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 Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:01 pm
 Interesting Queen Facts(Credit To: Roger Taylor Online) Post One
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Brian
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Roger
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John
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:02 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:04 pm
Brian Facts:
-Brian thought Freddie was a gypsy type when he first met him.
-Brian lived with Tim Staffel and Roger Taylor when Smile was about. Freddie later moved in with them.
-Brian made a statement about a year ago where he said (not in these exact words) he felt Freddie was lucky for dying and not witnessing the demise of Queen. This was before he got back with Anita Dobson and married her.
-Brian worked in a windshield wiper factory as a teen.
-In 1977 while the band was on tour with Thin Lizzy as the support act, Lizzy's guitar player Scott Gorham got a lemon thrown at him. When Queen went on, out from the same direction of the lemon came a whole bunch of eggs straight at Brian! (and he just happened to be wearing a white shirt that night). He slipped on the mess and fell on his butt.
-Before a gig at the Rainbow in 1974, Brian told Freddie he was acting like an old tart and he stormed off and was gone for several hours.
-Brian and Deaky got into a huge fight over whether or not the song "Back Chat" needed a guitar solo. Apparently Brian won that one.....
-Once, during an early soundcheck, Freddie got mad at the rest of the band over something and stalked out, saying he was leaving for good. When he didn't return after about half an hour, Roger and Deaky were panicking, certain he'd made good on his threat. Brian, however, calmly picked up the microphone Freddie had discarded and called into it, "Oh, Freddie? Freddie-poo? Freddiekins, where are you?" A moment later Freddie poked his head back in to yell "Don't call me that!" Brian just smiled and said, "I knew that would get you back in here."
-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.
-Brian is probably the only member of a band to ever have had a scientific paper published in Nature.
-Brian wrote "Tie Your Mother Down" long before Queen ever got started. He'd been up all night in an observatory watching the stars and was too wired to sleep. He says he has no idea where the line came from, it just popped into his head. He was going to change it because he thought it was silly, but Freddie told him not to because "it reminds me of something that happened once, darling." Brian didn't dare ask what.....
-Brian got drunk with Van Halen one night and when he went to throw up in the bathroom he hit his head on the toilet tank and got a concussion. He had to play with a bandage on his head the following night.
-Brian has a habit of never remembering where he left his coat.
-As a kid, Brian was afraid of a chair in the corner of his room at night.
-Brian's mom said that when he was little he wanted to be a surgeon but he claims that he doesn't remember that.
-The first time Brian met Crystal he accidentally stepped on his foot with his clogs and apologized about 20 times.
-Money-wise, Brian's guitar is the cheapest piece of equipment the band owns.
-Brian is so overprotective of his Red Special; when he was travelling by plane somewhere he refused to check it in with the rest of his baggage and instead bought a seat for it.
-In Las Vegas Brian came on stage with no guitar (and that wasn't the last time that happened).
-The Prophet's Song was inspired by a dream Brian had.
-Brian broke his arm while playing around on his son's skateboard.
-Brian's hair is softer than you might think.
-Brian has donated an old lawnmower to the British Lawnmower Museum in Southport, Lancashire.
-No one who knew him believed Brian wrote "Son and Daughter" because it had the word "s**t" in it.
-Brian was dragged into an alley in Hawaii and asked where he got his drugs, because he was wearing unusual clothes and had long hair. In reality, I don't think Brian has done anything stronger than Guinness!
-Brian likes Prawn Cocktail and veggie food.
-Richie from Five got lost in Brian May's grounds during the recording of their version of 'We Will Rock You', and had to be found by a search party consisting of Five's other members.
-Our favourite guitarist lost his proverbial cherry to the strains of an album by the Hollies. It's the gospel truth!
-The line "I want it all and I want it now," was inspired by Anita Dobson.
-During The Works sessions Brian and Roger got into a fight and Brian punched Roger. They kept on fighting for a moment.
-Brian is a vegetarian.
-Queen performed a show, although Brian had serious problems with his arm and Freddie could hardly hear anything because of an ear infection.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:05 pm
Roger Facts
-As a child Roger was accidentally shot with a bee-bee gun.
-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.
-Roger was a very frail as a child and would come off the rugby field white and shivering, which his friends found amusing.
-As a teen, Roger's parents divorced.
-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!
-Apparently, Rog didn't learn to swim until he was 22! It was said he had a fear of drowning.
-Roger has a fear of spiders.
-Roger's Ferrari's engine caught fire in France back in '78.
-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.
-Roger was drunk during the Who Wants To Live Forever video shoot.
-Roger has 3 conservatories in his Surrey home.
-Roger's son Felix was born 2 months premature and weighed only 2 pounds!
-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.... !
-Roger has weird fat stubby little toes.
-Roger has never had a real job in his life.
-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.
-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. (Apparently Rog's monitor failed and he couldn't hear what he played or sung, which is why he threw the fit).
-Roger quit smoking around 1987 because his then-girlfriend Dominique had pneumonia (what a sweet guy...)
-Roger shaved his legs for the "I want to break free" video, as the cuts testified.
-Roger attended his father's funeral the day after his 41st birthday. (July 27, 1990)
-To celebrate Queen's 20th anniversary, Roger bought Debbie an antique necklace made of platinum and diamonds which was worth 150,000 pounds.
-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?)
-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...
-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.
-It was Roger's son Felix who cristened Freddie's outfit from It's a hard life as the "prawn costume".
-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.
-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.
-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.
-According to Crystal, Roger wore a black lace bra for the break free shoot.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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....!!
-Roger was best man at Brian and Anita's wedding.
-On the first show of his Electric Fire tour, Roger performed half the show with his fly open!
-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.
-While going to visit Freddie in his final days, Roger crahsed his car into a police cruiser.
-Roger recently had corrective surgery on his eyes due to being nearsighted.
-Roger claims everyone who's close with him now thought he was a prat when they first met him.
-Roger's grandfather used to tell him dirty jokes when he was little. Explains a few things, doesn't it?
-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!
-Roger wore his shades all the time because they were prescription for his eyesight.
-Rog had a scary lurker moustache in the Flash Gordon video!
-Roger's armpits are hairier than you might think. Watch the Keep Yourself Alive footage.
-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." (What Felix said varies between sources.)
-Someone apparently tried to sell a sex video of Roger and Debbi Leng to the tabloids back in '91.
-According Lesley-Ann Jones book, Roger said once "I'm so hungover, that even my name hurts."
-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, "Your's is ******** more equal than mine!"
-In the magic tour Fred and Roger had the same trousers (I know it's not interesting).
-In a show in 86, Roger had to spit a big spit and it landed safely in Brian's hair (He didn't notice).
-These days Roger listens to Eminem and Classical Music!!!
-Roger had the more groupies than the other members.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:06 pm
John Facts
-Veronica (John's wife) was a devoted Catholic. You suppose that's why they had so many kids?
-Not everyone in the band liked "Another One Bites The Dust" when John first introduced it to them, namely Roger. Freddie had to convince Rog it would be good! Do you think John wanted to smack Roger ever?
-When John came out of the dressing room in his costume for "I Want to Break Free" his daughter (who was about 5 at the time) started crying because she didn't recognize him!
-John wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of releasing Bo. Rhap. as a single.
-At a party in late 1977 John got drunk and stuck his hand through a plate glass window and needed 19 stitches in his hand. Surprisingly, he didn't miss a single show because of it!
-The only time the rest of the Opposition could remember seeing Deaky get the least bit freaked out over anything was after he flipped his Vespa on a turn and more or less landed on his face, getting pretty banged-up in the process. According to one of the other band members "he was a little bit shaken when he showed up." (Ouchie-wawa. I'll bet, poor baby....)
-When "Night At The Opera" came out, everyone thought the band was making tons of money. Actually, their management company, Trident, was - they weren't seeing any of it. In fact, Deaky wound up begging them to loan him the money for a downpayment on a house. Trident refused. (He and Veronica had just had their first child and were still living in a one-room flat because that was all they could afford.)
-The video of "We Will Rock You" was filmed in Roger's garden in Surrey - after it had snowed for most of the morning. Freddie had to borrow Ratty's gloves while Brian and Deaky's fingers were so numb that they could barely pretend to play, although Deaky did manage to stomp on Roger's foot at one point. (Wearing heavy boots, nonetheless.) Roger wasn't exactly amused.
-John was so drunk one time that when he heard Queen playing on the stereo he asked who the band was.
-John Deacon sang backing vocals for the group "Bad News" (Brian May was their producer, I believe).
-John was dressed like a unicorn in the "Hard Life" video. He did not wear his head, however.
-John is fond of dry roasted peanuts.
-When performing the song "Liar" in the Colston Hall in Bristol, John added some very rare backing vocals!!!
-John sang backing vocals on the chorus of "Radio Ga Ga" during live performances.
-John Deacon produced a single for a spoof band called "Morris Minor and the Majors" in 1987, called... well, never mind what it was called, but he was credited as "Grand Master Jelly Tot" on the single... oh, it was called "Stutter Rap".
-When John first got his hair cropped, everyone said he looked like a convict, and one of the roadies called him the 'Birdman of Alcatraz'. Birdman has been his nickname ever since (as well as Deacy!) and the joke was so popular that they bought him pyjamas with little arrows on like convicts wear, and he wore it once on stage.
-John haunts the internet chatlines!
-On the first queen album, Queen, the band gave credit to Deacon John!
-It has been said, by many people, that John is scared of plastic cups!
-Apparently John got drunk one night and got caught driving. He was breathalized and banned from driving for 12 months. He had to use public transport - AND NOBODY NOTICED!!!
-John is the quietest member of the band, but according to Brian he can make you curl up and die with two sentences.
-John used to enjoy throwing peanuts at Brian whilst he was performing his solos on stage.
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