ANNOUNCE: Freddie Mercury Garden Lodge Tapes

OK, seriously - WTF ?

The download link leads to an EXE file ? Is your Christmas present a nice virus or something ?
I tried the magnet link, and NOTHING happens . HOW should I download it ?

I of course HAVE uTorrent installed

pittrek wrote: OK, seriously - WTF ?

The download link leads to an EXE file ? Is your Christmas present a nice virus or something ?
I tried the magnet link, and NOTHING happens .HOW should I download it ?

I of course HAVE uTorrent installed

i have the same problem. did someone actually managed to download it? i hope someone can make a NORMAL torrent

TRS-Romania wrote: Magnet URL (I copied it from Utorrent, not sure if this is of any help)

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:AC616AAB7C3DEADDA662EEAE2AD2D52B7F14181C&dn=freddie&tr=http%3a//tracker.queenzone.com%3a6969/announce

More pertinently, can you upload screengrabs of your tapes?

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IGNORE THIS TORRENT TRACKER. THE CORRECT ONE IS ON PAGE 2
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Can someone who downloaded the torrent (option 3 !) to confirm that the torrent links to 4 folders (named Part1, Part2, Part3 Part4 , and in each folder there is an AVI file of around 700+ MB). If so, the torrent should be perfectly OK. If for some reason the torrent only shows one folder or one AVI file. let me know!

This should be a fully working standard torrent file (I removed the old one where I seeded already 18GB)

There should be 4 folders (part1, part 2, part 3, part4) each holding one AVI file of around 700 MB

@pittrek,

Does it work now? And does it show the 4 folders (with the 4 AVI files?)

Thank you for this super rare footage :)

abercjusz1 wrote: Thank you for this super rare footage :)

You're welcome. Consider it my present for Queens 40th anniversary! Again, I need to stress that this really VGA quality, and sometimes even very grainy, as the footage was shot at night (Christmas 1989) without too much light. But it does give you some insight into the life of Freddie Mercury and there are some lovely snippets which we can all cherish.

If someone can improve the quality of the footage, or to re-do the video files into one file, that would be appriciated. The 4 AVI files I have were taken directly from a Betamax tape (where the original video tapes were transfered to).

Meanwhile below the screenshot from my Utorrent program showing that it is seeding to many users already.

http://i39.tinypic.com/ev9dgn.jpg

The last torrent IS WORKING ! Thanks !

pittrek wrote: The last torrent IS WORKING ! Thanks !

Ok, I am glad to hear this!

it's working. thanks a lot

To give some more insight on the contents

Part1

Christmas 1989  Tour through Garden Lodge  / Tour through The Mews
Short conversation with Joe
Unpacking of the presents (grainy footoage)
The next morning (Kitchen scene with Trevor BB Clarke)

Part 2

In the Kitchen (Joe with Jim Hutton figuring out his present)
Playing with the cats in the livingroom
More footage of Garden Lodge

Part III

I am going slightly Mad behind the scenes
Bath Scene Garden Lodge (full version)
Jim working in the garden
Joe and Terry in the kitchen
Footage of Tiffany (the cat) in the garden

Part IV

New York daughters visiting Freddie (garden scene)
Freddie signing autographs (in Garden Lodge) with New York Daughters
Christmas train table in Garden Lodge (I am guessing 1991)
Mary Austin + son footage in Switzerland (Freddie was there as well) 1990
Freddie making a short phone call 1990 in Switzerland (background voice only)
In the plane back to London (Mary + husband / Terry + wife and Luke -son)
November 1991 (> 24th) footage of flowers brought to Garden Lodge after the death of Freddie
Footage of Freddie's garden 1991-1992 including Koi fish

works well , thanks for posting friend!!