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Young Love

Written by: Roger Taylor

Musicians:

Roger Taylor - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards
David Richards - keyboards

With a feeling so sure
With a feeling so real
When you know that it's right
When you know it's for real
You gotta stick to your guns show the world that you just don't care

When they're putting you down
With their knives in your back
When they're spreading it round
When they're on the attack
You gotta stand on your ground show the world that it's no cheap deal

This is your time
This is your life
This is no cage
This is your problem
This is your life
This is your age

Starbright - this is your night
Young love is what you feel
Young lovers fight
But young love is right
When your young love is real

You've seen it before
Like your mum and your dad
They're dying each day
Living a life that's so sad
You gotta stick to your guns
Grab a chance while the chances come

If you're frightened of dying
You ain't really alive
Every time that you meet
You try to kindle the fire
You gotta stand on your ground show the world that it's no cheap deal

This is your time
This is your life
This is no cage
This is your problem
This is your life
This is your age

Starbright - this is your night
Young love is what you feel
Young lovers fight
But young love is right
When your young love is real

Young love is right
Young love is real
Young love is what you feel
Young lovers fight
But young love is right
When your young love is real
Is real
Is real
Is real

- Issued as a B-Side to Beautiful Dreams in Portugal.
- Roger never attempted this track live.

PERSONAL NOTES:
- This song makes me smile. This is about as innocent as Roger has gotten on a song, and just full of positive energy.

NEXT UP: Roger gets some help from his friend, Rick Parfitt from Status Quo and a certain John Deacon to rock out on It's An Illusion

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Deleted Posts: 0 Location:	Queen Discussion Thread Jan 28, 2013 7:28:06 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 7:28:06 GMT -5 I like Roger's solo material. Quite lighthearted and fun
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NG! Good to see you back around down here in the depths

Yeah Roger's early solo stuff has a very youthful quality to it. Almost as if he decided to go against the grain and try not to do anything in that big epic Queen vein. Just strip it back to some straight forward rock n roll. It works :D

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It's An Illusion

Written by: Roger Taylor/Rick Parfitt

Musicians:

Roger Taylor - vocals, drums, guitar
David Richards - keyboards
Rick Parfitt - guitars, vocals
John Deacon - bass

Can't believe what you hear
Don't believe what you read
Hard to see what you need these days
Can't believe that it's true
You know we had so much to do
How come you treat me this way

Hey - you
Why don't you play by the rules
Play by the rules
You - just
You must take me
Take me for some kind of fool

It's an illusion
Here and gone in a day
Not what it seems this American dream
Just drifting away
It's an illusion
After all that we've seen
A complete waste of time
Just a nursery rhyme
Can't believe that you're leaving

Can't believe what you hear
Don't believe what you read
Hard to see what you need these days
They'll feed you the facts
Leave you like a kid on a railroad track
Our reason is fading away

OK
Not much left I can do
I can do
You - just
You just took me
Took me for some kind of fool

It's an illusion
Here and gone in a day
Not what it seems this American dream
Just drifting away
It's an illusion
After all that we've seen
It's a complete waste of time
Just a nursery rhyme
Can't believe that you're leaving

It's an illusion - it's an illusion
It's an illusion
It's an illusion

- Roger was friends with Rick Parfitt who was big at the time with his band Status Quo (best known probably for opening Live Aid with Rocking All Over The World

- An all out mindless rocker with some great vocals by Roger and some great bass work by John.

- Roger played this track on tour during The Cross tours.

LIVE PERFORMANCES

The Cross - Live at Leeds - 1988

- It was a great choice to add this to The Cross setlists. A great performance!

PERSONAL NOTES:
- This is GREAT for just mindless rocking. Great driving song...and I love seeing more than one member of Queen!

Next up? We end the Strange Frontier album proper with a wordy one... I Cry For You (Love, Hope, & Confusion)

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Deleted Posts: 0 Location:	Queen Discussion Thread Jan 29, 2013 11:26:11 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 11:26:11 GMT -5 Probably the only song with more than 3 chords that Rick Parfitt ever (co-)wrote. That chorus is so Status Quo though, super cool
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I Cry For You (Love, Hope, & Confusion)

Written by: Roger Taylor/David Richards

Musicians:

Roger Taylor - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards
David Richards - keyboards

I cry
I cry for you
I cry for you
I cry for you
Love me
Tender
Love me
True
Love can always
See you through

I hope you're fine
I hope all's well
Given time
Hope springs eternal
Who finds conclusions
With love hope and confusion

I cry
I cry for you
I cry for you
I cry for you

Life
Has no fun anymore
Time
Is on the run for sure
No place to run anymore
Love hope and confusion
I hope you're fine
I hope all's well
Give 'em hell
Hope springs eternal
Who finds conclusions
With love hope and confusion

I cry
I cry for you
I cry for you
I cry for you

I cry for you
I cry for you
I cry for you

I cry for you
I cry for you
I cry for you

I cry for you
I cry for you
I cry for you

- Issued as the B-Side to Strange Frontier
- The drum machine, harmonies, chord progressions are similar to Radio Ga Ga
- There were a few remixes done as you'll see below by good friend John Deacon!

ALTERNATE RELEASED VERSIONS

12" Extended Version

- ESSENTIAL listening
- Remixed by John Deacon and Mack it contains a great intro and some texture added to it.

7" Single Edit

- ESSENTIAL listening
- Remixed by John Deacon with some additional MUSICIANS:
John Deacon - Bass
Freddie Mercury - Additional backing vocals
- Freddie's bits are very superfluous and far in the background but definitely there. It also has a ton of John on it. It cuts out the fluff and it is a far more dynamic track. Excellent work by Mr. Deacon.

PERSONAL NOTES:
- One of Roger's best despite being very 80s and wordy as hell. Very calming despite the pounding drums.

NEXT UP: Roger's B-Side and THE strangest track Roger ever produced - Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad)[/quote]

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Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad)

Written by: Roger Taylor

Musicians:

Roger Taylor - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards
David Richards - keyboards

- Quite simply one of the strangest tracks in all of the Queen family's catalogue.
- Issued as the B-Side of Strange Frontier's 12" Vinyl single.
- Roger's voice is slowed down completely on the track so that it is super low and bass rap like.
- Never attempted live.

PERSONAL NOTES:
- While it is super strange, it's also hilarious. Once you surrender to it being absolutely mindless stupidity it is chuckle inducing! Not something I'm going to put on the speakers too much, but I usually don't turn it off either. I really prefer it to something like Funny Old Life (which we'll get to...unfortunately)

NEXT UP:
A TWO-FER....well kind of. More like a ONE+er....Two demos. One of which is a :40 snippet because that was all that was leaked! And funnily enough they are both very similarly named!!!! I Can Take You Higher and I Wanna Take You Higher

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A TWO-FER!

I Can Take You Higher

Written by: Roger Taylor (most likely)

Musicians:

Roger Taylor - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards
Spike Edney - Keyboards
Clayton Moss - Guitar
Peter Noone - Bass
Joshua J. Macrae - Drums

What you got to lose
'Cos love's a score of nothing
And we ain't never coming down

Baby I can take you higher
Lift your two feet off the ground
What you got to lose
'Cos loves a score of nothing
And we ain't never coming down

- All that's leaked is this 40 second sample
- A full version does exist.

EDITED IN: The full version was released on Roger's box set The Lot and it is confirmed to be a Cross song from the Jam Studio Sessions. I have also edited in the full video. I have not transcribed the lyrics of the full version.

Second up:

I Want To Take You Higher

Written by: Roger Taylor (most likely)

Musicians:

Roger Taylor - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards
David Richards - keyboards (?)

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Got my baby in overdrive
My foot's on the floor and I feel alive
Put her in second and leaving cold
Eat my dust never live to be slow

Sitting alone in your favourite chair
Counting the reasons you should not be there
This is the truth

I wanna take you higher
I wanna take you higher
Wanna take you higher than before
Wanna take you higher, said
I wanna take you higher than before

She screams like a kid when I'm making the turns
She holds in the skids when the rubber burns
Watch for the cops and watch for the signs
Life in the fast line you look into the lines

Feeling alone on some everyday street
These are the moments you really don't need
This is no truth

Wanna take you higher, I said
I wanna take you higher
Wanna take you higher than before
You know I wanna take you higher
I wanna take you higher than before

So if you feel like a buzz, I feel I can fly
Just hold your breath, and step inside
Keep hold of your hat, enjoy the show
Eat my dust, never live to be slow

Who really knows what's in store in the end?
Who really knows what's around the very next bend?
Why should we care?

I said I wanna take you higher
Wanna take you higher, you know I
Wanna take you higher than before
Wanna take you higher
Wanna take you higher than before
I wanna take you higher
I wanna take you higher than before
Woo

Hey
You got your problems, take my advice
Do what you can get a kick out of life, oh, yeah
Wanna take you higher, woh, yeah
Wanna take you higher
Alright
Alright

- From the sessions that Roger started and abandoned earlier in the year.
- Obviously never attempted live

PERSONAL NOTES:
- Both tracks are great and deserve to see a much fuller release. With Roger mentioning he might release a best of or a box set of his solo work, I'm hoping these might get released as bonus tracks.

Next up? The last demo from these sessions, a cover of the S*&@^#r Davis classic Keep On Running

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Keep On Running

Written by: Jackie Edwards

Musicians:

Roger Taylor - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards

Keep on running
Keep on hiding
One fine day I’m gonna be the one
To make you understand, oh yeah
I’m gonna be your man

Keep on running
Running from my arms
One fine day I’m gonna be the one
To make you understand, oh yeah
I’m gonna be your man

Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is talking about me
Make me feel so bad
Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is laughing at me
Make me feel so sad
So keep on running
Baby
Alright

Hey
Keep on running
Keep on hiding
One fine day I’m gonna be the one
To make you understand, oh yeah
I’m gonna be your man

Keep on running
Running from my arms
One fine day I’m gonna be the one
To make you understand, oh yeah
I’m gonna be your man
Hey

Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is talking about me
Make me feel so sad
Hey, hey, hey
Everyone is laughing at me
Make me feel so bad
So keep on running
Hey, hey
Running from my arms

I wanna be your man
Make me feel so good
Make me feel so good (I wanna be your man), alright
I wanna be your man, wooh-ooh
I wanna be your man
I wanna be your man

- A demo from the first sessions that were abandonded.
- It is a cover of the S*&@^#r Davis Group song, which may be one reason it was left off. With a couple of covers already included Roger may not want to have had another one.
- It was never attempted live.

ORIGINAL VERSION:

PERSONAL NOTES:
- It is what it is. It is a fine song. It is a fine cover. Nothing more, nothing less. I can see why it was left off the album but it is nice to have regardless!

NEXT UP? Freddie's first solo single! Love Kills. Warning it's going to be a long one. Everyone and their brother has remixed it...

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