Sir Brian May celebrates Queen drummer Roger Taylor’s 74th birthday

It’s been 50 years since Queen launched their debut album and regardless of Freddie Mercury’s premature dying and John Deacon’s retirement, Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor have very a lot been preserving the present on the street.

The rock legends are set to embark on a North American tour with Adam Lambert later this yr and this month have a good time their birthdays.

The Queen guitarist turned 76 on July 19 and this week the drummer has turned 74.

Sir Brian celebrated his music accomplice, who he shaped Smile with earlier than Queen, on his Instagram.

He posted photos of Roger with the caption “To my bro’ ROG.”

Playing over the submit was Roger’s solo observe Man on Fire from his 1984 second solo album Strange Frontier.

The official Queen Instagram account additionally paid tribute to the drummer who turned 74 yesterday with a collage of footage of him from throughout the years.

The submit was captioned: “Happy Birthday to our one and only, RT!”

And similar to Sir Brian’s submit, this one had an audio observe taking part in.

This time round it was Roger’s Queen tune I’m In Love with My Car from their 1975 album A Night on the Opera.

The drummer later posted in his Instagram tales: “Thanks so much for all the birthday wishes! Too kind.”