Roger Taylor (Queen) Solo Albums And Singles
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Roger Taylor (Queen) Solo Albums And Singles
Taylor has also enjoyed a solo career, releasing five albums. His first single was his 1977 cover of The Parliaments "I Wanna Testify". He recorded it during Queen's sessions for the News of the World album. The A-side, although a cover, was completely different from the original. The B-side was a self-penned song "Turn On The TV".
His first album came in 1981 in the form of Fun In Space. Taylor played all the instruments and sang everything on the album, apart from about 50% of the keyboards, which were done by engineer David Richards.
With Queen still touring heavily and recording at the time of release, it was impossible for Taylor to promote the album to its fullest extent, so Taylor appeared on some European TV shows to promote the single, "Future Management", including Top Of The Pops. The only other single to come from the album was "My Country". The only single released from the album in the U.S. was "Let's Get Crazy".
His next venture came in 1984 when, after Mercury rejected a lot of his songs for the Queen album, The Works, he realized he had more than enough for an album. The album became Strange Frontier. The three singles from the album were the title track, "Beautiful Dreams" (in Portugal only) and "Man On Fire", the latter becoming a live favourite for him in later years. No attempts to promote the singles were made, Queen toured to promote 1984's The Works album, which made a Strange Frontier tour impossible, and Taylor didn't perform on any TV shows. The cover of the album is a 'pixelated' version of his portrait photo that appeared in the liner notes of the Works album.
Freddie Mercury sang backing vocals on "Killing Time", John Deacon remixed the B-side "I Cry For You," and Rick Parfitt co-wrote and played on "It's An Illusion". David Richards, the engineer and producer, also co-wrote two of the tracks. The album includes covers of Bruce Springsteen's "Racing In The Streets" and Bob Dylan's "Masters of War".
In the period of 1987 to 1993 he formed a group named The Cross.
After that in 1994 he published a new solo album "Happiness?", which was "Dedicated to the tasmanian tiger - thylacinus cynocephalus, but most especially... for Freddie".
In September 1998 he published his, to date, last solo album, "Electric Fire". He supported it with a small tour in the spring of 1999, on which Queen-guitarist Brian May joined him at the gig in Wolverhampton.
1 Fun In Space (1981)
Fun in Space is the debut album by the English musician Roger Taylor. Released in May 1981 in the UK and US, the album was recorded in between legs of Queen's tours for The Game and Flash Gordon albums. Taylor wrote, produced, sang and performed all of the songs himself. While the album did fairly in the UK, the album tanked upon its US release.
The albums credits state "pps. 157 synthesisers", a joke referring to Queen's usual statement of "And nobody played synthesiser"
"Future Management" was issued as a single in Europe while "Let's Get Crazy" was released in the U.S.
The album was re-released as a digitally remastered CD in 1996
1 No Violins 04:33
2 Laugh or Cry 03:06
3 Future Management 03:03
4 Let's Get Crazy 03:40
5 My Country I and II 06:48
6 Good Times Are Now 03:28
7 Magic Is Loose 03:30
8 Interlude in Constantinople 02:04
9 Airheads 03:38
10 Fun in Space 06:22
2 Strange Frontiers (1984)
Strange Frontier is the second album by the English musician Roger Taylor. This album was more successful than the previous one, and included two covers as well as a heavier sound. Although Taylor again played most of the instruments himself (drums, guitars, bass and keyboards) and did most of the vocals, there were some occasional cameos by producer David Richards (on synths and piano), Status Quo member Rick Parfitt (on rhythm guitar) and Queen's John Deacon (on bass and mixing) and Freddie Mercury (keyboards and backing vocals).
1 Strange Frontier 04:16
2 Beautiful Dreams 04:23
3 Man on Fire 04:04
4 Racing in the Streets 04:27
5 Masters of War 03:51
6 Killing Time 04:57
7 Abandonfire 04:12
8 Young Love 03:21
9 It's an Illusion 04:02
10 I Cry for You (Love, Hope, and Confusion) 04:21
3 Happiness ? (1994)
1 Nazis 1994 02:35
2 Happiness 03:17
3 Revelations 03:44
4 Touch the Sky 05:04
5 Foreign Sand 06:53
6 Freedom Train 06:12
7 You Had to Be There 02:55
8 The Key 04:25
9 Everybody Hurts Sometimes 02:52
10 Loneliness... 02:25
11 Dear Mr. Murdoch 04:19
12 Old Friends 03:33
4 Electric Fire (1998)
1 Pressure On 04:56
2 A Nation of Haircuts 03:32
3 Belive in Yourself 05:00
4 Surrender 03:36
5 People on Streets 04:11
6 The Whisperers 06:05
7 Is It Me? 03:23
8 No More Fun 04:13
9 Tonight 03:44
10 Where Are You Now 04:48
11 Working Class Hero 04:41
12 London Town-C'mon Down 09:43
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