Roger Taylor
English musician, songwriter, and record producer
When I first heard one of our records on the radio.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Right now. The past has gone.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2010 source ↗
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Both of the days my children were born. It was like I’d stepped through a mirror and everything turned Technicolor.
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As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
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With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
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