We're looking for photographs of Queen in a radio situation

[QUOTE] [b]Kevinrm15 wrote:[/b]

Allow me to clear this up on Greg's behalf. Hyde Park WILL be released, but not this year.[/QUOTE]

If not this year then when, do you have any more info on this Kevinrm15?

For those who say be patient I think waiting forty years IS being patient in anybody's book!

A release in 2076 to celebrate the 100th anniversary is not going to be much use to most people on this board!

Both Hyde Park gig and Man in The Shadows album will be send individually to Queen fans as a "post-mortem" gift. Of course they will require the death certificate provided by the family of the fan.

Good luck with the Queen on Air project, guys ! I hope RT + BM won't say "no" to some of your suggestions.

Where is he now?

why is 99% of queenzone overdramatic? his job is archivist - not PR man. he only responds with dry quips when someone here decides to insult him for simply asking a question.

he doesn't need to answer questions about upcoming releases... in the business world, that's privileged information. ie.confidential

i'm happy to hear we're getting, what i expect to be the complete BBC sessions - and I imagine some interesting interview bits will be included in the package somewhere

There are several QPL employees that have interacted with QZ that are much more professional (and much less douchy) than Greg Brooks. Unfortunately my memory sucks. I think Justin Shirley Smith has been civil and helpful here.

edit ... I forgot GaryTaylor

Can anyone else recall any other classy and profesional QPL employees that do not piss on QZ?

[QUOTE] [b]que.123 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Kevinrm15 wrote:[/b]

Allow me to clear this up on Greg's behalf. Hyde Park WILL be released, but not this year.[/QUOTE]

If not this year then when, do you have any more info on this Kevinrm15?

For those who say be patient I think waiting forty years IS being patient in anybody's book!

A release in 2076 to celebrate the 100th anniversary is not going to be much use to most people on this board!

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I don't know when, but will be released one day

Why the negativism? The Queen Archivist is an employee, his bosses asked him to look info to release the BBC Sessions. Is not up to him what is released and what not.

Is always good news to hear new live material will be released, and those BBC recordings are almost unknown outside the hardcore fanbase. As a personal preference i'd like to see Earl's Court and Hammersmith '79 released, but that's something for the chiefs of Queen Productions.

I don`t know if you are aware of this one. It`s labeled with 1981

Don`t think it`s useful as it also contains f+cking Prenter :)

[QUOTE] [b]Doga wrote:[/b]

Why the negativism? The Queen Archivist is an employee, his bosses asked him to look info to release the BBC Sessions. Is not up to him what is released and what not.

Is always good news to hear new live material will be released, and those BBC recordings are almost unknown outside the hardcore fanbase. As a personal preference i'd like to see Earl's Court and Hammersmith '79 released, but that's something for the chiefs of Queen Productions.[/QUOTE]

as someone else already pointed out - GB could be less of a cock about things. he comes here asking queen fans to do half of HIS work for him, and what does HE ever offer in return?
1] misinformation about what they actually have in the archives - which is strange as HE is the archivist
2] blankness and unwillingness to ever answer simple questions

his arrogance and contempt for queen fans is insulting.

as for the "hardcore fanbase" comment - I owned a C90 cassette back in the mid-late 80s with several session on, and these were readily available at record fairs. i think (maybe) ALL of the six sessions have been long-shared on here and throughout the web since my time on here...coming up 13 years....so it's not just hardcore fans that will have them

I don't see this possible release as something COMPLETELY negative, but I can't deny I would have preferred something else.

Just help the man find what he needs. He's just doing his job, and Who knows, this new project could be worthwhile. We'll get our Hyde Park, just have some patience.

I was rather annoyed too at the message saying "as you probably know by now..."

No - no we don't. Brian mentioned in a recent fan club letter (not a public post) that the team were working on the band's early BBC sessions. Nothing in that to intimate that this would be a wider project covering anything either outside the BBC or those specific 'early' sessions, or possibly to include interviews, photo sessions etc...

The fact that QPL have been posting lots of different interviews on the official YT page might've been a hint that interviews have been being sorted through recently...

Whilst I have no photos myself, I do recall that Brian and Roger were in my home town of Whitstable, Kent on a Sunday in summer 2002 for an interview at the local radio station (Heart FM, though it may have still been Invicta Radio then) because I remember it clashing with my daughter's christening (it may possibly have also been an England vs Argentina World Cup match that day too)

I have a friend who's brother worked at the BBC in the late 70's.
I have pics of the band arriving and setting up for NOTW sessions. I think T Vance first broadcast them, then J Peel. Can't tell the location and I haven't scanned them.
However, I will NEVER share with G Brookes because he is a fucking joke of an archivist and a total fucking liar re a song written "about" him by Tori Amos.
Details available should anyone require them.

I posted this last year...

"The official Queen Podcasts started well with 2 podcasts covering an interesting interview with Roger Taylor.

However, the third was an interview with Greg Brooks that told us nothing new about his job as archivist but confirmed a few things we suspected about his personality.

As we have seen on this forum, his own self-importance shines through.

Firstly, even before the interview proper had started he has to get in that he is abused by Queen fans and has even had death threats.

20% of a 29 minute interview is then given over to non-Queen related personal interests, grudges and self-aggrandisement.

A passing reference to 'Greg' in a Tori Amos song becomes 'a song about him'. Not one he likes to talk about you understand but nevertheless he tells the non-story on a podcast!

What the crikey this has to do with Queen is baffling but it seems he wants us to know that he is so influential and important that stars write songs "about" him.

The line in 'Pretty Good Year" is...
"And Greg he writes letters
And burns his CDs"

In fact he goes on to say that it was written after he met her (following a piece he had a part in writing about her) when he mentioned his CD collection.

Well, this doesn't appear to tally up with Tori Amos's account. Tori herself is quoted as saying....

"I got a letter from a guy named Greg. He's a fan, and this letter just happened to get to me, because a lot of times I don't get them. But he's from the north of England and he drew this picture, a self-portrait of himself. It was a pencil drawing and Greg had glasses and long hair and he was really, really skinny. He had this drooping flower in his hand. And he wrote to me this letter that touched me to the core about how at twenty-three, it was all over for him. In his mind, there was nothing. I was just telling Greg's story.

-Tori Amos - -from the book In Their Own Words:Songwriters Talk About The Creative Process written/compiled by Bill DeMain.

Sound like the Greg we know? Skinny? Mmmm, maybe once?

How about this....

"Like Pretty Good Year, for example, I got a letter from a guy named Greg in England. This one got to me - it missed getting to me for, like, three months. And I took this letter, and I opened my bag two days later, and I read it. It was a picture of - he had drawn himself. It was a pencil drawing. Greg has kind of scrawny hair and glasses, and he's very skinny and he held this great big flower. Greg is 23, lives in the north of England, and his life is over, in his mind. "

[Tori Amos, Hot Press, 02/32/94]

Mmmm.

Another eye opener is his pop at an old co-worker. Apparently he worked for Jeff Wayne (War Of The Worlds) for a while. A new guy started working for Jeff and he and Greg didn't get on (I wonder why?).

So Greg launches into a diatribe about this guy calling him "an idiot" when the guy isn't there to tell his side of the story. i wonder what adjectives he'd use to describe Greg?
This, by the way happened about 10 years ago and he still feels the need to have a pop about a workplace disagreement a decade later.

Apparently Greg and Jeff no longer talk to each other. "

If you hate Greg Brooks what a hell you're asking something him?