slithybill
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Queen rigger interview
Link to a nice article from earlier this year about Michael Wiesman, one of Queen's roadies: http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/my_life_touring_with_queen_the.html Nice story: --> At one point during Qu...
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RSD Black Friday - Roger Taylor - Journey's End (10'')
It's available to buy from Omnivore again. Ordered a copy today.
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Real Queen fact? Somebody owns it?
http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/WB.htm According to that site Elektra never released a quadraphonic version of any Queen album.
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sparks influence queen?
This is from an interview with Joe Elliott in Guitar International magazine earlier this year. http://guitarinternational.com/2014/05/06/joe-elliott-n-outz-colorizing-mott-hoople-songs-adventures-cd/ Robert Cavuto: I...
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Identify picture .. ?
I tried looking for info on the history of arenas that had Michelob/Anheuser-Busch "pouring rights" but can't find any sites devoted to that. It's interesting that the sound and lighting consoles are off to the sides....
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The Queen Fanthology - Chapter Ten: Flash Gordon
Samples of Howard Blake's orchestral score can be streamed on his site: http://www.howardblake.com/music/Film-TV-Scores/524/FLASH-GORDON.htm A number of the tracks "Contain themes from 'Flash Gordon' by Queen." Tracks...
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The Queen Fanthology - Chapter Two: Queen II
The March of the Black Queen is the only song on the album that is credited to being produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker AND Robin Cable. Cable and Queen produced Nevermore and FHLI, while Baker and Queen produced...
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The Queen Fanthology - Chapter Ten: Flash Gordon
Thanks! I'm looking forward to reading Flash and rereading the others!
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Queen - Radio Airplay World Wide
PrimeJiveUSA's list is pretty much the same for me in the midwest. One thing to note: I cannot recall ever hearing a solo track played on US radio (unless it was part of a special program).
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Relationships between Queen memebers/
Has John been mentioned by Roger or Brian on stage during this tour? I assume his picture has been shown during some of the montages, but has he been singled out by name at all?
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Open Your Heart, Look, Touch, and Feel
That was simply magnificent. Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it with us.
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Queen, and the Lisa Marie........
According to this 2005 interview http://www.popentertainment.com/lisamariepresley.htm she probably gave Freddie the scarf at the Forum in 1978. What was the first rock show you saw? Probably Queen. I think I saw them...
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IWTBF Making Of
Managed to finally watch the episode on vh1.com but they only talked about Radio GaGa. The discussion of IWTBF must be on the DVD as it includes the full videos of IWTBF and RGG plus longer interview segments in the b...
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Did Queen lose the States, because they 'lost' Freddie?
Thanks for the chart stats. I hadn't looked at them in that light before. I've read different dates of when Paul Prenter was Freddie's personal manager. I can't recall if I've ever seen any "official" timeline though.
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IWTBF Making Of
It's got to be from a 2010 VH1 series called "The Music Video Exposed." http://www.vh1.com/shows/the_music_video_exposed/series.jhtml The VH1 website says full episodes can be viewed but I can't get it to load. Russel...
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Did Queen lose the States, because they 'lost' Freddie?
Here's the article from USA Today dated March 26, 1984.
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Did Queen lose the States, because they 'lost' Freddie?
The Real Wizard wrote: slithybill wrote: Add in the backlash over the video and the payola scandal and they abandon all plans for a US tour. And realizing that Prenter had burned their radio bridges one by one. This r...
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Did Queen lose the States, because they 'lost' Freddie?
The Real Wizard wrote: slithybill wrote: Add in the backlash over the video and the payola scandal and they abandon all plans for a US tour. And realizing that Prenter had burned their radio bridges one by one. This r...
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Did Queen lose the States, because they 'lost' Freddie?
I did find a clipping (in my "archives") from USA Today on March 26, 1984: USA Today wrote: As for touring, Queen doesn't plan to hit the road again until the fall, preferring to test public response to the new album...
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Did Queen lose the States, because they 'lost' Freddie?
Vocal harmony wrote: I really wish I still had that tape. The BM was talking about the staging, setlist and proposed dates it sounded like they wer very close to announcing something. Yeah being a fly on the wall woul...