News Of The World 40th Anniversary Box Set - ITS OFFICIAL!

Kevinrm15 wrote:

The new edition of Classic Rock magazine states that it will be "an elaborate collectible box set" with vinyl, CD and DVD formats. Rare versions of original album tracks, 60 page book and the documentary.

Classic Rock will only know what QPL have told them so far. Rare versions of album tracks sounds promising, but COULD simply be My Melancholy Blues live in Houston, and BBC versions of WWRY, It's Late and Spread Your Wings.

They played Sleeping on the sidewalk on the first night of the tour. i saw somewhere here in Queen zone an article that prove that, and also on Queen concerts too.

- Champions Of The World - Vodka
- Get Down Make Love - Condoms
- We Will Rock You - Vintage Earwarmers
- Spread Your Wings - Replica Tour Airline Tickets
- It's Late - $1 Replica Freddie Wrist Watch
- My Melancholy Blues - 22-second Snippet Of Houston 1977, FeaturingThe Pre-Recorded Version Of We Will Rock You Just To Tease You With What Could Have Been
- Who Needs You - Xeroxed Jim Beach Middle Finger Dedicated To All Fans

You heard it here first!

PS The "Fight From The Inside - Printed Balloons" are an unfounded rumour.

A part of me is really excited, while another part is just waiting to say "Told you so" to the first one...

DrumBrother wrote:

Sleeping on the Sidewalk live??? Not sure that ever happened.

Not with Freddie but they DID play this at "club ivar" (extinct) when they got their star on the Hollywood walk of fame. I'll always remember MISSING this and wondering if it'd be the only time I'd get to see them play (and i couldn't get in cause i was 3 weeks shy of being 21)

Angered and saddened me. I've still yet to hear a bootleg of it.

Anyways. ..the collection.



Probably 7 discs of WE WILL ROCK YOU REMIXES,
- original album
- dvd of Greg Brooks insulting you for 45 minutes (*with special audio commentary feature "Greg on Greg")
- wrapped in an original faux-NOTW newspaper.

Penetration_Guru wrote:

Bonus disc:

WWRY (Intro Tape) from Houston
WWRY (Pink/Beyoncé/Britney version)
WWRY (Musical Cast)
WWRY (Glee)
WWRY (fast version, from Live Killers)
WWRY (studio version, with extra guitars)
WWRY (instrumental)
WWRY (new version, featuring Adam Lambert)

credits
WWRY written by Brian May

You forgot John Farnham, 5ive and who was that guy, Dappy? :D

Yes, Dappy....the 8th dwarf

I for one am excited. What a fantastic album to have a Super Deluxe Edition of. I hope it's remastered by CMI

No chance about include Houston 77 or Earls Court 77, i think that both of them are to release individually...like Odeon 75 or Rainbow 74.

Kevinrm15 wrote:

on my way up wrote:

Kevinrm15 wrote:

I have a feeling we'll see My Melancholy Blues from the BBC sessions as bonus footage. And maybe some Houston 77 highlights.

Only highlights?

Greg Brooks has stated on many occasions over the last 5 years that the Houston concert will not be released in full. Just the best bits. Instead of using it on a live compilation with Hyde Park and Earls Court, they could very well use it on this box set.

Why will not be released in full?

Ok, here we have a tour featuring a great integration of of an iconic image from NOTW, ostensibly to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the same album. When the tour begins, it all goes spectacularly well, SYW GDML and Its Late all reappear much to universal delight from fans. Now, yet again Montreal shows how far such things fail to be sustained. As has been said above, the NOTW re-release will probably have snippets of this that or the other thing. I expect Houston, WATC video shoot and concert may all get a look in, but be mercilessly edited in the same ways that they did the live tracks from the last BBC release. Shame.. It now seems like a fuck with a limp dick.

seagull wrote:

I for one am excited. What a fantastic album to have a Super Deluxe Edition of. I hope it's remastered by CMI

I am holding my excitement back and dealing with a most likely impending sense of disappointment by guarding my anxiousness with sarcasm; this preventing me from feeling bad IF the release is disappointing (*which means OF COURSE i will NOT buy it)


When you expect less; you may be pleasantly surprised. When you expect more, you may be disappointed.

Great example is a free concert I was invited to;: COUNTING CROWS and WALLFLOWERS.

Friend won em phoning into a morning radio show talking about how he was harassed at a summer pool for showing up by himself (*apparently these are made JUST FOR KIDS) and he was harassed by the on duty guard.

Neither one of us wanted to go (*keep in mind it was FREE) even though the tickets weren't bad.

He asked me. I said eh. I'll think about it. But i was bored and wound up convincing him that there was a slight chance he'd meet up with a rich 40 something (it was orange county) and have fun...me...i just had nothing else to do.


It turned out being pretty great.


So. ...my shunning isn't without merit.
QPL disappoint QZ fans all the time. Every other LEGEND band has released ambitious re-releases that make someone deal out their credit card #'s in a flash like they're about to get a bj from Ornella Muti (*in her 20's)

Sorry. ..just went off on a FLASH tangent.


Just wait and see.

Couldn't be any worse than that TEABAG LOOKING SET "QUEEN ON AIR"

The art was already done 40 years ago. ...couldn't exactly fuck THAT up! ....



...could they?????

It makes perfect sense to me that they include the missing parts of the 3 concerts on the On Air live CD on this.

Good news! So you are saying there are many hours of Bob Harris footage and 4h Freddie interview alone??? So the whole documentary is like what? ...15 hours???!!!

I would watch it all in 2 days if they'd release it but sadly I can't imagine it happens.

They could release 2h official documentary in one disc and on the other discs 10h of outtakes :d but I'm afraid things will be very different.

I'd love to watch WATC video shoot concert (FULL concert) so I hope at least for this but again, I read there were only 2 cameras filming this so I don't know if they can release such an 'imperfect' video.