Queen's Roger Taylor & Brian May recall chances to jump ship to bigger bands
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Queen spent the first few years of its career struggling for even a modicum of acclaim. But that didn't mean that co-founders Brian May and Roger Taylor did turn the heads of other U.K. musicians.
Both May and Taylor had chances to cut bait and join bigger bands, they say.
Speaking with Classic Rock magazine, the Queen long-haulers recalled a pair of occasions where they took stock in their young careers and ultimately recommitted to the band they were building.
Taylor was not-so-subtly recruited by Genesis not long after Queen started. A few years later, May was given a blunt pitch by a band called Sparks.