Posted on 12/30/2019 6:25:26 PM PST by DoodleBob
Queen‘s Roger Taylor has been made an OBE in the New Year Honours list.
The list, which was drawn up and approved during Theresa May’s premiership, rewards a lineup of well-known figures from the worlds of art and sport. But the vast majority (72%) of the 1,097 to be recognised were people who work in their communities.
Taylor, best known as the drummer of Queen, has campaigned for the awareness of Aids, launched a musical featuring Queen’s greatest hits and is one of the few living people to appear on a Royal Mail stamp.
The 70-year-old multi-instrumentalist, born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, played drums in Smile, the precursor to Queen founded by Brian May, and helped write Queen’s number one songs ‘These Are The Days Of Our Lives’, ‘Innuendo’ and ‘Under Pressure’, as well as contributing to major hits such as ‘Radio Ga Ga’ and ‘A Kind Of Magic’.
In 1970, the same year Smile revamped as Queen, Taylor turned down the chance to become drummer for Genesis, allowing Phil Collins to join instead.
He was the first Queen member to go solo with his 1977 song ‘I Wanna Testify’, before releasing a string of albums.
Causing controversy in 1999, Taylor is also one of the few living people to appear on a Royal Mail stamp. He was visible playing drums behind frontman Freddie Mercury in an image of the pair on stage, which was issued as part of a Great Britons series.
At that point it was understood that only members of the Royal Family were allowed to appear on stamps while still living.
Following Mercury’s death in 1991 of bronchial pneumonia resulting from Aids, at the age of 45, Taylor began to promote awareness of the disease worldwide.
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In a real world, all acronyms are defined.
Rock It wasn’t too shabby either.
Deacon had more than enough talent to be big on his own. Need Your Loving and Another One Bites The Dust are his, among others.
It’s hard to get your songs in with guys like Mercury and May in the band but they were a more collaborative band than most.
Told my girl I had to forget her, had to buy me a new carburetor... :)
Like a CBE, an OBE is an order of the British Empire award. It is the second highest ranking Order of the British Empire award, behind CBE but ahead of MBE. It stands for Officer of the Order of the British Empire (as opposed to Commander for a CBE and Member for an MBE).
OBE= Order of the British Empire
I have to admit that while Roger Taylor is a good drummer, he isn't one of my top 20 drummers. That said, if you take him out of Queen, you'd have no Queen. He's also eminently more likable than the late Ginger Baker, and he's still alive unlike Moon and Bonham. Congratulations to him and his family.
Keith Richards on Mick Jagger being knighted: “Mick should have held out for a lordship.”
Gotta love Keith.
It’s a wonder that he hasn’t gone partially deaf, sitting in the eye of that noisy storm for so long.
Roger studied to be a dentist for a while, starting in 1967, at London Hospital Medical College. He soon became bored with it, and changed his major to biology at East London Polytech.
In 1970, Roger turned down the chance to be drummer for Genesis, which led to Phil Collins joining instead.
Not funny.
Well put.
Was the fin on your back part of the deal....shark.
It was about their (ex I assume) agent.
Adam Lambert is talented.
But it’s impossible to replace Freddy.
Now I can’t get DOTL out of my head.
But now you can kisssssss....my azz goodbye. What a great song, just dripping with well-placed venom.
I’m a huge fan of his own indie work from the 80s, but the guy is an insufferable, depressed, angry lefty.
So when (or how, maybe we need King William) does Jimmy Page (also an OBE) get promoted to Knight and be called Sir.
Can someone explain the MBE, OBE, CBE, and Sir titles?
Then we can call him Sir Jimmy F-ing Page!
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