#young roger taylor

[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!

[eniek-000]

DIVAS 💜

[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

[rhapsodynew]

#everything you need to know about rock

Rock Stars about Led Zeppelin, part 1:

"It was the first time I saw them..."

Ace Frehley, KISS]: "I first saw them at the Fillmore East [the Fillmore East Festival] in 1969, in New York. They were opening the performance of Iron Butterfly and just swept them off the stage."

Carmine Appice, Vanilla Fudge]: "Of the people we played with at that time, Zep were the coolest. They were our opening act, and six months later, we were sharing the show equally."

Mick Box, Uriah Heep]: "I was at their concert at the Cooksferry Inn [a small jazz club] in Edmonton in '69. Bonzo had so many drums that they barely fit on that stage, and Plant was standing not in front, but to the side of him. They were amazing."

Freddie Mercury, Queen]: "I went to see them at the Lyceum Theatre. It was incredible." (from a letter to a friend '69)

Roger Taylor, Queen]: "When Freddie and I first saw them, we just couldn't believe it — their sound was so powerful." ('84)

Malcolm Young, AC/DC]: "Angus and I went to a Led Zeppelin concert once. They left after a couple of songs. Their blond singer was just a poseur." ('92)

Paul Stanley, KISS]: "I first saw them in August '69. They played together as a unit. But the most important thing was the sexual energy coming off the stage, their self-confidence, their rock bravado."

Bruce Foxton, The Jam]: "I went to see them, like, in '73-74. My friends liked them more than me. But their rhythm section and Page's guitar work were just phenomenal."

Carmine Appice, Vanilla Fudge]: "We performed with Hendrix, Cream, the Who, Alice Cooper, Zappa — and everyone was swept off the stage. And everyone was wondering who could do this to us? They turned out to be Led Zeppelin. They were amazing."

[from books: Whole Lotta Zeppelin The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time, by John Bream, Voyager Press, 2008; Face The Music: A Life Exposed by Paul Stanley, HarperOne, 2014; AC/DC: Maximum Rock Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band by Murray Engleheart & Arnaud Durieux, It Books, 2007; interviews with Carmine Appice, Malcolm Young, Roger Taylor and Mick Box]

[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

[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

[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)

[yournotsolocalcryptid]

Hey! For your Halloween party how about some headcanons for Queen member(s) going to see a movie? (I was thinking of Young Frankenstein because I saw you posting about it a couple of weeks back, but it could be any film – scary, funny, whatever!)

yes! I know you sent this in foreevvverr ago but here we are

Queen boys and Young Frankenstein 

Young Frankenstein came out in 1974 so the boys are pretty young still and went to the cinema together maybe with a few friends + significant others 

i think all of them got excited about this movie and loooved it (how could you not?)

Freddie adored Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth 

Bri thought it was hilarious (bc it is) but also found it thought provoking and he was super into Inga 

Deaks loved Igor and was laughing hysterically every time he was on screen 

Rog swears he fell for Inga instantly with the roll in the hay scene which fair enough 

The boys raved and wouldnt shut up about it

The night was a blast 

they got all the cinema snacks and im sure went out either before or after

headcanons masterlist

[eniek-000]

Happy birthday Roger 🚘

[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