Not long Till Hammersmith Now !

[QUOTE] [b]philip storey wrote:[/b]
Can you imagine Brian and Roger telling the record company that they were losing the Queen name.It would be finacial suicide and Queen are a registered company ,which John gets his slice of the pie.[/QUOTE]

Universal didn't sign Queen because they were seen as an active recording band capable of selling millions of new albums, and they sure as hell didn't get any say on the concert profits. Universal (and John) get their share regardless of what happens on stage.

Brian and Roger are wealthy enough to make even a non-profit tour if they were only interested in playing live, but it's not enough for them. They need to have the huge crowds.

The sad (or good?) thing here is that in the UK they could just as easily have sold the Hammersmith shows as "Brian and Roger", but they were already committed to playing with Adam Lambert. Maybe next time they'll do a theatre tour all by themselves, and leave out the guest vocalists and the Queen name.

I have a great image in my head of them playing as 'Rog and Bri' like Chas N Dave, sat around the piano in flat caps.

I'm very ngative about the way the legacy has been treated, but to be honest I took the plunge and now the tickets have turned up I'm excited. I wouldn't have bothered if it was, say, at Brixton Academy. The history of 'Queen' at Hammersmith is massive and I want to see that, even if I am 35 years too late. My kids will still think it's cool when we sit down to watch Hammersmith '75 and I can say I saw something 'similar' :o)

Indeed. Not long now.

My Hammersmith ticket receipt arrived in yesterday's mail. It says "QUEEN - Hammersmith" July 14th.

By this same time next month all of the concerts will already be over - but the discussion will go on and on!