Roger Meddows Taylor was born on July 26th 1949 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, to parents Michael and Winifred Meddows
Taylor. Roger, his parents and younger sister Clare, moved to Truro, in Cornwall in 1957, and Roger started at the Truro
Cathedral School, where he joined the choir. He also learnt to play the ukelele. He moved on to Truro Public School in 1960,
and learnt to play guitar. In 1961 he began to teach homeself to play drums. He left school in 1967 with seven 'O' levels and
three 'A' levels.
He decided het wanted to be a dentist, and moved to London to attend London Hospital Medical College. He got bored with
dentistry and turned to studying Biology at North London Polytechnic, he finally left with a BSc in that subject. He joined
Brian May in the band Smile in 1968.
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