The record’s first timely single Come on Summer (It’s Party Time) featuring the Ndlovu Youth Choir, famous for the Zulu version of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Meanwhile, the full track listing is as follows: A Beautiful World – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir, Violence Insane, What Really Matters, Don’t Photograph Food, I See You Now, Chump, Spit In His Eye, Jealous Guy (cover), Come On Summer (It’s Party Time) – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir and A Great Big Beautiful World (reprise) – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir.
If that wasn’t enough, the Queen drummer is heading back on a UK tour this September with the following dates: Newcastle O2 City Hall (21st), Edinburgh Usher Hall (22nd), Birmingham The Alexandra (24th), Manchester Opera House (25th), London Roundhouse (28th) and Swansea Building Society Arena (29th).
On the theme of Violence Insane in a Beautiful World, Roger elaborated: “There is a theme, you know, it’s in the title really, what a beautiful world we live in, don’t f*** it up. There seems to be all this insanity at the moment. The violence in the world seems to be as bad as it ever was, at any point, and certainly in my lifetime. It’s just horrific, a lot of insane violence. And we do seem to be f***ing up the world, plastics in the sea, you know, and all these awful wars everywhere and hatred born of different religions.”
The drummer added that he intended the tone of the album to be a hopeful one: “It’s a beautiful world, you know. And kindness is very important, I think, it seems to be forgotten quite a lot. So, that is basically the sort of underlying theme.”
On embracing a plethora of sounds and styles on his new record, Roger shared: “I like the idea of eclecticism. I like the idea of different things, you know? I mean, the great example being the Beatles. I always thought that their albums were very eclectic, especially the later albums from Revolver onwards. You never knew what the next track was going to be, and it was totally different to the track before it. We always tried to do that in Queen. We tried to make a lot of different things and fearlessly tread where no sane man would. Yeah, I think people are really going to like the surreal stuff.”
Violence Insane in a Beautiful World can be pre-ordered here – doing so allows first access to tickets for Roger Taylor’s 2026 UK Tour.