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Fun In Space
Image:Fun-in-space.jpg
Studio album by Roger Taylor
Released May, 1981
Recorded Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland, 1980
Length 41:30
Label EMI, Parlophone (UK), Elektra Records (US)
Producer(s) Roger Taylor
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Roger Taylor chronology
Fun In Space
(1981)
Strange Frontier
(1984)

Queen drummer Roger Taylor released his first solo album Fun In Space in May of 1981 in the UK and US. The album was the first solo album bya Queen member. The album was recorded in between legs of Queen's tours for The Game and Flash Gordon albums. Roger wrote, produced, sang and performed all of the songs himself. While the album did fair in the UK, the album tanked upon its US release. Queen are an English rock band formed by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, and Roger Taylor in London, England in 1970 from the remains of Smile, with John Deacon completing the lineup the following year. ... Roger Meddows-Taylor, a. ... The Game (born Jayceon Terell Taylor on November 27, 1979 in Los Angeles,[1] California) is a multi-platinum American rapper signed to Geffen Records. ... Flash Gordon is a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934. ...


"Future Management" was issued as a single in Europe while "Let's Get Crazy" was released in the US but sank without a trace.


The album was re-released as a digitally remastered CD in 1996 in Europe and is only available in the US now via import.

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Track listing

  1. No Violins
  2. Laugh or Cry
  3. Future Management
  4. Let's Get Crazy
  5. My Country (Parts 1 and 2)
  6. Good Times Are Now
  7. Magic is Loose
  8. Interlude in Constantinople
  9. Airheads
  10. Fun in Space
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Credits

  • Roger Taylor - Drums, Percussion, lead and backing vocals, Guitars, Bass Guitar, Keyboards
  • David Richards - Engineer, additional Keyboards
  • Hipgnosis - Artwork, Cover design


 
 

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