^^^ seems like Scheffelhalle / SINGEN will be the place. Gigs from UFO,Scorpions, Canned Heat and Status Quo are confirmed by a witness. ( postet on a german Status Quo forum)
Capacity maybe varies up to 900.
And it´s logic:) The Sheer heart attack Tour was about to end - so their pockets were full with greens - and the swiss border is just a couple of miles away :)
I know it's a real stab-in-the-dark, but I have contacted the PR team at the Deutsche National Bibliothek to see if they can point me in the right direction regarding research of this. I'm not expecting an answer, but even if they could pass the query on to a kind librarian who could look it up on film, that would be awesome. I've given the date and the two possible venues, so if there's any newspaper reports to reference the show, then bingo. Even better if they can provide screenshots lol :)
^ I'm not sure I can take their word for it, tbh, given that some of the printed material is already wrong. Not a diss in any way to them, btw, but it is true.
I am still waiting for a response from the "Scheffelhalle-blogger", well maybe over the weekend.
I will provide some more information about german venues of those days.
On the 4th of December 74 QUEEN played in Frankfurts "Palmengarten" NOT in the "Jahrhunderthalle" or "Festhalle" Its confirmed by a Frankfurt Newspaper. - the other act that night "Lynyrd Skynyrd".
I found soft evidence that the show has taken place in SINGEN ( Lake Constance / Bodensee). It was a discussion on the german fan board. Someone was uploading a report by the famous german youth magazine "BRAVO". The article mentioned "SINGEN"...
The board had some technical problems with older links so I can`t read them or download them but the reaction of the following post let me think that this is true, and SINGEN ( Lake Constance / Bodensee ) can be seen as "confirmed"
"Scheffelhalle" is still in question....but the " Stadthalle " can be ruled out because it was build in 2007
Maybe it`s my browser..someone can check this link ?
It seems like those (now) broken links once leads to old"BRAVO" reports/photo - because they named
"Bravo1974-02klein"
The reaction by a user called "MELBLUES" at the bottom of the page
"Thanks Eliza, according to your photo it was Singen, even if it's strange to my mind..."
That board is still under protection by proper mods...
No Trolls on Queenfcg.de ,so I think this is true and show was in SINGEN ( Lake Constance). It would be nice to have that final evidence... I am still investigating on that thing.
^ no word from dnb as of yet unfortunately. Like I say, I'm not expecting to hear from them, but it would be nice if someone there looked it up. Would take literally 5 mins of their time.
The Scheffelhalle ( SINGEN) blogger answerd my mail - he didn`t know anything about a Queen Gig, but confirmed some other 70`s bands ....
The city archiv(SINGEN) told me that on the 7th of December a classical music artist from Freiburg appeared....and that I should tune my search into "SIEGEN" ( central Germany)
"...wir müssen Sie, leider enttäuschen. Am 7. Dezember 1974 fand in Singen
nur ein Kammerkonzert Freiburger Barocksolisten statt. Ihre Suche müssen
Sie vielleicht doch Richtung Siegen verlegen. "
I already made contact to "SIEGEN" city archiv...waiting for a response...
The Deutsche National Bibliothek got back to me regarding this, but it's not the best of news. Firstly, I have to say that they were very professional and friendly, and the PR dept quickly put me on to the relevant people - however, they anticipate that it would be "time-consuming" task of research and therefore chargeable at £10 per 15 minutes, even if unsuccessful. The necessary newspapers are not all available at DNB, and so they might have to contact the libraries of the two cities concerned, and extend the search to libraries in Leipzig, Dortmund and so on. They have a number of music magazines, but it is not guaranteed that coverage of the show would be available.
I have been provided with links to all of the major libraries in Gerrmay who MAY have the correct 'papers, however they'd likely charge as well. Not that I'm a skinflint, but I'm not really willing to pay £40 upwards for this information.
^Oh, that`s ok....I am still waiting for an answer from the "SIEGEN" city archiv...if they diidn`t answer by the end of this week, I will contact them again...maybe they just forget about it.
