#young roger taylor

[debdarkpetal]

Roger in the 60s.

Via deakycheaky on Instagram.

[idrinkyouryouthquake]

how to style a sweater

[ackreik]

as promised, here's the first lot of queen audio interviews!

i will eventually get around to uploading more interviews and just surprise you guys one day by posting them lmao, but enjoy these!

i'm glad to be sharing these to the world so people can listen, as i know we're all so DESPERATE for new-old content of the lads so this was a great find!

[stesichoreanpalinode]

Special birthday edition part 2: five gifs that come up when you search for ‘Roger Taylor birthday’

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

London, UK, 1986 - Freddie Mercury at home, Garden Lodge, with his cat Tiffany

📸 Photo by Richard Young

👉 Tiffany a present from Mary Austin

[eniek-000]

Happy birthday Roger 🚘

[riaaanna]

In relation to the all-star fan Convention, here's a 2-hour video of an extended panel session at Freddie Celebrations in Montreux 2024.

Hosted by Jim Jenkins with the guests of Eddie Howell, Jim Jenkins, Peter Freestone, Terry Giddings and Richard Young.

I haven't watched in entirety but I'm sure there'll be a lot of great stories!

[crimeoflove]

queen or ac/dc?

both. fuck you

[internatlvelvet]

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[schumi-nadal]

Playing Nintendo Switch Sports and that’s clearly Taylor Fritz’s haircut

[natromanxoff]

Today - April 22, 1992

Credits to Roberto Macchi.

Why Bowie had to say the Lord's Prayer for pal Craig

by LIZ MOORE

SUPERSTAR David Bowie yesterday told of the sadness which led him to sink to his knees and pray on the stage of the Freddie Mercury tribute concert.

Bowie recited the Lord's Prayer before an audience of millions in a very public show of compassion for the private plight of a close friend, Craig, who is dying from Aids.

“He was in my thoughts as I watched the concert and I knew that I wanted to send a message to him,” Bowie revealed.

“I had no idea of what I was going to say until just before I went on stage.

“Something made me think of the Lord’s Prayer and it seemed to me that it would be the most direct way of reaching him with integrity. It just felt like the right thing to do.”

Before he flew out of Heathrow for New York, the 46-year-old rock star said: “Craig is someone who my assistant Coco and I have known for many, many years and who has tragically been toppled by Aids.

“He does not have long to live, I'm afraid.”

It was largely because of Craig that Bowie took part in the star-studded Easter Monday tribute to Freddie Mercury.

Bowie stunned the audience when he interrupted the music to pray for the victims of Aids, mentioning Craig by name.

Before he flew out Bowie vowed to keep Craig's personal details secret.

“He's a private individual, nothing at all to do with the music business or entertainment.

“I think because of that, it would be totally unfair of me to reveal his identity or any more information about him. It's vital that his anonymity is preserved.”

Asked if he was involved in caring for Craig, he said: “Coco and I are constantly in touch with him.”

Before the show, Bowie revealed that his friend's plight had spurred him into taking part.

On stage Bowie said: “This tribute is for our very good friend Freddie and also to our friends, your friends and possibly members of your family who have been troubled by this relentless disease.

“To all the people watching and to my friend Craig, I would like to extend my best wishes to everyone.”

Yesterday, Bowie said he was satisfied the concert had succeeded in getting across the message of Aids awareness, as well as being a fitting tribute to Freddie Mercury.

“I think enough of the performers said enough about the issue to nail down the seriousness of this horrific disease.

“And it was an absolutely splendid show.”

Bowie's agent Alan Edwards added: “Craig is obviously someone he knows outside the music world. He won't divulge any more about him.”

Concert organisers and Aids workers yesterday began the task of deciding how to allocate the estimated £20 million raised by the show.

The money, which came mostly from film and television rights, merchandising profits and public donations, will go to Aids charities to boost the battle against the disease.

[Photo caption: Supermodel Cindy Crawford sports spots]

Stars club together for King of Queen

Words: JANE MOORE

Pictures: DAVE HOGAN, RICHARD YOUNG, NIKOS

THE stars who rocked the fans at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert later danced until dawn at a party in his memory.

The flamboyant Queen singer's spirit lived on as band members Brian May and Roger Taylor joined Liza Minnelli, Cindy Crawford and George Michael.

Earlier, as the 72,000-strong crowd filed slowly from Wembley Stadium, a fleet of limousines whisked the stars to exclusive Browns club in London's Covent Garden.

The champagne flowed as the guests swapped stories about the Queen front man who died of Aids in November.

The celebrities toasted the success of the concert which looks set to raise £20 million for Aids charities worldwide.

George Michael, dressed from head to toe in black, stayed until the early hours of the morning at the club where he is a regular customer.

He spent a long time chatting to Cabaret star Liza Minnelli, who was still flushed from her emotional performance.

She led the finale with a version of Queen hit We Are The Champions.

Drummer Roger Taylor was escorted by stunning girlfriend Debbie Leng, who was dressed in figure-hugging black leather shorts and jacket.

And Queen guitarist Brian May took his girlfriend Anita Dobson, dressed in a black bolero hat and black lace dress.

Joining them were EastEnders actress Gillian Taylforth — enjoying her first big night out since the birth of her daughter Jessica three months ago — and her boyfriend Geoff Knights.

Paul Young and his wife Stacey left their daughter Levi with a babysitter.

Seal arrived with a new image. Gone were the trademark black leather trousers. Instead he wore a loose fitting white suit and glasses.

Wild Guns 'n' Roses frontman Axl Rose arrived without his usual posse of burly minders.

Still on a high from his concert success, he chatted to Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott.

“The atmosphere was fantastic because everyone was still buzzing from the concert,” said one guest.

“They played really up music all night long, and the dance floor was absolutely packed the whole time.

“They played a couple of Queen tracks and everyone went wild.

“The general feeling was that everyone should go wild and have a really good time because it's what Freddie would have wanted. He wouldn't want people sitting around moping about him."

However, one star was missing. “Everyone noticed that Elton John was particularly quiet backstage at the concert,” said an organiser.

“I think he found the whole thing rather upsetting because he loved Freddie very much.

“I don't think he could face going to a huge party.”

But for the party-goers the night was the ideal way to remember the life of the man who loved celebrations.

As he left, Roger Taylor summed up the mood: “Freddie would have loved it.”

[Photo caption: Roger Taylor escorts girlfriend Debbie Leng at the party]

[Photo caption: Wild singer Axl Rose relaxes in the luxury of a limousine]

[Photo caption: Part guest George Michael]

[Photo caption: Paul Young gives wife Stacey a hug]

[a-woman-unkind]

happiest 75th birthday to the most precious and beautiful soul. roger taylor, you have changed so many lives with your creativity and are a huge inspiration to many. we all also adore how silly and how much of a menace you can be at any given time. we love you and cheers to many more years to come x

[krispyweiss]

Rewind: The Byrds - Byrds (1973)

By the time the original Byrds reconvened in 1973 to put a proper cap on the band, David Crosby was a huge star, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke were former Flying Burrito Brothers, Gene Clark was nursing a fledging solo career and Roger McGuinn was the last remaining original member of the Byrds in the lineup that recorded and were touring behind ’71’s Farther Along.

And although the Byrds LP has been much maligned in the intervening decades, the criticism is mostly unfair. The original Byrds - who hadn’t played as a quintet since 1966 - didn’t attempt to recapture their original sound; rather, they gave listeners an idea of where they were as individuals.

McGuinn was tired - writing only two of the 11 songs and turning back from country to his first love on “Born to Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Clark was hungry, writing and singing the apropos opener “Full Circle” and “Changing Heart” and leading the band though country-folk covers of Neil Young’s “Cowgirl in the Sand” and “(See the Sky) About to Rain.”

Like McGuinn, Hillman, too, returned to folk-rock music, collaborating with his Manassas bandmates Dallas Taylor and Joe Lala, respectively, on writing the driving “Things Will be Better” and the frenetic, mandolin-focused “Borrowing Time.” Crosby, meanwhile, is in the early stages of his drug-induced malaise, opting to cover Joni Mitchell’s “For Free,” re-record his own “Laughing” in an inferior redux and rewrite “Cowboy Movie” as “Long Live the King.”

In some ways, Byrds sounds more like a various-artists album than a cohesive group effort, albeit with Clarke steering it all from behind the kit. Though the songs aren’t essential, neither are any of them filler. The result is a solid effort from the rare band that closed the book on its career the right and respectable way.

For there was never another Byrds album after the Byrds album.

Grade card: The Byrds - Byrds - B

5/19/24

[stesichoreanpalinode]

HOW did we not know this before? Picture it! Brian, Roger, Freddie and Tim in a cave in Cornwall singing harmonies spontaneously and listening to the echoes…

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on 23rd February, 1987

Freddie Mercury released his 7th solo single ”The Great Pretender”/ "Exercises In Free Love" - Successful, reaching No4 in charts.

David Wigg: Do you feel in um, that you have been, that you're, you said you feel you're re-living your life, do you feel you've been the big pretender?

Freddie Mercury: Basically it's, it's what the song really says is a very sort of one to one basis about, that he's pretending because she's um, gone, but he's still pretending that she's still around, basically that's (David: yes) but I thought that you could sort of take it a lot further in, just in the word 'pretender', (David: yes) so that, so that pretence, and for me, the way I'm doing this is that, you know it's tongue-in-cheek and not to take everything too seriously, that all these sort of visuals and these sort of, these images that I've portrayed over the years, is a kind of pretence, because I mean there's no way that I was real on stage, these, I, I wore costumes and I sort of put myself into different atmospheres and different characters, but underneath all that there is a real me which, you know, so, so I just thought why not, you know, I, I've been pretending all this time, you know, doing all this stuff, wearing my bananas on my head, you know, coming on peoples shoulders, wearing glitter, doing this, doing glam, wearing, you know, wearing, it was all, kind of thing, and it's, it's a kind of pretence, yes, whereas I mean, you know, underneath it I'm still, you know, a musician and so I thought I'd, I'd bring it up to the, in that level, where all these sort of costumes, where a lot of people took it so seriously, well I didn't, you know, give a damn, I just thought my God, you know, and they read far too much into it, I just thought that this is a nice way of sort of um, covering this whole sort of era of mine, call it, and um, say that look, it, it's just been a bit of fun, you know actors don't, I know, they portray somebody, they don't become those people, they go back and do something else, you know

- Freddie Mercury interview, Ibiza 1987

by David Wigg

Songs:

- ”The Great Pretender” cover version of The Platters’ 1955 original

- "Exercises In Free Love" written by Freddie Mercury / Mike Moran

Written by Freddie as his impersonation of Montserrat's vocal style. She was so enamored with the song that she insisted on recording her own version. The melody was later reused for 'Ensueño', with a set of lyrics written by Montserrat

📸 Photo by Richard Young

[dykeellington]

The Great Pretender

 I'm the great pretender Just laughing and gay like a clown I seem to be what I'm not, you see I'm wearing my heart like a crown

Pretending that you're still around-

-- The Great Pretender, The Platters (later covered by Queen)