ROGER TAYLOR (UK)

Born: 26 July 1949
Full name: Roger Meddows Taylor

Taylor was born in King’s Lynn, a town about 70kms east of Norwich in England. At school he would play the ukulele and joined a band called the Reaction when he was 15.   In 1967 he moved to London to study dentistry. Here he met Brian May and Tim Staffell and they formed the band Smile. When Staffell left to form a new band called Humpy Bong, he and May recruited Farrokh Bulsara into Smile. Farrokh changed his name to Freddie Mercury and the band changed their name to Queen. They would go on to huge global success. Taylor’s first solo venture was in 1977 when he released the single ‘I Wanna Testify’. Four years later he saw his first solo UK hit with ‘Future Management’ which made it to 49 in the UK. In total he would see 7 solo UK charting hits with 1994’s ‘Nazis’ giving him a best peak of 22. Although producing no hit singles, his 2021 album ‘Outsider’ would peak at 3 on the UK charts.

Date	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
26-Oct-1984	Man On Fire	11	13
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	13

Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	1
Biggest fallers	1
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	13
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	=900
Top 20 points ranking	=986
Top 30 points	140
Top 20 points	36

Hits as a member of Queen:

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
12-Mar-1976	Bohemian Rhapsody	2	15
21-Jan-1977	Somebody To Love	7	10
07-Dec-1979	Crazy Little Thing Called Love	3	15
24-Oct-1980	Another One Bites The Dust	3	16
04-Dec-1981	Under Pressure	4	16
21-Jan-1983	Back Chat	18	2
02-Mar-1984	Radio Ga Ga	4	18
25-May-1984	I Want To Break Free	1 (7)	28
19-Oct-1984	It’s A Hard Life	27	3
06-Jul-1986	A Kind Of Magic	10	12
		Total hits	10
		Total weeks	135

Total chart involvement:

Number Of Hits	11
Weeks	148
No of No.1’s	1
Weeks at 1	7