon when he recorded this.
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Roger once squirted Brian in the face with his hairspray during an argument.
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rogertaylorfacts · 5 years
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Ibex were standing outside the Liverpool Art College, with Roger Taylor and Brian May who had joined to support Freddie Mercury for a gig in 1969. They encountered a gang of skinheads, clearly not accustomed to see skinny men dressed in velvet trousers and frilly shirts. Roger, sensing the danger, bluffed that he was a black belt in judo and the law said he must warn them of this first because if they ignored his warning and got hurt, it was their own lookout. Whether they believed Roger or whether they were just amused at his hard neck, they walked away.
(There are slightly different versions of this episode. This one’s by Geoff Higgins, Ibex roadie)
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One night in 1969, Roger, Brian and Freddie were up in Liverpool were Ibex had to perform. They were wearing what passed for fashionable in Kensington - lots of velvet and fur. That was something unknown in Liverpool. Roger had been accosted by some local youths who rather took exception to the way he was dressed. Taylor flashed his student library card, pretending it was a membership card to a martial arts club. He said “Look, I have to show you this before I kill you... I’m a black belt third dan... in... origami.” Supposedly the youths backed off.
(There are slightly different versions of this episode. This one’s by Kent Testi, Ibex roadie and manager)
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rogertaylorfacts · 5 years
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In 1963, Roger attended ballroom dancing lessons at The WI Hall - now the Office - one of the first venues in Cornwall to put on Rock ‘n’ Roll dances in the late Fifties.
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Roger loves America and finds it vastly different from Britain. Just the size is enough to make him stand still and gasp.
The Queen File 1974
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Roger Taylor was not satisfied with his hair on the original photograph for the Sheer Heart Attack album, so the photographer Mick Rock used fake extensions, much to the band's amusement.
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Roger would fly off the handle very easily. You'd hear this clunk and it would be «Oh, Roger's thrown another TV out of the window»
Q Magazine 
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In 1964, after his parents separated, Roger, his sister Clare and their mother left the family home in Falmouth Road to a new house in Hurland Road, where at least one neighbour still recalls the “bloody noisy kid who always played drums with the garage door open”.
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Queen drummer Roger Taylor was born in what was known as the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, off London Road. He was still in hospital six days later, on the day the Queen Mother visited to officially open the maternity ward. 
She had spoken to 16 women on the ward, including Mr Taylor’s mother Winifred, who lived with her husband Michael at 87 High Street. The Queen told her how lucky patients were to have “such a lovely place”. She chatted to Mrs Taylor about her new son, and his name. And thus, at six days old, Roger Meddows Taylor found himself at the centre of attention.
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