American - Musician | July 26, 1949 -
The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.
Roger Taylor
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Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.
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Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.
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It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.
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The sicker Freddie got, the more he seemed to need to record, to give himself something to do, some sort of reason to get up.
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We've been fairly eclectic in our time, and we did branch out. Whenever we got a little bit too far out, people started to moan and groan a bit.
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There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.
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I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.
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We became closer and closer at the end of Freddie's life, and I think we were co-dependent in many ways. We stuck together for an awfully long time, and I think we all felt we needed one another.
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When 'We Will Rock You,' the musical, launched, I was amazed at how successful it was. It attracted a new generation of fans. Freddie would have loved it. He was quite into that sort of stuff.
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It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.
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There aren't many good frontmen around anymore. Where are they? I can't think of a really young band with a great front person.
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