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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FREDDIE-MERCURY-QUEEN-LARRY-LUREX-GENUINE-WHITE-LABEL_W0QQitemZ4864795944QQcategoryZ27422QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm not that knowledgable in the subject of rare queen records but I think I remember someone saying the above item was nearly impossible to find as only a few were pressed. I also remember someone saying there were a lot of fakes of this on ebay but peter hince is mentioned in the item description and it may be legitimate. Also, on checking the seller's feedback, he/she seems to have been selling certain iterms that are available from peter hince's photography business website.

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'The B side has a standard EMI test pressing tone for approx 2 minutes, but does not have the B side ‘Going Back’ that was on the released record.'

All fakes I know of are two-sided. This suggests that this test press could well be genuine.
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
Wasn't LL1 the catalogue number of one of the bootleg re-releases? I would expect a test pressing of the original to have the original EMI2036 (?) catalogue number. Maybe this is a test pressing for the bootleg....?

Plus, wasn't the Larry Lurex name a late addition to the project?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Thanks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Plus, wasn't the Larry Lurex name a late addition to the project?[/QUOTE]

That's certainly correct. The original track was to be released by Larry Lurex and The Voles From Venus.

However, 'IF' the Ratty connection 'IS' correct, I would suspect that his copy would not be a bootleg - surely?
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]John S Stuart wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Thanks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Plus, wasn't the Larry Lurex name a late addition to the project?[/QUOTE]

That's certainly correct. The original track was to be released by Larry Lurex and The Voles From Venus.
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Okay, I know how the name Larry Lurex came around, but what about The Voles From Venus?

Is that a parody of The Spiders From Mars? (as in Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars)
We can only grow the way the wind blows On a bare and weathered shore We can only bow to the here and now In our elemental war - Rush, "The Way The Wind Blows"
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]me_and_my_innuendo wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]John S Stuart wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Thanks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Plus, wasn't the Larry Lurex name a late addition to the project?[/QUOTE]

That's certainly correct. The original track was to be released by Larry Lurex and The Voles From Venus.
[/QUOTE]

Okay, I know how the name Larry Lurex came around, but what about The Voles From Venus?

Is that a parody of The Spiders From Mars? (as in Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars)[/QUOTE]

I guess so.

Ziggy Stardust was originally release by RCA, June 6 1972.
Larry Lurex was originally released just over one year later by EMI, 29 June 1973.

You can view a copy of the 'Voles From Venus' acetate here:
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=317674
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
I wonder what the matrix number on the acetate is....

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