Roger Taylor Promo Videos
This page briefly summarises all promo videos,
giving known details including directors, filming locations and
dates, content, and availability of each.
In the notes below, a 'standard performance' means that the track
is performed live, without audience involvement, but the studio
version is dubbed over the top.
Roger also appears alongside Brian in the 2005 Comic Relief
video, '(Is
This The Way To) Amarillo', which has it's own page, and
briefly in the 2014 video for 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' by
Band Aid 30.
Produced by Wills Spencer.
This video is a simple photo gallery featuring images of Roger
and Queen throughout their career.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Directed by Jeff Richter.
This video features footage of Roger singing the song into the
camera, Yoshiki on piano and drums, and footage of landscapes,
riots and wars at various points. It was filmed in June 1994.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
This is a mimed performance, featuring Roger with a guitar,
without a band. It was recorded on 30 April 1981.
Officially unreleased, although it has been shown on 'Top Of The
Pops 2' in the UK.
Produced by the Animind Studio.
This is an animated video, with illustrations to fit the lyrics,
which features a slight edit of the track, ending abruptly rather
than fully fading out.
Officially unreleased.
Produced by the Animind Studio.
This is an animated video, in the form of a comic strip, with
illustrations to fit the lyrics.
Officially unreleased.
Directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher.
This features Roger sitting in front of moving clouds from the
album sleeve, singing the track into the camera, with Jason
Falloon walking in the background playing guitar. Roger's
position changes throughout the song.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Unknown director.
Roger mimed this track on Marc Bolan's TV show 'Marc', which was
first broadcast on 14 September 1977.
Officially unreleased.
Produced by the Animind Studio.
This is a mostly animated video, with illustrations to fit the
lyrics, and some short footage of the Coronavirus lockdown -
people queuing for tests, applauding nurses, children playing
indoors etc.
Officially unreleased.
Directed by Stuart Brennan
Produced by Sarina Taylor and Stuart Brennan
Cinematography by Brendon McGinty
Creative concept by Sarina Taylor, Roger Taylor and Stuart
Brennan
Rather than being a standard promo video, this is a cinematic
short, which features Roger walking through various scenes,
mostly shot near his home in Cornwall. It also features footage
of Chinese mountains, battered guitars, and a dance sequence shot
in Truro Cathedral which features his wife Sarina.
The video was released on 5 May 2017, exclusive to iTunes, and
charted worldwide, reaching no. 1 in the UK, Netherlands, Finland
and Estonia, no. 2 in France, Germany and Italy, no. 3 in Hungary
and Lithuania, no. 4 in Sweden and Russia, no. 6 in Poland, no. 7
in Greece, no. 8 in Australia, no. 10 in Denmark and the Czech
Republic, no. 13 in Romania, no. 14 in the USA, no. 16 in Japan,
and no. 24 in Argentina.
Directed by Tim Pope.
This video features Roger singing the song in a house, drumming
on oil drums, with a girl at an upstairs window of a house which
then catches fire. It was filmed in June 1984, and banned by MTV
because it does not show the girl escaping from the fire.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
This video is a simple re-edit of the original, which has the
scenes of the girl removed.
Officially unreleased.
Directed by David Mallet.
This features Roger performing the track, intercut with footage
of Hitler, Nazi rallies and other war footage. A counter in the
corner of the screen shows the number of Jewish victims of the
war.
This version uses the 'banned' version of the track, with the
'kick those fucking Nazis' lyric.
Officially unreleased.
This video is the same as the original but uses the album version
of the track, with the 'stop these stinking Nazis' lyric.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Directed by George Bloom.
This track begins and ends with underwater footage of a sunken
car, and features Roger singing the vocals to the camera
throughout, and participating in a car race.
Filmed in Malibu, California, and based on the James Dean film
'Rebel Without A Cause'.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Unknown director.
This video features Roger standing still on a rooftop, singing
the song, with footage of skies, Roger's handwritten lyrics
animated on screen, and various floating coloured images.
Officially unreleased.
Directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher.
This features footage of Roger's live performance of the track
from the Cyberbarn concert, intercut with clips of Treanna Morris
singing to the camera in black and white. It uses the radio
version of the track and was produced in February 1999.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only, while an edit of the live
performance is available on the enhanced CD single.
Produced by Wills Spencer.
This video features footage of Roger performing the track in the
studio, singing, and playing the guitar, piano, and drums. It
also features clips to illustrate some of the points in the song,
such as out of order signs, the high street, keep-out signs, and
graves. The studio footage was recorded in two hours in November
2009, while the outside footage was filmed in Guildford.
Available on the CD single, and on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.