Roger Taylor of Queen fame has released the single “I See You Now” off his forthcoming album, “Violence Insane In A Beautiful World,” due Sept. 18th from Columbia.
“It’s a love song, it’s really about my wife,” Taylor said. “We’ve been together for quite some time, and I think when you really get to know someone, at first you really don’t see everything about them, but when you really get to know someone, it’s ‘Oh, I see you now, that’s it.”
Listen to ‘I See You Now’ here
“Violence Insane In A Beautiful World” is Taylor’s seventh album in a solo career stretching back to 1977 and is his first since 2021’s OUTSIDER. To celebrate the release of the new record, Roger will be going on the road in the UK for what will be his only UK shows in 2026.
While not a concept record, “Violence Insane In A Beautiful World” does have an overarching theme.
“There is a theme, you know, it’s in the title really, what a beautiful world we live in, don’t fuck it up,” he said. “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.”
While Roger was finishing the artwork for the album, there was a cosmic coincidence: Artemis II, on its mission to the dark side of the Moon, also photographed Earth from a distance. The report from the Queen fans at NASA in Houston about the sleeve is that “everyone liked it and thought it was definitely kismet.”
The Violence Insane In A Beautiful World tour, Taylor’s only UK dates of the year, opens in Newcastle on September 21st, and fans who pre-order the album will receive exclusive first access to tickets. Taylor’s band will then visit Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Swansea, and the legendary Roundhouse in London, where Roger has performed before, as a guest of Foo Fighters, back in 2011.
Violence Insane In A Beautiful World Tracklist
1. A Beautiful World – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir
2. Violence Insane
3. What Really Matters
4. Don’t Photograph Food
5. I See You Now
6. Chump
7. Spit In His Eye
8. Jealous Guy*
9. Come On Summer (It’s Party Time) – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir
10. A Great Big Beautiful World (reprise) – Feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir
11. Produced by Roger Taylor & Joshua J. Macrae
All songs written by Roger Taylor except *John Lennon
VIOLENCE INSANE IN A BEAUTIFUL WORLD TOUR
Sept. 21st Newcastle O2 City Hall
22nd Edinburgh Usher Hall
24th Birmingham The Alexandra
25th Manchester Opera House
28th London Roundhouse
29th Swansea Building Society Arena