Queen sign new deal with Universal

Queen and Universal Music Group have renewed their partnership with a long-term deal covering a range of new projects from the band including rare and unreleased material and a film.

The new Universal deal, which covers the world outside North America, comes three years after Queen first signed with UMG - when they left their long-term deal with Parlophone/EMI.

That move saw the band release music through Island Records for the first time in their history and signalled the start of a major re-mastering and repackaging programme, providing live tracks, alternative takes and other additional content for Queen’s 15 studio albums.

The new agreement was announced at today’s launch of Queen: The Studio Experience, a major new Queen exhibition in Montreux, Switzerland. Brian May and Roger Taylor were in Montreux to officiate the opening.

The exhibition provides a unique behind the scenes glimpse into the band’s recording life during the years spent working at the Swiss town’s Mountain Studios where, between 1979 and 1995, Queen created six albums, including Jazz and Made In Heaven.

The exhibition aims to raise awareness and funds for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the AIDS charity set up by Queen and their manager Jim Beach immediately after frontman Freddie Mercury’s tragic death from AIDS in 1991.

In 2011 the band and Universal celebrated Queen’s 40th anniversary with a major marketing campaign and a series of high profile events, including the Stormtroopers in Stilettos exhibition staged in London in February 2011 and a major BBC TV documentary on the band.

Max Hole, Chairman and Chief Executive of Universal Music Group International said: “We have loved working with Queen over last three years. Queen remains one of the biggest, boldest and most influential bands in the world. The band and Universal Music have lots of ambitious plans for the future”.

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor said: ‘’We have also enjoyed working with Universal. In spite of being the biggest music company in the world they succeed in retaining a very hands-on personal relationship with their artists, something we much appreciate’’.

Supporting the Mercury Phoenix Trust, fighting AIDS worldwide, and sponsored by the Fondation Barrière, Queen: The Studio Experience features memorabilia from the recording studio and the band’s personal archives, including original handwritten song lyrics, costumes and instruments, together with a small cinema. The centre-piece of the exhibition is the studio control room, still in its original state, where visitors will be able to create their own mixes of selected Queen tracks including Freddie Mercury’s last recorded vocal, Mother Love.

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"The band and Universal Music have lots of ambitious plans for the future”


So, can we say that new compilations and re-releases are on the way?

Ok, just kidding...

So does this mean they're remaining with Hollywood Records for North American releases?

[QUOTE] [b]rhapsody8 wrote:[/b]

"The band and Universal Music have lots of ambitious plans for the future”


So, can we say that new compilations and re-releases are on the way?

Ok, just kidding...[/QUOTE]

Sadly, that's probably no joke.

Double theme.

Can't wait for the 40th Anniversary ANATO, including a newly commisioned photographic montage of the bandmembers with their family and friends set to Good Company. Or maybe they will finally get it right and put out a 40th ANATO with:

- 2x 45RPM vinyl
- CD
- CD Hammersmith
- DVD Classic Albums ANATO
- BluRay 5.1 remix
- BluRay Hammersmith
- Replica tourbook
- Replica tickets/merchandise
- Replica purple BoRhap 7"
- Disc with unreleased mixes, outtakes and demos.

[QUOTE] [b]Pim Derks wrote:[/b]

Can't wait for the 40th Anniversary ANATO, including a newly commisioned photographic montage of the bandmembers with their family and friends set to Good Company. Or maybe they will finally get it right and put out a 40th ANATO with:

- 2x 45RPM vinyl
- CD
- CD Hammersmith
- DVD Classic Albums ANATO
- BluRay 5.1 remix
- BluRay Hammersmith
- Replica tourbook
- Replica tickets/merchandise
- Replica purple BoRhap 7"
- Disc with unreleased mixes, outtakes and demos. [/QUOTE]

Good wishes I think. I think rainbow will be part of this.

No that would be part of the 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box of Sheer Heart Attack:

- 2x 45 RPM orange vinyl
- 10" picture disc with the SHA BBC session
- CD
- CD with Rainbow
- BluRay with Rainbow
- BluRay with 5.1 remix
- Replica tourbook
- Replica tickets/merchandise
- Disc with unreleased mixes, outtakes and demos
- Numbered

:D

Ovviously (I hope...) with the March gig!

Rainbow, of course

In Rainbow we trust.

I'm holding out for the new compilation ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS of QUEEN

Every first track from the studio albums featuring exclusive new edits (for cd format) and a remix of WWRY done by Pitbull featuring Kendrick Lamaar

Brighton rock will be edited down to 2:10
Innuendo will be 2:55
Party will feature two verses of khashoggis ship

The cd will run 58:02

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

I'm holding out for the new compilation ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS of QUEEN

Every first track from the studio albums featuring exclusive new edits (for cd format) and a remix of WWRY done by Pitbull featuring Kendrick Lamaar

Brighton rock will be edited down to 2:10
Innuendo will be 2:55
Party will feature two verses of khashoggis ship

The cd will run 58:02[/QUOTE]

You'll get what you want.

thanks for posting this information