Roger Taylor says Queen could release new music, 30 years after their last album “for real”
Roger Taylor left the possibility of Queen releasing new music in the air, 30 years after the release of their last album with Freddie Mercury, released a few years after the death of the band’s frontman.
In an interview with “Uncut”, the drummer stated that he spoke with guitarist Brian May about new material. “If we think it’s good, why not?” “We can still play and sing. I don’t see why not.”
Queen has not released an album from its “classic” line-up since “Made In Heaven”, a 1995 album created from some recordings that Freddie Mercury made before he died four years earlier, but which also featured songs released by Freddie Mercury a solo that the group rebuilt after the singer’s death (the case of the title track or ‘I Was Born to Love You’, moderate hits for Mercury in the mid-80s).
In 2022, the group released ‘Face It Alone’, a song created during the sessions for the album “The Miracle” (1989) which featured a recording of Mercury’s voice. With Adam Lambert, who since 2011 has joined Queen live as Queen + Adam Lambert, the group has never released originals.
The same did not happen in the Queen + Paul Rodgers lineup (2004-2009), which included the lead singer of Free and Bad Company, which led to the album “The Cosmos Rocks” (2008), in which the credits were shared between Brian May, Taylor and Rodgers. The duo at the front of Queen (bassist John Deacon distanced himself from the band in the 90s, with the last song recorded being the unreleased ‘No One But You (Only The Good Die Young)’, released in 1997) always made it clear that this album it resulted from a collaboration, and does not belong to the ‘canonical’ discography.
