{"id":484219,"date":"2019-04-03T02:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=817048"},"modified":"2019-04-03T02:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:20:18","slug":"hear-roger-taylors-political-single-gangsters-are-running-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-roger-taylors-political-single-gangsters-are-running-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Roger Taylor\u2019s Political Single \u2018Gangsters Are Running This World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/shutterstock_9953784dn.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/queen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_queen\" data-tag=\"queen\">Queen<\/a> drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/roger-taylor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roger-taylor\" data-tag=\"roger-taylor\">Roger Taylor<\/a> apparently has some issues with today\u2019s political leaders. The musician has released a new single, \u201cGangsters Are Running This World,\u201d which offers a commentary on the state of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Released via Queen\u2019s official YouTube channel, the piano-driven single recounts the anxiety caused by current affairs. Taylor sings, \u201cThere\u2019s blood in the streets\/panic in the air\/the markets are trading up\/in madness and fear.\u201d It\u2019s not all gloom and doom, as the musician lists some of the things that keep us going, singing, \u201cWe all need a reason\/To be alive with wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queen is heading out on the <em>Rhapsody<\/em> tour across North America with Adam Lambert on vocals this summer. The tour kicks off July 10 at Vancouver\u2019s Rogers Arena and wraps up on August 23 at Charlotte\u2019s Spectrum Centre. Tickets are currently on sale. ABC will premiere a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/queen-adam-lambert-the-show-must-go-on-documentary-800193\/\">documentary film<\/a> on the group, <em>The Show Must Go On: The Queen &amp; Adam Lambert Story,<\/em> on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>The band has been back in the spotlight since the success of <em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>, which traced the band\u2019s early years with Freddie Mercury. The film won four Academy Awards, including Rami Malek for Best Actor, Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing, and was nominated for Best Picture. Queen is reportedly working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bohemian-rhapsody-sequels-queen-806651\/\">sequel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-roger-taylor-political-single-gangsters-are-running-this-world-817048\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen drummer Roger Taylor apparently has some issues with today\u2019s political leaders. The musician has released a new single, \u201cGangsters Are Running This World,\u201d which offers a commentary on the state of the world. Released via Queen\u2019s official YouTube channel, the piano-driven single recounts the anxiety caused by current affairs. Taylor sings, \u201cThere\u2019s blood in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 12:50:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}