Guitars

Roger Taylor – backstage during Queen’s US tour, 1977. Photo by Michael Ochs

Roger have big collection of guitars. Sometimes used by him or band in the studio or used to play live and composing.

Schecter Guitar – used on Hot Space album in Calling All Girls by Roger and on The Cross era.

Stratocaster – I Wanna Testify, Drowse and much more.

Kramer – maybe used at Jazz album to record Fun It and/or More of That Jazz.

Gretsch guitar – black.

: I Wanna Testify and Strat – 1977

: Roger and John Deacon – 1985 Musicland Studio Munich

: 1985 Musicland Studio Munich

: The Cross era

: 28.02.1988 The Cross live at Mayfair

: 1988 Montreux Studio

: Roger at the studio with Fender – 1988 Montreux

: Roger and Rufus Taylor

: Gretsch guitar – The Cross 1992

: Happiness Tour 1994

: The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken) – home studio 2009

: The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken) – home studio 2009

: Gretsch guitar 2013

: Acustic 2014

1967 Fender Esquire Broadcaster

From http://www.musicradar.com: “This guitar isn’t actually a 1954 Esquire, as has often been reported down the years. It’s owned by Queen drummer Roger Taylor, who tells us that he used it on the track Sheer Heart Attack himself, but the four bolt neck plate’s serial number dates the body to early 1967.”

Most famous appearance: Crazy Little Thing Called Love (The Game, 1979) – now used by Brian May- photo from 2011 by Kevin Nixon/Future PLC

Brian May: I never tried [recording Crazy Little Thing Called Love] with the Red Special. What happened was that we were sitting around talking about what we were going to do with the song and I said that Ithought it needed that period sound – the James Burton Tele sound.

“I said to [producer] Mack that my guitar was pretty good at making a sound like a Tele, but he just looked at me and said, If you want it to sound like a Telecaster, why don’t you just use a Telecaster?

“Roger just happened to have this lovely old thing lying around, so I picked it up, plugged it in, and it worked. The amp? I don’t think it was a Boogie… the honest truth is that I’d use whatever was lying around. I thought I’d used a Fender amp, actually, but I wouldn’t swear to it.

Happiness Tour