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Freddie Facts

1) Freddie was NOT Tim Staffel's flatmate as previously reported.

2) Tim Staffel asked Freddie to take his place in Smile after he left.

3) Queen was first billed as the band "formerly known as Smile".

4) Freddie and Roger had a legal dispute over the Bohemian Rhapsody/I'm In Love With My Car single. Freddie did not want Roger to receive royalties for Bohemian Rhapsody, which legally he would've been entitled to because I'm In Love With My Car was the b-side of the single. I'll bet this put a little strain on their relationship for a while.

5) It is reported that Freddie once had a cat named Roger. I guess they got over the legal bullshit, hmm?

6) * Freddie borrowed Ratty's gloves for the We Will Rock You/Spread Your Wings video shoot. He was also drunk during the shoot from drinking brandy.

7) * For the filming of "I want to break free" Freddie had planned to wear 6-inch heels but he could barely stand up in them so he had to settle for 2-inch ones.

cool * In the early 70's when they were all living together and whatnot they used to buy marijuana mixed with jasmine tea and would have to separate it from the tea to get high. Back in those days Freddie didn't go near drugs and was unaware of the whole situation when he made some tea and unsuspectingly got himself high. He felt stupid for falling for that and wanted to get back at someone. One night a bunch of cops came by because the neighbours complained for execcive noise and he decided to make them some tea....... (IMHO I do find this one a bit outlandish).

9) * While on tour in Australia in the mid-70's, Freddie got angry and broke a mirror over a roadie's head then ordered him to sweep it up. ~~~

10) * Freddie showed up at Deaky's wedding in a white limo, dressed head-to-toe in white satin with a huge white feather boa - and a girl on each arm. (One was Mary, I think the other was actually his sister Kashmeri.) The boa didn't survive the ride to the reception, though - someone got the bright idea to pile twenty extra people into the limo and poor Freddie would up with some very lucky someone on his lap......(talk about being in the lap of the gods!)

11) * When "Night At The Opera" came out, Freddie was living in a flat that was so damp all the time that he came back from the band's first trip to Japan to find mushrooms growing on the walls. (I can just imagine his reaction....personally, I would have screamed.)

12) * Freddie once did the weather forecast on Kenny Everett's UK radio show - and got it completely wrong. Hey, if the band hadn't worked out, he could've been a meteorologist.....

13) * Once, during Ibex's heyday, Freddie alit from the band's bus decked out in head-to-toe white satin and that fur coat - only to find himself in the midst of a group of very sooty coal miners. He screamed, jumped back in th band's bus and slammed the door. (That's the worst thing about wearing white - knowing that somewhere out there is a spill with your name on it...)

14) * Back in Kensington Market, Freddie and Rog once snuck into the stall next to theirs and rearranged the mirrors in the women's dressing room so that they had a view of the proceedings from their cash register.....

15) * According to Mick Rock, Freddie's protrubent front teeth were the result of his having four too many in back (two on each side, presumably) that shoved the front ones forward. When Mick pointed out that it was fairly simple (if also fairly painful) to fix, Freddie told him, "Darling, I can't. I'm afraid it would affect my voice. I need the extra teeth to sing." (With THAT voice, could you argue with his logic?)

16) * A plaque on Freddie's statue in Montreux was stolen a week after the unveiling. It was later replaced more securely.

17) * Freddie had a fish pond in his back yard (great idea with all those cats of his around) and cried when one of the fish died.

1 cool * Freddie used to love pushing all the buttons at the same time in an elevator and would then panic like a 2 year old when the elevator stalled.

19) * Once an airport custom official felt the need to search one of Freddie's bags and was rather embarassed when he found it full of black nail polish, mascara, stage jewellery and satin underwear.

20) * Freddie was wearing a scarf tied around his neck when he was mobbed by a group of fans. Two girls grabbed the scarf and started pulling it in opposite directions, nearly choking him to death.

21) * Freddie wanted to back out of the 1986 Magic tour at the last minute and Crystal was given the privilege of having to convince him otherwise.

22) * Roger and Brian were having a huge row backstage. The fight ended when they burst into Freddie's dressing room only to find him sitting in his underwear and eating corn flakes.

23) *When the band was awarded their first gold record (for "Night At The Opera") Freddie was convinced the record in the case wasn't theirs at all, but some other band's. He finally dismantled the case and played it - only to find out that it was theirs, after all.

24) * Freddie hated being called Fred

25) * Freddie wrote "Crazy Little Thing..." while taking a bath.

26) * Freddie loved Beatrix Potter books.

27) * Once a fan posted himslef to freddie (I'm not kidding...) he put himself into a box with a wishcard and someone took him to the post office and some days later he was in Freddie's mailbox isn't it crazy ?? (I would pay to see Fred's face when he oppened the box...)

2 cool * When Freddie was in Germany, one of his cats died and he got a plane home the next day to go to it's funeral.

29)* It is said that Freddie never learned how to swim.

30)* Freddie's underwear were always Calvin Klein (for the fans interested)

31)* Freddie Always bought his socks in Marks and Spencers.

32)* Freddie favored the following perfumes: Armani for men, Monsiuer de Givenchy, L'Eau Dynamisant by Claris (he wore this in his last few years alot) and he loved L'Interdit by Givenchy, the fact it was a ladies perfume never bothered him.

33)* Once, after Freddie had an argument with Jim Hutton over the garden, he wanted to prove that he wasn't useless, so he sent someone to buy flowers that didn't clash and went into the garden and started digging up soil with a trowl and filled a whole urn, himself! He got bored and let Peter Freestone do the rest!

34)* Freddie had a thing for boxes, he really liked boxes and had loads everywhere, and he had a small drawer with special boxes filled with all his personal things that meant things to him.

35)* Freddie hated overhead lighting, he loathed it and had lamps dotted all around the rooms in his house!

36)* Freddie had a cabinet made and he got a 'secret' drawer built in, but he always blew away the secret because he couldn't resist showing it to people, and it never had anything in it!

37)* Freddie used Johnson and Johnson baby shampoo to wash his hair because he had a sensitive scalp.

3 cool * Freddie used simple soap because it gave him soft skin.

39)* Before Freddie died he had prepared a huge list of Xmas presents for all his friends. Elton John cried when he got his present (a painting).

40)* Freddie never learned to drive.

41)* Queen performed a show, although Brian had serious problems with his arm and Freddie could hardly hear anything because of an ear infection.

42)* In the early days, Freddie`s legs were black with bruises because he had been slapping his thighs with a tambourine during different numbers.

43)* Freddie cried when he saw the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana on TV.

44)* Freddie never knew how to use his microwave.

Roger Facts

1) As a child Roger was accidentally shot with a bee-bee gun.

2) Roger's father was known as "eccentric" for doing things like walking the cliffs when he was upset or riding a motorcycle in the garden and injuring himself as a result.

3) Roger was a very frail as a child and would come off the rugby field white and shivering, which his friends found amusing.

4) As a teen, Roger's parents divorced.

5) At 16, Roger crashed his group's van into a fish truck in thick foggy conditions. One of his friends were seriously hurt. The matter wasn't resolved for several years. Queen was already formed by that time!

6) Apparently, Rog didn't learn to swim until he was 22! It was said he had a fear of drowning.

7) Roger has a fear of spiders.

cool Roger's Ferrari's engine caught fire in France back in '78.

9) Roger was drunk during the Who Wants To Live Forever video shoot.

10) Roger has 3 conservatories in his Surrey home.

11) Roger's son Felix was born 2 months premature and weighed only 2
pounds!

12) In 1989 Roger had a brilliant party to celebrate his 40th birthday. The invitation said "rock til you drop" and it was a "schooldays" theme party and all the 1000 guests had to dress up appropriately. Roger had hired two HUGE searchlight spotlights for the evening, to scan the sky over the house. He had to obtain special permission from the British Aviation Authority to use them (to ensure any aircraft didn't think they were landing lights or whatever!). They roved back and forth across the clear sky - and caused absolute chaos! People living nearby, and anywhere up to about 25 miles away, could see them sweeping the sky, and thought they were Unidentified Flying Objects. People were driving towards the lights from right across Surrey and Hampshire to see if aliens were landing! The police in the county were inundated with calls about the mysterious lights, and cars were pulling up on the busy road that runs past Roger's property and their occupants were standing on the verges looking upwards! The event even made the front page of the next days newspapers! But it was certainly a good party.... !

13) Roger has weird fat stubby little toes.

14) Roger has never had a real job in his life.

15) We all know that he's had a beard in recent years, but he also grew a beard in 1969/1970 because people out on the street kept mistaking him for a woman.

16) Before a Queen gig in the mid-1970's, Roger threw a temper tantrum backstage and slammed his foot into a wall. After the gig he had to be taken to the hospital for x-rays. (According to Sazerac, Rog's monitor failed and he couldn't hear what he played or sung, which is why he threw the fit).

17) Roger quit smoking around 1987 because his then-girlfriend Dominique had pneumonia (what a sweet guy...

1 cool A few days after Roger's Ferrari caught fire, he and a couple of friends set off on a boat off the shore of France. The boat stalled and they were stranded for 3 hours until they were finally towed back to the coast.

19) Roger shaved his legs for the "I want to break free" video, as the cuts testified.

20) Roger attended his father's funeral the day after his 41st birthday.

21) To celebrate Queen's 20th anniversary, Roger bought Debbie an antique necklace made of platinum and diamonds which was worth 150,000 pounds.

22) Once, during their Kensington Market days, Freddie sought Roger's help in the kitchen "Rog, darling, how exactly do you boil an egg?" Roger's response? "You, umm - I don't know. I think it has something to do with hot water." (Can you imagine those two trying to figure it out?)

23) Roger once decided to dye his hair blond(er) just before a show in 1979. Unfortunately, our darling didn't read the instructions on the bottle (directions? Real men don't NEED no stinking directions and wound up turning his hair ---- green. The rest of the band gave him a terrible ride about it, especially Freddie. There aren't very many pictures from that particular show - Rog tried to destroy all of them.....

24) Debbie left Roger shortly after it was discovered he'd been having an affair with a lap dancer. Debbie was pregnant with Lola at the time they split up (Good one, Rog). Apparently, he told this stripper a lot of stuff about how disappointed he was that Freddie never came out of the closet like George Michael. These days Roger and Debbie are still friends. He's also still friends with Dominique. Wanna be Roger's friend? Change your name so it starts with a "D", have his children and them split up with him.

25) It was Roger's son Felix who cristened Freddie's outfit from It's a hard life as the "prawn costume".

26) Although I thought it was common knowledge some of you may not know that the woman in the Breakthru video was Debbie Leng, Roger's former girlfriend and mother of three of his children.

27) In the early 70's, the band was up in Liverpool one night and were walking down the street in all their fancy 70's get-up (let's just say that at that time people in Liverpool didn't dress like that). They encountered a bunch of gang members who threatened to beat them up and Roger quickly flashed his student card and told them that it was a judo licence and by law he was permitted to beat them up for self-defense. The gang members backed off.

2 cool When Roger came out of the dressing room for the I want to break free shoot, David (the director) said 'Roger, you look so good I could ******** you' without realizing that Crystal was videotaping it.

29) According to Crystal, Roger wore a black lace bra for the break free shoot.

30) While in South America, Roger, John and Crystal decided to rent a car and drive to a town some 100 miles away (John, on the other hand, was smarter and decided to take a limo instead). The car eventually broke down on them plus a huge rainstorm developed and the car had no top. A mudslide occurred nearby and all the rain on the ground turned brown from the mud. Roger and Crystal also turned brown when a transport truck passed them and splashed the dirty water all over them and the car! They managed to make it to their destination and after hurling some colourful language at the rent-a-car company, they didn't have to pay for the car.

31) One time at a gig in the 70's, Roger was pissed about something and completely trashed his kit, nearly hitting Freddie in the head.

32) After every gig at the end of Champions, Roger would stand up off his drum stool while drumming at the end then he would sit back down, hit the snare and bass drum and end the show. A new roadie saw this and thought 'the stool's in the way' and moved the stool away. When RT went to sit back down there was nothing there and he fell over. He managed to get back up and finish his little bit before hurling the entire kit across the stage.

33) Roger wanted to put giant stone lion statues at the entrance of his property in Surrey but the local authorities said no so he put up hundreds of glow-in-the-dark gnomes instead.

34) Roger Taylor apparently was so bent on having 'I'm In Love With My Car' as the B-side to the Bo Rhap single, he locked himself in a cupboard until Freddie agreed to put it on the single.

35) Roger is now the proud co-owner of a pub! He has bought a share in the lovely old pub in Chddingfold, Surrey, known as The Swan. Whether he will be pulling the pints or just propping up the bar is another matter....!!

36) Roger was best man at Brian and Anita's wedding.

37) On the first show of his Electric Fire tour, Roger performed half the show with his fly open!

3 cool When Roger first met Dominique during the organization of the Hyde Park gig, he kept calling and coming up with all sorts of silly excuses to see her.

39) Roger has a dragon tatoo on his upper left arm.

40) While going to visit Freddie in his final days, Roger crahsed his car into a police cruiser.

41) Roger has said that he rather enjoys adjusting his computers at home with bricks.

42) Roger recently had corrective surgery on his eyes due to being nearsighted.

43) Roger claims everyone who's close with him now thought he was a prat when they first met him.

44) Roger's grandfather used to tell him dirty jokes when he was little. Explains a few things, dunnit?!

45) Roger and Crystal were fed up with a female journalist cramping their style when they had picked up two birds, so, being a little tipsy, decided to drown her in a hotel swimming pool. They got to the pool, found it was locked, shook the doors and shattered the glass in them, then ran!

45) Roger wore his shades all the time because they were prescription for his eyesight.

46)Rog had a scary lurker moustache on the video for Flash Gordon!

47)Roger's armpits are hairier than you might think. Watch the keep yourself alive footage.

4 cool In case you hadn't heard this one, Roger's son Felix inspired Roger to
write "Radio Ga Ga". Felix walked in the room one day, heard the radio playing and said, "Radio poo poo."

49) Someone apparently tried to sell a sex video of Roger and Debbi Leng to the tabloids back in '91.

50) According Lesley-Ann Jones book, Roger said once "I'm so hangower, that even my name hurts."

51) When Queen was in Budapest, Freddie said "All hotel apartaments are equal." But when Roger saw Freddie's apartament in Duna Intercontinental hotel he said, "Yours is ******** more equal than mine!"

52) In the magic tour Fred and Roger had the same trousers (I know it's not interesting).

53) In a show in 86, Roger had to spit a big spit and it landed safely in Brian's hair (he didn't notice).

54) These days Roger listens to Eminem and Classical Music!!!

55)Roger had the most groupies than the other members.

I RMEMEBER SEEING THESE ON A SITE SOME WHERE

I THINK IT WAS SOME THING LIKE NASTYQUEEN.COM
BUT I CAN NOT REMEMBER

(I WILL EDIT THIS PAGE IF I FIND THE REAL SITE WHERE THESE CAME FROM)

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THE ROGER TAYLOR WEB PAGE
SORRY I DID NOT SEE THAT

Same >< I'll read the rest later. There's some weird stuff in there xd

9) There have been several attempts by different people to copy Brian's trademark guitar. One early attempt (back around 197 cool failed so miserably that Brian, in a very uncharacteristic moment, threw it off the stage at the end of a show and broke it.



Please read the following,



He would have been 16, not 6. Did someone make a typo? wink



17) Money-wise, Brian's guitar is the cheapest piece of equipment the band owns.



Not trash! Scrap wood and some odds 'n ends don't necessarily mean 'poor quality'! whee

Actually, a Red Special Copy, signed by both Brian and Roger, was auctioned off recently and fetched quite a price!



30) During The Works sessions Brian and Roger got into a fight and Brian punched Roger. They kept on fighting for a moment.



...Indeed they do! *nurses Roger's 'battle' wounds* xd



1) As a child Roger was accidentally shot with a bee-bee gun.



But that probably hurt! Especially if it is true that he wasn't healthy as a child, which would explain why he's so slender and somewhat feminine in appearance. [see point 3]



17) Roger quit smoking around 1987 because his then-girlfriend Dominique had pneumonia (what a sweet guy...)



He did eventually stop smoking, 1987 sounds about right, give or take a few years.



48 ) In case you hadn't heard this one, Roger's son Felix inspired Roger to write "Radio Ga Ga". Felix walked in the room one day, heard the radio playing and said, "Radio poo poo."



No, no... It's correct. I've read multiple interviews from him where he stated his son said 'Radio [insert childish mumblings]'. In one article he said it was 'poo poo', the other he claimed Felix said 'ca ca' because of his French accent. Roger, in the end, decided on 'Radio Ga Ga'.

Yes, well... I hope I wasn't rude to correct you... But for people lurking around and reading this without responding, I just wanted to make sure they had the right facts down. 3nodding

Honestly, some of these sound kinda far-fecthed. sweatdrop I don't know exactly who wrote them but I found this really interesting.

*points to the top of post one* Roger Taylor Online. But these have apparently been circulating from other sources. (Though I haven't seen them elsewhere.)