Roger Taylor

Queen drummer Roger Taylor has released a brand new iso song called ‘Isolation’.

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Queen To Feature In UK Stamp Series

Queen the band (as opposed to Queen the old lady) will be displayed on a series of British stamps.

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Queen Drummer Roger Taylor Awarded The OBE

Queen’s Roger Taylor has received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s annual New Years Honours list.

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Mick Jagger turns 76 and Roger Taylor turns 70

The Rolling Stones Sir Mick Jagger and Queen’s Roger Taylor are sharing birthdays today with Roger turning over to the benchmark 70 years of age.

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Brian May and Roger Taylor have no spoken to John Deacon since Bohemian Rhapsody release

The remaining members of Queen have “no idea” if their reclusive ex-bandmate John Deacon has seen their Oscar-winning biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Dave Grohl Foo Fighters at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 30 January 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Foo Fighters Play A Pop Up Show In LA

Foo Fighters played an unannounced show in a Hollywood carpark on Friday.

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The Queen Extravaganza show at the Palais St Kilda on Saturday 10 October 2015. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

The Queen Extravaganza Is Surprisingly Good

There is nothing like the words “cover” and “band” together to scare off serious rock fans. However, the Queen covers act The Queen Extravaganza does it remarkably well.

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Geezer Butler, Roger Taylor Join Peace Tracks Project

Leading peacebuilding charity International Alert is delighted to announce the worldwide release of Peace Tracks, a global collaborative music project that brings together celebrated recording artists with musicians from around the world.

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Foo Fighters Perform Queen Classic With Roger Taylor And John Paul Jones #VIDEO

As Dave Grohl said “the Foo Fighters, right now, are living out our rock ‘n’ roll fantasy with you tonight.”

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The Darkness Go Hammer And Tongs With New Music LISTEN

The Darkness has revealed the new music from their 4th album ‘Last Of Our Kind’.

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The Darkness Dump New Drummer Emily Davies For Rufus Taylor

Roger Taylor’s son Rufus Taylor has been appointed as new drummer for The Darkness just a few week after the band’s new drummer Emily Davies made her first live appearance with the band.

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Brian May And Roger Taylor Endorse The Queen Extravaganza

Queen founders Brian May and Roger Taylor have put their names to the Queen tribute show, The Queen Extravaganza, and signed onto the event as executive producers.

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Queen To Move Forward With Adam Lambert

Both Brian May and Roger Taylor are enthusiastically impressed with the abilities of Adam Lambert and his handling of the Queen catalog during their joint tour.

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Do They Know It’s Christmas 30 VIDEO First Listen

The video for Bob Geldof’s new 30th Anniversary edition of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ Ebola benefit edition has been unveiled.

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Queen Plan One More Tour

Queen are planning a world tour.

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Queen’s Roger Taylor Working On Solo Album

Queen’s Roger Taylor has announced that his new studio album, Fun on Earth, will be released in October along with the collection The Lot which will include all of his solo work along with material from The Cross.

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World Record For Longest Marathon Drumming Broken At Roger Taylor’s Studio

At 10am on Saturday, 13th July 2013, ACM (The Academy of Contemporary Music) broke the Guinness World Record for the ‘Longest Marathon Drumming by a Team’, beating the previous record by over four hours.

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Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert To Be Rereleased On 3 DVD Set And Blu-Ray

On April 20, 1992, surviving Queen members Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon performed at Wembley Stadium in London with a long list of guest performers, saluting the late Freddie Mercury.

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Queen To Be Honoured With Heritage Music Plaque At Site Of First Gig

PRS for Music today announced that one of the greatest bands of all time will be honoured with a music Heritage Award.

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Freddie For An Angry Bird Day

Rovio Entertainment, the makers of the worldwide hit Angry Birds, has joined with Freddie For a Day to release a new video featuring Freddie Mercury as one of the Angry Birds.

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Ringo Is The Starr Drummer When It Comes To The Big Bucks

Unless you are Keith Moon, being a drummer usually relegates you to keeping the rhythm and throwing in a few bits of flair behind the real “stars” of the band out at the front of the stage.

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John Taylor, Duran Duran, Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11

Duran Duran’s John Taylor Re-fle-fle-fle-fle-flects

The ‘Rio’ hitmakers – who are made up of singer Simon Le Bon, bassist John Taylor, drummer Roger Taylor and keyboardist Nick Rhodes – don’t often see eye-to-eye but they still “really value” each other’s work and wouldn’t want to play with anyone else.

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Queen Release Extravaganza Trailer

Brian May and Roger Taylor’s touring salute to Queen, The Queen Extravaganza, opens on May 26 in Quebec. With the performing band made up of artists who were selected through an on-line screening process, the tour attempts to duplicate the music and live experience of Queen.

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Roger Taylor Announces Queen Extravaganza Band Winners

Queen founder and drummer Roger Taylor has picked the finalists to perform in The Queen Extravaganza Tour.

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Is The New Queen Singer Freddie Mercury?

20 years after his death Freddie Mercury may be returning to his old job as lead singer of Queen.

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Queen Audition For Queen Covers Band

Queen drummer Roger Taylor is holding auditions to put together a Queen cover band to mark the 40th anniversary of the band.

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