Roger Taylor Announces ‘Violence Insane In A Beautiful World’
Released on September 18 and available for pre-order now, the album is preceded today by the exuberant single Come on Summer (It’s Party Time), featuring a stunning performance by The Ndlovu Youth Choir from Limpopo, South Africa, who first came to prominence for their incredible Zulu-language translation of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Violence Insane In a Beautiful World is Roger’s seventh album in a solo career stretching back to 1977 and is his first since 2021’s critically and fan-acclaimed album Outsider.
While not a concept record, the album does have an overarching theme, as Roger explains, “There is a theme, you know, it’s in the title really, what a beautiful world we live in, don’t f^k it up. There seems to be all this insanity at the moment. The violence in the world seems to be as bad as it ever was, at any point, and certainly in my lifetime. It’s just horrific, a lot of insane violence. And we do seem to be f^king up the world, plastics in the sea, you know, and all these awful wars everywhere and hatred born of different religions.”
However, the tone of the album is hopeful as Roger says, “It’s a beautiful world, you know. And kindness is very important, I think, it seems to be forgotten quite a lot. So, that is basically the sort of underlying theme.”
Roger wrote, with the exception of an exquisite cover of John Lennon’s Jealous Guy, which he describes as “one of the greatest, ballads ever written”, produced, sang and performed all the songs on Violence Insane In a Beautiful World himself, with help from long-time collaborator Joshua J.Macrae, members of his live band and on three extraordinary tracks, The Ndlovu Youth Choir.
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