This cannot be serious..

Freddie's ashes are spinning. Clockwise.

omg i thought that thing had been scraped...oh well.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color = "crimson">Thomas Quinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=green>Bren<font color=orange>ski wrote: [/QUOTENAME]i think there's a few very naive people round here. licensing songs isn't the band's decision [/QUOTE]

Not true. While in MOST CASES it isn't the band but the management that decides, every band that has grown BIG does decide for themselves; you see, it all depends on how good the contract is. The bigger your band, the better your contract. Usually, you have to choose between more royalties or keeping full rights to your songs. Big bands don't have to choose, because they'll go to someone else if the record company isn't willing to give them what they want.[/QUOTE]

and therein lies the rub. not all big bands own their own music publishing rights.....many take the zillion-dollar advances against the trade-off of the record company/publishers soing what they like with ti...i am not saying this is the case with Queen (could be) - but even the beatles back catalogue was owned (until recently) by michael jackson...who bought it form lord grade (atv music)

LITTLE BASTARD! id rip its balls off if I saw it!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Angelo_ramerez wrote: [/QUOTENAME]LITTLE BASTARD! id rip its balls off if I saw it![/QUOTE]

Lmao...

mwhahahhaah

Oh, God, NO! Crazy Frog must die!

..and there was Brian saying in a very recent interview that they turn down a lot of requests from artists who want to cover Queen material.

What on earth will be the next attempt to shred any dignity from the original band? I suppose the line will be dragged out that Freddie was a huge fan of the Crazy Frog, or that he always wanted to be remembered as a ring tone, or that John Deacon approves of it, or that when Brian said "not to our song" he was misquoted by the Crazy Frog.

You know, I don't mind the Q+PR thing, but I'm just about ready to throw anything by Queen that doesn't include Freddie into the bloody bin

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]kenny8 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]..and there was Brian saying in a very recent interview that they turn down a lot of requests from artists who want to cover Queen material.

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Really? Who were these artists?

..he didn't specify who they've turned down obviously, but whoever they are they'd hardly do worse damage to the Queen name than a Crazy Frog cover version. It was in an interview prior to the US tour.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]kenny8 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Who the hell would've given the okay to that?[/QUOTE]

Greg Brooks?

Do froggies like cyanide?

here's the lyrics up to the first chorus:
(well, sort of)

ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding,
ding ding ding ding,
ding ding ding ding ding,
ding ding ding ding,
ding ding ding ding,
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!!!!

ding! ding ding ding ding ding ding ding,
ding! ding ding ding ding ding ding ding,

DING DING DING DING DING,
DING DING DING DING DING,
DING DING DING DING DING,
DING DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.s.

what a load of s**t this is!
it will probably a national anthem next... typical!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]kenny8 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]..and there was Brian saying in a very recent interview that they turn down a lot of requests from artists who want to cover Queen material.

What on earth will be the next attempt to shred any dignity from the original band? I suppose the line will be dragged out that Freddie was a huge fan of the Crazy Frog, or that he always wanted to be remembered as a ring tone, or that John Deacon approves of it, or that when Brian said "not to our song" he was misquoted by the Crazy Frog.

You know, I don't mind the Q+PR thing, but I'm just about ready to throw anything by Queen that doesn't include Freddie into the bloody bin[/QUOTE]

Great post, kenny8.

I just hope that they will record something together.

Queen + Crazy Frog - YES!!!