In a model new interview within the newest episode of Queen the Greatest Live, Roger Taylor blasted the best way live performance venues in England used to deal with followers again within the Seventies.

The drummer spoke of how some international locations, normally authoritarian regimes didn’t just like the viewers getting concerned, which was an actual difficulty for Queen who inspired followers to get on their toes.

He shared how again within the band's early days their homeland could possibly be simply as controlling.

The 74-year-old mentioned: “In some countries, authoritarian countries, I mean, like in England, it used to be in the Seventies the dreaded bouncers. 

“As soon as anybody stood up, it was, ‘You! Sit down! Sit down!’ You know, they’d come at you. And we just used to encourage them to riot!”

Roger continued: “It was terrible. ‘You can sit in your seat but you can’t have fun.’ It was pathetic. 

“England in the seventies was horrible, really. It was a pretty awful place, actually.”

Sir Brian May, who additionally offers a brand new interview within the video agreed that bouncers could be a main downside.

The Queen guitarist mentioned: “A seated audience [at the front] feels intimidated. They have to sit there like this [arms folded] and there’s a bouncer telling them not to stand up. That's not rock and roll. That's not the way it should be.”

If a present nonetheless wouldn’t get going again within the day, the band would use their “secret weapon” within the type of frontman Freddie Mercury.

Roger added: “He was incredible. He could just shout, ‘Come on!’, and then everybody would get up…”