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ROGER TAYLOR

Songwriter and drummer in Queen

If I could have one last conversation with anyone in my life, it’s got to be Freddie. I was on my way to see him, less than half a mile away, when they rang me in my car and told me he’d gone. I just stopped the car on Kensington High Street, in a kind of shock. Because even when you know somebody is going to die, it’s still such a shock when they do. I wish I’d been there to give him support. That’s what he wanted. He liked his friends around. I think [the subsequent outpouring of love]

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