After Queen finished their 1986 Magic Tour, Taylor started a new band, The Cross, which released three albums over their six years of existence. In 1993 the band split up, after performing one final gig at the Gosport Festival.
In 1994 Taylor worked with Yoshiki, drummer and pianist of X Japan and released the song “Foreign Sand” and a reworking of The Cross’s “Final Destination”. The albumHappiness? was “Dedicated to the tasmanian tiger – thylacinus cynocephalus, but most especially… for Freddie”. “Nazis 1994” from this album became Taylor’s first hit single in England and was followed by two other top 40 UK hits, “Happiness” and “Foreign Sand.”
In 1998 he released his fourth solo album Electric Fire. He supported it with a small tour in the spring of 1999, on which Brian May joined him at the gig in Wolverhampton. Taylor also performed one of the first Internet-gigs – for which he got a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.