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Pages in category "Songs written by Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
In January 2023, Queen single "Radio Ga Ga" was sampled on singer Che Lingo's single "My Radio"; Taylor and Queen were credited as co-lead artists on the song. [40] In November 2023, Taylor's bar The Wild, a collaboration with his wife Sarina Taylor, Adam Lambert, Bryan Patrick Franklin, and Michael Solis, opened in West Hollywood, California.
The song was played on the 2005/2006 Queen + Paul Rodgers tours with vocals provided by Roger Taylor. On stage the song was accompanied by a video of the band in their early days in Japan, including many shots focusing on past band members Freddie Mercury and John Deacon. [15]
"Radio Ga Ga" is a 1984 song performed and recorded by the British rock band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor. It was released as a single with " I Go Crazy " by Brian May as the B-side. It was included as the opening track on the album The Works and is also featured on the band's compilation albums Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen .
The song, Taylor noted, "had some good stuff about love and dignity; the usual antiwar thing." [6] After Freddie Mercury's death, as Queen prepared to complete their posthumous album, Made in Heaven, this song was selected to be re-done by the band as a Queen song. The lead vocal Mercury recorded in 1987 was given a new backing track and new ...
The song was written for Nelson Mandela's AIDS foundation 46664, hence being performed live by Queen at the first 46664 concert on 29 November 2003. Roger Taylor on vocals was additionally supported by David A. Stewart playing guitar. On 31 December 2007, the song was released as a CD single, with all proceeds going to 46664. [citation needed]
This marked the first time a Roger Taylor–penned Queen song was released as a single. Taylor composed the song on guitar, playing feedback noises during the break. There is also the notable use of record-scratching. The song was never performed in Europe, but a 1982 concert recording in Japan is available on the Queen on Fire – Live at the ...
"Sheer Heart Attack" is a song by the British rock band Queen, released on their sixth studio album News of the World in 1977. [4] [5] It is one of two songs on the album entirely written by Roger Taylor, the other being "Fight from the Inside".