American - Musician | July 26, 1949 -
I don't want impersonators playing our music badly.
Roger Taylor
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'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.
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I fancied being a lead singer. I've always done a lot of vocals, but obviously, Freddie is the lead singer.
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Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.
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I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.
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I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.
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Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.
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What was Freddie like then? Alongside the showman, he was a rather shy introvert. But if the attention was focused on him, he was a natural star, as we all saw after we put Queen together. Week by week, we saw him grow into this character, Freddie Mercury.
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'We Are the Champions' is meant to be 'we,' as in 'all of us,' collectively, not us the band. It's a shame that some people understandably had the wrong take on that. 'No time for losers' is not the kindest line, but it's really more of a 'we all of us.' It's a celebration.
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Once a musician, always a musician.
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I see no end to the possibility and the potential of Adam Lambert. He's a fabulous performer, and I think it would be very interesting to do something with him.
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Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.
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