ROGER TAYLOR
Outsider [UMUSIC]
his is Queen drummer’s sixth solo album, and at age 72 Taylor has turned in the solo effort of his life. Taylor plays almost everything himself — drums, of course, but also guitar and most of the keyboards — but he’s in cahoots with Joshua J. Macrae. Taylor has dipped into his own backcatalogue to gently re-jig from Terry Jones’s 2015 film. More radically, his rocking 1994 single is re-cast as a bittersweet ballad, while there’s a spartan, brassy trawl through Clumsy title aside, is Taylor at his most grizzled opens in lugubrious, stately fashion, and the closing is the sound of a man who (to the outside world) has done it all, musing on what there might be left to do.
