Queen in studio....?

Hiwatt! :D

Beautiful one! Great to see a new picture of these guys!
Cheers!

Fantastic photo ! Please post more if they are available !!

I'd say this is a rehearsal in 1979. This can't be a recording session since nothing is mic'd, and that isn't a kit Roger would willingly use, is it? It looks like they're just using whatever the studio has available.

The drumkit has microphones on it, and they'd all be a bit close to need it amplified unless they are being wanky. I should imagine it's a demo session or early tour rehearsal as johns amps are that side of the kit, i imagine brians are in place out of shot and no mike stand for john.Did he sing on the Crazy tour?

This is one of Brian Zellis' photos of the band at work at Musicland Studios in 1979.
It is most likely song rehearsals before a studio session for The Game.

I'd guess that's the Boogie Brian used to record the CLTCL solo.

From the white binding I'd guess Freddie is holding a Les Paul.

Brain has serious pair bell bottom pants on. So I'd say 1979 at latest. Then again, Brian was never as fashion savy as Roger or Freddie so this could be 1985 for all we know. (J/K). Looking at Freddie's guitar, the neck & headstock resemble a Les Paul but the body below is right arm looks to thick, my first thought was its an acoustic. I tride to enlarge the photo in hopes of reading a date on the newspaper. However, it was way too grainy.
Great picture regardless! Thank You!

Yeah - even googled the advert on the paper :o)

Theres a newspaper on top of the amp, maybe someone could blow the pic up and get date from newspaper?...BTW - great photo, never seen it before, Thank's

I strongly doubt there is enough resolution/data on that image to get a date from the newspaper. I did try briefly to match that boombox in the ad to a model that could be dated though. I found a very similar model in the Panasonic RX-1740 and 1750 that while not a perfect match is possibly the product line. I found an ad dated late 1981 and a vintage of 1982 for a 1740, so it's doubtful this came from very long before that. It was the golden age of boomboxes and development and change was extremely rapid in those years. The ad could be a Sanyo ad though too. Hard to decipher the presumable branding near the bottom of the ad. That pull tab on the coke can would have been more helpful in North America. Big companies like Coke got rid of them much earlier here. Final observation is the vast difference between Brian's huge bell bottoms and Roger's straight leg denims. Clearly still a fashion transition period, or Brian was just extremely uncool!

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[b]MercuryArts wrote: [/b] Looking at Freddie's guitar, the neck & headstock resemble a Les Paul but the body below is right arm looks to thick, my first thought was its an acoustic. [/QUOTE]
Good eye!  I didn't even look below his right arm, definitely an acoustic.

[QUOTE] [b]ploughman wrote:[/b]
Brian is with Acoustic guitar and Freddie is showing something to John...[/QUOTE]
and roger is sleeping! ;-)
behind roger is a mesa boogie amp used by brian to record crazy little thing ... I also think this photo is related to a few sessions of this song in the late 79 ...

Sent to me by Jobby and 'nicked from my Facebook page!

What Brian (Jobby) said when he sent it to me...

Do you mind if I ask when and where it was taken?

6 August at 21:45 · Like.

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I think it was in Munich, can't say when but it was song rehearsals before a studio session at Musicland I think so shouldn't be hard to work out.
6 August at 21:53 · Like.

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there was a cassette player recording most of the time, could be some "interesting" stuff on them if they survived.

Its a great picture, worst thing is.. there is someone there with a camera who has no doubt taken LOTS of pictures from the time.

I want them all and I want them now.