Roger Taylor - Happiness? (album EPK, 1994)

[@BriRog68]

The incomparable Roger Taylor was/is a beast on drums and vocals. Decades of gorgeous ♥️🥁🎤♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@nyoman7087]

I really love how Roger brought his thoughts and ideas to the lyrics of his songs. Roger's songs are great materials!

[@anastasiap.9804]

Roger is one of my most favourite musicians. Once I start listening to him, it's so hard to stop. His music and voice spellbinds and absorbs you. Every time is like wow.

[@erlynsanchez819]

You never a musician when you have no good voice,, we seldom heard him sing ,,, his on drums,,,, he's good drummer,,,,,

[@marcelosebastian333]

@@erlynsanchez819 not at all...he is a complete musician...druming is his main way of express....

[@marcelosebastian333]

You would also love his albums with the Cross...

[@anastasiap.9804]

@@marcelosebastian333 ikr. I have them all Cross albums.

[@marcelosebastian333]

@@anastasiap.9804 Congrats 😎

[@gsclyne7471]

roger is a true friend..he even made a tribute song "Old Friends" for freddie!!

[@emilypetsche1]

Roger never fails to put a smile on my face

[@popqueen77]

I learned new part of Roger. Thank you. I respect him more 💐👨🏻🧑🏼🇬🇧🇯🇵♥️

[@roxy5588]

One hell of a musician Roger is! A truly talented man and a master at his craft. 😘😘😘

[@LoveIsAnOldfashionedWord]

I could listen to Roger sing and talk about his work all my life. True musician, they don't make them like him anymore. His solo work is unbelievable. I wish he would do more of it.

[@anij8226]

He's always been very slow about releasing new stuff. Of course he has never really gotten the credit for most of it that he deserved. His solo albums have all been great and yet none have been very successful...

[@philfitnesspt6139]

@@anij8226 until now outsider made no 3 album charts so he's done better.solo than both Freddie and Brian. Hopefully won't be his last album

[@debrahackney6912]

What an amazing talented man you are Roger! You don’t get enough credit for all you do. Thank you for sharing your magical gifts with us. Keep on keeping on please! ❤️❤️❤️

[@kal143]

I feel cheated that I only found this interview and knowledge of your continued work...I love how you're trying to stop the sweeping of the terrible reality under the rug.

[@ildeeartha]

great interview, more love and respect to you Roger.

[@shnehaprasad974]

What a talented and passionate man he is! And he really is very underappreciated! And that really makes me sad, he has'nt got enough credit as much as he deserves! But you will keep on shining like this Roger for ever more!

[@26shedan]

this has become my favorite album ever, and I am 63 and have always loved most music. I just cannot stop playing this CD-in my car, in the house and watching this on youtube

[@annecoleman7342]

Love how Queen members were so kind about remembering Freddie. Love Queen!

[@catherinerobson5482]

Speak out, educate with your fabulous talent and music--thanks, Roger!

[@mariejohnson219]

Thank you Rog for having the courage and determination to continue to share your music with us after Freddie left us. Grief is a terrible thing in that it can paralyze one. Y ou showed exceeptional courage overcoming that feeling and channeling it back into your wonderful creativity. It's such a shame that the 3 of you scattered instead of drawing together as brothers, because all of you were hurting equally! Thank you so much for the amazing songs you've given us since Queen. Also extremely grateful you're touring again with Bri and Adam. It's incredily hard to do that in one's senior years - it's exhausting enough when one is young. But I'm grateful you've decided to do it. Queen's music is far to speical to consign it to a dusty archive and forget about it. So thanks for the the new music, thanks for touring again and I hope you can have many moments of fun in the midst of moments of chaos. Love the fact too that you and Bri chose to work with other artists. It was therapy and a confidence booster that you guys were every bit as good as and in some cases better that some other artists out there. You and Bri don't have Freddie voices but you sound great singing and as a fan I'm thrilled to hear the wonderful songs we've missed for so long. Please never stop while you have the ability to share your music and wonderful talent. Treasure each other too - you and Bri are a unique combo and you have magic together - never forget that. If you have the chance - consider doing These Are The Days Of Our Lives with Bri as a duet with lots of wonderful clips of the 4 of you over the 20 years you were together as Queen - there were so many good times you shared and thousands of clips to choose from on the internet and your own Queen website. Then take it up to the present day. It would be such a wonderful tribute to all of you! I hate to end on a somber note but the two of you don't know how long you have this unique opportunity as every day is a gift. So very grateful for both of you and what you've given us fans! Thanks for the memories - I still love you!

[@michelletammydenney1417]

Thank you for this beautiful post. I can't add anything to this. So Beautifully said. ❤❤

[@Pinerocks]

What a talented man!

[@montanacrone8984]

Much respect, Roger Taylor.

[@PhilosophyOfSound]

It's such a great album. I couldn't agree more with so many lyrics and topics that Roger spoke about there. Good to see the video re-published here!

[@renatabottene19]

Fantastic video, wonderful interview! Beautiful and talented Roger! I love you ❤🎉

[@glas1600gt]

Legend

[@Sasakiren]

I've discovered "Happiness?" very late - back in 2000 or 2001. By this time, I was a huge fan of Queen and especially Roger, but I only knew Queen's albums and Freddie's solo album "Mr. Bad Guy". One day I went to the disc shop, and while I was rummaging around, I found "Happiness?"... it was really magic, you know. I ran to home, jumped on my old cd player and listened to it with mom. How many time? I don't remember. Still today. And one of the best day of my life was finally in 2021, when I went to London to see Roger on stage for the Outsider tour. I love all the albums, but Happiness? is still very special to me. Like a first love ;)

[@marceloabelenda]

Early 90s must have been the worst years for the rest of the Queen members alive. This probsbly might has been the way Roger tried to keep on living and he did really well. for your amazing versatility as musician Roger!!

[@mothermercury1271]

Best solo album. I love it💖💕💗

[@rachellarocque3938]

Omg! I just found this! Roger you are such a special , sensitive energy! I love " old friends" I appreciate your honesty and the way you can share your truth, bare your pain about your own personal loss of Freddie! 💔 I'm happy you didn't stop working! I was 20 when he transitioned and never got the chance to see him live , it must have been an absolutely amazing ride!! I watch the old videos , I watch your lives in picture , watched you all grow up and mature! What a wonderful life you created for yourselves! And for moments in my life as well! It's amazing how a song can take one back to a very specific time in one's life and bring back some wonderful feelings and stirs up emotional Energies! I love your ability to write you feelings and emotions , turn it into music and be able to share the very same things with so many others around the world who experienced the same feelings and emotions as you! Different times, places, people , but same stories because the same feelings are exposed! I love your work! You should be made a national treasure my friend! 👍💖 Much love, light and positive energy to you and yours from me and mine! 💖 Here's to hoping tomorrow's a better day! 🍺🥂

[@ddc7668]

So enjoyed this showcase of Roger’s musicianship + fabulous writing skills while highlighting critical social issues - totally refreshing Yep, I love the guy - he’s the total package ❤️

[@игорьвасиленко-ъ6в]

KLASSS!!!!!!!!

[@marvalstith2749]

Only recently got Roger's CDs "Happiness?" and "BEST". I am over the top thrilled with each. One day soon hope to see his Freddie Mercury tribute song"Old Friends" on a QUEEN memorial cd.

[@QueenDynamo]

I don't think they'll release a "memorial cd" Queen doesn't want to wallow in sadness.

[@lindastodola133]

What an awesome song- Roger is so deep!! Good on you Roger Taylor!!

[@dmitriveremeenko9028]

Wonderful! 💖💖💖 One of the most underrated rock albums of all time!...

[@kathleenhannon8699]

Roger - respect you so much for your being so genuine

[@sharronarturi7958]

The lyrics tell the story 🔥 with great music LOVe Love love you Roger💋💋💕💕 👑👑👑👑

[@sharronarturi7958]

Forever baby❤

[@michelletammydenney1417]

I have so much respect and admiration for this incredible , beautiful man. Roger speaks his truth and always with his heart in everything he believes. He’s beautiful inside and out.❤️

[@cooljooles]

This is so interesting..shame it took so long to get to us but better late than never!

[@liavanson8687]

Thank you Roger! Missed this, but finally came to see it. Love it! Thank you 😍

[@jovipz0314]

Roger Taylor es otro gran músico, cantante y compositor. Escuchar a Roger es tan familiar, es escuchar de cierta manera a Queen . Me encanta 💖

[@GinnyTeyber]

Very nice interview, and impressive individual ❤

[@inesdonoso650]

❤❤❤❤❤ Roger ❤❤❤❤❤

[@annecraycroft9989]

Roger, you truly have a very beautiful voice. The way you express your thoughts and passions through music is a true gift, and I'd like to thank you very much for sharing your heart. (By the way, I can promise you, no audience member will dash out to buy popcorn while you're performing.) Sincerely, Anne Craycroft

[@alicefarr3927]

Love hearing you sing Roger 🙌❤️

[@alicefarr3927]

Best on drums than anyone I have heard ❤️

[@malgorzatapiotrowska9539]

He is the best drummer

[@xerofirol]

Awesome!!

[@maemae9912]

my happiness is you.❤❤❤

[@zoricadolas9704]

Zdravo maestro bubnjeva.Lijepo te čuti i videti. Pozdrav dragom Rogeru dečačkog izgleda i glasa 🙋👍💖

[@charlenemaeisalazarsalazar6277]

We love you Roger meddows Taylor she very favorite musicians

[@TammyDenney]

Roger is an Incredible Man . He speaks his truth and he’s so very intelligent. He’s exceptional ,with a Beautiful heart and soul. I love On Foreign Sand , and all his music. The four of these boys were Destined to be from birth . I’ve always believed that.

[@sherryheim5504]

You don't have to believe in censorship to believe that people need to learn and speak the truth. Read it all, and study, form your own ideas and morals about truth and how to live within it. Always question authority and never accept things said about that which is important to you, learn, it is vital for survival of yourself and the world. Roger is so intelligent, I love these types of interviews where he is letting us all see that side of him. Yes, he is a rock and roll drummer to the max and one of the industry's best but he is more than that, he is a brilliant human being.

[@ermenelgildadedominicis1910]

Sei come artista 👩‍🎨 completo 💓

[@marielleperona4183]

Roger Queen Taylor is not only the best drummer he is also a great singer still love you

[@treasuresshow6738]

Great.

[@lindastodola133]

Roger. We’d more exposure because he is just so talented! I love Rog! God this is other worldly!

[@samuelemolinelli3994]

Great Roger Taylor🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵🎸🎸🎸🎵🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@alonadelena1035]

i love you,queen

[@paulpreston5328]

Yeah..good video this..always great to hear Roger's opinions, even back then 27yrs ago..I always enjoyed his rock voice from the queen albums..tenement funster being a favourite..so what a joy in 1987, when I was 14, to learn that he had two solo albums..and thus begun my fanship of the fella to this day...Those two albums were a godsend to me inbetween queen releases..happiness upped my respect for him furtherso; with Rogers social and personal comments..I was lucky enough to see the happiness tour when it came to Pompey..I must have been giving it some with my moves and singing along to every word because I got chosen from everyone in the audience to meet him afterwards..For the following 10yrs I boastfully told everyone about the fantastic conversation we had about his music and our eclectic musical tastes etc...In truth..I was a very shy, introverted person back then and totally choked when he walked over towards me and a few others.. I've regretted that deeply ever since..The one and only time you get to meet your musical hero and I totally bottled it..The moral of this story is clear without me spelling it out. .I just thank God I grew up after meeting my wife soon after..she gave me confidence to aspire and to talk to anyone.. I love the outsider album but sadly unable to attend any gigs... ..rock on Roger.. you're the best.

[@marielleperona4183]

Beautiful voice at your age wooow

[@StevenCasper]

Great voice, further Qeens secret weapon singing and playing drums not easy. Still going strong awesome. Everyone enjoy your day.

[@theraven6843]

Strong video!!!!

[@kimemerson5732]

I'm a great fan of X Japan and just adore Yoshiki; he is a very generous and loving person. I love their song Foreign Sand, and enjoyed their appearance at the Great Musical Experience in Japan, but wonder why Roger seemed so stiff and unfriendly during the song and at the end. I thought Yoshiki played well and was thrilled when Toshi joined them on stage, but noticed Toshi moved back towards the drum and seemed to let Roger do almost all the singing. This has always bothered me and I've never seen it addressed...or was it nothing? He doesn't let on there was a problem during this interview. I love "Old Friends" and tear up ever time; what an amazing friendship they had!

[@Sammeep02]

I love the cute little wind up lizard (?) at 2:58!

[@laurakkhan8547]

❤❤❤

[@deanchivers6396]

And when you smile......

[@vilmavilma2230]

Grande musicista e magnifico interprete con quella sua voce sexy...

[@rogertaylor7934]

Te amo Roger 💜

[@sundareshvenugopal6575]

Think about it. No matter how better off you are you can never make yourself happy, and no matter how worse off you are you can always make others happy. No matter how strong you are you can never help yourself, and no matter how weak you are you can always help others.

[@jeanneolson3829]

Sundaresh Venugopal happiness comes from within. It’s a state of mind you can choose or not.

[@АртёмАртёмов-м2и]

На мой взгляд это самый лучший альбом Роджера! Спасибо! Часто его слушаю!

[@ChiChi-kf3bv]

👏👏👏

[@treintaydiez]

"It's on the rise"...in was just 1994 :/

[@ildeeartha]

scary...look where we are.

[@anatvm]

How not to love him?

[@catherinerobson5482]

Everythting you do or dont do is political--nice Roger, excellent. As much as I love Queen's canon, this is refreshing.

[@treasuresshow6738]

☆☆☆☆☆ ♡♡♡♡♡

[@nataliayaninabaima2993]

NataliayaninabaimA❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@garrettbrooks6576]

I dont know how people could have the audacity to say the holocaust didnt exist, when people who survived it are still living today.

[@mmxyz787]

💋❤

[@patriciakent6728]

Unless what they are taking is rule not people, you see I've done what we all do. We care ask used to senseless war we do swept the the horrors that war..God help us all. Good always prevails...

[@patriciakent6728]

Kill them with kindness..they won't want it if we are will to give it..may be harder than fighting.. Dig into lyric just surrender and it won't HURT at all.

[@PNEKarl]

I want to hear 'Loneliness' please Roger.

[@QueenDynamo]

He has no song of that title.

[@barbsinger826]

All Americans were taught about the Holicost and know it is true!

[@TheaterPup]

Maybe you should learn how to spell it first. 🙄

[@strawberrycola1994]

@@TheaterPup Aside from the misspelling, just about every American nowadays knows about the holocaust. It's also required to learn about it in school so they had us read books like Night, we were tested on it too. However, it's definitely possible that people were a lot less informed in the 90s

[@gbclab]

Is the same place where WWRY and SYW videoclips were shooted in 1977 for NOTW album?

[@ИрэнаКисель]

хорошие песни писал Тейлор. Но чувствуется какая-то боль, печаль.

[@anotherray9099]

Look at today

[@Behindstage]

Always found rogers work a bit naive but it does have a pleasant vibe, quite catchy but tbh Brian’s solo work is better. I wish John was also creating new work.

[@АртёмАртёмов-м2и]

Эх, перевел бы кто это видео

[@patriciakent6728]

Not a pacifist a realist...

[@honin4505]

Какой же Роджер крутой мужик, мне его сольное творчество нравится намного больше чем у Мэя, уж здесь пусть Мэй простит меня т. к. по композиторским качествам мало уделяли Тэйлору раскрыть свой потенциал перетягивая с Фредди одеяло на себя, хорошо, что в более поздний период дали им с Джоном проявить себя,очень классный материал о Роджера в котором есть и классическое звучание куинское и даже тот рок ролл и нишевое звучание что Куин не хватало

[@grooveyerbouti]

Love Roger's solo albums shame the cross disbanded they were good band. Favourite solo still Fun in space Favourite Cross album Blue rock. The protest songs are usually highlight except Nazis 94,obviously no issue with message but for me the song is not one his best.

[@Sammeep02]

The Cross were great!! Shame they aren't more well known in the Queen fan circle!

[@paulpreston5328]

Yeah..blue rock is strangely overlooked..it has some great rocking numbers..and yet the haunting "hand of fools" always catches my ear the most.. ..I saw the cross play the shove it tour in Southampton..it was a very small venue which added to the intimacy and intensity of the gig..This was the first ever live gig I'd attended..pretty good start huh.!!

[@philfitnesspt6139]

@@paulpreston5328 probably because the album wasn't actually released in.the UK and is therefore very rare i actually have it on lp got it.cheap on market in 1994 think was just Germany it was sold 🤔.

[@QueenDynamo]

Nazis 1994 is his protest song, like My Country.

[@gilmoreido]

Nazis was banned by radio?!?!? Why??

[@mitzykatt7646]

Ido Gilmore because of the word 'Nazis' in the title, how stupid!~

[@barbaraampting4743]

Because there was a sample of Hitler's voice on it.

[@QueenDynamo]

​@@barbaraampting4743It's because of one line: We gotta kick those fking Nazis"

[@QueenDynamo]

​@@mitzykatt7646It's because he used the F word

[@QueenDynamo]

The original recording of Nazis 1994 has the line "we gotta kick these fking Nazis" so it was banned by BBC Radio.

[@elifbor1079]

Who is the young man next to Roger? His son??

[@juliamartin4141]

In the Midwest people don’t think it happened!?!?!?! Roger, I live in the Midwest. I grew up here. I live here. I’ve never met a person that believes it never happened. People think they can make generalizations about “fly over country” because they don’t know us. I don’t watch crap shows about celebrities, I don’t buy those nasty sensationalist papers, I don’t read them or watch KZbin videos about them. I always knew this band was probably more leftist but I overlook those sorts of things. If you knew conservatives instead of believing all the crap said about them you would realize the truth of the matter. Mostly this kind of attitude comes from rich people with no contact with regular people. Their vision of people get skewed by not having lived among regular people and get attitudes that they must be listened to because they have the platform to talk. It doesn’t mean they know what they are talking about.

[@TheaterPup]

Well first off he first calls out the UK (his own country) and Europe. And to be fair, the Midwest (Illinois) is where the Nazis had a resurgence in the 70s. And the Midwest most recently helped put a game show in office who just said the Kurds were "happy" about being ethnically cleansed. If that wasn't you, then fine, you weren't one of the ones being talked about. But generalizations do have basis in reality. My part of America is known for being snobby and while I know it's not true for everyone, I won't deny it's also a sadly well earned reputation. You have to have some level of insight.

[@oliverfield877]

The Midwest has some of the most racist, sexist and homophobic people in the whole of America. Not all of them but there are a lot. Roger went to the Midwest a lot by the way.

[@strawberrycola1994]

@@oliverfield877 Which state? There's several states in the midwest. I agree that the midwest and closed minded and lacks diversity but I am curious which states specifically did he go to.

[@strawberrycola1994]

I mean this video is from 94', it could be that nowadays the midwest in more in informed. Here in the east coast we all had to learn about holocaust in middle school and high school. So hopefully, times have changed in the midwest since then. However, it also depends on where in the midwest he visited. Maybe the place he visited was super uneducated or something

[@awarenessvillage]

@@strawberrycola1994 There were several states he went to on Queen's News of the World tour and before that when Queen opened for Mott the Hoople in the early 70s. Queen also toured the Midwest in the early 80s. I would guess he visited Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, and Michigan. In the 70s there was a growing white supremacist sector of society in the Midwest. Some here have mentioned learning about the Holocaust in school. I was in high school in the 1970s. We didn't learn about the Holocaust. I knew next to nothing about it until after I finished school.

[@twit5]

The green grey grieving tray supposedly glue because oxygen distinctively back at a feeble feigned station. staking, wakeful double

[@Sammeep02]

yoshiki looks like a woman which led to my initial decision that he was a woman oh dears

[@QueenDynamo]

X Japan, the band he was in, had androgynous looking members, especially their deceased frontman, Hide.

[@birgitmatzat472]

Nazi? Have You a Problem with me Roger Taylor! Take Care !