Roger's Solo Work

Fun in Space

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 Released: April 6, 1981
Recorded: Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland
Length: 40:12
Label: EMI, Parlophone, Elektra
Producer: Roger Taylor

The albums credits state "P.P.S. 157 synthesizers", a joke referring to Queen's usual statement of "And nobody played synthesizer".

Track Listing
Side One:
1.        No Violins – 4:33
2.        Laugh or Cry – 3:06
3.        Future Management – 3:03
4.        Let's Get Crazy – 3:40
5.        My Country I & II – 6:49
Side Two:
1.        Good Times Are Now – 3:28
2.        Magic is Loose – 3:30
3.        Interlude in Constantinople – 2:04
4.        Airheads – 3:38
5.        Fun in Space – 6:22

Personnel
Roger Taylor – Drums, Percussion, lead and backing vocals, Guitars, Bass Guitar, Keyboards
David Richards – Engineer, Approximately 50% of Keyboards
Hipgnosis – Artwork, Cover design

Strange Frontier

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Released: 1984
Recorded: 1983-84 at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany and Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland
Label: Parlophone, EMI, Capitol
Producer: Roger Taylor, David Richards, Mack

Track Listing
Side One:
1.        Strange Frontier (Taylor)—4:16
2.        Beautiful Dreams (Taylor)—4:23
3.        Man on Fire (Taylor)—4:05
4.        Racing in the Street (Bruce Springsteen)—4:28
5.        Masters of War (Bob Dylan)—3:51
Side Two:
1.        Killing Time (Taylor)—4:58
2.        Abandonfire (Taylor/David Richards)—4:12
3.        Young Love (Taylor)—3:22
4.        It’s an Illusion (Taylor/Rick Parfitt)—4:03
5.        I Cry For You (Love, Hope, Confusion) (Taylor/Richards)—4:16

Happiness?

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Released: 1994
Recorded: 1993-94
Label: Parlophone, EMI
Producer: Roger Taylor, Joshua J. Macrae

Track Listing
*All songs written by Roger Taylor, except "Foreign Sand" written by Roger Taylor and Yoshiki Hayashi
1.        Nazis 1994 – 2:35
2.        Happiness – 3:17
3.        Revelations – 3:44
4.        Touch the Sky – 5:04
5.        Foreign Sand – 6:53
6.        Freedom Train – 6:12
7.        ‘You Had to Be There’ – 2:55
8.        The Key – 4:25
9.        Everybody Hurts Sometime – 2:52
10.     Loneliness... – 2:25
11.     Dear Mr Murdoch – 4:19
12.     Old Friends – 3:33

Personnel
All tracks except Foreign Sand:
Roger Taylor: Drums, Vocals, Guitars and stuff
Jason Falloon: Guitar
Phil Spalding: Bass
Mike Crossley: Piano and keyboards
Catherine Porter: Backing Vocals
Joshua J. Macrae: Programming

Foreign Sand
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Yoshiki: Arrangement, drums, piano and synthesizer.
Roger Taylor: Vocals
Jim Cregan: Guitars
Phil Chen: Bass
Dick Marx: Strings arrangement
Brad Buxer and Geoff Grace: Programming Mastered by Chris Blair at Abbey
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Album Design by Roger Taylor and Richard Gray

Electric Fire

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Released: 1998
Recorded: Cosford Mill Studios (Surrey)
Length: 55:22
Label: Parlophone, EMI
Producer: Roger Taylor, Joshua J. Macrae

Track Listing
1.        Pressure On (Taylor) – 4:56
2.        A Nation of Haircuts (Taylor) – 3:32
3.        Believe in Yourself (Taylor) – 5:00
4.        Surrender (Taylor) – 3:36
5.        People on Streets (Taylor) – 4:11
6.        The Whisperers (Taylor, Nicholas Evans) – 6:05
7.        Is It Me? (Taylor) – 3:23
8.        No More Fun (Taylor) – 4:13
9.        Tonight (Taylor) – 3:44
10.     Where Are You Now? (Taylor) – 4:48
11.     Working Class Hero (Lennon) – 4:41
12.     London Town – C'mon Down (Taylor) – 7:13

Personnel
Roger Taylor: Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Bass, Guitars
Keith Prior: Drums
Steve Barnacle: Bass
Mike Crossley: Keyboards
Jason Falloon: Guitars, Bass
Keith Airey: Guitars
Matthew Exelby: Guitars
Jonathan Perkins: Keyboards, Vocals
Treana Morris: Vocals

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