I had this idea of programming a new feature for the visitors of my website but then I realized I could in the same time also provide help to the QueenZone community. Info about recordings should be very closely connected to other information about concerts. Some people come here to download and want to know WHAT they're downloading while others come to my site to find out something about their favourite concert and they'd love to know if it's available for download. So I have created (with Richard's permission - or at least he didn't protest, lol :-) a list of all downloads which are available on QueenZone (actually mostly it's QueenZone, in some cases it may also be a direct link to mediafire, rapidshare or youtube). It's available here:
http://www.queenconcerts.com/collection/downloads.html
Info about each download is also available in the detail of each concert - see an example here:
[url=http://www.queenconcerts.com/detail/live/700/queen-live-09-08-1986-knebworth-park-stevenage-uk.html]http://www.queenconcerts.com/detail/live/700/queen-live-09-08-1986-knebworth-park-stevenage-uk.html[/url]
- The list includes everything - audio and video, Queen, solo recordings and QPR, even some TV and guest appearances. It will be kept updated, hopefully with help of ruth.olivier who kindly offered his helping hand :-)
- I tried to test all links on file-sharing servers and avoided the dead ones. Obviously that is not possible for torrents - PLEASE keep them alive as long as you can. One day the others will do the same for you.
- The main source is mediafire or rapidshare with FLAC (where possible), then torrent with FLAC and only in the worst case I kept a link to MP3 files - it's still better than nothing at all. But I have accepted the rules of QueenZone and I definitely don't link to MP3 files where a lossless source is available.
- I didn't include links to clearly worse versions (high generation tapes etc.) but I did include links to alternative high-quality sources where available.
- It's very likely I didn't find all the links (although I tried really hard!). The search function doesn't work very well and the mighty uncle Google is not almighty :-) Please feel free to submit unlisted links via the form on my website.
[b]Special thanks[/b] go to all people who upload or keep the torrents alive (mainly Ginger01, YourValentine, ruth.olivier, bokkepot and others), to people who remaster and compile recordings from more sources (pittrek, Sir_GH), to Richard whose idea to create a sharing forum was very smart, to Alex Solan whose artwork is unbeatable but above all to the [b]TAPERS[/b] - without them we'd have nothing!
Mr. Scully