Post by Tina on Dec 19, 2004 10:56:15 GMT -5
Just found this on Brian's website. I cut out the part regarding Roger and his life and love. It's very interesting and I recommend reading the entire article.
Drummer Roger Taylor, 55, meanwhile, is a far more outgoing personality. As one acquaintance puts it, 'Of all the people one sees at rock-star soirees, he's the most fun to talk to. He's a really bright, interesting, funny man.'
Taylor's love-life is famously tortuous. After a long relationship with French beauty Dominique Beyrand, which produced two children, Felix Luther and Rory Eleanor, Taylor fell for stunning model Debbie Leng, best-known as the Cadbury's flake girl. The couple had three children: Rufus Tiger, Tiger Lily and Lola May.
LENG might have hoped she would become Mrs Roger Taylor but, in an extraordinary turnaround, Taylor married Dominique so their two children could be legitimised.
Unsurprisingly, Leng was not best pleased and moved out of Milhanger, Taylor's £6.5 million 75-acre Surrey estate with it's state-of-the-art recording studio.
In 2002, Taylor briefly dated Catrina Davies, a blonde 21-year-old glamour model, but he soon realised the error of his ways and attempted to win back Debbie. He bought a huge country house, virtually next door to Debbie's Sussex cottage. The couple have been friends and neighbours ever since. But are they also lovers?
This is a topic that causes much gossip and debate among their friends. As one says: 'Whenever Roger goes to a premiere, Debbie is always the girl on his arm.
'They're very close and they obviously still love each other, which is fantastic. But perhaps the reason they get on so well is that they've tot their separate lives and they see each other when they feel like it.'
When not working on Queen projects, Taylor is part of a set of wealthy, sophisticated, upmarket rock stars who live in luxury deep in the Surrey and Sussex countryside. Their members include Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and former Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford.
When England play major football matches, Taylor puts a jumbo-sized TV screen in his barn and invites his fellow rock stars to a party. And he does his best to maintain the old Queen traditions, providing lap dancers from Stringfellows to entertain his guests.
This is the life to which Taylor has always aspired. As he told me: 'We always said we wanted to be the biggest band in the world. Unashamedly, that was the object of the enterprise. What else are you going to say: '"We'd like to be the fourth-biggest"?
'I like to travel,' he continued. 'I'm in the nice position of having more than one house in different countries. I love going sailing or ski-ing and I love my garden. I'm very lucky. It's a very privileged lifestyle. But we worked bloody hard for it.'
In short, Taylor has spent the past 15 years living the life of Riley. So why on earth would he or Brian May want to go to all the trouble of getting back out on the road?
Drummer Roger Taylor, 55, meanwhile, is a far more outgoing personality. As one acquaintance puts it, 'Of all the people one sees at rock-star soirees, he's the most fun to talk to. He's a really bright, interesting, funny man.'
Taylor's love-life is famously tortuous. After a long relationship with French beauty Dominique Beyrand, which produced two children, Felix Luther and Rory Eleanor, Taylor fell for stunning model Debbie Leng, best-known as the Cadbury's flake girl. The couple had three children: Rufus Tiger, Tiger Lily and Lola May.
LENG might have hoped she would become Mrs Roger Taylor but, in an extraordinary turnaround, Taylor married Dominique so their two children could be legitimised.
Unsurprisingly, Leng was not best pleased and moved out of Milhanger, Taylor's £6.5 million 75-acre Surrey estate with it's state-of-the-art recording studio.
In 2002, Taylor briefly dated Catrina Davies, a blonde 21-year-old glamour model, but he soon realised the error of his ways and attempted to win back Debbie. He bought a huge country house, virtually next door to Debbie's Sussex cottage. The couple have been friends and neighbours ever since. But are they also lovers?
This is a topic that causes much gossip and debate among their friends. As one says: 'Whenever Roger goes to a premiere, Debbie is always the girl on his arm.
'They're very close and they obviously still love each other, which is fantastic. But perhaps the reason they get on so well is that they've tot their separate lives and they see each other when they feel like it.'
When not working on Queen projects, Taylor is part of a set of wealthy, sophisticated, upmarket rock stars who live in luxury deep in the Surrey and Sussex countryside. Their members include Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and former Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford.
When England play major football matches, Taylor puts a jumbo-sized TV screen in his barn and invites his fellow rock stars to a party. And he does his best to maintain the old Queen traditions, providing lap dancers from Stringfellows to entertain his guests.
This is the life to which Taylor has always aspired. As he told me: 'We always said we wanted to be the biggest band in the world. Unashamedly, that was the object of the enterprise. What else are you going to say: '"We'd like to be the fourth-biggest"?
'I like to travel,' he continued. 'I'm in the nice position of having more than one house in different countries. I love going sailing or ski-ing and I love my garden. I'm very lucky. It's a very privileged lifestyle. But we worked bloody hard for it.'
In short, Taylor has spent the past 15 years living the life of Riley. So why on earth would he or Brian May want to go to all the trouble of getting back out on the road?