Roger Taylor Archives

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Queen are planning a world tour.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.