Roger Taylor: Last News

Sam Ryder has been joined on stage at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest by Queen drummer Roger Taylor.This year’s instalment of the concert took place in Liverpool, following the ongoing political conflict taking place in Ukraine. Ukraine won the competition last year, with Ryder coming in second place.Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra opened this year’s Eurovision song contest with an emotive rendition of their 2022 winning song, ‘Stefania’.The opening also saw the band joined by musicians and famous figures from afar.

Eurovision Song Contest viewers thought a key Manchester City star had swapped the football pitch for the stage as they watched the action unfold live on BBC One.

Foo Fighters have confirmed that there are UK live dates that are “soon to be announced” ahead of their North American tour.Spotted by the Foo Fighters UK fan group on Twitter, the rock icons have taken to their official website and shared that there are “forthcoming and soon-to-be-announced” UK live dates. Early ticket access is easily accessible by pre-ordering any format of their forthcoming album ‘But Here We Are’.The Dave Grohl-led band will be kicking off their North American tour on May 24 in Gilford, New Hampshire.

Queen‘s Roger Taylor has responded to rumours that his son Rufus is joining Foo Fighters as their new live drummer.Rufus Taylor – the Godson of the late Taylor Hawkins, and current member of The Darkness – performed on-stage with the Foos at last year’s huge Hawkins tribute concerts, which took place in London and Los Angeles.He was one of the numerous guest drummers to join Dave Grohl and co at the emotional shows, appearing alongside the likes of Travis Barker, Nandi Bushell and Hawkins’ teenage son Shane.Last week saw Foo Fighters return with ‘Rescued’, their first single since Hawkins’ death in March 2022. With it, the band shared details of their 11th studio album ‘But Here We Are’ (out June 2).Next month, the group will hit the road for a run of festival appearances and US headline shows.

Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor has paid tribute to Scots rock legends The Sensational Alex Harvey Band as he made a pitch for his band to record the new Bond theme.

Katherine Turman “These are kind of new glory days for us,” said Queen guitarist and founding member Brian May, who was literally knighted by King Charles III earlier this month. “It’s nice to think that hopefully there will be the demand for that.”  But the guitarist, along with founding drummer Roger Taylor and singer Adam Lambert, was on the other side of the Atlantic in Thursday, in New York to announce the group’s 14-show North American leg of its “Rhapsody” tour — its first since 2019 — which runs from Oct. 4 through Nov. 11. “Every time I get the call we’re going to do another [tour], Whoo! I get excited!,” Lambert enthused. “Our audiences are unbelievable. They keep getting younger, with multi generations at the show, which is amazing.”

Ben Hardy and Jessica Plummer have reportedly called time on their relationship after an eighteen-month romance. The pair had both previously spent separate stints on EastEnders but later met on the set of BBC drama The Girl Before, where they played romantic partners. Ben, 32, and Jessica, 30, grew close during filming and soon began dating, seeming to confirm their romance when they were spotted on a date night in December 2021 .

Sir Brian May will be among those recognised at Buckingham Palace later after he was given a knighthood in the New Year Honours. As the virtuoso guitarist in rock band Queen, the 75-year-old is responsible for some of the biggest riffs in popular music, from the solo on Don’t Stop Me Now to the melodic strums of Somebody To Love.

Adam Lambert has often thought about what Freddie Mercury might think. “I often wonder, ‘Is Freddie’s spirit aware that we’re still celebrating him and singing his music? Would Freddie like the way I sing?’ And I hope, with all my heart, that he would approve of everything that we’ve been doing with these songs,” Lambert, 41, told The Post. “For me, a ghost is the memory of somebody that’s existing collectively in a group of people.

Friday, Feb. 17 is a significant date for the members of Foo Fighters, marking the day that drummer Taylor Hawkins would have celebrated his 51st birthday.

Duran Duran have announced the support acts for their 2023 UK and Ireland ‘Future Past’ arena tour – find all the details below.The band are due to play seven headline shows this spring, beginning in Manchester on April 29 ahead of dates in London (May 1, 2), Leeds (4) and Birmingham (5) Dublin (7) and Glasgow (9).Today (February 14), it’s been confirmed that Scissor Sisters frontman and solo artist Jake Shears will be joining Duran Duran as a special guest opening act at the concerts along with Lia Lia.Back in 2004, Scissor Sisters joined Duran Duran to support them on their ‘Reunion Tour’. This led to vocalist Ana Matronic later performing on Simon Le Bon and co’s 2010 album ‘All You Need Is Now’.In a statement about the upcoming tour, Shears said: “I’m thrilled to announce that I’m going to be a Special Guest for Duran Duran on their ‘Future Past’ arena tour.

Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor has stage four metastatic prostate cancer. The 61-year-old was diagnosed four years ago and his bandmate Simon Le Bon fears he will not be “around for very long”. Duran Duran broke the news at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday (05.

The Induction of Duran Duran into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was supposed to be celebratory night that would also serve as a reunion for the British band who formed back in 1978.And while the evening at the 37th annual ceremony at the Microsoft Theater was still a time to feel proud for original members Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, and Simon Le Bon, the reunion with former guitarist Andy Taylor did not happen after all.During their induction speech frontman Le Bon informed the audience, via a letter on behalf of Andy Taylor, that he couldn't attend the event due to 'a setback' in his treatment for stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer, according to Rolling Stone. Shocking announcement: Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon revealed the band's original guitarist Andy Taylor couldn't make their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday due to 'a setback' in his treatments for stage 4 prostate cancerDressed in a lime-green suit, Hollywood A-lister Robert Downey Jr.

Queen have released "Face It Alone," a previously unheard song the English rock band recorded with Freddie Mercury in 1989. The song was one of 30 tracked for The Miracle, Queen's second-to-last album with Mercury before the singer died in 1991 of AIDS complications.

Queen released a new song featuring the band’s late, legendary frontman, Freddie Mercury, on Thursday. News about the single "Face It Alone" was confirmed this past summer, as Queen’s guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor made the announcement during an interview in June.  "Face It Alone" is a "little gem from Freddie," Taylor remarked.

Freddie Mercury may be gone but Queen lives on.

“Face It Alone” — a lost track from the sessions for 1989’s “The Miracle” — has been unearthed 33 years later and was released Tuesday.The track finds the unmistakable Mercury — who died, at 45, from AIDS-related complications in 1991 — reflecting on his life in typically dramatic fashion.“Your life is your own/You’re in charge of yourself/Master of your home/In the end, in the end/You have to face it all alone,” he sings in the chorus amidst the eerie atmosphere.With its mournful piano set against a funereal drum beat, the somber mood can’t help but make you think that Mercury is facing his own death — and facing it alone.“When something so near and dear to life explodes inside/You feel your soul is set on fire,” Mercury sings at the beginning of the song, as if he himself is being burned alive.And the tune comes to a bleak ending with the singer repeating the line, “When the moon has lost its glow.” “We Will Rock You,” this is not.“We’d kind of forgotten about this track, but there it was, this little gem,” said Queen drummer Roger Taylor in a press release. “It’s wonderful, a real discovery.

Thania Garcia Queen has shared a previously unreleased song titled “Face It Alone,” featuring unearthed Freddie Mercury vocals. The single, recorded during sessions for “The Miracle,” will be included in the 1989 album’s collector’s edition due on Nov. 18. News of the track started trickling out earlier this June when founding members Brian May and Roger Taylor announced its release in an interview following their performance at Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee concert. “We did find a little gem from Freddie, that we’d kind of forgotten about and it was — It’s wonderful,” Taylor told BBC Radio 2. “It was kind of hiding in plain sight,” May added. “We looked at it many times and thought, oh no, we can’t really rescue that. But in fact, we went in there again and our wonderful engineering team went, ‘OK, we can do this and this.’ It’s like kind of stitching bits together. But it’s beautiful, it’s touching.”

Queen have shared a rediscovered track featuring Freddie Mercury – listen to ‘Face It Alone’ below.Over the summer, Roger Taylor and Brian May revealed that they had unearthed a previously unreleased song by the band that had been sung by their late frontman.“And it’s wonderful,” Taylor told Zoe Ball during an interview on BBC Radio 2. “Actually, it was a real discovery.

Official Charts Record Breakers Queen have announced the release of Face It Alone; a rediscovered track and their first new song with Freddie Mercury's vocals in eight years.

Queen will release a rediscovered track with Freddie Mercury titled 'Face It Alone' today on Thursday 13 October.The existence of the song was unveiled back in June when bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor spoke out about its possible release while chatting to Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2. Now, just four months later, the "lost" track will be heard worldwide at at 11:15am BST today – marking the first new single with Freddie Mercury in over eight years. On 2014’s Queen Forever album, the band included three previously unheard tracks with Mercury, including ‘Let Me in Your Heart Again,’ ‘Love Kills’ and ‘There Must Be More to Life Than This.’ Previously unheard track 'Face It Alone's arrival as a single leads in an 18 November release of a new revisiting of the band’s 13th album, The Miracle – the band’s penultimate to be released in Mercury’s lifetime.The 8-disc set includes an hour-plus disc of further unreleased recordings, including six unpublished songs.