Fun on Earth

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Fun on Earth
Studio album by Roger Taylor

Publication
(s)

November 11, 2013

Label (s) Virgin EMI

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Rock , alternative rock

Title (number)

13 (+ 2 bonus tracks)

running time

47:40

occupation

Furthermore:

  • Spike Edney - Keyboard on Sunny Day , Be My Gal , Say It's Not True
  • Jason Falloon - guitar on Fight Club , I Don't Care , Be My Gal , I Am the Drummer , Small
  • Steve Hamilton - saxophone on Fight Club , Quality Street , I Don't Care
  • Kevin Jefferies - electric bass on Fight Club , Be With You , Sunny Day , Be My Gal , I Am the Drummer
  • Nicola Robins - violin on Sunny Day
  • Steve Stroud - electric bass on small
  • Rufus Taylor - drums on small and piano on Be With You

production

Roger Taylor, Joshua J. Macrae

Studio (s)

The Priory, Surrey , England

chronology
Electric Fire
(1998) 		Fun on Earth The Lot
(2013)

Fun on Earth is the fifth music album by the composer and musician Roger Taylor , it was released on November 11, 2013 by Virgin EMI . It was taken from autumn 2008 to the end of 2009, after the Rock the Cosmos Tour and after the cooperation Queens with Paul Rodgers had finished, was finally completed it in 2013. It is the first album on which Taylor since The Cosmos Rocks from the year 2008, as well as his first solo album after Electric Fire from 1998.

background

Taylor started working on the album in late 2008, a few months before the Queen + Paul Rodgers collaboration . The first words on the album were published on November 17th, 2009 on the Queen's official website. Commenting on the album's first single, Taylor said:

"What happened to the protest song? Music is now so polished, shiny and predictable, we have forgotten to try and say something with it. I am getting old and like everyone, have the right to say something about the "state of control" we live under - powerless to do anything about it. "

Translation: “What happened to the protest song ? Today's music is so polished, shiny and predictable. We forgot to try to make a point with her. I'm getting old and like everyone else I have the right to say something about the " police state " we live in - powerless to do anything about it. "

Track list

All the songs were written by Roger Taylor, except Be with You , which he wrote with his son Rufus Taylor.

  1. One Night Stand - 4:22
  2. Fight Club - 3:02
  3. Be with You - 3:10
  4. Quality Street - 4:25
  5. I Don't Care - 3:24
  6. Sunny Day 3:38
  7. Be My Gal (My Brightest Spark) - 2:45
  8. I Am the Drummer (In a Rock n 'Roll Band) - 2:47
  9. Small - 3:51
  10. Say It's Not True (with Jeff Beck ) - 4:58
  11. The Unblinking Eye (Abridged) - 4:54
  12. Up - 3:10
  13. Smile - 3:01

Bonus tracks

  1. Dear Mr Murdoch (Nude Mix) - 3:49
  2. Whole House Rockin - 2:46

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Literally translated: "State of Control"
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  2. ↑ http://queenonline.com/en/news-archive/unblinking-eye-ltd-cd-out-today/