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INSTANT KARMA

ROGER TAYLOR

The Queen drummer on predicting punk, cocaine myths, tiger skin trousers and making Kenny Everett scream Interview by SAM RICHARDS
“New Queen music? I don’t see why not”: Roger Taylor looks forward

“I totally believed in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. I thought, ‘If we’re going down this route, let’s really overdo it’”

DAVID Crosby owned a schooner named Mayan. Dennis Wilson sailed up the west coast on a ship called Harmony. And Roger Taylor’s boat? “It’s called Rock And Roll,” he says, with a slightly embarrassed chuckle. “I looked it up and found that nobody else had a boat registered under that name, so I thought, ‘Might as well!’ I’ve recently been around the world on it – we went across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Australia, Thailand… and it’s just got back into the Med.”

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