Strange Frontier

For the comic book series, see American Vampire: Strange Frontier.

Strange Frontier
Studio album by Roger Taylor
Released	25 June 1984
Recorded	1983–84
Studio	Musicland (Munich) Mountain Studios (Montreux)
Genre	Rock
Length	41:55
Label	Parlophone, EMI, Capitol
Producer	Roger Taylor, David Richards, Reinhold Mack
Roger Taylor chronology
Fun in Space (1981) Strange Frontier (1984) Happiness? (1994)
Singles from Strange Frontier
"Man on Fire" Released: 4 June 1984 "Strange Frontier" Released: 30 July 1984 (UK, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands and US only) "Beautiful Dreams" Released: August 1984 (Portugal only)

Strange Frontier is the second album by the English musician Roger Taylor. This album includes two covers as well as a heavier sound than the previous album. Although Taylor again played most of the instruments himself (drums, guitars, bass and keyboards) and did most of the vocals, there were some occasional cameos from producer David Richards (on synths and piano), Status Quo member Rick Parfitt (on rhythm guitar) and Queen bandmates John Deacon (on bass and mixing), Brian May (rhythm guitar on "Man on Fire") and Freddie Mercury, (who provided backing vocals on "Killing Time"). The US edition has the track order rearranged.

Multiple musical elements from the song "I Cry for You (Love, Hope and Confusion)" (the drum machine, harmonies, chord progressions and overall arrangement) had already been used for the Queen hit song "Radio Ga Ga", released earlier the same year. Many of the songs of this album were previously worked by Queen during "The Works" sessions in 1983 ("Beautiful Dreams, "Man on Fire", "Strange Frontier", "Killing time", "Abandonfire" and "I Cry for You (Love, Hope and Confusion)") , and many of the arrangement were re used, hence the similarity of sounds and styles between this solo album by Roger Taylor and the album that Queen had released in that 1984.

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Track listing

All tracks are written by Roger Taylor, except where noted

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Strange Frontier"	4:16
2.	"Beautiful Dreams"	4:23
3.	"Man on Fire"	4:05
4.	"Racing in the Street" (Bruce Springsteen)	4:28
5.	"Masters of War" (Bob Dylan)	3:51

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Killing Time"	4:58
2.	"Abandonfire" (Taylor, David Richards)	4:12
3.	"Young Love"	3:22
4.	"It's an Illusion" (Taylor, Rick Parfitt)	4:03
5.	"I Cry for You (Love, Hope and Confusion)" (Taylor, Richards)	4:16

Personnel

• Roger Taylor - vocals, drums, keyboards, bass guitar, guitars
• David Richards - keyboards
• Freddie Mercury - backing vocals on "Killing Time"
• Rick Parfitt - guitar & backing vocals on "It's an Illusion"
• John Deacon - bass guitar on "It's an Illusion"
• Brian May - rhythm guitar on "Man On Fire"

Singles

• "Man On Fire"

A-Side: "Man On Fire"
B-Side: "Killing Time"
Released on 4 June 1984.
Reached #66 in the UK Singles Chart.
Released in the UK, Japan, USA, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Australia and South Africa.

• "Strange Frontier"

A-Side: "Strange Frontier"
B-Side: "I Cry For You"
Released on 30 July 1984.
Reached #98 in the UK Singles Chart.
Released in the UK, USA, Canada and The Netherlands.

• "Beautiful Dreams"

A-Side: "Beautiful Dreams"
B-Side: "Young Love"
Released in August 1984.
Only released in Portugal.