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News from January 2001.

New Queen tribute Album Out
A new Queen tribute album called 'Queen of Rock' has been released. The album features 'electronica' artists doing Queen tunes. The track listing is as follows:

1. Who Wants To Live Forever - Innocent Blood
2. We Will Rock You - Fisherman
3. Radio Ga Ga - Transistorhythm
4. It's A Kind Of Magic - Transistorhythm (Illusion mix)
5. Another One Bites The Dust - Godeater (From Dust To Dawn mix)
6. We Are The Champions - Naked Lunch
7. It's A Hard Life - Nerve Factor
8. I Want It All - Transistorhythm
9. Under Pressure - Ratio
10. I Want To Break Free - Out Of Phase
11. Another One Bites The Dust - Phaselifter (Bite Me mix)
12. It's A Kind Of Magic - DJ Scotsman (Magic mix)
13. These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Object 69

BBC2 - Best Voice of the Century
BBC 2 are running a poll as to which popular singer had the best voice of the 20 Century. Naturally, Freddie should be king. To vote for him go to

www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/voices.shtml

Queen to star with Robbie Williams at Utah Festival? According to Clasic Rock Magazine here in the UK, Queen + maybe Robbie Williams have been asked to appear at The Rock Stock Festival. The dates for the festival are given as August 23 to 26 at the Wendover Airport in Utah. Hopefully this will be good news.

No New Brian Solo Album
Contrary to an earlier report, there is now planned for a Brian Solo Album. Roger and Brian are still talking about working on a Queen project.

Queen in Taco Bell Commercial in USA
There is a new Taco Bell commercial with a parody of We will rock you. These guys are about to eat their tacos and they "bang bang" their elbows on the table followed by biting into their taco with a "crunch". So it kind of goes "bang bang crunch". Then at the end of the commercial, one of the guys has a mess of cheese on his face and another guy tells him "You got cheese on your face". Really kind of cool.

Queen Song Featured In President Bush's Inauguration Parade
President Bush's inaugral parade, held Saturday 20 January, featured a group of twillers performing to "Don't Stop Me Now." George W. Bush was seen bopping his head during this music portion. Perhaps he is secretly a Queen fan?

Brian new album (or a Queen thing?)
Acording to www.brianmay.com/maybe, US Guitar magazine report Brian May has booked studio studio time in Los Angeles. Maybe tells about a fan that saw the magazine, where it says that brian is in L.A. to (allegedly) record his next solo album.

Freddie Mercury documentary on australian television
Freddie Mercury: The untold story will appear on Australian television on sunday 4th February,

Queen song featured in Super Bowl coverage
"We will rock you", the song that just keeps going, was featured in this years Superbowl coverage.

American Queen convention; reality this time?
Per the QIFC website, plans are on again for an American convention.

Roger Taylor to attend Grand prix party
Roger will be on Grand Prix party, 12 february at Royal Albert Hall!

Brian May on the T.V this month
Para la gente de Sudamèrica este mes se podrà ver por televisiòn el famoso concierto de Brian May "Night of 100 guitars" en donde estuvieron figuras como Vay, Satriani y Cozy Powell. Dicho evento se verà por el canal 19 el dìa Viernes 9 a las 22.00 HS.

News from March 2001.

Queen Rock & Roll Hall The Fame's Songs On Napster
If you're Napster's User. Now you can listen the two songs that Queen preformed in the Rock And Roll Hall The Fame Ceremony. 1. To download "Tie Your Mother Down, you have to write on Artist: "Queen & Foo Fighters" and the title of the song. 2. To Download "We Will Rock You" you have to write on Artist: "Queen" and the title of the song plus "(rock and roll hall the fame)" If you're not Napster member yet, you can download it free on:

http://www.napster.com

More Robbie Williams Rumours???
Various reports have been filtering in about Robbie Williams fronting Queen. Various Sunday papers in the UK have been running small article saying Queen have approached Robbie Williams to front the band. It appears that the Robbie rumours won't go away. Brian has on several occasions adimitted to having talked to Robbie about the possibility, but has also stated that at the present time either party is too busy to work on any projects.

Channel 4 Guitar Heros
Brian May came in at 5th place in the UK's Channel 4 'Top 10 Guitar Heros' programme. Here is the 10:
1: Jimi Hendrix
2: Eric Clapton
3: Jimmy Page
4: Hank Marvin
5: Brian May
6: Pete Townshend
7: Dave Evans a.k.a The Edge
8: Carlos Santana
9: Ritchie Blackmore
10: Johnny Marr

John absent due to illness?
A report on the induction ceremony states that John may have been absent due to an illness. "It means more than all the Grammys we never got," said Taylor. He and May were accompanied onstage by the mother of flamboyant singer Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991. Bassist John Deacon was a no-show, reportedly because of an illness.

'We Will Rock You' To Be Performed at Hall of Fame Induction
It has been revealed that Queen will perform 'We Will Rock You' at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. They will also perform a song with Aerosmith.

A spokesman for Queen, according to the BBC online, stated that the band has no plans to record together again.

Dre to work with Queen???!
Legendary rap star and producer Dr Dre (Andre Young),has mentioned in an interview to promote new protege rapper Hittman that he would eagerly take the chance to do a project with the remaining members of rock group Queen. Dre has been a fan of Queen since he first got involved with music in the early 80's. He has also lost a best friend from AIDS in 1995, rapper Eazy E.

Foo Fighters to give Queen's induction speech at Hall of Fame
Queen will be acknowledged by the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins. Hawkins, who has worshiped Queen for years ("I'm less a fan than a stalker," he quips) says that he and Grohl "pulled every string" to get the slot. Every inductee is introduced by another artist who respects them. The Foo Fighters are well known Queen fans.

Freddie Statue in Temporary Storage
Due to developments around its home in Switzerland, the Freddie statue has been temporarily moved into storage. The statue is likely to be back on site by September. Therefore if you are booking a holiday to Switzerland, you might want to be aware of this...

Brian Speaks: Queen Musical
In a recent interview, Brian has talked about the upcoming Queen musical. From the BBC News Web Site: Comedian and novelist Ben Elton is working with rock group Queen on a new musical featuring the band's songs. Guitarist Brian May said the band had been working on a musical for four years and hoped to stage a production by the end of the year. Ben Elton has enjoyed success with The Beautiful Game "The rumour is that we're doing a musical, which is true," he told London radio station Capital Gold. "Ben Elton has written us a fantastic script," he added. Biographical The original plan for the musical was to use biographical material from the band's history. Queen were one of the biggest bands in the world in the late 1970s and 1980s but lost their main creative force and lead singer Freddie Mercury to Aids in 1991. May said: "We've actually been working on this damn musical for about four years and been through various ideas, some of which were biographical, which in the end we didn't want to do. Guitarist Brian May with Liza Minnelli "But now Ben came up with this great idea, so we've been workshopping it privately and possibly by the end of this year or the beginning of next year we hope it'll be on in the West End." The remaining band members, May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor will not appear in the musical. May said: "Young people will be in it. There'll be a lot of Queen songs with some new ideas in there." Ben Elton has already scored his first musical success, collaborating with Andrew Lloyd Webber on The Beautiful Game. The musical, which follows the fortunes of a football team caught up in the Troubles in Northern Ireland, recently won the Critics' Circle best musical award. The comedian also successfully adapted his novel Popcorn for the stage. Brian May was speaking to Mick Brown on Capital Gold and the interview will bebroadcast on 15 March.

New Queen Album
There are plans to release the VH1 Story Tellers performance on CD. It is still unknown as to if:
1. John will be performing.
2. If any guest vocalists will be enlisted.

Queen: Story Tellers" on VH-1
According to the International Queen Fan Club (and Brian May), Queen will produce an entry for the "Story Tellers"-series on VH-1. This means that they will perform an intimate gig in front of an invited audience (in New York) and tell little stories about their songs (how they were written, what they mean,etc...) before they perform them. The live-versions of "Story Teller"-gigs are usually quite different to usual versions and Brian stated they will specially rehearse for it. The recording will probably take place in spring. The induction ceremony of the "Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame" (Queen are very likely to perform there) will be aired exclusively on VH-1 on March 21st at 9 pm.

More Robbie Williams + Queen Talk At The Brits
Emma B, the BBC Radio 1 DJ who commentated on ITV’s coverage of the Brit Awards which took place on 26th February, provoked more rumours that Robbie Williams will be joining Queen. Emma B called Robbie Williams "the replacement for Freddie Mercury." She also reported that Williams' record company could neither confirm or deny these reports. Robbie Williams' won a Brit Award for Best Pop Song (Radio DJ). It appears we shall have to wait and see.

USA Queen Fan Club Convention to Be Held August 2001 From the official Queen Fan Club:

Are you ready for "BREAKTHRU 2001"? The Official Queen Fan Club is joining forces with a dedicated committee of North American Queen fans, and we're going to ROCK Cleveland, Ohio in August with an event unlike any other you have experienced.....
Queen have been selected to be inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame on March 19th , and we intend to celebrate that momentous event in August, in a style the band themselves would be proud of!
Make sure you plan your vacations around the weekend of 3-5th August - and prepare to PARTY! We have much to do and more to announce, but we just had to let you know of our plans so you could keep the weekend free and be a part of it...we can tell you that the Convention will feature so many Queen songs and videos, your head will spin, a charity auction featuring some great personal items from the band themselves, a raffle, quizzes, competitions and much much more.
It will be a weekend you just cannot miss, so spread the word around to everyone you know and, using a quote from Freddie himself.... let's DO IT WITH STYLE!!

Brian in UK Channel 4 Best Guitarist Show
Brian is in the running for the best guitarist award being run by UK television's Channel 4. The show has picked ten guitarists:

The Edge
Brian May
Jimmy Page
Hank Marvin
Ritchie Blackmore
Carlos Santana
Johnnie Marr (The Smiths)
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Pete Townsend
The show will air sometime in March.

Queen Musical on Horizon
A Queen musical, written by Ben Elton, is on the horizon. Jacky from the fan club recently went to see a draft production of it, and claimed that it is brilliant.
The musical is still a work in progress, and it is unknown at this stage when it will be in production.
Ben Elton is the writer of many comedies including The Young Ones and Black Adder to name a few.

Video of Hall of Fame Induction Available
The BBC has posted a brief 1 minute video of the Hall of Fame induction featuring Queen. You can view the video (in Real format) at

http://news.bbc.co.uk

John fails to join Brian & Roger performing 'We Will Rock You'
It appears that John did not perform live with Brian and Roger at the Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. It appears that Steve Barnackle, from Rogers band, played bass for the band. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters joined the band for a rendition of Tie Your Mother Down (lets hope Vh-1 shows that!) The ceremony can be seen on VH-1 on Wednesday.

Brian May 'Thinking About Queen Renion'
In a recent article on SonicNet.com Brian has mentioned that there is often talk of a Queen reunion. The issue stopping it happening is that no-one in the band could bare to replace Freddie (who could?) Brian also mentions that they have spoken to Robbie Williams several times about the possibility of working together.

Queen come in at no 146
In the 'Songs of the Century' article published a few days ago by CNN, Queen featured at number 146 with We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You. This respected list was compiled by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

News from April 2001.

Waynes World To DVD
The movie which re-introduced America to "Bohemian Rhapsody" and helped it become a smash all over again is *finally* being released on DVD in America on July 10.

Queen Videos To Be Re-released
Plans are afoot to re-issue FOUR Queen videos on May 14th. They will be Live in Budapest, Live In Rio, We Will Rock You and Greatest Flix 2. It will be a straight re-issue on video, no extras and not yet on DVD. There ARE plans to release Queen DVD's sometime soon.

Robbie Williams on Leno
Robbie Williams appeared briefly on the Jay Leno Show. This review from Queenzoner, Herk: He talked a bit about working with Queen and how great it was to sing Freddie's vocals, then did (I'm assuming, quite honestly the lad made no sense to me) an impression of Freddie by sticking a scrap of paper under his upper lip to make his teeth look big. After which he said "Sorry, Freddie."

Format Change for VH1 - Storytellers
The Queen Fan Club (www.queenworld.com) has indicated that that there has been a format change to the proposed VH1 Storytellers show. Instead of one big performance, a number of sessions will be recorded throughout the year and compiled to make the show. Ed note: This news was submitted by a Queenzoner who had contacted the fan club, however, I have lost the original e-mail so i can't credit the person by name. If that person could send me an e-mail I would like to put their name on this story.

Queen song featured in controversial TV show
On the April 22nd episode of the highly rated (and controversial) series "Queer As Folk" (the U.S version of the original U.K mini-series), Queen's "A Kind of Magic" was featured from the final scene through the end credits. For those who aren't familiar, "Queer As Folk" is a series on Showtime based on the lives of a small group of gay friends and all the drama their lives contain. Tonight's episode was directed by Russel Mulcahy who also directed "Highlander".

John not happy with Robbie + Queen
The Sun newspaper has reported the following... QUEEN'S John Deacon has blasted Robbie Williams saying he's not good enough to replace Freddie Mercury and sing with the band. Robbie was to take Freddie's place with John, Roger Taylor and Brian May to record a special version of the classic hit We Are The Champions. But John refused because he thought Robbie ruined the song and could never replace Freddie, who died in 1991. Instead just Robbie, Roger and Brian recorded the track - a No2 hit for Queen in 1977 - at a secret location in Surrey for the soundtrack of new movie A Knight's Tale. John says: "Roger and Brian got together to do the song with Robbie Williams but I told them I had retired. "I didn't want to be involved with it and I'm glad. I've heard what they did and it's rubbish. "It is one of the greatest songs ever written but I think they've ruined it. I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury. Freddie can never be replaced - and certainly not by him." John also scuppered a plan for Robbie to front a re-formed Queen with the surviving members. The bassist made his cutting comments at the Save Popbitch party - an event to raise money for the internet gossip site. I was surprised to see him at the bash because he hasn't appeared on the London party scene for years. Always regarded as the quiet one in the supergroup, John claims he retired from music when Freddie died. Bandmates Roger and Brian carry on and recorded We Will Rock You with boyband Five last year.

Great Queen Quiz on TV -April 24th 2001*
Queen will finally be the topic in the very successful TV quiz-show "RISIKO". The show is broadcasted on ZDF (Germany) and can be seen everyhwere in Europe through satelite TV. The first of max. 4 shows will be broadcasted on April 24th between 16:15-17:00 (4:15-5pm/German time).

Queen + Robbie Are On Napster
22 seconds of the Queen + Robbie Williams version of 'We Are The Champions' can be found on napster. The sample does not give that much of an idea of what the song may sound like - as it only has the intro - then you hear Robbie say 'I've paid my..."

Queen + Singers: Tribute to Freddie
A snippet of information about the forthcoming storytellers project. Jacky from the Queen Fan Club told WebSite MundoQueen.com: "...Queen will begin recording some stuff soon for the Storytellers series on VH1, and this will involde them playing some of their OLDER material with a selection of new vocalists which will then become a special television programme AND the CD they record will be released in November as a tribute to freddie..."

"A Knight's Tale" promo
The commercial for the film is now airing in most U.S markets. It begins with the familiar "stomp, stomp, clap" of "We Will Rock You". Various scenes of the movie as well as it's new "hunk" star are shown and then, at the very end in big lettering are the words.. "Featuring the song We Are the Champions performed by Robbie Williams + Queen" Since the song is getting "shown off" in the film's trailer, it looks like Sony/Columbia will be pushing the song heavily in America (we already knew it was being released to radio, then as a single and that a music video is to be filmed.) This is as big a shot as any for Queen to get some major recognition in the States, let's make sure we support them with sales and radio/MTV requests!

Freddie in All Time Greatest Singers of 20th Century List
Radio 2 listeners have voted Freddie Mercury the 10th greatest singer of the 20th Century. Thousands of listeners voted on who they thought was the best pop singer of the 20th Century (no opera, classical singers were allowed).
The top ten is as follows:
1. Frank Sinatra
2. Elvis Presley
3. Nat ``King'' Cole
4. Ella Fitzgerald
5. Bing Crosby
6. John Lennon
7. Aretha Franklin
8. Billie Holiday
9. Barbra Streisand
10. Freddie Mercury

This month is my birthday
This month on the 12th of April is my birthday and I`m going to turn 17, and on the 20th of April my website is going to turn nine months on the web. So it is with great pride to announce these news to all of you.

Queen + Robbie Williams : Video and Single Release
It appears that the Queen + Robbie Williams collaboration of 'We Are The Champions' will be released as a single. The fan club has reported that the song will be released as a single on Columbia Records. No date has been fixed as yet. A video will also be filmed for the single. Note: Robbie Williams, whilst famous in most other parts of the world, hasn't had that much success in the US. This could be his way of trying to break into the US market.

Gary Mullen will sing as Freddie again
The excellent Gary Mullen, who won the UK Stars In Their Eyes as Freddie, will be representing Britain in a special "Stars in Euro Eyes". This will be on Saturday 14th April on Charlton & LWT, at 19:40 to 21:40 (2 hours long). I don't know if any of the other countries taking part will be televising the show, but I know there were Italian, Portuguese and Spanish contestants as well as many others.

Rumour Alert: Roger joining Duran Duran?
In a Duran Duran mailing list, a member said that Roger was asked by the band to play drums in a forthcoming "reunion" tour, since Duran's original drummer (also called Roger Taylor) refused to rejoin the band. Queenzoner Trish Hanstock has this to note: The word in the back-office of a certain London record company is that the DURANS have approached none other than England's OTHER superstar pop-drummer Roger Taylor from QUEEN to round out the line-up of their rumored reunion tour planned for next year. I have approached Roger Taylor's (Queen not Duran) people and they say "it's still just a deal-in-the-making.......Roger has made it quite clear he has not agreed to anything YET."

Queen records with Robbie Williams!!!
"Robbie Williams has at last recorded with rock giants Queen." taken from the daily mirror today: "robbie williams has at last recorded with rock giants queen. as we revealed last december, he was approached by the veteran band as a new frontman to replace the late, great freddie mercury. last week he teamed up with guitarist brian may, dummer roger taylor and bassist john deacon in a studio near guildford, surrey, to record a version of we are the champions. the anthem, a no. 2 in 1977, will be the soundtrack to a movie a knight's tale. an insider said: "queen thought robbie was one of the few artists who could do their songs justice"" A spokesperson for Robbie Williams has stated that there are no plans to release the song as a single.

News from May 2001.

Kinght's Tale climbs in charts
The soundtrack to "A Kinght's Tale" has skyrockted in the US albums chart. It went from #100 to #42 over the last week, and is listed as the "Greatest Gainer" of the Billboard 200.

Freddie Mercury In 100 Most Shocking Moments in Rock 'N' Roll On Vh-1
Vh-1 is producing a special about the 100 Most Shocking Moment In Rock n' Roll, and Freddie Mercury appears in the #71 position. Vh-1 will explain today about Freddie's death. The show will be on air at 10:00pm/9:00pm Central. This week. For further information log on:

VH1

Robbie Williams Buys Rogers Flat / Apartment
Robbie Williams has paid Roger 1 million pounds for one of his London flats. The News of the World reported that Roger and Robbie have struck up a solid friendship, and Robbie was looking for another property and decided to buy Roger's.

Brian May on Alice Cooper gig
Brian May joined Alice Cooper this week at their gig at Wembley Arena. They performed a intrumental version of We Will Rock You and Alice Cooper's Schools Out!

"A Knight's Tale" soundtrack debuts on US charts
The CD has debuted on the Billboard album chart at #100. Here is the link;

Billboard site

New Queen tribute CD coming soon
The new Queen tribute album "Stone Cold Queen" is due to be released in June. The first release is due in Japan June 27. The album was produced by Bob Kulick. Track listing;
Stone Cold Crazy: Robin Zander, Steve Stevens, Billy Sheehan, Matt Sorum
Play The Game: Marty Friedman, Chuck Wright, Gregg Bissonette, Paul Taylor
Fat Bottomed Girls: Joe Lynn Turner, Reb Beach, Tony Franklin, Eric Singer
Somebody To Love: Geoff Tate, Doug Aldrich, Carmine Rojas, Aynsley Dunbar, Paul Taylor
Crazy Little Thing Called Love: Gunnar & Mathew Nelson, Albert Lee, Michael Porcaro, Pat Torpey
Fight From The Inside: Jack Blades, Jake E. Lee, Tony Levin, Tony Thompson
You're My Best Friend: Jason Scheff, Richie Kotzen, Marco Mendoza, Vinny Appice, Paul Taylor
I'm In Love With My Car: Kip Winger, Steve Lukather, Phil Soussan, Frankie Banali
Killer Queen: Glenn Hughes, Pat Thrall, Stu Hamm, Carmine Appice, Paul Taylor
Spread Your Wings: Tommy Shaw, Dweezil Zappa, Tim Bogert, Steve Ferrone, Derek Sherinian
We Will Rock You: Jack Russell, Bruce & Bob Kulick, Jeff Pilson, Mikkey Dee

Greg Brooks - Details on Queen archives
Greg Brooks playlist and answers to questions at the Con 2001 PLAY LIST GREG BROOKS from the Convention BBC 4th session, April 1974
1 Nevermore (clearly different, bit heavier at the end)
2 White Queen (different, like a demo-sound)
3 TMLWKY 1998 with Freddie (diff guitar at the end, extra drums, no singing at the end, extra long guitar at end)
4 Kashoggi ship/Party November 1988 (early demo with diff songtext)
5 Ride The Wild Wind, (Roger on Guide-vocals, large drum sound, no Freddie on this demo)
6 Innuendo sessions: Headlong, (5 mins long, without music, ONLY bas+drums, Brian lead vocals , electronic drums)
7 Invisible Man , (Roger sings a rough vocal guide, different early demo, basic music)
8 Kashoggi's Ship, (vocals only, Freddie does a rough guide vocal
9 Man Made Paradise, (a 50 sec Queen version)
10 FACE IT ALONE, (An UNRELEASED Queen ballad! "crying" guitar from Brian! GREAT! 10 mins long, 3 pieces of demos) 11 Breakthrough (alternate version)
12 Under Pressure: alt title : "Feel Like", rough early demo with many guitar and not the known piano guide! total diff music and with ad hoc guide vocals. BOWIE on the piano! Answers to Questions from fans to GREG
: - - ALL 15 BCC tracks will be in the QQuueeen box
- - 1st Queen box expected at end of NNEEXTT year, format yet unknown
- - Man Made Paradise, there is a Queeenn vversion, will be in the box, the
demo's for Freddie solo album are not very different though, that's why the track did not appear in the Freddie box. - - DVD's or CD-ROM *will* be used in tthee box, format unknown yet, some interactive thing it will be.
- - Greg is almost sure that after thee Quueen boxes, a LIVE box will be released
- - Michael Jackson tracks: Greg is poossittive that the tracks will eventually
appear on a CD in some form, there is 1 track in the Queen archives: VICTORY, but they aren't allowed yet to release it! the track has all the queen boys singing backing vocals!
- - Greg's idea about the box format: 33 bboxes, each having 3-6 CD's. THIS IS GREG'S OPINION, NO DISCUSION HAS BEEN MADE YET!!!! with 2 DVD's included, the amount could be up to 8 CD's per box.
- - a selection of tracks will be releeaaseed in the box as instrumentals, like with the Freddie box
- - The Queen archive has 4000 tapes!!!!! 33/4 is safety copies or work-copies though
- - MOTHER LOVE, numerous versions witthh RRoger and Brian singing exist
- - alternate versions of "These are tthhe Days of Our Lives" exist, but all slightly diff though
- - Fast WWRY, no other version than tthhe BBC version exists
- - After the Queen boxes, Greg will aallmoost surely be asked to log the archived tapes of Roger and Brian, if any boxes of these guys will be made is still unsure...
- - The QUEEN LIVE book took 5 years ttoo mmake, it was not intended as a book first, only research, 80% is accurate, if Greg would release the book now, it would be much more accurate!

Queen + Robbie Williams - The Future?
Brian May, in his greeting to Queen fans at the 16th Annual fan club convention has talked about working with Robbie Williams. Apparently Robbie was asked to record champions, and he in turned asked Queen to join him. Brian stated that they (Roger and himself) found it stimulating to work with Robbie, and if it continues to be so, they will work together in the future as well. On another front Roger in his question and answer session said that, while there are no definate plans, that sometime in the next ten year he would like to tour with Queen.

Queen Box Sets
Greg Brooks, Queen archivist, has shed light on his preferred method of releasing Queen box sets. At the 16th fan club convention, Greg stated that he would like to see three sets, each dealing with a particular part of Queen, eg, early years, middle years and late years. Each set would likely have 8 or so CD's + DVD's. The release of the box sets might start from late 2002 onwards.

Possible Live Box Set
Queen archivist Greg Brooks has indicated that after the Queen studio box sets there may be a live box set. Greg Brooks preferred method of release would be to create a number of concerts from the best bits from each tour.

"Now I'm Here" in best Def Leppard song poll
Def Leppard's live cover version of "Now I'm Here", featuring Brian May, from the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert is featuring in a 'Best Def Leppard Song Ever' poll on the band's website The poll is now in its fourth week, with a different section each week. This week's section is "The Covers", and "How I'm Here" is one of the songs that can be voted for. The top two songs voted for in each category go on to a grand final vote once all the seperate categories are completed.

"A Knight's Tale" debuts in 2nd place
This past weekend saw "A Knight's Tale" open nationwide across America. Early reports state that the film opened very strong with $17 million gross. Considering it was competing with the hugely popular "The Mummy Returns", most industry experts believe the film is a success. For comparison; "A Knight's Tale" in it's opening weekend grossed more than the first "Highlander" film did in it's entire theatrical run here. "Wayne's World" opened to a little over $18 million and went on to gross $121 million in America. From what we have seen, if a Queen song was strongly tied in to a hit film, the song goes on to be a hit so hopes are high for Queen + Robbie's "We Are The Champions".

Queen + Robbie's "We Are the Champions" is out!
On May 8th, the "A Knight's Tale" soundtrack was released in America, offering Queen fans their first glimpse at the entire track, "We Are the Champions" which the band re-recorded with pop star Robbie Williams. Previously, 2 clips were made available via the internet giving just a few seconds worth of what to expect. Apparently (and according to one fan, Jameson Combs) the end result was much better than expected. The following is his opinion on the collaboration; "It does have that spacey opening like the brief clip you've heard, but it does NOT have that rough sounding bit that was downloadable from whatever site that was. I dunno where that came from. Robbie's vocals are very sweet and smooth sounding throughout, at least to my ears. Once the spacey intro is over the song takes on a pretty traditional sound, although the spacey keyeboard stuff is still present. Just a little down in the mix. The bass is great - you definitely don't miss J.D. except for knowing that he's not there. I assume that Brian once again played bass and he does more than a competent job. Brian and Roger's backing vocals are very good. Roger's drums are excellent, and Brian's guitar sounds great. Some nice differences on guitar throughout - they're not subtle exactly although they don't hit you over the head either, until the end. After what would have been the last chorus on the original, Brian does a great solo, and then there's a reprise of the chorus once more. Excellent, excellent stuff and I could SO see myself at a concert, with my arms in the air swaying from side to side, singing along and having the time of my life. I should be so lucky. But definitely NOT "ruined" by any sensible person's defintion of the word, and IMO, just about as good as you could have expected. I have no complaints and have probably played it a dozen times." Well, there you have it. Go out and buy the CD, listen to the entire song and decide for yourself.

Help make "Flash Gordon" a special edition DVD
As some of you may know, "Flash Gordon" has gone out-of-print on the DVD format in America. The movie was originally released by Image who had licensed it from Universal Studios. All Image releases were 'movie only' discs and a few months ago had slashed prices on all their titles (the other movies were also licensed from Universal) which resulted in a lawsuit. Now the licensing agreement has expired and the rights to all of those films have reverted *back* to Universal Studios. Universal is now looking into re-issuing the titles and giving some of them "special edition" treatment. You can keep in touch with them

Pic of Robbie's "We Are the Champions" video up
Visit the following site and you can download Robbie williams pics singing "We are the champions".

Robbie Pictures

New "Storytellers" poll
The official fan club has posted a poll about who Queen fans would like to see perform with the band at the "Storytellers" shows later this year. You can vote there, but please take care of your vote.

New clip of Queen/Robbie now available
A much better sample of the Queen + Robbie "We Are the Champions" track can be heard at the movie's official site located in the following website:

Columbia records

A Knight's Tale" preview on HBO
This Saturday (May 5th), cable network HBO will air a "making of" for the film "A Knight's Tale" at 12 noon eastern time. There's no word if we'll hear any Queen music but you never know...

News from June 2001.

New Mick Rock Queen book
A new book featuring many of Mick Rock's Queen photos is to be published by Genesis Publications. More information about the book, which will have a forward by Brian May, can be found at http://www.genesis-publications.com/news/schedule.html

Champions WILL Be Released In The UK!
According to OK! magazine the new version of WATC will be released as a single in the UK After mentioning Robbie's upcoming solo singles the June 8th copy of the magazine read "Robbie will also soon be releasing his special version of the song We Are The Champions, which he's recorded with members of the rock group Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor. The single is featured on the soundtrack of the new movie A Knight's Tale and will hit the charts here at the same time as the film is released in UK cinemas. Both the film and the single have already been released in America. In the video for the new track, Robbie appears as the knight 'Sir Robbie', complete with a full suit of armor." I believe it is important that fans in the UK should write to the Fan Club and express their wishes that Brian and Roger should be included in the video as the US release excludes them.

Bohemian Rhapsody On Survivor
On the British Version of the hit show Survivor the islanders sang Bohemian Rhapsody On June 11th the episode was broadcast with the islanders standing on logs floating in the sea and they were singing without music to Bohemian Rhapsody! Queen do get everywhere!!

We Are The Cahmpions UK Release
Queen and Robbie Williams version of We Are The Champions is to be released in UK! The Track is to be issued as a Double A side single with Robbie's Track "Eternity" as lead track? on July 9th 2001

Video of Mel C & Russel Watson doing Barcelona
At www.spicevideos.com , the performance of Barcelona, by Sporty Spice Mel C and Russel Watson is available for download. It's a 80MB, 7 min. long MPG-file, featuring Barcelona and a second (not Queen related) Mel C song.

Roger Taylor producer new Bob Geldof album
According to Dutch NOS Teletext (372) Roger Taylor has produced Bob Geldof's first album in 10 years. Bob Geldof's new album is called Sex, Age @ Death. It will be released in September

Bohemian Rhapsody in UK TV ad
4Bohemian Rhapsody has featured in a Renault Scenic advert. The advert shows four people in the car singing the song. It features along with other songs such as Teenage Dirtbag by Wheetus.

Final results of the "Storytellers" fan poll
The "Storytellers" fan poll has ended. The poll tried to deduce who Queen fans would most like to be the guest vocalists in the upcoming VH1 storytellers concert. Here are the final results (in order, #1 being the top vote getter and so on.)
1- George Michael
2- Gary Cherone
3- Robbie Williams
4- Elton John
5- David Bowie
6- Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
7- (Tie) Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) / Axl Rose (Guns 'N' Roses)
8- Bono (U2)
9- Roger Daltrey (The Who)
10- Joe Elliott (Def Leppard)
Thanks to all who voted!

Queen Song Featured In 'Moulin Rouge'
I've just seen the newly released "Moulin Rouge" and I discovered that it prominently features "The Show Must Go On." Thru the whole film the characters kept saying "The show must go on," then finally I heard it! Nicole Kidman and another character sing it near the end of the movie.

Brian May at montreux-jazz-festival
Brian May is set to appear at the Montreux Jazz Festival. i just surfed the http://www.montreuxjazz.com site and saw that brian may is listed in the programm for 2001 the festival is on 7. july 2001 in montreux/ch

Robbie and Queen Mp3
Because of Napster's troubles with the music industry we can't download robbie and queen's We are the champions!!!!! But don't fear........ You can download all of the Robbie Williams and Queen "We are the champions" at www.brianmay.com

A Kinght's Tale falls to #4
The movie A Knight's Tale has fallen to #4 on the US Box Office movie charts in its third week in theaters. The movie now follows #1 Pearl Harbor, #2 Shrek, and #3 The Mummy Returns. Over the May 25-28 weekend, the film made $9.3 million. Over its entire run it has grossed $44.5 million.

News from July 2001.

Roger on top of the pops 2
On wednesday 25th July Top of the pops two, showed Roger performing 'Future Management' 1981 This is a show where they play old clips when it's someone's birthday, so they dug out one of Roger. For those of you that missed it, it's repeated on Saturday, BBC2, 4:30pm.

Queen in album top 100
Queen`s "A Night At The Opera" is voted 8 as the best album ever on a dutch radio stadion called Noordzee FM. The second Queen album came in at 20th place - "Greatest hits 2" Number one was a dutch singer called Marco Borsato

Robbie sings WATC at Milton Keynes
There was a definite Queen thing going on at Robbies Gig in Milton Keynes, with We Will Rock You, Fat Bottomed Girls and We are the Champions, featuring. I went to see Robbie Williams concert at Milton Keynes over the weekend, and think that anyone who thinks he is a crap singer should really do their best to see him and I guarantee you will change your mind. He is the only performer on this planet that can get anything close to the sort of thing Freddie managed with a crowd. Before the concert began there was an advert/trailer for A Knights Tale, shown several times on the big screens with We Will Rock You playing, and everyone kept joining in. Then as Robbie was about to come on Fat Bottomed Girls was played with a countdown to Robbie coming on stage. Then finally the Encore at the end was of course We are the Champions, and believe me it was amazing, I was almost in tears! It would appear that Robbie really is a big Queen fan.

Queen mentioned in song
A song by a very popular US band called 'Live' has recorded a song about rock groups that use their talent to spread a positive message The chorus says 'I had a dream I was on stage with Queen' and 'the world needs people like you'. The album will be release on September 18th.

Robbie Performs 'Champions' on Top of the Pops
Robbie Williams was featured playing "We are the Champions" on the 20th July edition of "Top of the Pops", but rather than a live performance in studio they merely showed the video. He was credited as "Robbie Williams" with no mention at all that any members of Queen had worked on the track.

Italian Musical About Freddie
There are reports that there will be a be musical dedicated to Freddie that'll be on stage next year in Italy. The show will begin a nation-wide tour in May 2002 and it will reach the larger Italian theatres. Specials guest of the show will be the famous soprano Montserrat Caballe.

Queen and Bowie an Interesting Combination
According to a VH1 show last night Queen and David Bowie were noted as an unusual combination with their song Under Pressure. Also mentioned in the show was the collaboration of Wayne's World with Bohemian Rhapsody in the 1991 movie. Dana Carvey said of Bohemian Rhapsody, "It was a funny song. I never realized how funny it was until we were singing it."

Queen Come Number 6 in German Poll
Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven" has topped German Magazine's MusikExpress top 100 songs list. The top 6 were:
2. 'Yesterday' (The Beatles)
3. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (Nirvana)
4. 'Satisfaction' (Rolling Stones)
5. 'Born To Run' (Bruce Springsteen's)
6. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (Queen)

New version of "We Will Rock You" DVD coming
Pioneer has just announced a 9/18 arrival date for two separate editions of Queen: We Will Rock You, a 1981 live performance of 18 of the band's biggest hits. Separate 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS versions will be released, and both feature AUDIO COMMENTARY with the band and a discography. Retail is $24.95 each.

Robbie to play WATC on 'Top of The Pops'
According to the BBC CEEFAX service's "Top of the Pops" news on page 566, Robbie Williams is to perform "We are the Champions" on this Friday, the 20th of July, repeated on Saturday 21st. There was no mention on whether or not Roger and Brian will be joining him, but as he was listed as 'Robbie Williams' rather than 'Robbie Williams & Queen', this seems unlikely.

Malcom in the middle
A programme on BBC2 decides that Queen are still the best! On Friday the 13th of July a programme called Malcolm in the Middle was on at 6.45pm on BBC2 was all about a boy learning how to skate with his father teaching him how to but it was dance roller skating and the father did he's dance to We Are The Champions. It was amzing just proves that TV can still see Queen are legends.

Brian May turns 54 years old today
Brian May turns 54 years of magic, he is one of the best guitarrist of the history of the rock, and today in his birthday I want to tell him that he is the best guitarrist, an excellent person and one of the best musician.
Thank you very much Brian, you keep with Roger the music alive!!!.

Roger Taylor plays Surrey charity gig
The UK national newspaper the "Daily Express" carried a story on Page 3 on Saturday 14th July about a charity gig in Surrey, focusing on the participation of ex-Formula One world champion Damon Hill's band Damon Hill and the Con Rods. The article says that "others on the star studded bill included Eric Clapton, Bob Geldof, Gary Brooker of Procul Harum, Roger Taylor of Queen..." and various others. There was a picture of a line-up of stars at the evend, but not including Roger sadly.

Brian May on Banzai!!
On the spoof gameshow 'Banzai' on Channel 4, the last bet was on which one out of "Brian May of Queen" or "Craig David" would get into a car and drive off first... Needless to say, "Brian May" won. Also, 'Radio Ga Ga' music was used on a bet between which of two men in S&M "outfits" would slide down a watershute quickest. (Note, "Brian May" and "Craig David" were in fact two fat, middle-aged, balding men, with a cartoon face on their heads. I know this is totally useless, but it's fun!)

Home Video Release Date Set for 'A Knights Tale'
The 25 September will see 'A Knights Tale' released on home video in the US. From www.ignDVD.com: According to the wonderful IGN site, the DVD of "A Knight's Tale" will have tons of extras, "audio commentary with Brian Heglend and Paul Bettany, the HBO making-of special, eleven - count em, eleven! - deleted scenes with filmmaker intros, a music video, production notes, filmographies and trailers. Look for this bad boy September 25th, for $27.95" Any guesses as to what the video will be???

Stone Cold Steve Austin of the WWF sings We Are the Champions!
On the WWF broadcast wrestling show Smackdown! on July 12th, 2001, the main star of the show Stone Cold Steve Austin, who gained popularity with his Austin 3:16 phrases was featured in a small segment singing a small bit of 'We Are the Champions' What he said is paraphrased below:
"Hey (Vince McMahon), remember that band Queen back in the 70's and 80's? Here's a song that might cheer you up!"
"I am the Chaaaaaammmmpiiiooooon..... my friend!
And I'll keep on fightiiiiiiiing.... till the end!
I am the champion
I am the champion
no time for losing
cuz i am the champion...."

Queen to get star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Al Pacino, Sandra Bullock, Regis Philbin, Ozzy Osbourne and Martin Landau are among the celebrities getting stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002. Other recipients include QUEEN, Rodney Dangerfield, Amy Grant, and KC and the Sunshine Band.

"Wayne's World" now out on DVD in the U.S
Paramount Home Video has released the film that brought Queen back into American pop culture in 1992, "Wayne's World" on DVD (as well as the sequel) July 10th. Both DVD's are available individually or as a set. "Wayne's World" is in anamorphic widescreen, with 5.1 surround sound. Extras include 1) audio commentary by director Penelope Spheeris. 2) "Extreme close-up" interviews with Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Spheeris and producer Lorne Michaels. 3) theatrical trailer. "Wayne's World 2" is in anamorphic widescreen, 5.1 sound. Extras include 1) audio commentary by director Stephen Surjik. 2) "Extreme close-up" interviews with cast & crew.

Queen Feature in ForthComing Terry Gilliam Movie
Queen are to be featured prominently in a movie currently under development with acclaimed Director Terry Gilliam Queenzoner Paul DiNuzzo writes: Terry Gilliam is making a film version of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett classic novel, 'Good Omens'. It is best described as Monty Python's the Omen. Hysterical book. What does this have to do with Queen? Well those who have read the book know. A demon, one of the main characters, drives around in a Bentley. Any cassette tape that is left in said Bentley for a fortnight is automatically turned into a Best of Queen tape! Many songs are mentioned specifically...off the top of my head, BoRhap, AOBTD, Radio Ga Ga, etc. In fact BoRhap is on when the Devil wants to talk to him so all of a sudden Freddie Mercury's voice speaks what Lucifer wants to tell his minion. Some people might jump on this as Oh my god they are saying Queen is devil's music or they are mocking Queen or whatever...me? I see it as great satire and I think Freddie would have laughed at it...probably agreeing whole heartedly with the assumption! So if the film gets made...we might see a lot of Queen songs on the silver screen...

Bohemian Rhapsody Beats Thriller
In a special episode of American VH1's new show "What's My 20" Bohemian Rhapsody beat Thriller taking the #1 spot on the 'Best Visionary Video' list. The list is compiled from votes at VH1's website. So this is really what the people wanted. Bohemian Rhapsody was also noted in a show on The History Channel called "History's Mysteries". Before the commercial break a section called "also in 1975" appeared and the host said "The first music video is made--Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen made for a show called 'Top Of The Pops'" The last little tidbit is rather lame, but I thought it kinda neat.

Bohemian Rhapsody on 'Next'
"Next" is a kind of talent show on Sky one where people can come into a studio and do what ever they want. It's usually all very bad. Bohemian Rhapsody was no exeption. One man all by himself tried singing it but they didn't show it in full. They showed the beginning, the middle (operatic section) and the end. It has to be the worse version of it in History, and people think Robbie Williams with Queen is bad!

Tim Staffell to Record Album.
Tim Staffell, former singer with Smile, the band that became Queen, is to record an album of original compositions including a reworking of a Smile track. "I am doing this primarily for my own reasons; that is, I just want to make the best possible attempt to record a quantity of my own material. The album will be a mix of styles, and at the moment, the personnel list is as follows:
Andrew Staffell: Drums
Richard Lightman: Bass & Guitar
Chris Smith: Keyboards & Guitar (Also in Smile for a time...)
Me: Bass & Guitar
John Webster: Guitar
Peter Hammerton: Guitar
This is just the core. There will be others, to be announced later." No decision has been made in which Smile track to rework.

Robbie Williams hints at Queen future?
BBC Digital last night reported Robbie's latest disclosure that he is about to kill off his solo career - he said..... "Frankly I am bored with RW, after my obligations are fulfilled it is goodbye to all that, I am killing him off. After November people will see me in a completely new role with completely different music......"

Freddie On Vh-1 Poll
Vh-1 is celebrating an edition of "What's my 20?" where people can vote online in each categories. This week will be premiering "Leader Of The Pack" category and Freddie Mercury appears on the list like Queen frontman. And everybody can vote anytime they want. For more information: Here's the Web Site

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The Scorpions Cover Queen
The Top German Rock group have covered Queen in their latest live Album. Their 'Live in Potugal' Album features their version of 'Love of My LIFE'. The album is released (ACOUSTICA).

Watch WATC Video Online!
It appears that the new video for the Robbie + Queen collaberation for 'Champions' can now be viewed online. The video mainly consists of clips from the film 'A Knight's Tale' (most notably at Brian's guitar solo). You can watch it here: http://www.robbie-williams.com/music_videos08.html

Another Queen song goes The Movies
Under Pressure is featured in the movie "40 days and 40 nights". You can use the next link for the complete teaser trailer.

We are the champions featured on Slap band with Ant and Dec
We are the champions was on 'slap bang with ant and dec' this saturday. It's an English saturday evening T.V. show. It happens to be the same T.V. show that Anita Dobson (Brian May's Wife) is on every week in a section called Beers. It's kind of like a sitcom.

Brian on new Robbie single
Brian appears as guest guitarist on Robbie Williams new single "Eternity|" due out here on July 9th - but you'll have to listen very closeelly,, it's not as obvious as it usually is that Brian is on there! Also, Brian is working on an album at the moment... no, not a new solo album sadly, but compiling something called "The Best Air Guitar Album In The World - Ever"!! it will be released on EMI in August/September!

News from September 2001.

Foo Fighters To Tour With Queen Tribute Band?
Whether in jest or not, Dave Grohl (Leader singer of the Foo's) has suggested that the next Foo Fighters Tour may well involve a number of tribute bands. After performing on a stage recently warmed up by a Van Halen tribute band, DAVE GROHL said the Foos will start recording a new ablum when they're back from Europe to be followed by the inevitiable tour. "We figure that instead of taking 'cool' bands on tour, we'll probably take out this Tributepalooza, " he says. "A QUEEN tribute band, an AC/DC tribute band, the Atomic Punks and us. We're talking arenas."

New Surround Sound Version of 'A Night At The Opera'
Work has commenced on transferring 'A Night At The Opera' from its original stereo format to DTS 5.1 Surround Sound. This article is taken from nuendo.com Queen goes Nuendo Recently a team of various product specialists and engineers working for the band Queen gathered together at Abbey Road's Studio 3 to supervise the transfer of the original multi-tracks of Queen's seminal Night at the Opera album from 1975 (which includes Bohemian Rhapsody, You're My Best Friend and the epic Prophet Song) into Steinberg Nuendo at 24-bit 96kHz. This was in preparation for Elliot Scheiner's 5.1 Surround Sound Remix for DTS, the people who had previously commissioned him to do the same for Van Morrison's Moondance, The Eagles Hotel California, America's Homecoming (featuring Ventura Highway) and The Doobie Brothers The Captain and I (with both Long Train Running and China Grove)several of which have already been released in their Surround format on DVD-A. The transfers of all these 16track-based projects were effected using an Alesis Hard Disk recorder and Swissonic AD/DA96 converters, but as Night of the Opera was one of the earliest 24-track recordings, Elliot needed to look at a new system which could handle 24 track recording as there is no timecode on the original multi- tracks. He had settled on Nuendo having heard the results on the surround remix of Jackson Browne's Running on Empty. Swissonic supplied an extra two pairs of AD/DA96 to add the extra 6 tracks. Although the mix itself is being done in Glenn Frey's Hollywood studio facility, the transfers were done in London because Justin Shirley Smith from Queen Productions was extremely worried at the idea of putting the priceless multi-tracks in an aircraft hold. Abbey Road was chosen as the venue for the transfers because of their expertise in handling aging tapes and so Rob Hill from Steinberg North America who will be assisting Elliot Scheiner in the mix and actually operating Nuendo (having used it on the Surround Mix of Jackson Browne's Running on Empty) flew in from LA with his customised Nuendo rack. There he rendezvous'ed with Sam Wetmore of Steinberg UK and Paul Wiffen of Swissonic/Apple who were running a second Nuendo system on 733MHz Mac G4 with Swissonic converters. Both systems were using SCSI Raid arrays to handle the massive data transfer rates, Rob's PC with a 160GB 4 drive system built into the rack, the Mac with a striped dual drive kindly loaned by LaCie's London office for the project. From Queen's side, there was Justin and Chris, the engineer from Brian May's studio. When the multi-tracks were taken out of their boxes and loaded onto the 2" machine, an edit flew apart on the first wind through and then the house engineer, noticed that the tape was shedding oxide quite badly. Taking advice from Kerry in Abbey Road's archiving department that the tapes should be baked at 50degrees for 4 days, they were duly put into the Abbey Road oven. Four days later the team reassembled in Studio 3 and began the process of transferring the 24 track into Nuendo. The baking had successfully dried out the oxide on the tapes and so shedding was no longer a problem. Indeed the transfer of the Bohemian Rhapsody multitrack, done first as it was possibly the most problematic, as there were so many stories about it having numerous edits and having worn so thin you could see daylight through it, was accomplished quickly and with very little fuss. There were no edits or thin tape, so clearly at some point once the basic structure of the song had been edited together, the entire thing had been copied across to a piece of multitrack tape. However, there is no empty space on the tape, as every little space has been filled with additional harmony vocals or guitars, drum ambience or the famous gong. On one track Dolby A needed to be switched in and out during the transfer because it had been used on drums but not on anything else. The main thing was that everything from the original release was clearly on the tape and in the first playback it sounds remarkably like the mixed single, except for the three alternative lead vocals. Other tracks on the album were more complicated. The intro to the opening track Death on Two Legs was found in two sections after the main song on its multi-track, the loud guitars and effects in one section and the stereo piano part which is the first thing you hear on the record in a second, presumably spun in from a two track during the mixdown and fortunately copied to the end of the multitrack just for completeness. However, Nuendo's editing capabilities soon had this reassembled in the correct order ready for the mixdown. Similarly, engines being revved in a separate place on the multi-track of "I'm In Love with My Car" (originally the B-side of Bohemian Rhapsody) were easily re-united with the main song. Sadly all the three sections of the Prophet's Song spread across two multi-tracks did not include all of the original song from the album, although the third section did go straight into "Love of My Life" as on the original album. However, the only sign of the a cappella vocal section in the middle was a tantalising 16-part track sheet which fell out of one of the 24-track boxes. A search has since failed to turn this tape up and so this section will have to be processed into 5.1 from the stereo master (something that had already been decided for the God Save The Queen guitar instrumental which closes the album, the multi-track of which was known to be missing before the transfer session started). All the material transferred into Nuendo has now been taken over to LA by Rob Hill for Elliot Scheiner to do the 5.1 mix of Night of the Opera which should be released by DTS some time in the autumn.

News from October 2001.

Queen Musical Details Released
Queen Online have released details for the forthcoming Queen musical. Auditions will be held on the 12 November for various parts of the musical. The show is expected to last for close to 2 hours, with pretty much all the songs from Greatest Hits 1 and 2, plus half the songs from Greatest Hits 3 featured. Includes Ben Elton video introducing the play.

Final Tracklisting For The Best Air Guitar Album In The World…Ever!
Compiled by Queen guitarist Brain May, the final tracklisting for The Best Air Guitar Album In The World…Ever! has now been finalised.
Taken from the official Queen website:
Released on November 5th, the album successfully manages to blend classic tracks with newer contemporary cuts and cross over into many different styles of the rock genre. Final Tracklisting is as follows.

CD1
1. Queen We Will Rock You/Tie Your Mother Down
2. Deep Purple Smoke On The Water
3. Blur Song 2
4. Run DMC/Aerosmith Walk This Way
5. Derek & Dominoes Layla
6. The Kinks You Really Got Me
7. Rainbow Since You’ve Been Gone
8. Def Leppard Photograph
9. The Troggs Wild Thing
10. David Bowie Rebel Rebel
11. Jeff Beck Where Were You
12. Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain
13. Dire Straits Sultans of Swing
14. The Surfaris Wipe Out
15. Foo Fighters Monkey Wrench
16. Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back In Town
17. Black Sabbath Paranoid
18. Jo Satriani Surfing With The Alien
19. Status Quo Whatever You Want
20. Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird

CD2
1. Jimmy Hendrix Voodoo Child
2. The Who My Generation
3. T Rex 20th Century Boy
4. Paul McCartney All Shook Up
5. Chuck Berry Johnny B Goode
6. Weezer Hash Pipe
7. The Shadows Apache
8. Motorhead Ace Of Spades
9. Eddie Cochran Summertime Blues
10. Free Alright Now
11. Robbie Williams Let Me Entertain You
12. Fleetwood Mac Oh Well
13. Metallica For Whom The Bell Tolls
14. ZZ Top Gimme All Your Lovin
15. Boston More Than A Feeling
16. Cream Crossroads
17. Status Quo Down Down
18. Bad Company Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love
19. Whitesnake Here I Go Again
20. Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag
21. Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody recently won a poll as favourite song to "air guitar" too...

Brian to Work With ex-5ive Ritchie?
Newspapers in the UK have reported that Brian may work with ex-5ive member Ritchie in the future. Queen + 5ive released a version of 'We Will Rock You' that hit the UK number 1 spot. 5ive split up recently saying that they could no longer do justice to their fans or themselves.

John and Brian become "Million-Airs"
John Deacon and Brian May have recently both been made BMI 'Million-Airs'. It is a special award given by BMI to celebrate more than 1 million radio broadcasts in the USA of "We Will Rock You" and "Another One Bites The Dust".

NEW QUEEN DVD-A A Night At The Opera
On November 20th DTS Entertainment and Valley Entertainment will release an all region DVD-A release of Queen's A Night At The Opera. It has been remixed in dts 5.1 surround and also has the best stereo track ever released. What I am excited about is the original 1975 music video of Bohemian Rhapsody in DTS 5.1 Digital Surround.

Bo Rhap on TV ad
The end of Bohemian Rhapsody featured in an advert for the UK edition of 'who wants to be a millionaire' The lines 'nothing really matters...' and the heavy solo (yes in that order!!) were should ina short advert about the current contestant

Freddie Inspire's Diana Ross
Diana Ross will release her version of the Carole King song "Goin Back" later this month. This was the song Freddie recorded under the name of Larry Lurex as his first solo single. Diana chose to do the song after being inspired by Freddie's version and used his version as her reference when recording the track with Robbie Williams' collaborator Guy Chambers. The song is released by EMI on October 29th.

Mel C talks about Queen & recording Bo Rhap
Mel C has spoken about her love for all things Queen... Mel C was reported as saying: "I'm a massive Queen fan.But it was scary recording such a classic song [Bohemian Rhapsody]. Freddie Mercury is one of my biggest heroes and I love Brian May's sound, he's unique, I'd love to work with him one day. I hope they like the version Russell and I did!

Brian Speaks Possible Solo Album in Future / No More Robbie Williams.
At the Cambridge union society on Tuesday Brian performed We will rock you to a standing ovation. He spoke frankly about his personal problems and his spell in therapy two years ago. He also mentioned that a solo album may also be released in the future. amq by Edward Haworth I was lucky enough to attend a talk that Brian May gave at the Cambridge Union earlier tonight (yesterday). It was a great priviledge to finally 'meet' the man himself. And whilst it makes me feel vaguely like a spy typing this, he said some things I am sure you are all itnerested in. He opened his talk with a speech against the bombing of Afghanistan and played Bob Dylan's "With God on Our Side" on acoustic - a great song and very played. I was suprised by how political he could be, on this issue and on animal rights he put forward a very persuasive, non dogmatic and understated argument. He closed by playing "We Will Rock You" on his red special and the Deacy amp (!), which we got to isnpect (and even touch) later. He mentioned that he came to Cambridge for an interview in his time and talked briefly about his life (mostly academic) before Queen. The rest oif his talk was given to questions. The songs he are most proud of are "Too much love..." (the playing of which at the tribute concert is his fondest live performance)and "We will rock you" and his favourite album is "Queen 2" (and although he criticised The Works and Hot Space he said he basically stood by them). On the subject of albumst he wished people had the chance to listen to the studio albums rather then the greatest hits releases. The song he would like most of all to have written is Lennon's "Jealous Guy". He refused to go into much detail when asked about the biggest bender Queen went on, but mentioned female mud wrestlers and the infamous New Orleans party :). He defended John against someoneone who asked if he had any real input into the band "he wrote our best selling single..." (another one bites..). He mentioned Freddie many times, and how he still misses him, but he said he was finally comfortable talking about him again - mostly. In terms of the future he said he planned to record another solo album "when he had something to say again". The Queen musical (no longer directly about them) and a rock show/planetarium opening in Munich are projects he is very pumped about. Also he mentioned the entire "Night at the opera" album is being remixed into Dolby 5.1 (presumably DVD audio) by the original producer - the first time he said anyone has been allowed to mess with the original recording of BohRap. This sounds fantastic and will be first heard at the Munich planetarium opening. He spoke very enthusiastically about his positive relationship with Roger, he said they ahd hoped to do more work with Robbie Williams, but was dissapointed that this no longer looked likely. Unfortunately he said both Roger and himself have very little contact with John anymore, who had moved on. When I asked him later if he thought Queen would ever work together on new material he said he thought it was very unlikely - that that moment had passed and that future collaboration between Roger and himself would carry on with the musical and other projects as the closest thing to any new Queen work. When I asked him if then Smile would ever reform he just laughed. Hopefully some of the above will be interesting - it was a fantastic evening - the man is amazing, the most unlikely rock star ever.

Freddie Tribute Concert to get DVD release!
The Official Queen Website has announced that a number of Queen DVD's will be released starting from next year. The first DVD release will be the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert, set for release in April 2002. The DVD will include rehearsal and backstage footage.

Queen Tribute Band In New Movie
The LA based tribute band Sheer Heart Attack is to be featured in a "Rockumentary" style movie about tribute bands. From Brian Maybe of QMS There is a brand new documentary of tribute bands, called, 'Tribute,' premiering at the AFI Film Festival in Hollywood, Nov 3. "Sheer Heart Attack - A Royal Tribute to Queen" is among the featured bands, as is "Superfan" and fellow QMS member, Mark Eldridge! For more info, and stills from the movie, go to / (Check out all of the links, as there are pictures scattered throughout the website.)

Queen Scoop Another 'Best Song' Poll
Listeners of South African radio station 5fm have voted 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as best ever Rock song. The radio station renamed October "Rocktober". The best Rock song poll was held in the first week, ending on Friday 5 October. In 1985 Queen played several dates in South Africa and were blacklisted by the United Nations. At that stage South Africa was subject to various sanctions due to the apartheidpolicy of the then South African government. Queen maintained that they were "apolitical".

We Will Rock You' DVD Release Post-poned
The re-release of the 'We Will Rock You' DVD has been postponed until October 30th. The DVD will be available in both Dolby Digital and DTS formats. It includes a commentary by directory Saul Swimmer. Interestingly, until at least a few weeks ago, Queen management knew nothing of this release.

Vote for Queen - Best Rock Band Ever!
Guitarist magazine, who will be featuring Brian in their forthcoming November 2001 issue are having a best Rock Band poll. Go to http://www.guitarist.co.uk/news/news_page.asp?ID=4764 and vote for Queen as the best rock band ever. At the moment they are joint top with Led Zepp (25% each) lets see them at the top...ya?!

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Brian May's Last Interview?
Information has been released suggesting that Brian's interview with Guitarist magazine may be his last. From http://www.guitarist.co.uk/ Imagine how many times Brian May has been interviewed over his career; the number must run into thousands. A downside to this is that he's probably been asked the same questions on almost every occasion. Well, the November issue of Guitarist features what Brian has said will almost certainly be his LAST INTERVIEW, and we've racked our brains to come up with some questions he's never been asked before. Which guitar would he have favoured if he'd never actually built his own? The answer to this and other unique ponderables appears in our exclusive interview. The second is a worldwide exclusive: the first ever review of the brand new Burns Brian May Signature guitar. With a UK RRP of £499, its popularity would already seem to be assured, but what's it actually like? We probe its crannies and fondle its switches to bring you an exhaustive review, complete with comments from both Brian and his trusty technical sidekick Pete Malandrone. Finally, what's a major review without a CD audio demo to back it up? With his usual affability, Brian himself has recorded and exclusive 11-minute demo of the Burns Brian May guitar, which includes A/B test between it and the original Red Special, an audio walkthrough and an exclusive piece of music just for Guitarist. Appetite whetted? It should be! The November issue is on sale 4th October. Source: Jase / www.guitarist.co.uk

Information on Queen Laser Show at the Munich Planetarium
The Munich Planetariums website has released some details about the forthcoming Queen Multimedia Laser show: Taken from http://www.fdt.de/planetarium/queen.phtml A new spectacular music and laser show is designed to take place in the Munich planetarium before the end of the year 2001. Ten years after Freddie Mercury's death the global hits by the legendary group "Queen" will be presented in a new dimension. The 60 minute multimedia show includes the many mega hits by Queen and a lot of surprises and even world premieres. Right now Brian May is working with the producers to decide on the setlist and the arrangement of the show. "For me the Munich planetarium does not only have the most beautiful starry sky but also the biggest creative potential. I am fascinated by the idea to produce a planetarium show using Queen material, because astronomy has always been my hobby and I studied astrophysics" says Brian May who is looking forward to the cooperation. For more than two decades the British rock band "Queen" dominated the international popular music. And even ten years after the death of their eccentric lead singer Freddie Mercury, Queen music still has an impact on today's music world. The idea to create a planetarium show around the successful Queen catalogue is not new. But only recently the team succeeded in winning the band's approval. Within the next weeks a spectacular multimedia show based on the comprehensive Queen music-, picture-, and video archives will be created. The music and lasershows in the technical forum of the Munich planetarium are unique. Latest state-of-the-art multi media technology allow for the "melting" of the show elements. The audience will see a unique symbiosis of music elements, laser, panorama and video sequences, and projections through the whole dome. However it's not only technology that is important, but also the input of the production team. Musicians, director, laser and multi media programming team, computer animation and graphical art specialists work together to create the unusual show from the selected visual and sound material to be presented in the 20 metre diameter 360° dome. Since the opening in 1993 various music and laser shows have been produced and shown to large enthused audiences: for example the "Pink Floyd laser show", "LaserMagic", "Startime", "Snap Lasershow", "LaserMania", HardtranceMania", "Peter Maffay- encounters", "Yello - Pocket Universe" etc The new multimedia show is scheduled to be presented twice a day in the planetarium beginning 13th December 2001. Tickets will be on sale 15th October 2001.

Queen "Win" Best Party Poll
In Loaded magazine, there's a poll of the wildest parties EVER! Number 1 is at best spurious in origin. Caligula's grand bash where decadent really didn't do justice to what was going on! Still, as it was about 290 million years ago or something, nobody actually has any first hand evidence of it ever actually happening in the great detail in which it is described. So-where does that leave us? Well, we must look to the number 2 spot to give us a real winner, and sure enough-No 2 is the launch of "Jazz" in New Orleans. The review is fairly funny, as it starts with the words "Freddie Mercury was not the sort of person to do things by halves..." and you just know what's coming. "Cocaine and Champagne, naturally. A veritable mountain of the former, chopped into the desired shape on plates on dwarves heads, and enough of the latter to sink the QE2. The only shame is that the review finishes with "Shite album though..." (which, ofcourse, is totally incorrect). So I just thought I'd pass that on to remind us all that it wasn't just music at which Queen excelled, it was being cool at every verse end!

Mel C Records Bo Rhap
The BBC are reporting that Mel C (of Spice Girls fame) has recorded a version of Bohemian Rhapsody. The "singer" recorded it with opera singer Russell Watson. She has also recorded "Barcelona" with the singer. So Solid Crew's Harvey also features on the single. He raps in the middle of it. You can view the BBC story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/news/010927_melc.shtml

No Queen + Robbie Williams 'We Are The Champions' Release?
Speculation is mounting that there will not be United Kingdom single release of 'We Are The Champions', with Queen featuring Robbie Williams. The release was supposed to take place during the UK cinema release of 'A Knights Tale'. That was a number of weeks ago. Given that the film has passed it's date of being a 'hot commodity', the most commercially astute release date may have passed. Robbie Williams is intending to release a new album in early November, featuring Swing classics performed in a Frank Sinatra style. It may be unlikely that his management would want a different kind of release prior to this. As well as this, record shops in the UK are not showing the single on their 'upcoming' releases list.

Queen collaborators 5ive split up
The pop group 5ive, who had a No. 1 hit with the Queen collaboration "We Will Rock You" in 2000, have split up live on MTV. You can read the full news story on the BBC's site

News from November 2001.

Review: FREDDIE TRIBUTE 24TH NOVEMBER 2001
In Argentina Rivendel played last saturday a lot of Queen songs in The Roxy in Palermo. The show was excellent There were about 400 persons. IT was really great!!!!!!!!

Brian and Roger at Freddie Tribute
Brian May and Roger Taylor appeared at the official Freddie tribute in Hackney, London. As the SAS Band started to play Radio Ga Ga, Brian and Roger appeared on stage and the crowd went mad! I was nearly in tears, especially when they played no one but you. The lead singer of Iron Maiden (i forget his name) also came on to sing I Want to Break Free.

Queen in Another Advert
There is an advert for a British music TV channel called magic featuring 'Don't stop me now.' It starts of with some bloke lying in a hospital bed and suddenly all these nuns jump up and start singing 'Don't Stop me Now.' Its actually quite funny.

Queen day on Capital Gold Radio Station
Apparently Capital Gold are having a Queen day Capital Gold are meant to be dedicating tomorrow to Queen on their station, tune in to see if it's true and what's going on.

These Are The Days of Our Lives - "New" Video on TOTP2
The video to "These Are The Days of Our Lives" has been featured at the end of the BBC show "Top of the Pops 2" The version that was played was the US version, featuring animation. The "new" video features the old version with a cartoon story put into it, following the story in the song - boy meets girl at a fairground, they fall in love, drive away in a flying car, ride on a rollercoaster, look back on their lives together when they are grown up (aahhhhh, sweet). It will be on again on Saturday, please set your videos! Ed: If anyone can capture this digitally, or provide me with a VHS tape of it, I would be happy to put it on-line for Queen fans around the world.

Further NATO DVD-Audio Release Delays
It appears the NATO DVD-Audio release has been delayed again. Valley Entertainment has sent a mass e-mail stating that the ANATO DVD release was delayed until January 15 (at least in the US).

Freddie Tribute To Be Broadcast By BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 are to broadcast a tribute to Freddie, called The Mercury Tapes, on Saturday 24th November at 8pm UK time. It is said to contain interviews with Freddie never before broadcast. Check out this link /

Metal Band "Domine" Tribute Queen
The Stormbringer Ruler Album contains a special song tributed to Queen A friend of mine told me that on the label of the third album of this italian metal band we can find a song ideated in tribute to QUEEN.(For Evermore is the title, if i remember correctly)

Annoyed Customer Demands Her Air Guitar
Shop staff were lost for words when an irate customer demanded the free gift she was promised with the CD she had just bought. They had to explain it to her gently - the advertised gift with The Best Air Guitar Album In The World Ever was... an air guitar. 'She was not happy,' said Graham Prior, deputy manager of WHSmith at the Metro Centre in Gateshead. 'Perhaps we should have handed her an air guitar and told her not to damage it because we would be unable to exchange it.'

A Night At The Opera DTS delayed
According to DVDEmpire.com, Queen's ANATO DTS release is now delayed for November 27th. Let's hope that this is the only delay in release dates.

Air Guitar Album Hits UK Charts
Conflicting reports have the Brian May produced 'Air Guitar' album hitting the UK charts. The Queen Fan Club lists the album at number 15 on the UK compilation charts, with queenonline.com listing it at number 7.

Eastenders Sing 'I want to break free'
5 of the main eastenders charcters sing i want to break free in the almost exactly costumes queen wore for the video. For those who watch eastenders
Barry and Beppe were Freddie
Gary was Roger
Dr Trueman was Brian
Jim was John

Eastenders perform Bohemian Rhapsody.
On Friday the 16th on the programme Children in Need the eastenders cast are going to do a Freddie Mercury Tribute by singing Bohemian Rhapsody. They will be singing this in the second part of Children in Need which is on on Friday the 16th of November. It will performed between 10:00pm to 02:00am.

Brian appears on Channel 4 promoting Air Guitar Album
Brian May appeared on channel 4 on sunday morning to promote the release of the Air Guitar album... Brian appeared on Popworld, promoting the air guitar album. Luckily i managed to get it taped. The whole thing lasted about 3 minutes and basically consited of Brian saying a bit about the album, followed by home video footage of someone playing air guitar, followed by a brief look at the advert with some behind the scenes footage, and then back to the studio where brian anounced that he had brought his air guitar, and then he mucked about a bit with the air guitar. All in all nothing amazing, but nice to see brian on TV.

Classic Rock magazine in tribute to Freddie.
Music magazine Classic Rock has a Nineteen page tribute to Freddie. I browsed at the magazine section in my local newsagents and spotted a picture of Freddie on the front of one. The picture on the front is from the Bohemian Rhapsody single cover. The magazine also looks at all of Queen's albums. There is also a cheeky cartoon featuring Roger, Brian, John and Robbie Williams.

Miracle, the Dutch Queen cover band at the Queen Convention 2002
Miracle has been officially asked to play at the Queen convention in Prestatyn 2002. Of course the guys consider this as a great honour. You can get involved also... The band wants the fans to experience something different than the years before. Not only some greatest hits will be performed, but also songs that hardly any cover band has played before.

Air Guitar Advert
Just saw the advert for the best Air Guitar Album! You hear "Rock This Way" by Run DMC/Aerosmith, and see someone with huge amounts of curly hair, spinning on his head then doing a back flip, then stands up and it's BRIAN! He then gos on to play air guitar with Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi, while laughing his head off! If someone out there has the technology, could you please turn this advert into a movie for the net so everyone else can see and have a good laugh as well?

WeWill Rock You DVD Competion
For those fans in the US or Canada, DVDFile are giving you the chance of winning a copy of the new We Will Rock You DVD. Go to the following URL to enter!

Australian PM Chooses Queen
The Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard has chosen a Queen song as his "favourite song" in a Radio station question and answer session. Mr Howard was asked from a selection of songs as to which one was his favourite. He chose 'We Will Rock You'. Other songs suggested in the a lineup were Power and The Passion, You're Not the Boss of Me and Semi-Charmed Life. Ed: Australia is at the tail-end of a Federal Election campaign.

STONE COLD QUEEN-A TRIBUTE TO QUEEN
Stone Cold Queen is the new Queen tribute album released through Mascot Records. The album features an array of well known rock musicians including Matt Sorum, Joe Lynn Taylor, Billy Sheenan, Jack Blades, Richie Kotzen, Kip Winger and Bruce Kulick. Stone Cold Queen is currently only available in Europe.
The tracklisting and musicians featured on this album is as follows:
1.Stone Cold Crazy (Robin Zander/Steve Stevens/Billy Sheehan/Matt Sorum)
2.Play The Game (Mickey Thomas/Marty Friedman/Chuck Wright/Paul Taylor/Gregg Bissonette)
3.Fat Bottomed Girls (Joe Lynn Turner/Reb Beach/Tony Franklin/Eric Singer)
4.Somebody To Love (Geoff Tate/Doug Aldrich/Paul Taylor/Carmine Rojas/Aynsley Dunbar)
5.Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Gunnar&Matthew Nelson/Albert Lee/Michael Porcaro/Pat Torpey)
6.Fight From The Inside (Jack Blades/Jake E. Lee/Tony Levin/Tony Thompson)
7.You're My Best Friend (Jason Scheff/Richie Kotzen/Paul Taylor/Marco Mendoza/Vinny Appice)
8.I'm In Love With My Car (Kip Winger/Steve Lukather/Phil Soussan/Frankie Banali)
9.Killer Queen (Glenn Hughes/Pat Thrall/Stu Hamm/Paul Taylor/Carmine Appice)
10.Spread Your Wings (Tommy Shaw/Dweezil Zappa/Tim Bogert/Derek Sherinian/Steve Ferrone)
11.We Will Rock You (Jack Russell/Bruce & Bob Kulick/Jeff Pilson/Mikkey Dee)

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA-DTS VERSION RELEASE DETAILS
The DTS Entertainment DVD-Audio version of "A Night At The Opera" will be available in North American stores on November 20th. The new surround version has a potential release date scheduled for early 2002 for the rest of the world.

Robbie Continues to do the Queen Thing
Robbie Williams is continuing to page homage to Queen nearing the end of his world tour. Appearing in Perth, Western Australia on November 1, his show had a notable Queen slant. The song leading into the beginning of the concert was fat bottomed girls, which got the crowd clapping. In the middle of the show, Robbie engaged the crowd in a number of "de-oh" very similar to those featured in the Live At Wembley video. The show finished with 'We Are The Champions'. Robbie introduced the song saying 'you'll know this one' and that 'you have to sing it loud'. During the performance, Robbie got a Freddie-trademarked half-mike stand. The crowd went absolutely nuts, all singing the Queen classic. It was fitting tribute to the greatest band, in the world, ever...

Aussie Freddie Tribute On November 24th - 29/10/01
Hard to believe but it's 10 years since Freddie left us. The Official Australian Freddie Mercury Tribute will take place in Sydney on November 24th between 5pm and midnight. Place: Pittwater RSL Club (Main Sail Room), 82 Monavale Road, Monavale. Special Showing: Live at Houston '77, Live Music 'Tribute Band', Videos, Prizes, including Freddie Mercury Karaoke! Cost: AU$30.00 (incl. finger food).

Review of New 'We Will Rock You' DVD
The new 'We Will Rock You' DVD has been released. The following review is from long-time Queenzoner, Michael Allred. First off, the packaging is new. Instead of that generic silhouette of Freddie, the new DVD has a very nice shot of the band on stage. The tracklisting is identical to the previous DVD release. Putting in the disc we see a nice animated menu with Queen playing in the background. Starting off with the video/audio presentation... The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen finally giving fans the chance to see the film in it's intended ratio. Afterall, the film was originally shot for an IMAX type show on a 5 story tall screen. This is a completely NEW video transfer, this time in high-definition. The differences between this DVD and all previous home video releases are very noticable. The new DVD shows so much more detail, the clarity in some shots was stunning. It also gave much more depth to the lighting Queen used on stage. All specs of dirt, scratches, hair, etc were removed. This is the BEST "We Will Rock You" has ever looked. The audio is a new Dolby Digital 5.1 mix and again, it's something to behold. You will never hear a better sounding Brian May guitar solo, the mix is that good. (There is also a seperate DTS release of the disc for those that have DTS receivers.) Concerning the extras, there is a informative audio commentary track by the film's director, Saul Swimmer. He shares plenty of anecdotes such as how the members of Queen insisted on screening the film seperate from each other, that Roger poked fun at the way Freddie held his hands at the piano and how Brian basically ignored all the cameras insisting that his performance was for the fans at the concert and nothing else. One odd thing Swimmer said was calling Queen a "cult band". They were coming off their biggest success ever in North America at the time and that equals cult status? There is an extremely easy Queen trivia quiz to play (though there are some mistakes as calling "The Loser in the End" simply "The Loser" but these are minor quibbles.) Also included are bios of the band and for each seperate member. You can also check out a Queen discography, complete with album covers, tracklistings and how they did in the charts (they only refered to the UK charts for some reason.) Then there is a virtual tour of Queen landmarks in England where you take a subway to each location (such as Kensington Market, the Queen fan club, etc) all the while hearing subway announcements like 'please watch your step' which made it fun. All in all this is a no-brainer purchase, even if you own the previously released DVD. The new widescreen hi-def transfer and audio mix is worth it alone.

News from December 2001.

Merry Christmas everybody and a happy new year!!!!!
Another year is finishing. Let`s hope for the best in EE.UU, Afganistan and in all over the world for the next one. I only want peace on earth. In my country, Argentina, there are a lot of troubles but I hope next year will be better. On December 25 will be celebrating Christmas, just raise our glasses and ask for peace in Afganistan and EE.UU as well as a better world. Besides, don`t forget there are a lot of people starving, that people need our help.
GOD BLESS YOU!!, GUILLERMO URSI

Queen at no. 1 in top 2000
Again Queen tops a Dutch poll. This time the Dutch Radio 2 Top 2000 of the year 2001. For the third year in a row, Queen are voted No. 1 with Bohemian Rhapsody. There are 16 Queen songs in the list. You can find the complete list at http://top2000.omroep.nl/2001/

A Bit Of Queen Music at VH1 Fashion Awards...
Queen were played at the recent VH1 Fashion awards. We Will Rock You was played during one of the "Fashion Designer Of The Year" nominee segments. I beleive it was for Mark Jacobs(?)... who won designer of the year, by the way. This isn't really BIG Queen news but I personally felt glad to hear some Queen music being played at the awards.

Queen Song Used in Next Cameron Diaz Movie
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is featured in the forthcoming movie "The Sweetest Thing". The movie stars Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate. The movie appears to be a romantic comedy. It is set for a release in March 2002 (in the US at least)

First review of "A Night at the Opera" DVD-audio disc
You can read the detailed review here;
http://www.dvdangle.com/reviews/review.php?Id=2097 To the best of my knowledge, this is the first "professional" review of the new DVD audio release of Queen's "A Night at the Opera" featuring the new 5.1 surround and DTS mixes we've all been reading about.

Queen used in Teachers' Tribute
Queen was featured on Lifetime TV's "Disney's American Teacher Awards". Queen was featured on Lifetime TV's "Disney's American Teacher Awards". At the start of the show, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" could be clearly heard throughout the theater. It's not the most important news in the world, but it's nice to know Queen is still being used... and for such a good cause, I might add.

Brian May's Christmas Message
Through Queenonline.com, Brian May has sent a Christmas message to Queen fans around the world. I've been feeling good about Queen World and my own smaller Other World over the last few weeks.

The BEST AIR GUITAR ALBUM IN THE WORLD EVER has been doing fabulously well, as you've all probably seen - the TV ads, and Word of Mouth on the streets about how great the Track Listing really is, seem to have propelled the album to ever greater heights. In the first couple of weeks we were selling four or five thousand and being pleased about that - but now the thing is doing around 35 thousand weekly and they're working hard to print it fast enough to keep up! I'm really very proud of it - it was just a fun idea at the beginning, just a pipe dream from Pete, Justin, and I… But after a lot of serious work it really did materialise into the kind of Dream Guitar Album that I always wanted to make - it's been warming my heart in my car ever since… and to be able to get all that magnificent seminal guitar music to the ears of young folks just starting out playing guitar is a great feeling for me. Big Thanks to all who helped us make it happen!!! - especially Steve Pritchard at Virgin records UK.

The new edition of the BRIAN MAY GUITAR is also doing brilliantly well so far. It's JUST out on sale - and so far every one that's been made is already sold. For those who haven't come across it, it's the new edition of replicas of my own Homemade guitar which my Dad helped me to build 40 YEARS AGO! We designed the original all from scratch, aiming to make a guitar which would feed back through the air in the best way, making an instrument that would 'Sing' with its sustain and tone. Somehow it worked, and the 'Red Special' has been the instrument I have used for 99 per cent of every Queen recording and live shows, as well as my own outings for "Back to the Light" and "Another World".

Two previous editions of "Brian May Models" were made by Guild guitars of the USA, all now unobtainable except at ludicrously inflated prices second-hand. Burns of England have now made a new model, in close consultation with me, with Pete Malandrone my Tech, and with Greg Fryer (who made me 3 beautiful identical clones of the guitar 5 years ago, christened Paul, John, and George) which is excellently made and sounds almost indistinguishable from the original Red Special. It's also much more affordable, at 500 quid or so.

The new BURNS BM model was rave-reviewed in GUITARIST magazine a couple of months ago and they have now named it their Guitar of the Year! Thanks Guys!!! So I am well happy with this new venture - and hope that the guitar will inspire many more young players to ROCK!!!

I've been very busy. Just got back from L.A. where I was helping to put the finishing touches to the new 5.1 Surround mix of our 1975 album, "A Night at the Opera". It sounds COLOSSAL!!! To hear it you will need a 5.1 system, and a dedicated DVD player which plays the Sound DVD format. The surround sound is produced exactly as in the new Cinema THX systems - two speakers in front, left and right, two in the back, left and right, a "hard cetre" speaker in the middle in front, and a Sub-Woofer some place, preferably under your seat! The ANATO album is perfectly suitable for surround - since there was always too much on our multitrack tapes to condense down to just stereo! It's amazing now to hear all those vocal harmonies and guitar orchestras zooming all around your head. The project was piloted by hugely respected producer Elliot Steiner, and our own original co-producer, Roy Thomas Baker. I went over to Capitol Studios (under that building that looks like a stack of 45 records on Vine Street in Hollywood) to meet them, since I was the only one who could remember where all that bounced stuff was meant to go! It was also a chance to be creative in the new medium, and I tried to do all the stuff we WOULD have done at the time if we'd had the technology at our disposal. It's VERY interesting!!!

The final Surround mix of Bohemian Rhapsody, just one of the tracks on this epic work, and by no means the most complex, is being rushed to Munich for inclusion in the Planetarium show there which opens on 12th December.

The Planetarium Show is something Justin and I have been putting much energy into, along with its creators, headed by Markus Steblei in Munich. It's a trip - really - through Time and Space - you'll see what I mean if you manage to get there some time in the next few months - we've used much of the Planetarium's natural night sky projections (they have probably the finest Zeiss projector in Europe, if not the World) plus many very new laser and imaging devices, to make a programme which at times will make you feel you are seeing Queen as we might have been in the 3rd Millennium. I'm particularly pleased with a disturbing and beautiful depiction of "Mother Love" in a kind of cosmic graveyard, and a new edit I produced of "Track 13" which is a trip in itself, as those of you who discovered its secret on Made in Heaven will know…. You will also see many restored images like the Cels used for the "It's a Kind of Magic" video, and - oh yes, Bohemian Rhapsody as never before…

We hope that the Planetarium show will be able to be mounted in other planetaria in the future, first in Germany, and then perhaps elsewhere, where compatible technology becomes available.

Finally - WE WILL ROCK YOU - THE MUSICAL -! It's been unbelievably time-consuming but in the best possible way - the development of the ideas is continually challenging and exciting, and we are every day coming into contact with great talented people - only today at what must be our 50th day of just singing auditions we found a young lady with a WONDERFUL voice - we're hoping to bring her into the cast. We start rehearsals for real in the middle of January; the sets are being constructed as we speak, and the arranging of the songs is in the hands of Roger and myself and a great team of Professionals - Mike Dixon being joint musical Supervisor with us. Movement, direction, and script interpretation are also very interactive between us, but headed by the great Chris Renshaw in the director's chair, and the legendary Arlene Philips as chief choreographer. Our trusty manager Jim Beach is Producer, along with ourselves and Ben's Management team, and Robert DeNiro's company, Tribecca.

The phenomenal Ben Elton is of course our scriptwriter, and very fabulous he is too - also No. 1 Fiction writer this Christmas - Congratulations Ben! - with his fascinating book "Dead Famous". I devoured it already - it's a great read - anyone remember Agatha Christie? - well it's a bit like that, but with all the force of Ben's devastating sardonic wit added in - a must!

OK, enough advertising! Have a WONDERFUL Christmas season - And start working on the New Year RES's …. See you there!

Cheers and Hoorah!
Be Happy!
Be Peaceful! (Especially peaceful!)
Love
Brian

Brian Writes Theme for New TV Series
Brian May has provided a fantastic, rockin' theme tune to a new series of the sitcom called 'Fun at The Funeral Parlour' on BBC Choice. It starts on Tuesday 22nd of Jan at 9.30. It also features guest star performances from Anita Dobson, Paul Whitehouse, Art Malik, Simon Day, Christopher Cazenove and Mark Williams from The Fast Show. The series also features 'Good Old Fashioned Loverboy' in Ep1 and 'Stone Cold Crazy' in Ep 6. Special thanks to Rhys Thomas for this information.

Queen Number 1 at Funerals!
Queen have topped a Dutch poll for favourite songs played at funerals. The number 1 song was "Who wants to live forever". At no. 33 was "You take my breath away".
The total list was as follows:
1 Who wants to live forever? Queen
2 Time to Say Goodbye Andrea Boccelli & Sarah Brightman
3 Geen kind meer Karin Bloemen
4 November Rain Guns N Roses
5 The Rose (+3) Bette Midler
6 Tears in Heaven(-2) Eric Clapton
7 One Day I'll Fly Away (+2) Randy Crawford
8 Stairway to Heaven (+1) Led Zeppelin
9 Ave Maria (-2) Diverse uitvoeringen
10 Het Dorp (+3) Wim Sonneveld
11 De Steen (0) Paul de Leeuw
12 Wish you were here (+7) Pink Floyd
13 The Sound of Silence (-7) Simon & Garfunkel
14 Against all odds (0) Phil Collins
15 The road ahead is empty (-5) City to city
16 Go (+4) Moby
17 Wonderful Life (-2) Mathilda Santing
18 My Way (-1) Frank Sinatra
19 Spente le Stelle (-1) Emma Shaplin
20 Have I Told You Lately (+4) Van Morisson
21 We'll Meet Again (-6) Vera Lynn
22 Candle in the wind (-6) Elton John
23 Bridge over Troubled Water (-2) Simon & Garfunkel
24 Old and wise (-4) Alan parsons project
25 Heroes (-3) David Bowie
26 Waarheen Waarvoor (-3) Mieke Telkamp
27 Amazing Grace (+3) Diverse uitvoeringen
28 The Power of love (-3) Celine Dion
29 Alles Wat Ademt (-3) Rob de Nijs
30 I will survive (-1) Gloria Gaynor
31 Carmina Burana (-7) Diverse uitvoeringen
32 De 4 jaargetijden van Vivaldi (0) Diverse uitvoeringen
33 You Take My Breath Away (+2) Queen
34 Zo zal het zijn (+2) Rob de Nijs
35 Non, je ne regrette rien (-4) Edith Piaff
36 Het water (-2) Marco Borsato
37 Brothers in arms (+3) Dire straits
38 Message (-1) Vangelis
39 Ave Verum (-6) Diverse uitvoeringen
40 Papa (+3) Stef Bos
41 Missing you (+6) Puff Daddy
42 It's over (nieuw) Level 42
43 En de vogels zongen (+7) The sweet people
44 Stay with Me 'til The Morning (+2) Nana Mouskoury
45 Heaven help (-3) Lenny Kravitz
46 Music was my first love (+2) John Miles
47 What a wonderful world (-3) Louis Armstrong
48 Beautifull goodbyes (nieuw) Amanda Marshall
49 Butterfly (-8) Mariah Carey
50 Imagine
Thanks to Rien van Nispen for this evening.

Website Lauched for Tim Staffell's New Album
Former lead singer of Smile, the band that proceeded Queen, has launched a website for his eagerly awaited solo album. The album is Tim's first commercial solo work in 30 years and features the Queen track "Doin' Alright", as well as the original Smile song "Earth". You can access the website at: http://www.staffell.com/amigo/

Queen DVD poll
With Queen ramping up for DVD releases, I thought it'd be interesting to learn which concert fans would like to have FIRST on DVD. Now I understand the "Freddie Mercury Tribute" is due next April but that's not exactly Queen is it? Naturally I'm thinking of concerts while Freddie was still rockin away. So basically the poll's question goes like this; Which Queen concert do you want released on DVD first, before any other? It can only be ONE concert. Please be as specific as possible like answering "Milton Keyes 82" for example. Please list ONLY *one* choice. The poll will end December 31st, 2001. E-mail your choice to: evilbaby@webtv.net

Details on Story of 'We Will Rock You' Musical Queenonline.com have posted details about the forthcoming Queen musical.
From queenonline.com:
The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete. Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It's a safe, happy, Ga Ga World. "Unless you're a rebel. Unless you want to Rock" On Planet Mall Rock 'n' Roll has been banned for centuries. All musical instruments are banned. The materials from which instruments were once made are banned. There is no wood, no steel or gut for strings, no skin for drums, these things are long forgotten. The Company Computers generate the tunes and the kids download them. Nothing is left to chance in the pursuit of profit, hits are scheduled years in advance. Dance moves are rigidly imposed. "Is this the real life? Is it just fantasy?" It is the age of Boy Bands and Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Of Andro Bands, groups of software created sexless cyber stars. All processed. All manufactured. Dancing in the Ether and lulling the kids into a sleep that has lasted for centuries. "Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality" But resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. The Bohemians dream that one day these lost chords will be heard once more. They call this day, The Rhapsody. "Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see" Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. Place there in the golden age against a time when it would be needed to inspire the kids anew. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe. A crazy rebel with a heart of solid rock who will draw the guitar from the stone and play the ancient anthems. "He's just a poor boy. From a poor family" But the Bohemians must find this hero before the Company does. For if the Ga Ga Cops get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign to oblivion across the Seven Seas Of Rhye. Where is this axe hero? Where is the Hairy One's lost axe? Where is the place of living rock? "Anywhere the wind blows" WE WILL ROCK YOU. SPRING 2002 THE RHAPSODY IS UPON US For your oppotunity to book tickets for this event, visit www.queenonline.com

Virtual German Queen Exhibition
For all fans who missed this great exhibition there is the possibility to make a virtual trip through the gallery in Wesel where this exhibition was shown from 26th Aug till 30th Sep 2001. Just look at and follow 'Queen Exhibtion 2001' - 'Gallery' - an then click on the map of the gallery - you will see 80 pictures of more than 3.000 items showing in this great event. Special thanks to Hans-Joachim Zache for this information. Ed: It looks like a real Queen museum, well worth a look.

Brian Attends Lord of the Rings Premiere
Brian has attended the London Premiere for 'Lord of the Rings'. Brian is a lover of Sci-fi and Fantasy.

Bluegrass Queen
According to "Entertainment Weekly" magazine; Coming next year, Queen will be featured in the series of "Pickin' On" tribute albums in which the artist's music is done in a bluegrass style (banjos and all.) The "Pickin' On Queen" album will be the first in the series to feature vocals (the previous albums were instrumentals.) Other artists who have been featured in the series were Elton John, Pink Floyd and R.E.M.

Queen on new Christmas Compilation
Queen's "Thank God It's Christmas" has been featured on a new Christmas album, "The Big 80's Christmas". The review listed the song as the "lump of coal" of the album, because it was too slow and didn't feature Brian May's signiture guitar work. Editorial Comment: Nonsense.

Queen Touring in a 'Virtual Way'
QueenOnline.com is giving a limited number of fans the opportunity to watch a historic concert over the internet. The dates are as follows: - Weds Dec 12th, Rio de Janeiro, Braziill ((original concert details) - Friday Dec 14th, Tokyo, Japan (origiinnall concert details) - Monday Dec 17th, Budapest, Hungary ((ooriiginal concert details) - Weds Dec 19th, London, England (origgiinaal concert details) They will also be having a 'Chat' backstage with Queen's old tour manager Gerry Stickells. If you would like to see the concerts, you need to go to www.queenonline.com to register.

Queen on New Compilation Album
Queen feature on a new compilation called Millennium Gold. Just released in the shops, Queen are joined by whole host of other acts including Bob Dylan, U2, Prince, Bowie and REM. The song, 'One Vision', is naturally placed as track one on CD one.

Morten Harket Sings Queen
Lead singer of Norwegian Band A-ha has sung a collection of Queen songs in front of HRH Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway. Morten was at the opening of a Norwegian Art Award. Morten sang two Queen songs, ‘Killer Queen’ and ‘Love of my Life’. Morten explains that he was a huge fan of Freddie Mercury when he was 16 - 17 years old. “Freddie Mercury meant a lot to me in terms of developing my voice. His expressive singing was very challenging for me, and something that inspired me to go on in search of my own voice."

BoRhap listed no.2 in Greatest ever no.1 singles
Bohemian rhapsody came in at no.2 in the programme shown this evening on channel 4 (UK) There was a short interview with Roger about the single (quite interesting!!). No.1 was 'Imagine' by John lennon.

Queen Feature on New Moulin Rouge Album
'MOULIN ROUGE - Music Inspired by the Film' is a companion album to the original film soundtrack album released earlier in the year. Queen's 'The Show Must Go On' is featured on the soundtrack. It was featured in the movie in a different form, sung by the actors with a different arrangement.
The track listing for the album inlcudes:
01 Labelle - Lady Marmalade
02 Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
03 DeBarge - Rhythm Of The Night
04 Disco Diva - Material Girl
05 Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
06 Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
07 Billy Paul - Your Song
08 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Don't Leave Me this Way
09 David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
10 Randy Crawford - One Day I'll Fly Away
11 Philharmonica Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan - Can Can from Orpheous in the Underworld
12 Les Compagnons De La Chanson - The Song From Moulin Rouge
13 T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution
14 Fatboy Slim - Going Out Of My Head
15 Kylie Minogue - On a Night Like This
16 George Michael - Roxanne
17 David Bowie - "Heroes"
*18 Queen - The Show Must Go On*
19 Jack Lantier - La Complainte De La Butte
20 Edith Piaf - Hymne A L'Amour

Queen records more than Champs with Robbie
Ben Elton has been working hard with the remaining Queen members on the up-and-coming musical. And they've even been working with Robbie Williams! "We've done some stuff together," confesses Brian, "Some of which has leaked out - it's never really been released properly. There was the 'We Are The Champions' thing which is in the film 'A Knight's Tale'. We've actually dabbled around in the studio apart from that - not many people know that. But there's never been a plan for Freddie to be replaced - Freddie can never be replaced. I'm not against the idea of doing gigs with people, but the time and the place and the person would have to be right. Don't get me wrong: I think Robbie is a very serious performing talent in every way that you could want." Is there more stuff yet to be released? "There's some unfinished stuff lying around somewhere. We get up to these little things on the quiet." Brian claims there are "no plans at the moment" to finish them.

News from March 2002.

We Will Rock You Name That Tune Game
The game is set out in three levels of ascending difficulty, each with 5 Queen tracks to name. On the completion of each level you will progress to the next. After successfully overcoming all three levels you will then be able enter and post your details. All winners will then be entered into a draw to win a pair of tickets for the World Premiere of We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre, London on May 14. You can play at:
http://www.queenonline.com/wewillrockyou/tunegame

Another Kind of Magic
A tribute concert is to be held at the Opera in Gothenburg, Sweden during the period 22-26 of May. .It includes songs like Radio Ga-Ga, Who Wants to Live Forever, We Are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Further details as they become available.

Queen's SNL Performance to be Re-Broadcast?
E! has bought ALL Saturday Night Live episodes, and will broadcast them all, beginning in the first season and proceeding in chronological order. This (possibly) means that the episode with Queen(hosted by Danny Divito) will be rebroadcast. Ed: there are a few conflicting reports at the moment - so fingers crossed.

Roger Featured in Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Radio Adverts
VH1 is running a radio advertising campaign on US radio stations for the Rock n Roll Hall of fame. Roger Taylor's comments at last year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony that the award "means more than all the Grammy's we never got." are featured in the commercial.

Queen - Third Best TOTP2 Peformance
Queen's "Killer Queen" has been voted the third best peformance on the BBC's Top of the Pops 2.
From news.bbc.co.uk:
Viewers of Top of the Pops 2 have voted Duran Duran's rendition of Rio in the studio as the best Top of the Pops performance of all time. In second place was Madonna with Like A Virgin. Queen's Killer Queen was third. Thousands of viewers voted for their favourite performances by email, post and on the Top of the Pops website as part of celebrations to mark the 250th edition of TOTP2, which shows vintage TOTP footage. The top 20 performances will be played, 10 each evening, in reverse order, on 2 and 3 April, starting at 7.05pm.

Greatest Flix Released on DVD
A Brazilian DVD magazine "DVD TOTAL" isbe giving away Greatest Flix on DVD with this months issue. This is not an PMI/Emi official release. Last months release was The Police: the videos... first time on dvd too...)!!! It´s a ALL regions disc and the "Bycicle Race" video was edited out.
Thanks to Marcelo for this information.

Queen on Legend 3 advert
Again a Legends CD has been compiled by Capital Gold. This time in the advert on TV we Queen performing We Are The Champions.

Queen on Parkinson
Queen is finally to appear on the BBC talk / interview Parkinson. Brian, Roger, Ben Elton and the singers and band from the We Will Rock You Musical will appear on the 4 May, 2002. Source: alt.music.queen www.queenworld.com

VOTE FOR QUEEN!!!! (top 200)
A Belgium radio station is keeping an all time top 200 poll. It will be aired on Easter Monday, the first of April, from 8 AM to 10 Pm. Even if you can't listen to it, please, please vote for Queen, for the ones who can listen to it, and to keep the spirit of Queen and BoRhap up to the place where they beong: nr 1! go tohttp://www.contact2.be/NL/top200.asp
Fill in the grids, and press submit (not that hard to understand, now is it?! good luck and let's hope for the best, and head for the top, as Freddie would say.

Anita on "This Is Your Life"
Brian's wife, Anita Dobson, is to be featured on "This Is Your Life" on BBC 1 at 8.20 pm, Wednesday 20 March. One would think that the man himself will be appearing...
Source : BBC/qfc; www.brianmay.com/maybe

Queen Musical Press Conference
The first official press conference is to be held on 26 March 2002. Robert De Niro, representing the backers Tribeca Theatrical Productions, Queen members and musical supervisors Brian May and Roger Taylor and writer Ben Elton will attend the event. You can view the offical site at www.queenonline.com

Brian To Play At Liza Minelli's Wedding
Brian is to perform in a "super-group" of the upcoming wedding of Liza Minelli. Brian is one of approximately 300 celebrities attending the wedding. All of which will be searched to ensure they are not carrying cameras. Minelli has signed an exclusive picture deal with a magazine for x million dollars. Liza Minelli peformed "We Are The Champions" at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992.

Queen in Montreal Show on MMM
Highlights of a Queen concert in Montreal from the early 80's was shown on Much More Music. At 9:00 PM and 12:00 PM on Sunday the 10th and 2:00 PM on Monday the 11th, the concert was shown on MMM. Songs Included: Bohemian Rhapsody, Dragon Attack, Another One Bites the Dust, Under Pressure and Jailhouse Rock.

Bejart Ballet in Holland
The Bejart ballet for life, with music of Queen and mozart, will come to Holland, eventually, in the Carre. People who have allready seen the show, have various opinions. Some say it was a weary show, some find it too out of range for ballet, but they all agree on one thing: in the end, people clap loudest for Freddie Mercury. for further news:
http://www.spitsnet.nl
Look in the archive, type in Bejart ballet. All the information however, is in dutch.

Queen night in Cottbus
On Friday, April 26th, a whole night will be dedicated to Freddie Mercury and Queen in the "Alte Weberei" in Cottbus (in the eastern part of Germany, about 150 kilometres from Berlin). Apart from a concert of the Queen cover band "The Great Pretender", there will be video bits, a party with taped Queen music and lots of other stuff. The event starts at 20:00 gmt.
Tickets at the price of 10 Euro are available in the "Alte Weberei" Cottbus, telephone 0049-0355-30810.

Vote for Queen on Top of the Pops 2
Killer Queen is amongst the performances to vote for, for the TOTP2 shows being aired on the 2nd/3rd April TOTP2 are having a vote on their website for the viewers all time favourite performance and you can vote for any performance.Killer Queen is amongst the highlighted choices.The site is www.bbc.co.uk/totp/videoclips/totp2-vote/index.shtml

Queen Documentary
We are currently producing a documentary on Queen for Channel 4 in the UK and are looking for people to contribute to the show. At present we are trying to locate Original Queen clothing or at least incredibly good replicas to borrow for a shoot. We are also interested in any Fan Art that people would like to share with us for a small feature within the documentary. Finally, and the most obscure of requests! Does anyone know any of the nude models from the Bicycle Race Video, we are keen to track down and interview at least one. If you can help with any of the above let me know.

Highlander:The Gathering
Kalisto Entertainment who bought the rights to produce games based on the highlander film and TV series, have released a video, from the game. It can be found at: http://www.pczone.co.uk in the NEWS section of the site. Its listed in the archive under Thursday 28th February 2002. This is the first movie to be released and shows the character creation screens for this multiplayer title.

Queen in the Playstation world
Konami announced today that their latest PlayStation 2 soccer simulation 'Winning Eleven 6' is scheduled for release on April 25th in Japan. The game will prominently feature Masafumi Nakayama of the Japanese team 'Jublio Iwata' on its packaging and associated advertising. Moreover, Konami has acquired the rights to use two rock anthems from the band 'Queen' in the game. Reportedly, the introduction sequence from Winning Eleven 6 will be over two minutes long and will include the songs 'We Will Rock You,' and 'We are the Champions.' The game will carry the license of FIFPro, providing a full slate of International teams, players and stadiums. Released plans for North America remain undisclosed, although a European translation is scheduled for release later this year. The game will prominently feature Masafumi Nakayama of the Japanese team 'Jublio Iwata' on its packaging and associated advertising. Moreover, Konami has acquired the rights to use two rock anthems from the band 'Queen' in the game. Reportedly, the introduction sequence from Winning Eleven 6 will be over two minutes long and will include the songs 'We Will Rock You,' and 'We are the Champions.' The game will carry the license of FIFPro, providing a full slate of International teams, players and stadiums. Released plans for North America remain undisclosed, although a European translation is scheduled for release later this year.

Garth Brooks Raves About Queen...
In 'Parade' Magazine which is a Sunday newspaper insert here in the US the 12/16/2001 issue had a Garth Brooks cover story. He mentions Queen and their influence on him. He played in a student bluegrass band and was a fan of James Taylor, country singers George Jones, Merle Haggard and George Strait and the rock groups Kiss, Queen and Journey. In years to come, he would blend these musical influences together and, in doing so, achieve enormous success. "When I was 17, I was at a Queen concer," he recalled. "I was standing on my chair, screaming as best I could, and I couldn't hear myself scream because the music was so loud. I had my arms spread out, going totally ballistic, and I'm thinking. 'This is what I want to be! This is what I want people to see me do! This is giving people the memory of a lifetime.' Thanks to Irene Heinstein for this information.

Queen listed as appearing at The Queen's Jubilee Concert on BBC News
A report on the BBC News website concerning Paul McCartney's appearance at the forthcoming Golden Jubilee Concert for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II lists Queen as one of the artists appearing. There is no further information, although it does report that Robbie Williams declined the offer to appear - but does not say whether or not this was with Queen.

Queen at Queen's Golden Jubilee Concert
The BBC Golden Jubilee website have confirmed that Queen will be a part of the Party Concert. Queen will appear alongside the likes of Tom Jones,Phil Collins,Sir Paul Mc and Sir Elton on the 3rd June.You can apply in an invitation ballot at http://www.bbc.co.uk/musiclive/artists.shtml

Roger on the bremner, bird and fortune show
Roger was on the rory bremner politic programme last night in the old 'school girl' outfit for the parody of "I Want To Break Free". His face was actually shown for a mere few seconds but he stil looks good in short skirt

Barbara Valentin Has Passed Away
Freddie´s lover in the mid 80s and German actress Barbara Valentin died today.There is no more details about this tragic incident yet. Request in peace Barbara,you will be now with your dear friend Freddie. This tragic new has been taken from http://brianmay.com/maybe/queen/queennews/queennews.html

News from May 2002.

Platinum Collection Slips to Number 3 on UK Charts
The Platinum Collection has Slipped to Number 3 on UK album charts. The album is behind "Destination" by Ronan Keating at number 1 and "ESCAPE" by ENRIQUE IGLESIAS at number 2. Both are new entries. Moby's album which kept the album off the top of the charts last week has slumped to number 5. Given that it is a 3 disc collection, costing a lot more than the other albums, it is quite impressive that the collection is as high as it is. Also, most Queen fans already have Greatest Hits 1, 2 and 3 in their seperate forms.

Review of 'We Will Rock You' in Q Magazine
In the June issue of Q Magazine there is a full page review of We Will Rock You. David Quantick's review is actually not as bad as you'd imagine. A 'mini-interview' with Brian May and Ben Elton is also contained within the review. Q is in the shop now and has the delicious Kylie Minogue on the cover.

Vote for Queen albums !!!
A Belgian radio (radio 21) organise a Top 100 of the greatest rock albums ever.
In the first poll that took place in 1997, Queen were at number 5 with "A night at the opera". The top 4 were as follows:

1 Pink Floyd : Dark side of the moon
2 The beatles : Sergeant Pepper's
3 Led Zeppelin : Led Zeppelin 4
4 Deep Purple : Made in Japan
Vote now on
http://www2.rtbf.be/radio/radio21/classic/top100form.html

After Show Party Pics
JenX of Maybe fame has 60+ pictures of the After Show Party (of the WWRY premier). Go to: www.brianmaynews.com/queen/queennews/queennews.html for a peak.
Thanks Jen!

Channel 4 documentry schedule changes
The date of the channel 4 queen night has been changed from 25th of May to the 1st of June. Information thanks to Jennifer Taylor My Guess is this schedule change is thanks to the Eurovision Song Contest. Because we all want to sit watching that, honest! *cough*

KING on QUEEN !!!
Larry King had Liza and David on this past thursday night on his CNN show and on the show message boards at cnn.com King said "I just love Queen, and i was jazzed to learn Brian May performed the greatest sports anthem for my dear friend Liza at her wedding" of course one is to assume King meant 'we are the champions' also it was said that David Gest, Liza's new hubby rates Queen as one of his favorite bands of all... Larry asked on the show if David was gay, and he just laughed, so he is 'gay' just not homosexual, why then would he have married Liza...'its all greek to me' laughed Larry King, who has been married 8 times...

VH1 to broadcast "Party at the Palace"
VH1 will broadcast the Queen's Jubilee concert on June 9, at 8:00 Central time.

Roger to Play at Cowdray Concert!
Roger To Perform In June !!

COWDRAY CONCERT Friday 21st June, 2002.
COWDRAY CONCERT 2002 / COWDRAY HOUSE / MIDHURST
/ WEST SUSSEX GU29 0AY.
For the WHITE LOTUS SCHOOL, Ladakh & TIBET HOUSE TRUST.
An evening of Beatles music performed by:

David Gilmour
Ringo Starr / Mike Rutherford / Roger Taylor / Lulu / Bob Geldof / Paul Carrack / Donovan / Gary Brooker / Kenney Jones / Damon Hill / and other special guests, compared by Chris Tarrant Mike Sanchez & his band.

Queen at the Palace - some info....
Scotland's Sunday Mail (19/05/02) in an 'exclusive' on the 'Party in the Palace' gig mentions: "The show begins with supergroup Queen performing their 1974 smash hit, Killer Queen , with guitarist Brian May playing on the roof of the palace".

Queen is no.2 on UK album charts
Greatest Hits I, II, III have reached no.2 spot on UK album charts. This is a re-release for the collection. It previously went by un-noticed languishing in the charts in the 60's.

Liza on Brian on Letterman !!!
Liza Minelli was on David Letterman this past Monday May 13th, and she and Paul Schafer the band leader raved about her wedding and that "fabulous Brian"..."performing 'We are the Champions' at their wedding cake cutting juncture... seems on the aftershow webpage at CBS.COM...it was stated that Mya wanted to do the vocals for "champions" with Brain but it was not disussed til after the fact...Mya loves those covers...hence "Lady Marmalade" with herself, Pink {another HUGE Queen devotee} christina aguilera {who is a freddie freak}, and lil kim...but the one CBS rumour yet to see the light is that 'none other than (the worlds biggest Queen Fan) MARIAH CAREY {wants the female lead for 'we are the champs' with Brian and Roger on board...methinks that would be super...someone who does have Freddies range vocally and the passion to pull it off, since Robbie Williams kind of sucked...but he is still a great guy, better off with the likes of "something stupid"...

WORLD PREMIERE OF QUEEN MUSICAL " WE WILL ROCK YOU "
WORLD PREMIERE OF QUEEN MUSICAL " WE WILL ROCK YOU ", DOMINION THEATRE, LONDON, BRITAIN - 14 MAY 2002

John Deacon & Queen at premiere party
Following the premiere performance of We Will Rock You at London's Dominion theatre it was time for the guests and performers to let their hair down and party. The Astoria in London was the venue for this exclusive invite-only party whose guests featured many of the celebrities who attended the musical and of course those responsible for the musical itself. Spike Edney's SAS band provided the core entertainment. With such as star studded guest list to the party it was hardly surprising that Spike was joined on stage by many greats of the music world including Chris Thompson, Leo Sayer, Patti Russo, Gary Kemp, and of course Queen-members Brian May and Roger Taylor. A Heinekin holding Brian May joined the backing singers for a lively rendition of "Since You've Been Gone". A couple of songs later saw Brian pick up his famous guitar and Roger settle down on the second drum kit. The crowd were then treated to a number of classic rock songs including the Queen classic "Hammer To Fall". The style of the performance was very much a "party jam session". All of the musicians and singers returned to the stage for the final number, "With A Little Help From My Friends" and were sent off by a crowd who knew they had been present for a great musical experience. Whilst the elusive John Deacon was spotted at the party he did not join his fellow band-members on stage. The party guests included celbrities from all groups including Elaine Paige who has recorded "The Queen Album", Richard Branson the entrepreneur responsible for the Virgin brand, and television personalities from well-known UK shows such as "Eastenders" and "Brids Of A Feather".

Queen's SNL Performance to be Re-Broadcast?
E! has bought ALL Saturday Night Live episodes, and will broadcast them all, beginning in the first season and proceeding in chronological order. This (possibly) means that the episode with Queen(hosted by Danny Divito) will be rebroadcast. Ed: there are a few conflicting reports at the moment - so fingers crossed.

Article on forthcoming bo Rhap remix
"In 1991 the music world was hit hard by the death of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen and one of the most charismatic rock performers of the 20th century. But later this year, the band will have a new release and, thanks to Mac OS X’s Core Audio functionality, Freddie’s vocals are better than ever." more at http://www.apple.com/uk/creative/music/queenremix/

Review of 'We Will Rock You' in Q Magazine
In the June issue of Q Magazine there is a full page review of We Will Rock You. David Quantick's review is actually not as bad as you'd imagine. A 'mini-interview' with Brian May and Ben Elton is also contained within the review. Q is in the shop now and has the delicious Kylie Minogue on the cover.

After Show Party Pics
JenX of Maybe fame has 60+ pictures of the After Show Party (of the WWRY premier). Go to: www.brianmaynews.com/queen/queennews/queennews.html for a peak.
Thanks Jen!

Channel 4 documentry schedule changes
The date of the channel 4 queen night has been changed from 25th of May to the 1st of June. Information thanks to Jennifer Taylor My Guess is this schedule change is thanks to the Eurovision Song Contest. Because we all want to sit watching that, honest! *cough*

KING on QUEEN !!!
Larry King had Liza and David on this past thursday night on his CNN show and on the show message boards at cnn.com King said "I just love Queen, and i was jazzed to learn Brian May performed the greatest sports anthem for my dear friend Liza at her wedding" of course one is to assume King meant 'we are the champions' also it was said that David Gest, Liza's new hubby rates Queen as one of his favorite bands of all... Larry asked on the show if David was gay, and he just laughed, so he is 'gay' just not homosexual, why then would he have married Liza...'its all greek to me' laughed Larry King, who has been married 8 times...

VH1 to broadcast "Party at the Palace"
VH1 will broadcast the Queen's Jubilee concert on June 9, at 8:00 Central time.

Roger to Play at Cowdray Concert!
Roger To Perform In June !!

COWDRAY CONCERT Friday 21st June, 2002.
COWDRAY CONCERT 2002 / COWDRAY HOUSE / MIDHURST
/ WEST SUSSEX GU29 0AY.
For the WHITE LOTUS SCHOOL, Ladakh & TIBET HOUSE TRUST.
An evening of Beatles music performed by:

David Gilmour
Ringo Starr / Mike Rutherford / Roger Taylor / Lulu / Bob Geldof / Paul Carrack / Donovan / Gary Brooker / Kenney Jones / Damon Hill / and other special guests, compared by Chris Tarrant Mike Sanchez & his band.

Queen at the Palace - some info....
Scotland's Sunday Mail (19/05/02) in an 'exclusive' on the 'Party in the Palace' gig mentions: "The show begins with supergroup Queen performing their 1974 smash hit, Killer Queen , with guitarist Brian May playing on the roof of the palace".

Queen is no.2 on UK album charts
Greatest Hits I, II, III have reached no.2 spot on UK album charts. This is a re-release for the collection. It previously went by un-noticed languishing in the charts in the 60's.

Liza on Brian on Letterman !!!
Liza Minelli was on David Letterman this past Monday May 13th, and she and Paul Schafer the band leader raved about her wedding and that "fabulous Brian"..."performing 'We are the Champions' at their wedding cake cutting juncture... seems on the aftershow webpage at CBS.COM...it was stated that Mya wanted to do the vocals for "champions" with Brain but it was not disussed til after the fact...Mya loves those covers...hence "Lady Marmalade" with herself, Pink {another HUGE Queen devotee} christina aguilera {who is a freddie freak}, and lil kim...but the one CBS rumour yet to see the light is that 'none other than (the worlds biggest Queen Fan) MARIAH CAREY {wants the female lead for 'we are the champs' with Brian and Roger on board...methinks that would be super...someone who does have Freddies range vocally and the passion to pull it off, since Robbie Williams kind of sucked...but he is still a great guy, better off with the likes of "something stupid"...

WORLD PREMIERE OF QUEEN MUSICAL " WE WILL ROCK YOU "
WORLD PREMIERE OF QUEEN MUSICAL " WE WILL ROCK YOU ", DOMINION THEATRE, LONDON, BRITAIN - 14 MAY 2002

John Deacon & Queen at premiere party
Following the premiere performance of We Will Rock You at London's Dominion theatre it was time for the guests and performers to let their hair down and party. The Astoria in London was the venue for this exclusive invite-only party whose guests featured many of the celebrities who attended the musical and of course those responsible for the musical itself. Spike Edney's SAS band provided the core entertainment. With such as star studded guest list to the party it was hardly surprising that Spike was joined on stage by many greats of the music world including Chris Thompson, Leo Sayer, Patti Russo, Gary Kemp, and of course Queen-members Brian May and Roger Taylor. A Heinekin holding Brian May joined the backing singers for a lively rendition of "Since You've Been Gone". A couple of songs later saw Brian pick up his famous guitar and Roger settle down on the second drum kit. The crowd were then treated to a number of classic rock songs including the Queen classic "Hammer To Fall". The style of the performance was very much a "party jam session". All of the musicians and singers returned to the stage for the final number, "With A Little Help From My Friends" and were sent off by a crowd who knew they had been present for a great musical experience. Whilst the elusive John Deacon was spotted at the party he did not join his fellow band-members on stage. The party guests included celbrities from all groups including Elaine Paige who has recorded "The Queen Album", Richard Branson the entrepreneur responsible for the Virgin brand, and television personalities from well-known UK shows such as "Eastenders" and "Brids Of A Feather".

Another Kind of Magic
A tribute concert is to be held at the Opera in Gothenburg, Sweden during the period 22-26 of May. .It includes songs like Radio Ga-Ga, Who Wants to Live Forever, We Are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Further details as they become available.

Queen's SNL Performance to be Re-Broadcast?
E! has bought ALL Saturday Night Live episodes, and will broadcast them all, beginning in the first season and proceeding in chronological order. This (possibly) means that the episode with Queen(hosted by Danny Divito) will be rebroadcast. Ed: there are a few conflicting reports at the moment - so fingers crossed.

News from June 2002.

Brian May speaks about John Deacon
"Roger and I are both very active but john has chosen to opt out" {of will rock rock you} Ah yes the other surviving member of Queen, conspicuous by his absence in the musicaal. The reason, says May, diplomatically, is that it's "just his choice. He's very much a family man. and he didn't want to get into day-to-day development of this and that's it. It's just his choice" When May is asked whether Deacon has seen the show, there's a very long pause, perhaps telling in its uncomfortable silence. "Um... I don't think he has. Unless he's done it in secret." Taking from classic Rock magazine july 2002,

Robbie keeps on doin'the Queen thing!
Robbie Williams, Slash, Moby and others form an extemporary cover band in Los angeles! As reported on the official Moby site, a gang of all star musicians played a strange set of tracks some nights ago in Los Angeles. Robbie Williams, Slash, Moby and members of the cult and Janes Addiction gave a unique rendition of old rock classics, the highlight being (as Moby said) a version of Queen's classic "Fat bottomed girls" with Robbie on vocals and Slash doin'all the Brian solos! Still quoting Moby "Such things can happen only in L.A."!

John Deacon on Ant and Dec?
Various reports have it that John Deacon will be on the UK's "Ant and Dec Show" on June 15. According to Jeff Payne in the notice board: no serious he is on Ant and Dec on Saturday 15th May at 7.15pm on itv1. It's a bit of a piss take he filmed his bit on Wednesday at the Teddington lock studios near London.

Punk Queen Tribute Released
Hardcore Label Three One G has released a new Queen Tribute comp called "Dynamite With A Laser Beam: Queen as heard through the meat grinder" you can see a pic of Brian holding the comp at the www.threeoneg.com website and you can see apic and description of the album here: http://www.interpunk.com

This is the setlist;
1 Blood Brothers -Under Pressure
2 Get Hustle -Another One Bites The Dust
3 Asterisk* -Ogre Battle
4 The Oath -We Are The Champions
5 GoGoGoAirheart -Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To...)
6 Upsilon Acrux -Bicycle Race
7 Sinking Body -Who Needs You
8 Glass Candy -The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke
9 The Locust -Flash's Theme
10 Weasel Walter -Bohemian Rhapsody
11 The Spacewurm -Vutan's Theme (Attack Of Hawk Men)
12 Fast Forward -Crazy Little Thing Called Love
13 The Convocation Of Love -Get Down Make Love
14 Bastard Noise -Lily Of The Valley
15 Tourettes Lautrec -Killer Queen
16 Melt Banana -We Will Rock You

US Press Release for DVD of "Party at the Palace"
Two spectacular DVDs featuring performances from the Queen's Jubilee Concerts, "Prom at the Palace" and "Party at the Palace" will be available from Naxos of America and BBC/Opus Arte on July 2nd.

These unprecedented concerts were held in the gardens of Buckingham Palace in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and a combined audience of 24,000 lucky ticket-holders. They were filmed by the BBC production team and broadcast live on the BBC and later around the world to a multi-million person television audience. Highlights from the concerts will be transferred to DVD and distributed in the US by Naxos of America.

Under the creative guidance of Sir George Martin, Phil Ramone and Sir Andrew Davis, some of the world's most celebrated pop and classical musicians appeared at these sensational events. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under the baton of their Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis, formed the backbone of the two hour classical concert -- "Prom at the Palace" -- on June 1st. Opera fans enjoyed Dame Kiri te Kanawa (singing Mozart and Gershwin), Sir Thomas Allen (Rossini and Sir Edward German), and Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu (Puccini and Verdi) sharing the honors. Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich also made a rare guest appearance with the cello section of the London Symphony Orchestra playing Villa-Lobos. "Prom at the Palace" was broadcast on PBS on June 1st.

"Party at the Palace" -- took place on June 3rd and has made news throughout the world. The show was kicked off by Queen guitarist Brian May playing a rendition of "God Save the Queen" from the rooftop of the Palace and was followed by a fantastic line-up of artists playing their greatest hits. Artists included Annie Lennox, Atomic Kitten, Blue, Bryan Adams, Brian Wilson, The Corrs, Cliff Richard, Elton John, Emma Bunton, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mis-Teeq, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Ozzy Osbourne, Ricky Martin, Queen, Ray Davies, Rod Stewart, S Club 7, Shirley Bassey, Steve Winwood, Tom Jones, Tony Bennett, and Pop Idol, Will Young.

BBC Worldwide will donate proceeds from its commercial activity surrounding the Jubilee concerts to The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Trust.

PROM AT THE PALACE & PARTY AT THE PALACE

BBC Opus Arte DVD & VHS

All regions/16:9

Prom at the Palace: OA 0856 D (DVD) OA 0861 V (VHS) approx. 2 hours

Party at the Palace: OA 0857 D (DVD) OA 0862 V (VHS) approx. 3 hours

Complete with eight-page booklet.

Rush release July 2nd, 2002

A seperate CD release is scheduled for June 24 in the UK. Tracklistings were announced and it seems "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been edited out.

No word on a US release for the CD (yet.)

Ed: Thanks to Michael Allred for this information.

Queen Musical Heading to the US!?
New York's Daily News has published an interesting article about the possibilities of bringing We Will Rock You to Broadway. You can view the article at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/today/New_York_Now/Theater/a-153566.asp Thanks to James Blind sending this information.

Platinum Collection Holding Firm at Number 2
The Platinum Collection has risen from number 4 to number 2 on the UK Charts. It has also been awarded a gold certification. That equals 100 000 copies sold.

Brian Speaks About Jubile Gig
VH1 has listed two interviews with Brian about the Go to:
http://www.vh1.com/shows/concerts/queens_jubilee

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" On "Queer As Folk"
Showtime's Original Series "Queer As Folk" played Queen song "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" on Season Two, Episode 17. The show is brand new. In previous episodes it has played "Kind Of Magic" before. That means Queen Rocks in new television series... Catch the last Episodes of "Queer As Folk" on Showtime at 10:00pm sharp. Or log on: http://www.sho.com/queer

Queen's Jubilee on VH1 -USA Today
Queen's Jubilee party will be shown on VH1-USA today and future dates. Go to the website to see the future dates. http://tv.yahoo.com/

Jubilee CD, Video & DVD
According to the BBC, the Queen's Jubilee concert will be released on CD, Video & DVD. Originally spotted by Mark at: http://www.queenwords.com

You fantastic bunch of people, you!
We, MIRACLE, the Dutch Queen cover band, are writing this as a way to thank you all for our tremendous experience at the Queen convention 2002 in Prestatyn, Wales. After reading all the reactions in, for example, our guestbook, also in the large amount of emails that have been sent to us and reviews on sites out there on the Internet, we realize that we accomplished something we were aiming at; entertaining a crowd of die-hard Queen fans. But also we, as a band, had one hell of a time because you entertained us... We really want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for that great weekend and if we can do it all over again for you all, we certainly will!!! After all: "We're Queen fans playing for Queen fans". Johnnie, Mark, Rudi, Bart & Chris
MIRACLE, the Dutch Queen cover band
http://www.miracle.nl.com
Ed: Miracle are easily the greatest Queen cover band in the world...

Queen Voted 3rd Greatest Rock Band of All Time
This month's edition of Guitarist magazine features the 50 Greatest Rock Bands of All Time as voted for by Guitarist Readers. Queen appear at Number 3, beaten only by AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.
The full 50 line up as follows:
1. Led Zeppelin
2. AC/DC
3. Queen
4. Guns n Roses
5. Metallica
6. Aerosmith
7. Van Halen
8. Iron Maiden
9. The Who
10. Deep Purple
11. Nirvana
12. Jimi Hendrix Experience
13. Black Sabbath
14. Cream
15. Rolling Stones
16. Motorhead
17. Sex Pistols
18. Oasis
19. Bon Jovi
20. Rainbow
21. Red Hot Chili Peppers
22. U2
23. The Black Crowes
24. Rage Against the Machine
25. Ramones
26. Thin Lizzy
27. Radiohead
28. Free
29. Pearl Jam
30. Motley Crue
31. Judas Priest
32. The Clash
33. Faith No More
34. Whitesnake
35. Manic Street Preachers
36. Jane's Addiction
37. Kiss
38. Alice in Chains
39. Slayer
40. Korn
41. The Smashing Pumpkins
42. MC5
43. Foo Fighters
44. Iggy Pop and The Stooges
45. Megadeath
46. Stereophonics
47. Alice Cooper
48. The Wildhearts
49. Muse
50. Queens of the Stone Age

Queen Party At The Palace Video Download
You can find both brian´s roof and queen performances on vcd here:
http://pc486-a1.eur.maschinenbau.tu-darmstadt.de/Brian_roof/

Vote for Queen: Best British Act of Past 50 Years
The BBC online are running a vote to see what pop artist is the best of past 50 years. Do your bit and vote for Queen at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk
You can vote as many times as you like - so lets get Queen up to the top!!!

Download Queen's 'Party At The Palace' Performance
You can listen to the "Party At The Palace" by downloading the MP3's. Go to: http://www.brianmay.com/sounds/mp3.html

Party at Palace Queen Setlist
Queen have played to an ecstatic crowd at party at the palace. From the QMS (David Bruce): Radio Gaga (Roger) / We Will Rock You (Brian) were pretty standard (although brutally editted) live versions.
Gaga suffered from Roger not drumming.
We Are The Champions, featuring everyone's favourite pop idol (that'll be right) Will Young on vocals.
Then the breathtaker: Bohemian Rhapsody, featuring the WWRY cast. Excluding the intro - the song was performed in its entirety. Absolutely breathtaking. Aside from the minor technical difficulties of vocals/guitars/keyboards not coming to the fore at the right points, the performance was captivating. The three lead singers (forgive me - I don't know them either by name or by character) were excellent, and you could see Brian standing during the opera section with a look of "wow, this is really happening".

Brian about playing on the roof
From bbc.co.uk:
The concert started at 19.30 BST with Brian May playing "God Save the Queen" from the palace roof, delighting the 250,000 people gathered below. Brian May said performing on the roof of the Palace was "an adrenaline rush - like a roller-coaster". He said: "I couldn't get a note wrong, it was probably the best I've ever played it. It was such an adrenaline rush, I cannot describe it. It was like a roller-coaster.

Tonight queen´s jubilee webcast
The jubille concert will be broadcast over the internet.
The webcast will be from 7.30 pm at this address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/musiclive/webcast.shtml

'Barcelona' Performed at "Proms at the Palace"
Rusell Watson and Mel C (from Spice Girls) have performed "Barcelnona" at Proms at the Palace. Proms at the Palace is the classical concert celebrating the Queen's 50 year reign. On Monday 3rd June, Party at the Palace will take place. Numerous pop stars will perform at Buckingham Palace, including Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Queen: Best song During the Queen's 50 year Reign
Queen have topped another best song poll. Bohemian Rhapsody was voted by BBC Radio 2 listeners as their favourite song during the Queen's 50 year reign. The poll took in 14000 votes. The top 5 were:
1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
3. John Lennon - Imagine
4. Clifford T Ward - Home Thoughts From Abroad
5. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Brian Rehearsing with S Club 7
During a BBC Radio 2 interview Brian has said that he has been rehearsing with people including S Club 7. It is assumed that these rehearsals are for the Buckingham Palace All-star jam...?

Brian on Palace Show : "It's kind of Dream-like"
Yes - Brian will be playing on the top of Buckingham Palace! The bbc online reports:
Brian May, from rock group Queen, will kick off the show by playing the national anthem from the palace roof. When surveying the view from the rooftop, he admitted that he was "terrified". "It's kind of dream-like, really," he said. "I've been thinking about it for a long time, because obviously it's been on the cards for a wile. But I'm thrilled."

We Will Rock You Tops Box Office Sales!
According to Brian May 'We Will Rock You' the Queen musical has topped Box office sales this week. Given all the publicity, it is probably not all that surprising. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a record breaking run.
Source: www.brianmaynews.com

Party at Palace Queen Setlist
Queen have played to an ecstatic crowd at party at the palace. From the QMS (David Bruce): Radio Gaga (Roger) / We Will Rock You (Brian) were pretty standard (although brutally editted) live versions.
Gaga suffered from Roger not drumming.
We Are The Champions, featuring everyone's favourite pop idol (that'll be right) Will Young on vocals.
Then the breathtaker: Bohemian Rhapsody, featuring the WWRY cast. Excluding the intro - the song was performed in its entirety. Absolutely breathtaking. Aside from the minor technical difficulties of vocals/guitars/keyboards not coming to the fore at the right points, the performance was captivating. The three lead singers (forgive me - I don't know them either by name or by character) were excellent, and you could see Brian standing during the opera section with a look of "wow, this is really happening".

Brian about playing on the roof
From bbc.co.uk:
The concert started at 19.30 BST with Brian May playing "God Save the Queen" from the palace roof, delighting the 250,000 people gathered below. Brian May said performing on the roof of the Palace was "an adrenaline rush - like a roller-coaster". He said: "I couldn't get a note wrong, it was probably the best I've ever played it. It was such an adrenaline rush, I cannot describe it. It was like a roller-coaster.

Tonight queen´s jubilee webcast
The jubille concert will be broadcast over the internet.
The webcast will be from 7.30 pm at this address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/musiclive/webcast.shtml

'Barcelona' Performed at "Proms at the Palace"
Rusell Watson and Mel C (from Spice Girls) have performed "Barcelnona" at Proms at the Palace. Proms at the Palace is the classical concert celebrating the Queen's 50 year reign. On Monday 3rd June, Party at the Palace will take place. Numerous pop stars will perform at Buckingham Palace, including Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Queen: Best song During the Queen's 50 year Reign
Queen have topped another best song poll. Bohemian Rhapsody was voted by BBC Radio 2 listeners as their favourite song during the Queen's 50 year reign. The poll took in 14000 votes. The top 5 were:
1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
3. John Lennon - Imagine
4. Clifford T Ward - Home Thoughts From Abroad
5. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Brian Rehearsing with S Club 7
During a BBC Radio 2 interview Brian has said that he has been rehearsing with people including S Club 7. It is assumed that these rehearsals are for the Buckingham Palace All-star jam...?

Brian on Palace Show : "It's kind of Dream-like"
Yes - Brian will be playing on the top of Buckingham Palace! The bbc online reports:
Brian May, from rock group Queen, will kick off the show by playing the national anthem from the palace roof. When surveying the view from the rooftop, he admitted that he was "terrified". "It's kind of dream-like, really," he said. "I've been thinking about it for a long time, because obviously it's been on the cards for a wile. But I'm thrilled."

We Will Rock You Tops Box Office Sales!
According to Brian May 'We Will Rock You' the Queen musical has topped Box office sales this week. Given all the publicity, it is probably not all that surprising. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a record breaking run.
Source: www.brianmaynews.com

QUEEN ITALIAN SPECIAL
For Italian Queen fans, on 11 June at 9:00 pm,channel Jimmy will show a Queen special, about songs, biography and much more....i really think it will be a great show!

Queen In This Month's Record Collector
Queen are featured in the June edition of Record Collector on sale 30/5/2002 The feature concentrates on the first five albums
http://www.recordcollectormag.com/thismonth.html

Freddie music's 5th most important man
Freddie was 5th place in a British survey made by the music channel VH1. The list was topped by Robbie Williams, once talked to be Freddie's replacement in Queen. Freddie was better placed than artists such as the likes of: Bono, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Kurt Kbain and Mick Jagger(50th place!!!!)
See more at: http://www.theage.com

Rivendel plays again this month
Rivendel, the Argentina Queen cover band, is going to play again on the 22 of June. I´m going to give you further information ASAP. On the one hand you can send me an E-mail if you want to know the hour and the place where they will play, but on the other hand you can visit the official Rivendel web site: www.rivendelonline.com

News from July 2002.

Foo Fighters Track Featuring Brian Details....
The song is called Tired. Dave Grohl said the following about it : "This is a really sparse one guitar and one vocal song - but then in the chorus (Queen's) Brian May over-dubbed these four-part guitar harmony swells - it's fucking insane. He's the only guest appearance on the record but you wouldn't even have to put his fucking name on the album because someone would hear that song and be like 'oh my god - that sounds like Queen'. It sounds like a string section - but he did it with a guitar and it's fucking amazing."

"We Will Rock You" Heading to Australia
According to a post on the Queen Mailing Service, the Queen musical will be heading to Australia. Amanda Nicholson had this to say in a recent post: "I have on good authority (someone who works with the producers) That it has been confirmed that "We Will Rock you" I coming to Australia. As yet i am unsure if it will do all the capital cities but i know it will definately be coming to melbourne and will be playing at the Regent Theatre. I dont have dates as yet"

Under Pressure" featured on US advertisement
ABC is using "Under Pressure" as part of their advertising campaign for the new sitcom "Less Than Perfect" premiering this fall on the network.

Mick Rock's "Killer Queen" limited edition book due out in Autumn of 2002
Genesis Publications, a limited edition publisher, plan to publish Killer Queen this Autumn, a book of Mick Rock's photographs of Queen, with a foreword and text by Brian May. To see a preview of this book with excerpts and photographs go to:
http://www.genesis-publications.com

Damages Claim Over Freddie's Fish
A garden centre is being sued over claims it killed a collection of the late singer Freddie Mercury's prized koi fish. Mercury's former partner, Mary Austin, inherited the mansion and the Japanese koi collection when he died from an AIDS-related illness in 1991. It is claimed 84 koi died when the electricity powering a temporary pond was accidentally turned off by a worker from Clifton Nurseries, of Maida Vale, west London. Staff from the nurseries, based in Warwick Avenue, were carrying out landscaping work around the pond at the Queen singer's former home in Kensington. At the time of Mercury's death he had amassed one of the best collections of the fish in the UK. Ms Austin's solicitor, Russell Conway, said in a statement: "Mary Austin is extremely distressed at the death of 84 koi which were temporarily in a storage tank pending transfer into a new pond. "The death of the koi was caused by an employee of Clifton Nurseries turning off the electricity supply to the tank. "Solicitors acting for Mary Austin have contacted Clifton Nurseries with details of a claim for damages." Mr Conway would not comment on the size of the claim but said he was getting valuations and the claim was likely to be "substantial". Koi can live for up to 20 years and depending on its type can cost anywhere between a few pounds and £250,000. Managing director of Clifton Nurseries Mike Miller was unavailable for comment.

Listen to Brian and Lynn Carey Saylor at MP3.com The song that Brian recorded with Lynn Carey Saylor is available for download from mp3.com. Brian plays his guitar as well as sings backing vocals. Go to:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/309/lynn_carey_saylor.html

Source : www.brianmaynews.com and www.mp3.com

Another Queen song in an advertisement
In The Netherlands, and prolly the rest of Europe as well, Under Pressure is used to promote the movie '40 days and 40 nights'. This means for The Netherlands that there are currently 3 tv-commercials aired which has Queen songs on them.

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Does Queen July 27
Back By Popular Demand: SFGMC Does Queen!
The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus will be performing at the Jackson Theater at Ohlone College in Fremont on Saturday, July 27, 2002. Performances will be at 5 PM and 8 PM. The program will be a musical tribute to Freddie Mercury and the legendary rock group Queen The show was performed in San Francisco in April, and was a huge success. Concert proceeds benefit Fremont Mission: AIDS. Seating is reserved. Tickets are priced at $20 (general) and $15 (students and anyone over 65 years.) Call 415.865.3650 (SFGMC Office) for ticket information. [note: I just received the CD of this music, and it's pretty great. Their version of "Who Wants to Live Forever" is pretty monumental. The CD sleeve has dedications to various chorus members' lost partners to AIDS, which makes things especially poignant.]

DeadLine Extended for US Queen Fan Convention
The deadline for signing up to the US Queen Fan Convention has been extended to Ausgust 1st. If you haven't already signed up, head along to:

http://www.queenprofiles.com/breakthru

Roger Taylor is going to turn 53 on Friday
My favourite member of Queen is going to celebrate his birthday this Friday. I´m a Roger Taylor groupie, I love all his songs in Queen, The Cross and Roger Taylor band. One of my wishes is to meet this incredible man. I hope some day I will talk with Roger to tell him that he is the best!!!!, and to tell him he is the best drummer and also as Brian a great, great composer. THANK YOU ROGER FOR EXIST, AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!.

Brian turned 55 on 19th July
Brian May one of the best guitarist all over the world turned 55 last friday. In my opinion Brian is a great composer as well as a great musician and it makes me feel happy his birthday. I just have to say thank you Brian for your effort and for the music you have created in Queen and in the Brian May band, it´s Excellent.

QUEEN ON FORD COMERCIAL ON USA!!!!
AGAIN QUEEN STRIKE BACK!!!!! QUEEN IS AGAIN STRIKING BACK IN USA ON A COMERCIAL OF FORD!! WE WILL ROCK YOU FEATURE ON IT, AND YOU CAN HERE A BIT OF FREDDIE!!!!

No Brian and Roger At Party in the Park<
Contrary to previous reports Brian and Roger did not perform at Party in the Park. Only the cast of the musical were on stage. This contradicts reports on both the Fan Club page as well as Queenonline.com

Party in the Park on the Web
You can try and watch the party in the park on the capital fm website at
http://www.capitalfm.com
Party is on 7th July starting at about 12pm GMT.

I want to break free on Irish eircom ad
A parody of the IWTBF video (could it be parodised? ooh, paradox)is being used on an eircom ad on RTE television in Ireland. the d'unbelievables as freddie and some non descript guy bringing phones. It's really funny-not bad at all actually.

Musical Sets House Records
KILLER QUEEN!
WE WILL ROCK YOU-SETS NEW HOUSE RECORDS AT DOMINION THEATRE
Ten Days Sees more than £1 million At Box Office
It might have received a less than effuse reception from the critics when it opened at London’s Dominion Theatre on May 14, but Queen & Ben Elton’s musical We Will Rock You is proving an unstoppable success. Now booking until January 2003 at London’s biggest West End Theatre, the Queen/Ben Elton collabration has broken all house records at the theatre which has previously been home to such box office winners as The Beauty and The Beast and Grease. The past week has seen We Will Rock You set new house records for daily box office and weekly box office receipts. The musical achieved a seven-day gross of £784,866, ‘way ahead of any previous figure recorded’, confirms Dominion Theatre General Manager Stephen Murtagh. Over ten days the musical took in excess of £1 million. “This proves what we have been saying all along,” says producer Paul Roberts, “this is a show for the public. It’s getting five-minute standing ovations nightly, and people are returning to see it night after night.” We Will Rock You is a Tribeca Productions, Queen Theatrical Production, and Phil McIntyre production. The show is expected to transfer to the USA Autumn 2003.
Source: Queenonline

Seaside Rendezvous in Simpsons TV advert
Seaside Rendezvous song appeared in the new spot of The Simpsons in Spanish Tv A3. This new spot is for the premiere broadcast of the new episodes of The Simpons in Spain.

State of Shock leaked on MJ boards
The MJ-FM version of State of Shock has been going around on MJ boards. As far as I know this has not been widely available in the Queen online world? Available here http://speechless.herator.se but only for 24hrs. Will probably turn up in other places later. What are your views on this version? Much as I love Freddie, I prefer the Mick Jagger one.

Brian to be on Radio 4 'Desert Island Discs'
Just thought some of you people might want to know that Brian is going to be on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Desert Island Discs', which involves a guest picking 8 songs or pieces of music to take onto a mythical desert island. The programme will be aired mid-September, the exected date being Sunday the 15th of September. It will be at approximately 11:15 am.
The frequency for BBC Radio 4 is 92.4 - 94.6 FM or 198 LW.
Sources: www.brianmay.com and www.queenonline.com

Brian to appear on Ready Steady Cook
Hi,
A friend of mine who is a PA for bbc tv's Ready Steady Cook has mentioned to me that Brian May will be appearing on the bbc cookery show on the 9th July.
Submitted by: Dirty Den

Heineken cdrom released
about the CD:
contains info on the concert performed by Roger and Brian in Amsterdam on 30th April. Size: 467mb data Interactive cdrom for PC only, using macromedia and quicktime CD has about a dozen video's, 5 songs from the concert are on the CD. The rest is videoclips with interviews with Roger&Brian, backstage, audience, auditions for the musicial, building the musical stage, info on the musical in text format, screensavers and desktopbackgrounds.

It looks cool, but 4 songs are missing, for which there is enough space, a cdrom can hold up to 700mb and there's only 467mb on it... No cdaudio part, though it was announced that that would be also on the CD... No mac support, windows pc only. the videos are quicktime, so you can't play the cd on a dvd-player.

The CD can only be ordered on the heineken website by Dutch people since you need a dutch bank-account number, also 1 CD only per order.

rating: (scale from 1 to 10),
For design: 8
contents: 5 (since stuff is missing)

Greetz, Freddie
Netherlands

Queen to play at Party In The Park 2002
Queen (Brian & Roger + band) will play at this year's Party In The Park concert. They will be the finale for the concert, playing a selection of their greatest hits.
http://www.capitalfm.com/pitp

News from August 2002.

Greatest Flix DVD US Release Date Announced
As previously announced the UK release date for Greatest Flix 1 will be October 7th. It can now be confirmed that the US release date with be October 15th and will be issued through Hollywood Records.

"A Night at the Opera" DVD-A wins US award.
The recently-released DVD-Audio version of the "A Night at the Opera" album has been voted 'Best DVD-Audio' at the 5th Annual DVD Awards, announced on 21st August at the DVD Entertainment 2002 Conference in Hollywood. For more information on the awards, please go to: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

Freddie Mercury in BBC list of "100 Great Britons"
Freddie Mercury has been included in a list compiled by the BBC of the 100 grestest Britons throughout history. More details of this - rather ironic, considering his colourful ancestory - acolade can be found at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk

Queen on VH 1(USA) in September
Queen will be featured in September on several shows on the VH1 channel in the United States. On Freddie Mercury’s Birthday Sept. 5th 2002 Queen is on the show 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock- Hour 5: #20 to #1 (they are #13)
http://www.vh1.com

On Sept. 10th
The show Legends will feature Queen.
On Sept. 15th
Queen is featured on the show Behind the Music: 1977
http://www.vh1.com

"Your my best friend" on Upn's 'Will And Grace's' Commercial
To see how much influence Queen has made with there mere existence is divine! I was flipping through the channels when I came across the recognizable entry tune to "Your my best friend," and I was totally psyched! It just goes to show you how Queen will live on forever!

US Fan Club Convention - The Verdict Is In
It appears that the US contingent of Queen fans have had another great convention! You can view various comments, etc, in the notice board by following the following link:
http://www.queenzone.com

Roger in Hungary!
Just arrived back from an exhausting 8-hour soundcheck of the V10 band - (which included 5 hours waiting...). The event was at Petofi Hall (where Brian played in 1998, also home to the Hungarian Queen Fan Club), very close to "Felvonulasi square", where they will be playing tomorrow. By 13:00 pm the instruments were set up, two yellow drumkits with V10 drumskins - the unknown band started to play some Miss World songs, and it turned out that Jonathan Perkins and Peter Noone are actually members of the V10 band.... so after 5-6 Miss World "hits" they finished and went back to the hotel... Then came a long waiting, around 7:00 the band came back and started to play -AND after half an hour our Roger adn Eddie Jordan appeared... about 25 fans were there, we sat in the bar and Roger came to drink a beer with Jon Perkins. He agreed to meet us after they had finished the work. The band started to play again, this time with Roger, and we were allowed to watch (and re**** hmmm...) it. Songs included Rock'n'Roll, Heroes, and some other classic (or not so...) rock tracks. No Queen songs here. Lasted about 90 minutes, then Roger came to us, signed a lot of stuff, shook hands and gave a video message to the HQFC. Nice evening! I try to put up some pictures of the soundcheck and the show, during the weekend. Anyone who comes tomorrow - soundcheck at the venue will be held around 2 pm! V10 show expected to start around 8 PM, but some Hungarian "stars" will be supporting - get there early...

Roger to play live in Hungary ?
According to www.queenworld.com:
Roger will be playing live next weekend (16th August) in Budapest. His good friend Eddie Jordan (owner of the Formual One Jordan Team) has a band called V10, and Roger has agreed to play with them at the opening of the Hungarian Grand Prix . Fellow band members will include Keith Prior and Chris Thompson. I don't yet have any other details (like if you can buy a ticket or if it's a private party!) but will post news if I get it!

Miracle Teases with "Prophets Song" Live!!!
The excellent Dutch Queen cover band Miracle has provided Queen fans with a taste of what is to come at the Dutch Fan Club convention. On the Miracle's website you can listen to a snippet of them playing the Prophets Song live from the recent fan club convention held in the UK. To listen to the sample, go to their homepage at:
http://miracle-online.nl
and click on Music & Setlist. It is hoped that their performance at the upcoming Dutch fan club convention will be recorded and released on CD and video. The release will include the full live version of "The Prophets Song".

"I Want it All" featured in Pittsburgh Steelers pregame show
Went to the Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL,USA)preseason football game Thursday Night (8/8/02) against the New York Jets, and the pregame show, featured Queen "I Want it All" song while showing highlights from last season on the Video screen. It was really nice. I was told by the Steelers officals that they were going to use that at every home game this season. I was surprised of how many of the fans were singing along.

Greatest Flix DVD Release Date Announced
The forthcoming Greatest Video Hits 1 DVD has been given a scheduled release date of Monday October 7th 2002. Further details and tracklisting will follow soon.

Queen Greatest Hits Advert
In the US, you can order Greatest Hits I - III on TV (the 'Platinum Collection'). The funny part is, that they make GHIII seem like an exclusive bonus CD when it can easily be bought in stores. So if any Queen fan needs a good laugh, just take a look at the commericial.

Brian May #5 in Total Guitar magazine's 100th issue
More than 400 guitarists were nominated in the survey of nearly 800 readers and celebrities who were asked to list their five favorite choices by post or e-mail. The magazine published the top 100 selections. To see the article go to: http://story.news.yahoo.com

Brian to Rock with the Yardbirds on their New Album!
Brian May has agreed with Jim McCarty to play on a track for The Yardbirds upcoming album... Here's the link courtesy of Launch.com
http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=209906

Roger taylor Interview in This Months "Rhythm" Magazine
This months Rhythm Magazine in the UK features a 7 page interview with Roger and boasts a front cover piccie of him as well!! Talking about his life story, he ends the interview by mentioning this years events with Brian and how much they enjoyed doing them and leaves everyone's mouths dripping saliva at the thought that "The dinosaurs might creep out of their cage..."

Queen Greatest Flix II DVD released in Brazil !
Following GF I, Greatest Flix II is released on DVD in Brazil. This is, like the previous Brazilian release, a DVD-format issues of a (most likely) LaserDisk record. The quality is "VHS" like, but stated as "good", and at a very affordable (for Brazilians) price. I would suggest not to start again some old discussions (bootleg or not, bad quality, etc.). My intention here is only to inform Queen-fans around the World. There is a on-line review (in Portuguese) at:
http://www.dvdshow.com.br
For those who are not proficient in this language, go to a visit at least to look on the screen-shots and on the cover. There is also the song list.

Queen on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'
This was on the American version of the show, and in a game called 'Greatest Hits'. Colin Mockery said to Ryan Stiles: "One of my favourite bands has always been Queen. and here is one of their best songs 'We Will Hose You' (the song styles all had to revolve around firefighters). To be honest, Wayne Brady and Chip Eston made it sound anything like Queen. But the two of them sang to the beats of Bicycle Race, You're My Best Friend, and various others. I might add, the music was not the typical Queen thing either but - it was all worth a shot!

Too Much Love Will Kill You by Claire Sweeney online!
Now you can listen online to the complete track of this song, recorded by Claire Sweeney and Brian May. see http://claire-sweeney1.tripod.com/claire-promo.html

Omigod! "Another One Bites The Dust" in Rhino Box Set
The just-released Rhino Records box Set "Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally)" includes Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust as one of its 142 tracks. The 7-CD set is put together as a kind of time capsule, and a sequel to their 70s box, "Have a Nice Day."
Other notable tracks on the "Omigod" set include:
Whip It - Devo
Empire Strikes Back (Medley) - Meco
Let My Love Open The Door - Pete Townshend
Call Me - Blondie
Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
9 To 5 - Dolly Parton
Cars - Gary Numan

From the Rhino site:
"No sooner had we unveiled our Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box to nostalgia-hungry Baby Boomers than Gen X-ers began bombarding us with requests for the perfect follow-up -- a bitchin' '80s box. Reagan, junk bonds, shoulder pads -- there's a lot about the '80s that doesn't bear repeating. But thankfully the music does. From Devo's new wave weirdness to Twisted Sister's mental metal to Run D.M.C.'s rocked-out rap, Rhino's latest behemoth box brings you the songs that have outlived the hairstyles. So let's hear it for the box! Like Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) packs seven CDs with 142 original hits by an awesome array of superstars, one-hit wonders, and all kinds of artists who've since changed their wardrobes. This outrageously packaged collection features a sculpted rubber cover (for the first 25,000 copies) and a massive 90-page book filled with essays; Top 5 lists for movies, TV shows, and trends; a timeline of the decade's significant events; track-by-track annotation; and enough photos of '80s pop culture icons to gag you with a spoon." A complete song list, along with details of the release, can be found at Rhino Records' Web site at www.rhino.com.

Freddie Tribute Concert DVD released in Australia
The Freddie Tribute DVD was released in Australia on 26 July.
www.ezydvd.com.au are selling it for $43 - much cheaper than importing it from the UK.

News from September 2002.

Interesting infos about Greatest Video Hits
DVD overseen by David Mallet. R&B were also very close to it. The double disc package also features a twenty page full colour booklet providing rare photo images, complete histories of all of the videos, together with written contributions from members of the band and many of those involved in Queen’s extraordinary video collection. It will feature a "Bicycle race, behind the scene" with unseen archive material, etc... The bonus title "Good old fashion..." will be Top of the pop's one. Second edit of boh rhap also at "Top Of The Pop's" will be as "hidden bonus video"

Brian To appear on TV Show
Brian is to appear on the Tomorrow’s World Awards 2002 that will be shown by BBC One on Wednesday 25 September at 7:25 PM. He is joined by presenter Patrick Moore and scientists and finalists discover who has won this year's Tomorrow's World Award for Innovation.

All Queen´s people second meeting
Noticia en Español para los Argentinos
Finalmente, después de 8 meses de espera, estamos muy contentos en acercarles una buena noticia: Se viene la 2da reunion del All Queen's People. Mucha gente la pidió, nosotros teniamos muchas ganas de hacerla, y se venia posponiendo la fecha, ahora con orgullo podemos decirla, es el proximo Jueves 10 de Octubre, a las 19hs. Tendrá lugar, al igual que la primera, en The Cavern Club, un pub que está dentro del Paseo La Plaza, Corrientes 1660, a 2 cuadras del obelisco en Capital Federal. La entrada cuesta solo $3. Pasando a la reunión en sí, al igual que la anterior, el principal motivador es el poder conocer gente con los mismos gustos que uno, poder compartir unas horas de diversión con amigos, en torno a algo que a todos nos apasiona: QUEEN. Hemos tomado las criticas y comentarios que todos nos hicieron en la anterior reunión para poder ir afilandola un poco mas, seguramente que esta será mas organizada y más dinamica. Van a haber nuevos juegos, muy divertidos por cierto, y la vieja y querida trivia, para que todos puedan poner a prueba sus conocimientos sobre la banda. Todos estos juegos van a ser en grupo, para tambien hacer mas facil la integración de todos. Obviamente, para el ganador de cada juego habrá premio! También será de la partida el Karaoke, para que todos puedan mostrar lo bien (o mal, como nosotros) que cantan los hits de Queen; para esta vez, teniendo en cuenta lo que muchos nos dijeron, tendremos las letras de las canciones del karaoke, para q sea mas facil para el que pasa a cantar. Obviamente, tambien comentaremos las ultimas noticias de lo que pasa dentro del mundo queenero. Durante toda la reunión se van a pasar los últimos audios raros que andan circulando. Para muchos que nos preguntan siempre, será una buenisima oportunidad para encontrar cantante o musicos para sus bandas. También como en la anterior, tendremos a su disposicion CDs de bootlegs, mp3s y videos a la venta. Como habiamos anunciado en el meeting de febrero, todos los que en esa ocación se inscribieron, tendran sus carnets; todos los que no lo han hecho, podrán inscribirse obviamente. Además de todo lo nombrado, seguramente que tendremos alguna perlita mas para esta reunión. Simplemente nos queda por decir, que esperamos contar con tu presencia, para hacer de esta reunión otra hermosa experiencia queenera. Mientras mas gente haya mejor, esperamos pasar la barrera de las 98 personas que hubo en febrero, así que avisale a todos tus amigos queeneros, reenvia el mail a todo el mundo así todos pueden enterarse! Así que agendalo: JUEVES 10 DE OCTUBRE, 19HS, EN THE CAVERN CLUB, PASEO LA PLAZA, CORRIENTES 1660. Cualquier cosa que no sepas como llegar o tengas otra duda, envianos un mail asi te ayudamos.

Queen on TV in the USA in September, 2002
Thursday, September 19, 2002 Queen will be featured on VH1 (USA)on 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, Queen will be on in the 5th hour of the show. Saturday, September 21, 2002, Queen will be featured on the Bravo network from 6am to 7am. Monday, September 30,2001 Queen will be on the show Behind the Music, 1977 on VH1 (USA).

Official cover of forthcoming Greatest Flix DVD
This new opus is now named Greatest Video hits (for more comercial appeal, I think...) Features :
Bohemian rhapsody
Another one bites the dust
Killer queen
Fat bottomed girls
Bicycle race
You're my best friend
Don't stop me
Save me
Crazy little thing called love
Spread your wings
Play the game
Flash
Tie your mother down
We will rock you
We are the champions

+ 6 bonus clips
+ Bo-rhap documentary
+ Bo-rhap hidden video
+ Photo gallery
+ Queenonline link
Cover here :

Platinum Collection US Release
At last...Hollywood Records is releasing the Platinum Collection on 24 September 2002. The set will go for $29.95 retail and some retailers are offering preorders on their websites.

Chom 97,7 500 greatest rock song
In the province of Quebec in Canada there's a radio station call CHOM 97,7. One week ago, people where voting for their best Rock song of all time. Here are the Queens results:
22 - Bohemian Rhapsody
157 - Under Pressure
203 - We Will Rock You / We Are The Champion

Freddie Mercury Profile on Bravo
The Bravo channel will profile Freddie Mercury on Sept.21 at 6:00 am EST

Roger in Budapest, 2002 August 16
Video and CD about the event is on the way Hello Everyone! We recorded Roger in Budapest in August, when playing with Eddie Jordan's V10 group at Formula 1 opening ceremony. Thanx God, we could record the soundcheck the day before, the soundcheck at the scene of the concert, and the concert itself. Few songs were played in which Roger participated: Heroes from Bowie, Rock n Roll by Zeppelin, Van Morrison's Gloria, Let's Stick Together by Roxy music. The work of digitalizing the material is being done in the days. Later sending you info how to get this material. We also collect rare stuff, we can change. Thankyou everyone, otyec@freemail.hu Attila Raso, Hungary

'We Will Rock You' Cast Album Release Set For November
The cast recording of the 'WE Will Rock You' musical is set to be released in November, in time for Christmas. Sources have it that Brian and Roger have played most of the mixes of the songs to the cast and band. It will be one of the very few totally live truly live recordings from a west end show.

Rivendel to play live again!!!
The Argentina Queen cover band is going to play again at "El club del vino" situated in: Cabrera 4737, Palermo Viejo, in Capital Federal, Argentina
The cost per ticket will be: 8 pesos, 3 dollars. If you want to ask for your ticket you can call: 4833-8330.
The show will be presented September 27, on Friday.
For further information you can visit: www.rivendelonline.com

Queen Live on BBC Radio 6
BBC Radio 6 are playing part of Queen's Classic Hammersmith 1975 Concert as part of its Dream Ticket, you have until Thursday to listern to it.
Set List Played (24 minutes):
Keep Yourself Alive
Liar
Medley inc:
Bohemian Rhapsody;
Killer Queen;
March of the Black Queen;
Bohemian Rhapsody;
Now I'm Here
You can find BBC Radio 6 at
www.bbc.co.uk

News from October 2002.

More Star Reports
From www.launch.com
Queen became the latest band bestowed with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Friday, October 18. The unveiling of the star, installed on Hollywood Boulevard, took place near the cross street of Ivar. The honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Johnny Grant, called it a "royal day in Hollywood" and mentioned all four members of Queen--late vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon, and drummer Roger Taylor. Grant also quipped to the crowd of several hundred cheering fans, "I welcome all you Queens to Hollywood Boulevard," adding, "I had to get that in." Representing the English band were May and Taylor. Taylor commented, "Thank you. We're very honored, very moved. And we wait to be walked on continually. And thanks a lot, it's a great day for us. Thank you for remembering us." May followed, "Both Roger and I have made homes here. This is really the fulfillment of a dream. I've said this before, but I'll say it again. We were born in England as a group, but we grew up in the States, and particular in this town, and from the moment we walked on the stage in the Santa Monica Civic, ah, more years ago than I care to remember, we love this place and we have a special contact. This is a great thrill, this is better than a knighthood. And I'm looking forward to bringing my children one day to walk on this star." Queen's Greatest Video Hits 1 DVD arrived in stores on October 15.

Queen honoured with Hollywood star
Rock band Queen have been given the rare honour of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The star, being unveiled on Friday, means that the group joins the Beatles in being become one of the few non-US acts honoured this way.

Brian May and Roger Taylor are attending the unveiling by Johnny Grant, the honorary mayor of Hollywood, in front of the Ivar nightclub on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

May played on the roof of Buckingham Palace this summer

Queen, whose frontman and singer Freddie Mercury died in 1991, are still setting chart records in the US.

The recently-released Queen Platinum Collection album hit the Billboard Top 100 at number 48 - making the record the highest charting compilation album in US history.

In the UK, the Platinum Collection has remained in the top 30 for 27 weeks.

The group are releasing their first DVD this week, Queen Greatest Video Hits 1. Campaign

And the band's musical We Will Rock You, which opened in London's West End in May, is still the UK's biggest selling theatre show.

The award of a Hollywood star is the culmination of a campaign by the band's US fans.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's board of directors receives some 300 requests every year from fan clubs and publicists - but only 15 to 20 stars are awarded.

To be given the honour, an act must have achieved fame in movies, TV, radio, music or live performance - and pay $11,000 (£7,100) for the cost of the star and dedication ceremony.

Queen's star is the 2,207th such honour made to date.

'Video Hits' DVD debuts at #1 in UK
Queen's "Greatest Video Hits 1" has debuted at #1 on the music DVD sales chart in the U.K. http://www.bbc.co.uk

Ben Elton writes We Will Rock You sequel
Ben Elton has begun writing a sequel to the Queen musical We Will Rock You He also wrote the script to the original. According to Brian May, Elton is already halfway through the follow-up which is expected to run simultaneously with We Will Rock You in London's West End. The name of the new musical has not been revealed but it will be a continuation of the fictional story, again incorporating the songs of Queen reports The Stage. It is thought May and fellow Queen member Roger Taylor will once again act as musical directors.

Another "Queen musical" to tour Germany From November 2002 to April 2003 an unofficial musical called "We Are The Champions" will tour 47 cities in Germany. The mixture of music, multimedia and musical show elements will deal with the early days of Queen and is announced as a tribute to Freddie Mercury. Music will be provided by the cover band MerQury. Rumour has it that Peter Freestone, former personal assistent of Freddie Mercury, will play a role.

Queen musical "We are the Champions" in Germany
Queen cover band MerQury and Peter Freestone are to perform in a new Queen musical in Germany. Peter Freestone will perform in the musical, called "We are the Champions", in November and December. The musical tells the story of the "life" of the members of Queen. Very special is that the music is done by the German Queen converband MerQury and that the personal assistant of Freddie Mercury, Peter Freestone will be part of it.
For more info, surf to
http://www.cofo.de
and choose for
We are the champions

Queen on a promotion in Lithuania
Queen sng "Spread Your Wings" is used for the comercial of Audimas company in Lithuania. The promotion shown on TV.

Air Guitar Album number 5 in Portugal
Brian's compilation "The bestair guitar album in the world... ever" entered the portuguese compilations chart at number 5. the album was renamed " The beste guitar album... ever" and guiven a different cover, that features a red and white guitar surrounder by a firework kind of effect. on a personal note, I have to say that Mr. May has a very good taste in music, as several of my favourite songs of all time are in the record.

Brian May to play Royal Opera House show
Brian May is to feature amongst a host of stars in a special concert at London's Royal Opera House - the first time a rock concert has ever been held at the venue. The concert is being arranged by Michael Kamen (famous for his collaborations with many rocks stars, and with Queen on the "Highlander" soundtrack) and will also feature such stars as Bryan Adams and former Clash frontman Joe Strummer. More information can be found at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk

Queen announce next DVD-Audio release
After the award winning DVD-A release of "A Night at the Opera", Queen are now looking towards their next major release for the format. Taken from Queen's official web site, www.queenonline.com
"Queen and Brian May engineer Justin Shirley-Smith will be commencing work on a new DTS audio 5.1 surround version of "The Game" on 21st October for release next year as a DVDA."

Freddie Tribute DVD to get U.S release
I received an e-mail from Queen archivist Greg Books this evening. I had previously asked him if the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was going to be released on DVD in America and he was kind enough to supply an answer. He said;
"Capitol EMI are releasing it 26 November, in USA." and there you have it...

Platinum Collection in U.S. charts!
Greatest hits I II & III has entered this week the U.S. album chart at n.48! Good news for american fans. You've done a good job, Platinum Collection has entered this week the U.S. album chart at n.48! Pretty good if you consider that last Queen release in this country (Made in Heaven) reached only 53. Keep on keeping Queen in the Charts! Well done!

Roger Taylor Goes To Bowie Concert
Roger stepped out the David Bowie concert held at the Hammersmith Odeon. Others in appearance were Boy George and Brian Eno.
Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au

News from November 2002.

Queen Rock Gets Standing Ovation in Classical Form
LONDON (Reuters) - The rock anthems of supergroup Queen got a standing ovation on Wednesday from 2,000 classical fans at a world premier performance of the Queen Symphony. The concert, at London's Royal Festival Hall, put a smile on the face of late lead singer Freddie Mercury (news)'s mother Jer Bulsara and brought unstinting praise from guitarist and group founder Brian May (news). "I very much enjoyed it. It was very moving indeed," May said after the concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. "He has weaved new tapestry from old threads." Rising British film music composer Tolga Kashif spent two years spinning the strands of 13 of Queen's most memorable tunes into a six-movement integrated orchestral and choral symphony for record company EMI. "It is rhapsodic in its structure. It is a symphonic poem," he said after the final rehearsal. "We Will Rock You," "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We are the Champions" are among the songs the London-born composer plucked from the vast catalog of Queen music owned by EMI. Throughout the work, the unmistakable themes recur, sometimes crystal clear and sometimes just a whisper. But the result is less a coherent piece than a stylistic patchwork quilt that roams from Gershwin to Beethoven and back via Rachmaninov and Carl Orff. "There are a lot of styles in there. It does not really stand on its own, but it is a celebration of Queen and as such is very good," Royal Philharmonic cellist Tim Gill told Reuters. Kashif himself admitted that his work was in a stylistic no-man's land. "STYLISTICALLY NOWHERE" "It is stylistically nowhere in particular," he said. "It is neither classical nor popular." Nowhere is the fusion of the two genres clearer than in the third movement adagio -- dubbed the yearning -- where a soaring violin carries Mercury's trademark "Who wants to live forever" to new heights. It is a tune the composer, who has already worked with stars such as Elton John, David Bowie and U2's Bono, returns to at the finale, which carries the unofficial title of Homage. Kashif, whose favorite songs are "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Who wants to live forever" and "We are the Champions," said Queen songs were fundamentally emotional ballads with a rock veneer. It was a sentiment endorsed by 58-year-old audience member Ruth Bodman and her husband Derek, 62. "I have never been to a Queen concert, but I have been a fan forever. Their music is wonderful," she told Reuters. Mercury -- whose real name was Freddie Bulsara -- died as a result of AIDS in November 1991, effectively drawing down the curtain on one of Britain's most consistently successful rock bands. But that fact does not seem to have had much impact on the group's popularity. The three surviving members -- May, drummer Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon -- have a hit West End musical of their work and top selling CDs and DVDs of their greatest hits. "For a band that does not really exist any more, we are having an incredible year," May said after the concert.

Queen Symphony DVD
EMI Classics filmed last night's World Premiere of the Queen Symphony at London's Royal Festival Hall for a forthcoming DVD release. Just the second half of the show was filmed (the Queen Symphony itself rather than the Shostakovich and Rodrigo of the opening half). Hopefully they will also have recorded the audience's loud - and prolonged - applause at the end of the show and the final standing ovation for the on stage appearance of Brian May, Roger Taylor and Jer Bulsara.

Details on U.S Freddie tribute DVD
"EMI has announced a double-disc release of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert: 10th Anniversary Edition, due out on 11/26 for $24.98. According to the press materials, "Disc 1: The second half of the event, featuring Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon joined by a glittering array of guest vocalists and players including Roger Daltrey, Slash, Robert Plant, Lisa Stansfield, George Michael, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Elton John and Axel Rose. Disc 2: Full-length TV Documentary and Freddie Mercury Inserts." It's unclear what happened to the first half of the massive concert, but it does not appear to be on this release. The second half, however, will be presented in full frame with DD 2.0 audio (just as it was originally broadcast). The extras will include some rehearsal and backstage footage, and a photo gallery." At first glance you will notice there is no mention of the DTS 5.1 track that was included on the previously released disc in the U.K. Also of note is that the article claims it will be presented full frame instead of the matted widescreen version which was also on said previous release.

Whether this is true or they simply got the specs wrong remains to be seen.

The U.S. DVD is now available for pre-order from www.amazon.com

Composer Converts Queen Rock Anthems Into Symphony
LONDON (Reuters) - A selection of some of the most memorable anthems of rock supergroup Queen and its iconic singer Freddie Mercury (news) have found orchestral incarnation as the Queen Symphony.

"We Will Rock You," "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We are the Champions" are among 13 songs taken by rising British composer Tolga Kashif as inspirations for his orchestral and choral work.

"In seeking to reinvent rather than purely orchestrate it, I have found that Queen's music inherently contains the language of the modern classical genre," he said in sleeve notes to the EMI compact disc of the symphony.

"I think Queen's music will always be remembered because it become part of the human consciousness. You only need to hear two notes," Kashif added in a statement.

Throughout the six movements, the unmistakable themes recur, sometimes crystal clear and sometimes just a whisper.

Nowhere is it clearer than in the third movement adagio -- dubbed the yearning -- where a soaring violin carries Mercury's trademark "Who wants to live forever" to new heights.

It is a tune the composer, who has already worked with stars such as Elton John, David Bowie and U2's Bono, returns to at the finale, which carries the unofficial title of Homage.

"Anyone who is expecting to hear mere orchestral arrangements of Queen songs is in for a big shock," Queen guitarist Brian May said on the eve of the symphony's world premier at London's Royal Festival Hall.

"This is something monumental and quite outrageous," he added. "Tolga Kashif is a man with his own agenda in this symphony, based on the body of work Queen built up over 30 years or so but taking the material to an entirely new place."

Mercury -- whose real name was Freddie Bulsara -- died of AIDS in November 1991, effectively drawing down the curtain on one of Britain's most consistently successful rock bands.

But that fact does not seem to have had much impact on the group's popularity. The three surviving members -- May, drummer Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon who will be at the symphony's premier on Wednesday -- have a hit West End musical of their work and top selling CDs and DVDs of their greatest hits.

Freddie & Gene Autry Singing in Heaven
Anahiem Angels won the World Series in Major Leauge baseball this year, and a nice quote in the Philadelphia newspaper mentions Gene Autry (the late owner of the Angels) and Freddie singing "We are the Champions" in Heaven. Thought that was a touch of class in the reporter. You can read the little peice at
http://story.news.yahoo.com

'Video Hits' DVD debuts high on U.S chart
Queen's "Greatest Video Hits 1" DVD debuted at #2 on the music DVD chart in America. It is currently at #5.
Source http://www.billboard.com

Queen Touring Next Year?
There are rumours abound that something big is going to happen next year. Word has it that Brian and Roger are feeling rather energised with their recent live outings (Queen Jubilee plus the LA Walk of Fame Gig) as well as the musical. A tour next year, as well as potentially a new album, with new music. According to Brian Maybe (QMS) the inside word at Hollywood Records is that the gang is fired up and considering Jeff Scott Soto as vocalist to record a number of new tracks. Time will tell if anything comes of this.

Promotion for Queen not to be number one!
On Radio 2, in the Netherlands, Frits Spits is trying to get people not to vote Queen nr one in the top 2002. Will we let that happen? Please submit a vote to get Queen where they belong, and try to get this message to as many people as you know, Queenfans or not! You can also comment on Frits Spits: Go to http://www.kro.nl/tijdvoortwee/bohemian.asp, and comment in the box with name and email in it, and you can vote by the orange link, a new bax will open, press the grey button with 2000 in it. type Queen in the first grid, and klik on the Queen song you'd like to see nr. one. Press 'voeg toe' , the button with the three little arrows. Thank you in advance!!!

News from December 2002.

Merry Christmas everybody and a happy new year!!!!!
I hope you will have a great christmas and a better new year for everyone of us. Let´s pray and ask for peace as well as a better world. Don´t forget: Thank god it´s christmas, for one night!!!.
GOD BLESS YOU!!, GUILLERMO URSI

Queen #12 in Guinness Book Of Records
Queen are ranked #12 artist in Guiness Book of British Hit Singles. The ranking is based on singles in the British charts. The link is
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=5567990

Queen to Play Mandela Benefit Concert
2nd February 2003 will see Queen (Brian and Roger) perform in an Aids Awareness concert for Nelson Mandela. Other stars set to perform include Bono and Elton John. Source: www.queenonline.com

New Untold Story announced by The Torpedo Twins
Germano/French TV channel "Arte" has interviewed The torpedo twins after showing us a special version of "The Untold Story". And they clame that they want to put a new DVD version of this documentary in a spécial packaging, sold appart the FM Box. It should be longer and feature bonus and making of.

Brian's Tears For Lyndsay
The following story appeared in the Daily Record (dated 16th December 2002) Queen star Brian May yesterday revealed how he cried on stage as he thought of teenage suicide victim Lyndsay Armstrong. The Scots teenager overdosed after going through hell in court during her rapist's trial. She was found dead with the Queen hit Bohemian Rhapsody blaring from her stereo. May wrote "I had read the stories of Lyndsay's ordeals, and I was in tears when the first chords of Bohemian Rhapsody struck up". The rest of the article went on to say that Queen are backing a Trust set up in memory of Lyndsay. She committed suicide last July after being put through hell in the witness box during her rapist's trial. Her rapist, a 15 year old boy, only got 4 years. May wrote to offer Linda and dad Frank the bands support as they prepare to launch the Lyndsay Armstrong Trust to help other young victims of sex attacks. Last night Linda said, "I think its absolutely fantastic to have a band like Queen backing our Trust. Queen's songs meant the world to Lyndsay, she loved Bohemian Rhapsody and she was listening to that song when she died. Everytime I hear it, it reminds me of our Lyndsay." Brians letter as it appear in the newspaper is as follows:- "I read with horror and disbelief the story of your lovely daughter. Words cannot express how sad we feel that this tragedy should have been allowed to happen. And knowing the pain you must be feeling, the anger, the sadness, I offer my heartfelt condolences, and pray you will somehow pass through to a place where you can live your lives again in peace. If there is ANYTHING I can do please tell me - I know that you are setting up the Trust and have asked us to put our names to it. I would be very happy to do this. My heart is right with you in trying to make sure this will never happen again - I'm sure the British public feels the same way. It is time for the outdated legal system to be MADE to catch up and truly protect our children. Lyndsay's life and words and actions will change the world. Maybe in the future when you are ready, we could invite you to the Dominion one night. I was in the theatre Tuesday night after I had read the stories of Lyndsay's ordeals, and I was in tears when the first chords of Bohemian Rhapsody struck up. I had a strange feeling that somehow everything is connected in ways we don’t understand - Freddie's life, Lyndsays life. Please tell us if there's anything else we can do. God Bess, and know that you are not alone,
Brian"

Queen to release remix of Flash.
Queen are to release a remixed version of their 1980 hit Flash next month. The remix, credited to Queen+Vanguard, was originally an underground club hit in Germany and later in other European countries. The video has already been shot and will feature footage of the band. The single will be released on January 27 according to Queen's official website. Source: Irish Examiner website (with thanks to Mairead)
http://breaking.examiner.ie/2002/12/12/story80357.html (See also Queen online)

Live at Wembley next Queen DVD !
According to Gallileo from Queenonline, the next Queen DVD will be "Live At Wembley". It will be released in may 2003.

Queen Inducted to Songwriters Hall of Fame!
Queen is one of the 22 musical personalities to be inducted in Songwriters Hall of Fame, next year! Along with Top music makers like David Bowie, Desmond Child,Fletwood Mac and others Queen is expecting for the results in late October 2003. Go Go little Queennie! Source: http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/nominees>

Online Queen commercials for U to C!
A couple of nice commercials which appear on dutch television. Go to
http://info.omroep.nl/ster?nav=masnEsHCfDxDwDhEkH then click on Muziek Zoeken, and type Queen in the dialog box, and hit enter!

Queen fans on TV
Dutch TV channel TV3 will broadcast a programme where voters of the Top 2000 in the Netherlands will be interviewed. Queen fans are asked to join the programme which will be recorded in a Pub. The fans get the chance to talk to Frits Spits, the Dutch DJ, who tried to persuade voters to choose others songs than Borap. (that might lead to some interesting discussions!!). The programme will be broadcasted at the end of the month. The recording takes place 17-20 December.

Vote for Queen on the Top 100 Great British Artists!
Virgin Radio is compiling the Top 100 Great British Artists. You can vote for Queen at http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/top100/index.html The results are being broadcast on New Year's Eve with number one at 6pm on Virgin Radio (105.8 FM or 1215AM).

The Platinum Collection at number 3 in the Italian charts!
Queen is beating Nirvana, Bowie and U2 So you thought everyone had Queen's greatest hits? Wrong! There's a whole new generation willing to discover the band. The box set is at number 3 in the official italian chart, while U2 are some positions down. Nirvana are at number 10, while Bowie is 28. While Bowie's collection features nothing special, we may notice that U2 and Nirvana have unreleased tracks in their collections. Despite this, Queen reigns!

Top 10 Camp Icons - Channel 4 (UK) 30/11/02
Queen appearance in the show but not in top 10! The show attempted to list the top 10 camp icons but no inclusion of Queen in the top 10. Video clip of 'I Want To Break Free' as a top camp anthem, some audio of Bo Rhap early on and an early pic of Queen shown on screen (early pic all naked from the waist up!).

News from January 2003.

Queen featured in Absolut Vodka ad
Continuing in their wildly popular ad campaign, Absolut Vodka will be featuring Queen in their next ad. Appearing in the next issue of "Rolling Stone" magazine (issue #: 914 and dated January 23, 2003 with Justin Timberlake on the cover) Absolut will use Queen's famous album cover for "A Night At The Opera" with the shape of the bottle centered inside the "Q". The title: "Absolut Queen." The ad will be in the back of the magazine.

"Under Pressure" on movie trailer
"Under Pressure" on new Nicolas Cage movie trailer "Under Pressure" is on new Nicolas Cage movie trailer entitled "Adaptation" (in the USA), also starring Maryl Streep.

Brian May Featured in "Guitar World" Magazine
Brian was interviewed by Guitar World after getting Queen's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He answers questions about the musical, the symphony, etc., and his point of view on Queen's rock 'n roll carrer. Check it out!!!

Queen Top Virgin Radio All-Time British Rock Acts Poll
Queen have been voted as the greatest act in the history of British Rock & Roll by 25,000 listeners of UK radio station Virgin Radio. Queen beat the Beatles into second place in the list of the top 100 British acts, the top 10 of which consisted of:

1: Queen
2: The Beatles
3: Oasis
4: David Bowie
5: The Jam
6: The Rolling Stones
7: The Police
8: Led Zeppelin
9: The Who
10: Coldplay

News from February 2003.

We will rock you in Madrid, Spain, 25/02/2003
The musical that features Queen music is going to be presented in Madrid, in November with the help of Luis Álvarez, the main director. Roger Taylor and Brian May will be selecting the cast trying to find actors, rock singers, and sexy people with a special talent as Roger Taylor said but not trying to find someone with Freddie´s voice or someone be able to replace Freddie´s conditions, Brian commented. The musical is also co-produced by Robert de Niro and it will be released on November 3, in Calderón´s theatre. The musical is going to be act by Spanish actors, singers, and you will listen to No one but you and These are the days of our life translated to "Castellano". No other songs will be translate.
We will rock you was seen by 600.000 audiences in London.
QOL advise that tickets for the Spanish production, which runs from 1 October 2003, go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, 26 Feb 2003. See local agents for details.

Vote for Queen in the TMF Awards !
You can vote for www.queenonline.com in the Dutch TMF Awards! If you go to www.tmfawards.nl (skip intro) and go to Vote in the upperleft of the screen, you can type in the screen by Beste Muziek Website (Dutch for Best Music Website) in the second windows from left (under internationaal) for www.queenonline.com .You can vote free many times!

New Queen Tribute Album Out
Their's a new Queen Tribute Album out called "A vocal Tribute To Queen" you can buy it for only €3.49 in HMV.

Advocate: A Crowning Year for Queen!
From The Advocate, the national gay & lesbian news magazine A crowning year for Queen More than a decade after Freddie Mercury’s death, Queen go on and on. Is this band immortal? By Lawrence Ferber This year was the Queen’s jubilee-and we’re not talking about Queen Elizabeth II. In 2002 the legendary rock band Queen continued to reign, even though the band effectively ceased to exist on November 24, 1991, when front man Freddie Mercury succumbed to AIDS complications. These days surviving members Roger Taylor, Brian May, and John Deacon ably carry the torch-along with any number of testosterone-bursting heterosexuals who regularly stomp along to the refrain “We will rock you” at sporting events. “One may not realize Queen is all around, but is it *so* all around,” opines Stephin Merritt, puckish New York musician and closet Queen fan. “I was just reading a book in which all cassettes left in cars turn into Queen’s Greatest Hits in two weeks, which is so true to my life experience. If it’s not labeled, it’s probably Queen’s Greatest Hits.” This year the champion’s presence practically spanned the media: A musical based on their songs had audiences singing. The band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. A concert tribute to Mercury just came out on DVD. And, yes, Queen took part on that *other* British Queen’s jubilee pop concert. What’s the band’s enduring appeal? Sheer virtuosity, for one thing. Queen’s swoony, soaring sound is as thrilling today as when the songs were recorded. And Mercury’s obvious, through never admitted, homosexuality also added spice into the mix. “Having a flamboyant gay front person allowed them to do all kinds of absurdly sexual music,” says Merritt. “*Queen* was a triple entendre name. Whatever the name means, it ends up being sexual.” In a year when everybody wanted to forget their troubles, London’s West End musical We Will Rock You took Queen hits and wove a silly but fun story around them. Written by Ben Elton and musically supervised by May and Taylor, We Will Rock You imagines a conformist world-Planet Mall-in which a rebel named Galileo Figaro (after a character in a Queen song) recaptures the world for rock and roll. Critics blanched, but audiences went wild. In May came the queen’s jubilee concert (celebrating Elizabeth’s 50 years on the throne), at which May performed an electric guitar version of “The Star Spangled Banner.” And to crown Queen’s de facto jubilee, December saw the release of The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Special Anniversary Edition DVD. Originally organized to raise AIDS awareness and funds for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, this 1992 all-star concert event starred a crazy mix of celebs, including David Bowie, Elizabeth Taylor, Axl Rose, Elton John, Annie Lennox, George Michael, and Liza Minnelli. The DVD includes bonuses like rehearsal footage and a TV documentary. For those disappointed that 2003 won’t be the year of Liza (on reality TV, at least), the disc features the diva’s rendition of “We Are the Champions”-a rousing, if not strangely drag queen-esque, debacle. Mercury would be proud. “The original was a strangely drag queen-esque debacle,” Merritt rhapsodizes. “Just a little too early for video.” [Notes: The person quoted here, Stephin Merritt, is the lead singer/songwriter of the band Magnetic Fields, and their 69 Love Songs 3-CD album is great. There’s a couple of factual errors to we Queen fans - John’s involvement and Brian’s playing of “Star Spangled Banner”! - but here is the article is verbatim. I’ll scan it and upload it as well.]

Queen writing AND recording with Dave Stewart !
As reported by www.queenonline.com, Queen are writing and recording some new songs with Dave Stewart. They will begin recording in early March, and the tracks will be released later this year. I hope this turns out well! ;)

Love Of My Life on Columbia Space Shuttle
As you may or may not know, every morning on the shuttle the crew is awaken by music selected by flight controllers in the Mission Control Center. On day 12, the Shuttle Team was woken up by Queen's "Love of My Life". Take a look at the original recording:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/html/ndxpage1.html

Queen: 188 Released Songs Poll
Here are the results (see above link) of votes from 30 people. Each person rated songs from 0 to 10, but could only have a maximum of 20 votes per number rating.
The songs are ranked from 1 to 188. To the right of the of each song title is the average rating. To the right of the average rating is the 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100 percentile votes (lowest vote, 8th lowest vote, median/middle vote, 8th highest vote, and highest vote). The next line below each song title are the actual 30 votes arranged from lowest to highest.
This poll is for released Queen songs only. There was a wide range of opinion on the songs ...

We Will Rock You sweeps Whatsonstage awards
The musical gets the recognition it deserves.

'The Queen-Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You has defied critics once again, by dominating the musical categories in the popularity poll. Boasting some 50% of the musical votes, the show won each of the five categories in which it was nominated: Best New Musical, Best Actor in a Musical (Tony Vincent), Best Actress in a Musical (Hannah Jane Fox) and Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (Sharon D Clarke) as well as Best Director for Christopher Renshaw (nominated jointly for Boy George musical Taboo). Commenting on the show's multiple wins, Queen's Roger Taylor said: "At last - real awards voted for by real people! This represents an overwhelming vindication of our wonderful cast in a new kind of 'musical', and puts a fascinating spotlight on the seemingly total irrelevance of the traditional theatrical awards, decided upon by a dubious inner circle of increasingly detached 'luvvies'. We are thrilled!". Queen's Brian May agreed, adding: "We have seen our team go from strength to strength in the Dominion. The show has regularly been No.1 box office for months now - but seldom has due credit been given to our wonderful cast and team in the media." '

Rare tape of Queen "home" concert found in Russia
Last week Nikolay Torlopov, 14, from the Russian city of Rubtsovsk learned that he would get 26 thousand euro. This is the sum that Germany’s recording company RG Music is ready to pay for a rare record of Freddie Mercury’s "home" concert performed together with his group Queen. The link to the whole story is here:
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/01/30/42764.html

Roger says no to war
Todays ( Sat 1-Feb) Daily Mirror has a picture of Roger signing their "Not in Our Name" anti war petition The photo is not yet in their on line archive

Queen in an Evian's Ad in France
"Look at the influence of Evian's water on your body!!". And you can listen to "We will rock you" sung by different people but with the same voice. The voice of a child!.. At the end we can notice the drums of the real "We will rock you"! A very good idea for this ad...!

Styx to play two Queen songs at the Superbowl
Styx Will Play We are the Champions and We Will Rock You on this years SuperBowl (XXXVII edition)! This band, that are featured to play on this event along with Bon Jovi,Santana whit Michelle Branch,Beyoncé Knowles,Celine Dion and others will play sports favorites Queen songs. According to one member of the band "We're scheduled to perform right after Santana and we'll be doing a medley of 2 of the greatest sports songs ever written, Queen's "We WIll Rock You" and "We Are The Champions." Wait until you hear this! It's ironic because ever since Lawrence Gowan joined the band and we goofed around with "We Are The Champions" in rehearsal one day, we have always wished there would be an opportunity to play it for fans. We are keeping true to Queen's version but we can't help but sounding like ourselves too. Although it's a shortened version of the two songs it's got a lot of bang for the buck. ". So Queen will be there, not being...
Sources: http://www.superbowl.com/entertainment/story/6127562

Freddie featured in MTV "22 Greatest Voices" Poll
Freddie has been nominated for a place in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices" poll, celebrating 22 years on the air. For more information on how to vote for Freddie in this poll, visit www.mtv.com

South African Concert Cancelled
The AIDS benefit concert dreamt up by former South African president Nelson Mandela, that Queen were going to play at, has been cancelled because of a disagreement between the funders and organisers. The concert was to showcase the world's top artists next month. "We have concluded that the concert cannot take place since the proposed producers were not able to come to a satisfactory agreement with the foundation," John Samuel, chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, told SAPA news agency. "There has been an inability of the organisers to deliver whatever they need to deliver," foundation spokeswoman Denise Philip said, without giving further details. The day-long February 2 concert on Robben Island, where Mr Mandela spent 18 of the 27 years he served in jail under apartheid, was set to be one of the most prestigious in recent years. A host of top musicians had pledged to take part, including Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics, Bono of Irish group U2, Queen, Macy Gray, Mos Def, Shaggy, Eve, Cold Play, Nelly Furtado, Ludacris, Baaba Maal, Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Clegg, Lamya, Angelique Kidjo and Yusuf Islam. Islam, a folk singer known as Cat Stevens before he converted to Islam in the late 1970s, was to have made his first public appearance in three decades at the 2,500-seat event, dubbed the Mandela SOS concert. Bono, Stewart, and the late Joe Strummer of The Clash, who died suddenly last month, had written a song in tribute of Mr Mandela, which was to be performed at the concert and used to raise money to fight the AIDS pandemic. It was to have been relayed simultaneously to some 30,000 people watching it on a big screen in a Cape Town stadium. Mr Samuel said the cancellation had been decided well in advance to avoid the embarrassment of having to scrap logistical arrangements and other agreements. And he paid tribute to the artists who had agreed to take part. "We were overwhelmed with the enthusiastic response from international artists to Madiba's call for them to support the proposed concert," he said, using the clan name and nickname by which Mr Mandela's is affectionately called. "We value their commitment to South Africa. We would also like to acknowledge the support of the South African sponsors and Real Concerts for its efforts," he added. Mr Mandela, 84, and US talk-show host Oprah Winfrey launched the event - supported by model Naomi Campbell, Archbishop Desmund Tutu and British business tycoon Richard Branson - last December. "We got rid of apartheid," Mr Mandela said at the launch in Cape Town. "Now the time has come to rid the world of AIDS. It has killed more people than the major wars and disasters." AIDS affects close to 30 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, more than in any other region of the globe. The latest United Nations figures show that five million of South Africa's 46 million citizens carry the HIV virus. Some 360,000 died of AIDS in 2001 and the country has 600,000 AIDS orphans.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003/01/item20030118113354_1.htm

"Platinum Collection" number 17 in Portugal
After appearing on the top Thirty over christmas, The platinum collection reached number 17 last week and has now achieved the platinum record status. this is quite significant since it's a triple album composed off previously released material. I am very happy to find that there are still a lot of Queen fans here in Portugal despite the fact the band never came here. onlu Brian did two shows in his Back to The Light Tour.

New Queen Radio
Hello all! There is an all Queen radio station. It is so great. It is called Mike's All Queen Radio. Follow the link below
http://www.live365.com/stations/299503

Queen are still in the top five in Italy
Queen are still in the top five of the italian charts!!! they reached one month ago the third position with "The Platinum Collection" and they are still there!this means not only big sales but it also shows how much the italian fans love them!!!just to compare, U2 reached only N.4 and now are at N.5

News from March 2003.

Bohemian Rhapsody #47 on MOJO's Ultimate Jukebox
The respected record nerd magazine MOJO includes a small booklet called "Ultimate Jukebox: The 100 Singles You Must Own" with its April issue, and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" appears at #47. The Booklet's selections are by such rock writing luminaries as Jon Savage, Nick Tosches, and Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy), and has a write-up on "Bohemian Rhapsody" Daryl Easlea (DE). Writes Nick Hornby in the introduction: "You can argue about this list, but then you'd be missing the point -- there are hundreds, thousands of singles that could just as easily been included here..." Here's the text in full: #47 Bohemian Rhapsody/I'm In Love With My Car EMI 1975 Recorded on the same piano as the Fabs' Hey Jude, Bo Rap is one of the most complex and beguiling singles ever made. Overrated by those who love it and underrated by those who don't, the public voted it *the* most popular UK Number 1. No one can deny the copper-bottomed durability of this, the very embodiment of pop nonsense. It's the ultimate 3-in-1 offer -- ballad, heavy rock and high camp on a scale unseen since Kenneth Williams screamed "Infamy, infamy! They've got it all in for me!" 11 years previously. Other Queen-related/curious appearances (w/ A-sides):
97 Beach Boys God Only Knows
95 Sparks This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us
39 Rainbow Since You've Been Gone
34 Chic Good Times
30 David Bowie Changes
and Number 1?
The Kingsmen
Louie Louie

WWRY By Pacha on Eurobest
The Band Pacha sang an original Reprise of WWRY at the Eurobest TV Show in Cannes (France). This version was quite interesting as it was re-arranged with piano and harmonies.

New Queen DVD Release
Made In Heaven - The Films is to be release on Region 2 DVD on 24/03/03. www.play.com have it to order for £12.99. This is the cheapest I have found it for sale.

Brian May in an Australian air-guitar contest
Brian May surprised the Australian air-guitarists by appearing in an air-guitar contest in Victoria last weekend. The best Australian air-guitarist was in search who would then go to Oulu, Finland to compete for a world championship in air-guitar playing. Brian May awarded the winner and held a speech to the cheering audience about how peace was releated in air-guitar playing: "Where they play air-guitar there is peace. Where they play air-guitar there is no fucking war." (Note, this might not be the original comment as I've translated it.) And sorry if this is in the Fan Club Magazine because I don't know, I can always try...

New Queen DVD Release
Made In Heaven - The Films is to be release on Region 2 DVD on 24/03/03. www.play.com have it to order for £12.99. This is the cheapest someone have found it for sale.

Brian May in an Australian air-guitar contest
Brian May surprised the Australian air-guitarists by appearing in an air-guitar contest in Victoria last weekend. The best Australian air-guitarist was in search who would then go to Oulu, Finland to compete for a world championship in air-guitar playing. Brian May awarded the winner and held a speech to the cheering audience about how peace was releated in air-guitar playing: "Where they play air-guitar there is peace. Where they play air-guitar there is no fucking war." (Note, this might not be the original comment as I've translated it.) And sorry if this is in the Fan Club Magazine because I don't know, I can always try...

US Fan Convention Registrations Open Now
Registrations for the US fan convention is now open. You can register on-line at:
http://www.fantasticwebsites.com/breakthru

Queen on OZ TV
Brian and Roger will be on Channel 7 at 9:30pm on the premiere of a program called 'The Chat Room'.

Freddie Mercury,Greatest Voice in MTV2 Countdown
in a mtv2 production which was a countdown for greaatest voices,Freddie Mercury ,Queen vocal was selected as the #1 voices between 22 other voices.

Queen members launch musical
THE smash-hit Queen musical We Will Rock You will be staged for the first time outside of London's West End in Melbourne. Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor were in Melbourne today to launch the rock extravaganza, written by Ben Elton to the music and lyrics of Queen. Described by Elton as a cross between "King Arthur and The Matrix" the production has been the number one selling show in London since opening in May last year and has advanced bookings until January 2004. But May was today careful to distance the show from the usual West End production. "This is not My Fair Lady, folks," the 56-year-old told reporters. The big haired rocker said the show was not a musical in the old sense but more of an experimental piece. "It's very much away from the Andrew Lloyd Webber middle-aged experience," he said. "It is a rock `n roll show ... a lot more powerful and louder than the average musical." Featuring 24 Queen hits including, Bohemian Rhapsody, I Want It All and Somebody to Love, the show is a futurist adventure set in a time when live music is banned on earth and the kids are fed a diet of synthesised music. Taylor said the rock musical, which the band first began dreaming of back in 1986, was a "bit of a dig" at today's homogenised pop music. May and Taylor will spend the next few days scouring local talent for the 36-member cast and nine-piece band for the show. So far more than 1000 Australians have auditioned, with the final cast expected to be announced next week. While May ruled out joining the We Will Rock You band on stage, talk of a world tour with the surviving members of Queen was not out of the question. "We keep threatening to," he said, "It's still possible, but I mean we have a singer problem. We don't want to replace Freddie - it doesn't feel right even after all these years." The flamboyant lead singer Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991. We Will Rock You will have its Australian premiere in Melbourne's Regent Theatre on August 7. The show is also expected to go to Sydney but no dates have been set. It will then head to Canada, Spain, Germany and Austria before hitting the United States in 2004.

Richest British singers
the british magazine "buisiness age" has listed the british richest singers. you can check the list out in the following site.
www.vh1.com
Brian, Roger and John come in at number 23 with $67 million each.

"Who wants to live forever" in Polish!
Since yesterday in Polish shops you can buy "Who wants to live forever" sung in Polish.
Polish radio RMF FM invite famous Polish bands and singers to perform greatest songs ever. This album is called "RMF FM - moja i twoja muzyka". There are also "Every Breath You Take", "Fragile", "Could You Be Loved" and many more.

Electric Six
Electric Six of Danger: High Voltage, have included a cover version of Radio Ga-Ga on their forthcoming album.
Source Q magazine- april edition

Freddie feature in this months Q Magazine
Freddie in this months Q magazine is named as the most outrageous star ever. Beating Elvis, John Lennon and Ozzy Osbourne to name but a few, the magazine runs a three page special on Freddie's more ahem colouful side to his life. The article mentions his spashing out on Koi carp, antiques and the obligatory dwarves story.

GVH1 nominated for best Australian music DVD of the year
Queen's Greatest Video Hits 1 has been nominated for the best Australian music DVD of the year. Other nominations include: "U2: Best Of 1990-2000", "Diana Krall: Live In Paris" and "Kylie: Fever 2002 Live In Manchester". Let's hope they do the right thing and give Queen an award they definitely deserve!

Rivendel toca de nuevo el 15 de marzo!!!!!
Sábado 15 de Marzo del 2003 - 21hs
Teatro Santa María
Montevideo 842 (casi esq. Avda. Córdoba) Capital Federal

Después de el gran 2002 que pasó la banda, empiezan un nuevo año con muchas expectativas y como siempre tratando de cumplir con todos nuestros pedidos. Abrirán el 2003 con todo en el hermosísimo teatro Santa María, todos podrán estar cómodamente ubicados. La lista de temas se basará en todos los pedidos de temas que hicimos durante el 2002, agregando mucho material que hace años no se tocaba o que nunca Rivendel había tocado! Además, han invitado a los amigos de "Rockestra" que tocarán un set de Beatles, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis y mucho mas. Rivendel tocará un show mucho mejor y por el mismo precio que antes!!!: 10 pesos que realmente valen la pena!!!!.
El Lugar/Como Llegar: El teatro "Santa María" es un hermoso complejo que se se encuentra ubicado en la calle Montevideo 842 (casi Avda. Córdoba) en pleno centro de la Capital Federal. Acercan al teatro los colectivos: 5-12-23-29-39-37-60-75-99-102-106-109-111-115-124-132-140-150 además del Subte B y D (estación Callao). Para aquellos que van en auto, a media cuadra del teatro (sobre Córdoba) hay un estacionamiento para su comididad.

Venta de Entradas: Las localidades son numeradas y limitadas y se pondrán en venta en forma anticipada a partir del día MARTES 25 de Marzo en los siguientes puntos de venta:
- Rockería Liverpool . Avda Cabildo 211336 - 1er Piso, Local 147 (Galería Recamier) Capital Federal.
- FF Salas de Ensayo - Diego Palma 84,, San Isidro.
Contactos:
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John Deacon to appear on 'Through the Keyhole'?
According to inside information at the BBC, John Deacon is going to appear as a guest on the popular gameshow "Through the Keyhole". The show is presented by David Frost and features the home of a celebrity. Loyd Grossman, the show's co-presenter explores the house, describg the type of person who lives at this house, and a panel of 3 people have to guess who the house belong's to. An insider at the BBC said "This is a great way for John to prove he is still out there, and a dignified way for him to defend himself from the slanderous articules that have been appearing in the press latley about him".

News from April 2003.

Queen "Tribute" Book Launch and Covers Concert
To celebrat the publication of *God Save My Queen*, a poetry/memoir tribute to Queen (written by this reporter), there will be a book launch party in Brooklyn, NY, with five bands attempting Queen covers. The concert will take place Wednesday, May 14, at North Six, a rock club in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Bands and artists slated to appear are Panthers, Gloria Deluxe, Skeleton Killers, and Daniel Sonenberg, among other impromptu guests.
For more information:
North Six link www.northsix.com/shows.htm
**About the book (press release from Soft Skull Press)** God Save My Queen: A Tribute by Daniel Nester is a piece of writing that draws from a very unliterary source: the British rock band Queen.
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Channel 4 to air another "Queen Night"
On Saturday 1st June, Channel 4 will be airing another evening of Queen-themed programming, something which has become almost a semi-regular event on the channel in recent years. The evening - usually in fact only two or three programmes - will include a repeat of last year's "When Freddie Met Kenny" documentary on the friendship between Freddie and DJ Kenny Everett, and at least one other Queen-related programme.

Queen to perform at Pavarotti & Friends???
I've read on a local newspaper that the world famous tenor Luciano Pavarotti is trying to persuade Brian and Roger to perform at his "Pavarotti & Friends" show, which takes place every year in Modena (where i live). I'm quite shocked by the news as it's not reported in any Queen site, I only hope it's true as it would be a unique occasion to see them live in Italy. I will post more infos if i discover something more.

Brian Backs Campaign For Iraqi Children
Queen guitarist (no, really?) Brian May was featured in the latest issue of England's Sun newspaper in support of their "Give A Quid For An Iraqi Kid" campaign. Brian's quote was "Kids are the victims of this terrible man-made tragedy". The Sun has asked that each of their readers contribute £1 to their campaign for Iraqi children. Brian was "deeply moved" by their appeal.

"A Night at the Opera" voted "ultimate album"
Queen's "A Night at the Opera" has been voted the 'ultimate album' in a poll for British national radio station Virgin Radio. Virgin seems to be something of a Queen-friendly station, as the band topped their "100 Greatest British Artists" poll back in December, keeping the Beatles down in second place.
For more information, see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk

Queen The Game out in April?
I was browsing Circuit City online and noticed in the Queen CD section, there is a listng for DVD-A for The Game, (it was listed as The Games). They have the release date of April 8th. I was wondering if this was true so I went to CD Universe, and checked Queen's CD page and it was here too but with a different release date of April 29th.
http://www.cduniverse.com
I think I should pre-order this at CDUniverse, it is only $15.39 compared to Circuit City's $20.00.
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Rivendel de nuevo a la carga!
La mejor banda de covers sudamericana vuelve a tocar el 25 de este mes en The Cavern club. Las entradas costarán 8 pesos pero adquiriendo también la entrada del próximo show en forma anticipada el valor de las mismas será de 15 pesos pudiendo ver dos shows. Más info próximamente en mi sitio o pueden ver el oficial de la banda.
Para más información ir a: www.rivendelonline.com

News from May 2003.

Queen to play South Africa???
In a recent article in classic rock magazine, Brian has hinted that Queen might be playing in a concert for AIDS in South Africa.
The concert; organised by Nelson Mandela will be held in Johannesberg in November of this year.
In the 1980s when Queen were blacklisted for playing Sun City, Brian promised for Queen to come back in the future to play a concert in SOWETO. The concert would be the ultimate chance to fulfil his promise.

Queen in Modena: Confirmed!
Announcement made during the italian Pavarotti press conference:
Today it was confirmed in an official press conference in Milan: Brian and Roger will be present at the Pavarotti show in Modena on the 27th of may, performing Queen tracks. Some will be sung by Brian, others by a (still secret) special guest. Other artists featured at the event: Bono, Eric Clapton, Laura Pausini, Andrea Bocelli, Lionel Richie, Ricky Martin, Deep Purple, Zucchero.

Queen on "Classic Rock"-magazine!!
Queen is featured in the latest number of "Classic rock"! Check it out!-Freddie is on the front-page..

News from June 2003.

Queen - Live In Benidorm?
Benidorm seems the capital of international Concerts since the forthcoming Rolling Stones Concert. It seems that Queen is going to perform the 12 september. The information is on the oficial Tourisme web page of the goverment of Alicante .

Star Licks available on DVD
The owners of the original "Star Licks" guitar tuition tape featuring Brian have reisssued it as "Master Session" on DVD with new pics of Brian on the front.

Greg Brooks Request
Queen archivist Greg Brooks is a big collector of the classic science fiction novel THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, by HG wells (originally published in 1898). He collects ALL editions of the book, in any language, and especially those with illustrations. Greg would like details of any book, magazine feature, or depiction from the book, which you may know of. He will buy them or trade for Queen items. GB especially wants non-English books from obscure territories. Any help would be much appreciated. GB sends much thanks in advance. GB@Queen-Archives.fsnet.co.uk

Queen Plot Reunion
QUEEN guitarist BRIAN MAY and drummer ROGER TAYLOR are planning a tour with guest vocalists subbing in for late frontman FREDDIE MERCURY. "We don't want to go out and replace Freddie," May told Rolling Stone. "It would be unseemly, and it wouldn't feel right. But if we can go out in some kind of partnership way, and have some special guests, we'd be up for it." May mentioned ROBBIE WILLIAMS, GEORGE MICHAEL and ELTON JOHN as possible guest singers. In other Queen news, the band will issue "Live at Wembley" on DVD on June 17th." Source: QMS (Brian Maybe) and Rolling Stone Daily

Freddie Statue to grace Dominion
A giant replica of the statue of Freddie in Montreux will grace the Dominion theatre in London, home of the Queen musical We Will Rock You See this link for pictures:
http://www.brianmaynews.com and noticeboard for comments

Queen DVD poll results
A while back, I conducted a poll asking fans if they wanted a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundmix included on all future Queen DVD's (in addition to DTS.) The poll is now closed and the results are in. An overwhelming 86.20% said YES, they wanted a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundmix included. The results will be passed along to Queen for consideration.

News from July 2003.

Roger Taylor and Brian May birthdays!!
Roger is going to turn 54 years old, meanwhile Brian turned 56 the other 19th July.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROGER TAYLOR, my favourite member, you are the best!!!!

Freddie On The Biography Channel
The Biography Channel (UK) are to show a documentary on Freddie on Saturday the 26th.

Robbie Williams played "We will rock you"
Yesterday I visited a concert from Robbie williams at the Amsterdam Arena in Holland. Robbie Williams sung we will rock you and the whole audience (45 000 people ) joined him. It was realy great. Actually the whole show was great. Before this tour started Robbie has said that he would only play those songs he really loves. I think it's great that the man played we will rock you and the rest off the audience seemed to agree with me. Before the concert started they showed a videoclip of hammer to fall from the live at wembley dvd, It was real nice to see freddie and the guys on the big stadium screen.

Queen & John Farnham

Legendary Australian vocalist John Farnham ("You're the Voice" among others had recorded a version of "We Will Rock You" featuring Roger and Brian.
The follwong came from MelodicRock.com....

Undercover reports:
At his official website www.brianmaynews.com Brian tells fans "It's truly awesome. We lined it all up on the 'virtual multi-track' of the arrangement of the song I'd put together. The marvels of Modern... um...communications! But most of all the marvels of a great singer!" Farnham recorded his vocal in Melbourne and shipped it to May's London studio where the track was completed by Queen. "I put about 15 more guitars on, and did a little jiggery-pokery" he says. "Then Roger came in. He actually LIKED the arrangement - a result for me! And he loved Johnny's vocal - it gets better the more you listen to it. I have to say Roger delivered a KILLER drum track, in no more than couple of takes plus a few 'special requests' - you OZ guys an' gals are going to LOVE this!!!! I actually think everyone else will too - the whole thing is a nice progression for the song - it starts off very true to the original, but gets to a new place, kind of post 'Five', post Pavarotti, post New York .... It sound huge. What? Well, it will be a favourite in MY car anyway - screw you guys!" John Farnham is about to release a new best of featuring for the first time both his EMI and BMG hits. We Will Rock You is expected to be the new,

TOTP FOR ENGLISH QUEEN FANS
Queen are to appear on Top of the pops next tuesday at 6.20 pm performing 'we are the champions'. None of my sources know if its the video or the totp version, but knowing totp, if they have the later, they will use it!

Queen recorded with Kerry Ellis
Maybe you don't know it, but 3rd July Queen (Brian, Roger, Neil and Mike) recorded whit "We Will Rock You" star Kerry Ellis new version of Queen hit from 1997's "Queen Rocks" album "No-one But You (Only The Good Die Young)". A new song will be singnature as "Queen + Kerry Ellis". Does Queen really back to us - fans ?

Queen - Live in Benidorm (translation)
A huge amount of top performers are going to join in the capital of turism (Benidorm) this summer. The scheduling includes not only the well-known names of Joaquín Cortés and Tom Jones but also performances of Pretenders, Caetano Veloso, the duet composed of Josep Carreras and Lluis Llach which includes an orchestra and a chorus, Bob Dylan, George Benson, REM, Diego Torres, the Ópera Lucía of Lamemoor de Donizetti, Pasión Vega, La oreja de Van Gogh, Queen and some other shows that are to be confirmed. The shows will take place either in the football stadium, la Plaza de Toros or l'Aiguera Park's Auditorium, depending on the number of tickets sold. The biggest crowd (Foietes Football Field) will be booked only for performances with an estimaed attendance of over 10.000 people. The first show is Tom Jones the 18th June while the last one will be rock group "Queen" the 12nd of September.

Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony on TV
Queen (Brian May and Roger Taylor) to be on Bravo Channel (USA)July 9th The ceremony in which the band, Queen was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame will be broadcast on Bravo Television on July 9th. Check local listings.

Queen - Live In Benidorm?
Benidorm seems the capital of international Concerts since the forthcoming Rolling Stones Concert. It seems that Queen is going to perform the 12 september. The information is on the oficial Tourisme web page of the goverment of Alicante .

Star Licks available on DVD
The owners of the original "Star Licks" guitar tuition tape featuring Brian have reisssued it as "Master Session" on DVD with new pics of Brian on the front.

Greg Brooks Request
Queen archivist Greg Brooks is a big collector of the classic science fiction novel THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, by HG wells (originally published in 1898). He collects ALL editions of the book, in any language, and especially those with illustrations. Greg would like details of any book, magazine feature, or depiction from the book, which you may know of. He will buy them or trade for Queen items. GB especially wants non-English books from obscure territories. Any help would be much appreciated. GB sends much thanks in advance. GB@Queen-Archives.fsnet.co.uk

Queen Plot Reunion
QUEEN guitarist BRIAN MAY and drummer ROGER TAYLOR are planning a tour with guest vocalists subbing in for late frontman FREDDIE MERCURY. "We don't want to go out and replace Freddie," May told Rolling Stone. "It would be unseemly, and it wouldn't feel right. But if we can go out in some kind of partnership way, and have some special guests, we'd be up for it." May mentioned ROBBIE WILLIAMS, GEORGE MICHAEL and ELTON JOHN as possible guest singers. In other Queen news, the band will issue "Live at Wembley" on DVD on June 17th." Source: QMS (Brian Maybe) and Rolling Stone Daily

Freddie Statue to grace Dominion
A giant replica of the statue of Freddie in Montreux will grace the Dominion theatre in London, home of the Queen musical We Will Rock You See this link for pictures:
http://www.brianmaynews.com

Queen DVD poll results
A while back, I conducted a poll asking fans if they wanted a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundmix included on all future Queen DVD's (in addition to DTS.) The poll is now closed and the results are in. An overwhelming 86.20% said YES, they wanted a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundmix included. The results will be passed along to Queen for consideration.

News from August 2003.

GREATEST VIDEO HITS 2 releases in DVD
that GREATEST VIDEO HITS 2 is due to be released on DVD on 27th October...
You can Pre-order it for only £13.99.....

Track Listing is as follows
A Kind Of Magic
I Want It All
Body Language
Radio Ga Ga
I Want To Break Free
Scandal
Las Palabras De Amor
It's A Hard Life
Under Pressure (David Mallett original version)
Who Wants To Live Forever
Calling All Girls
The Invisble Man
Hammer To Fall
Back Chat
Friends Will Be Friends
Princes Of The Universe
One Vision
The Show Must Go On
£13.99 .... BARGAIN

The Game DVD-A wins first prize!!!
Queen's classic album 'The Game' won the first prize for a DVD-A on the 6th DVD AWARDS! Along with others famous winners (Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of The Moon' for best SACD;'Terminator2' for best DVD-Rom among others) Queen's famous album won this great prize. source: http://www.recordingmedia.org/dvd-awards.html

Queen To Tour
Queen are in this months 'Classic Rock' Magazine. A short article about touring rumours and quotes from Brian, saying working on the wembley DVD has made Roger and him hungry for more. Guest singers would do vacals, and mentioned Robbie William as a possibility, "We Love Robbie, but he is a bit of a loose cannon" Said Brian

Freddie article in "Cat Fancy" magazine
In the October 2003 issue of "Cat Fancy" magazine in the USA, there is a two-page article about Freddie and his many feline friends. The author spoke to Jacky Smith, the lyrics to "Delilah" were included, and a small picture of Freddie appears on the cover.

Queen on Italian TV adverts
Two great italian brand are using Queen's songs for their tv ads. They are Mulino Bianco and Pavesi. The first uses Somebody to Love, Let me live and Friends will be friends in three great ads. Pavesi uses Crazy little thing called love! We well know that Queen's song are very vivid music... and for this reason they are often used in tv and radio programs or ads. But we always have to be proud of this! Never forget that they aren't the latest songs taken from the hitlist...

Vote for Queen
In september there will be a capital gold legends awards show and the public get to vote in each category. The categorys include male legend, female legend, release of the year, new legend,album, and the ones with queen in.....legendary group and performance of the year (we will rock you the musical). you do however have to register but it costs nothing and you have a chance to win tickets to the awards show and meet some of the stars (maybe including queen!!!!!) go to capitalgold.com you must be over 18 to vote.

Queen In Melbourne
We will rock has been going on in Melbourne and its out of this world, i had the delights of haven shaken hands with brian as he entered the theatre.

A royal weekend for Britain!!
This coming saturday and sunday is the king and queen weekend. With saturday being elvis night from 6pm and Sunday being queen night from 6pm on vh1 uk. This 'night' will include greatest hits of queen, a documentery called legends, the untold story of the 1 and only Freddie Mercury plus 1 hour of the milton keynes concert of 1982 with songs such as 'bohemian rhapsody', 'play the game' and 'tie your mother down'. Long live Queen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Freddie reigns again in nostalgia blitz - Sydney morning herald article
Understatement? Freddie Mercury, frontman for the 1970s/80s rock band Queen, didn't believe in the concept. There was the big moustache, the elaborate songs, the grand gestures, the many lovers and the massive concerts. You suspect, then, that the man whose name seemed always to be preceded by the word flamboyant when he was mentioned in family newspapers, would be feeling more than a little chuffed at the moment. You see, we are in the midst of an excess of Queen. Not only is there a musical based on Queen songs, which opened on Thursday in Melbourne (watched by Victorian powerbrokers such as Michael Kroger, Jeff Kennett, Steve Vizard and, well, Lillian Frank) but next month a symphonic work based on Queen songs will be performed by Sydney's Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Choir. No, really. It's written by British composer Tolga Kashif, set in six movements, draws on "musical themes" from 13 Queen songs and has been described (by Queen's Brian May, admittedly) as a cross between Tchaikovsky, Holst and Mussorgsky. But wait, there's more. A DVD is now available of Queen's career-defining concert before 100,000-odd fans at Wembley Stadium in 1986. And later this month a tribute band from Britain will play, not at a suburban RSL - the usual haunt of the cover band - but at the Enmore Theatre. You know, where proper bands play. With more Queen business going on than during a royal tour there's a danger a musical could get lost in the clamour. Luckily for We Will Rock You - script by Ben Elton; music and lyrics by Queen - volume, spectacle and a never-ending parade of hit songs can make up for a lot. Throw in a couple of John Farnham gags and you're set. And it is the spectacle, the kind of rock parade on which Queen built their live reputation, that is the lasting impression from this show, which will move to Sydney later this year. While Elton's script is overloaded with one-liners, the rollcall of familiar songs pumped through a concert-class sound system, backed by extravagant lighting and augmented by large video screens, is the backbone of We Will Rock You. It was exhilarating enough for Queen members May and Roger Taylor to be so fired up they joined the band playing at the opening-night party. Amusingly, rather than Queen songs, May and Taylor rolled out several songs by the only band who could out-excess Queen, Led Zeppelin. Wonder what Freddie made of that?

HMV Queen #6 Dvd
At HMV Queen: Live At Wembley stadium is currently in 6th place for top DVD Movies Purchaced

Queen on Family Guy
On the cartoon Family Guy, baby Stewie sings the first bit of Another One Bites The Dust after he locks another baby in a trap he made in a sandbox (for those who don't watch the show, Stewie is a baby with an accent and bent on world domination). That was about it, but it's good to see any Queen reference anywhere right?

John Farman performing with Queen members??
Brian and Roger in Australia and the rumours are coming up Shall John Farman perform with Brian and Roger or is it one of the endless speculations?

Q Reviews Live at Wembley DVD
"Meanwhile Queen: live at Wembley Stadium, is a complete recording of the greatest Queen gig of all time. A lengthy documentry and multi-angled shots of John Deacons tight yellow shorts all make for a dvd of such quality, not even Ocean colour scene: filmed from the front row can spoil it." Nice to see Q give a genuine review for once, oh and they gave the DVD 5 stars!

Brian May on MTV Brasil
Brian May was the "subject" om the "MTV Riff" of yesterday. The VJ was talking that Axl Rose called Brian May to participate of the new Guns'n'Roses's formation and that May refused it. Then, he said that he met Brian May and etc. and passed the video from the tribute to Freddie, witch one is Queen playing with Axl Rose in vocals singing "We Will Rock You" Sorry for my English! It's terrible! But I hope you can understand what I meant!

Freddie Mercury on TRIO
Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story will be features on the Trio Channel on July 31st at 9:00 pm EST and again repeated on August 1st at 12:00 am.

Queen concert DVD poll results
An on-line poll I conducted recently asking fans which Queen concert they would like to see released on DVD next is now closed.
Here are the top 5 along with the percentage of votes they received;
1- Milton Keynes – 14.34%
2- Earl's Court '77 – 14.19%
3- Houston '77 - 13.03%
4- Live Aid (just Queen's set) – 9.47%
5- Hyde Park '76 – 9.44%
There were over 3,000 votes cast.

Sheer Heart Attack: One of 100 Greatest Guitar Albums
Mojo Magazine lists Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack in their 100 Greatest Guitar Albums Feature. The bonus booklet, which accompanies the August issue of the English rock magazine and features a foreword by Jeff Beck, features 100 albums featured chronologically – from 1929 (Charley Patton’s Screamin’ and Hollerin’ The Blues) to 2003 (The Whites Stripes’ Elephant). Sheer Heart Attack is the only entry for 1974.
Here’s the full text for the SHA mention:
1974 - Queen Sheer Heart Attack
A guitar showcase called Brighton Rock, played by a man who uses a sixpence as a plectrum; axe heroics of a quintessentially English stripe. When work began on SHA, Queen guitarist Brian May was in hospital with hepatitis, and worried that the band would be forced to replace him. On recovering, he played with renewed appetite, his extraordinarily toothsome sound the happy result of deft vibrato, '70s amplification, that sixpence, and a unique guitar part-fashioned from an old fireplace. Now I’m Here has admirable crunch, the massed guitars on [In The] Lap of the Gods are classically rich, and Killer Queen sounds like a masterclass in guitar orchestration. A quarter century on, May would appear in the TV advert for the Best Air Guitar in The World II. He’d also influence Dave Grohl, who alongside fellow Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins, made a speech when Queen were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Key moment: Killer Queen, 1:40-2:01, May’s playful, layered solo. Availability: EMI CD.

Freddie On The Biography Channel
The Biography Channel (UK) are to show a documentary on Freddie on Saturday the 26th.

News from September 2003.

A QUEEN museum at Mountain Studios
Article quickly summarized and translated from http://www.24heures.ch After a battle against Casino Barriere (owner of the Mountain Studio since 1991) Dave Richard has just made a compromise with them by creating a Queen museum in the Mountain Studio. The museum will be headed by the Mercury Tour managers and Queen members are agree to give some of their most precious memorabilia : costumes, lyrics sheets, recording tapes. According to Dave, this location should open quickly.

The future of the mountain studios in Montreux
there seem to be plans for making the mountain studios in Montreux to a museum, as is written at the site of Montreux...

Qeen Symphony On ABC.
The Queen Symphony is to be shown on the ABC channel in Australia this Sunday, the 21st September at 10.50pm local time.

Here's what the ABC Web site has to say:

The Queen Symphony
In November 2002, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and two choirs performed a symphony based on the music of the pop group Queen. For the first time this production will be screened on TV.

Thanks to Mark Thomas

Fonte: Queen Online

Queen to tour Us w/ Robbie,GM and Bono?
According to the prestigious French Magazine "Rock&Folk" Queen will tour next year Whit Robbie Williams,George Michael and Bono Vox! The Plan is to make an Huge American Tour,Playing in Stadiums and Bringing the Band Back to the Spotlight! Having such Star Singers would help it!

pavarotti&friends
Pavarotti and friends will be shown in a summary rtl 4 show staats loterij show will show a summary of the last pavarotti&friends show at 21.30 dutch time,tuesday september 16

Save Mountain Studios!
David Richards is having problems dealing with a casino that has already taken over parts of Mountain Studios. We need your help to save Mountain Studios from the destruction of the casino! Please visit this site and sign the guestbook so the signatures can be presented to the city of Montreux: http://members.lycos.nl/savethestudio/

Thanks for your help!

Freddie Mercury's Montreux Memorial Day
This special day was a huge succes! Queen fans from Germany, Holland, England, Ireland, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Russia, USA, Argentina, France and maybe more countries gathered at the most wonderful and gorgeous Queen related location, Montreux... It was really a beautiful day, the sun was shining, we all felt good and nothing was going to stop us from having the most impressive day ever! All the great things the fans saw where Freddie used to be and lived, gave his wild parties, recorded, where he was feeding his favorite swans and strolling along the boulevard. The statue has been given the most perfect spot in Montreux. A real honor to such a great star! Montreux breaths peace and quiet! All the people present really understood and felt why Freddie loved being there. The organization did one hell of a job to make sure the fans got what they came for and more. In the evening everyone went to the music hall the NED and listened to Queen music, brought to them by Miracle. For those who weren't there... you all missed one hell of a lot!

Queen on Simpsons
The song you're my best friend was played on The Simpsons in the episode where Moe (Bartender) Saves Magge from death. Once they bond they have a climactic scene with You're my best friend playing in the background

Killer Queen used as title theme
KQ was used as the title theme for "The Canturbury Tales: The Miller's Tale" on BBC1 tonight (Thurs 11th Sept). This is the Chaucer classics retold "for our time". Quite good so far!

News from October 2003.

Queen's 'Greatest Video Hits Vol. 2' available for pre-order in the USA!!!
I've just been to www.amazon.com and they finally have GVH 2 listed for pre-sale! ORDER IT NOOOOOWWWW!!!! ;)

Roger on BBC with Dave Stewart
Talking about the AIDS project he is working on Roger Taylor appeared on the breakfast news on BBC1 this morning. Backed by video clips of Nelson Mandela, Bono and Brian May, Roger and Dave spoke in great detail about the '46664' project that has been organised to raise money and awareness for the AIDS disaster that is unfolding in Africa. Everyone who has a conscience will donate to this.

Queen to play Cape Town AIDS Benefit Concert Next Month
According to a report on BBC News Online, 'Queen' (most likely Brian and Roger with session players, as usual) are to join stars such as U2's Bono and Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child in an Aids Benefit Concert to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 29th. The full report can be read online here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3210518.stm

New cover of "We Will Rock You" in the works
Richard Guilbault, aka Dark_Myuutwo, is currently writing a new version of "We Will Rock You" in response to the recent MJK cover version. Once the track is re-written, it will be recorded within the next few weeks. Updates will be made regularly regarding the cover's status

News from November 2003.

Rivendel toca de nuevo el 15 y 22
La excelente banda se presenta de nuevo en estas dos últimas fechas para cerrar un año de lujo, tocarán en el teatro la comedia ubicado en Santa Fé y Callao, para conseguir las entradas deberán asesorarse primero en www.rivendelonline.com Abrá grandes sorpresas, mejores equipos, sonidos, luces, etc, y por supuesto un gran tributo a la mejor banda de Rock de la historia; QUEEN. Nos veremos allí, así que, a comprar los tickets!!.

Hilarious GVH 2 Television Ad available on QOL
Most of you know this already as it is being discussed in the Noticeboard, but: Brian and Roger feature in a 30 second promo for Greatest Video Hits 2. Seems they have hijacked a video retail store and sell only Queen... This ad is great... see for yourself here. --> http://www.peacockdesign.com/previews/q_solus.mpg

Brian May and def leppard
I was at the def leppard concert on the 31st of october and brian may was a Guest star. It was a brilliant night they played tie your mother down. for pictures go to http://www.defleppard.com Brian May also waved back at me when i saw him in his car after the show aswell!!!

Brian May In Web Chat For 46664
Brian May will be in webchat of 46664 next friday on 14 November in #starchat channel. To see more: www.queenonline.com

Queen on Wisden awards
Queen's dont stop me now featured in wisden crickey awards as a theme song for last year's cricketing events and they played the song with a collage of last years major cricketing events mainly the cricket world cup and the major stars of the year . was a pleasure to watch

KILLER QUEEN DELUXE SOLD OUT
taken from Genesis Publications site: We have had an astounding amount of interest in Mick Rock's Killer Queen and the Deluxe copies have sold out after only one month of us taking advanced orders. Regular copies are still available but we advice you to order soon. I received an e-mail saying that the Deluxe version has been sold out. There also seems to be some problems with getting all the books signed by Roger and Brian.

News from December 2003.

Merry Christmas everybody and a happy new year!!!!!
I hope you will have a great christmas and a better new year for everyone of us. Let´s pray and ask for peace as well as a better world. Don´t forget: Thank god it´s christmas, for one night!!!.
GOD BLESS YOU!!, GUILLERMO URSI

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Roger Taylor and Brian May live in Southafrica
You can watch the full concert in Argentina, on Monday on channel 57 at 4.00 pm. You will watch Roger and Brian appearences, they were great!!!!

The setlist was:

Beyonce - Baby Boy
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Beyonce - Dangerously In Love
Bob Geldof - Speech
Bob Geldof - Redemption Song
Roger Taylor, Brian May, Dave Stewart -Say It's Not True [Acoustic]
Paul Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise
Paul Oakenfold & 6 African Drummers - Ready Steady Go
Baaba Maal - Accepelo Baayo
Baaba Maal - Baayo Ext
Yousour N'dour - Africa Remembers
Peter Gabriel (With Yusaf Islam) - Wild World
Peter Gabriel (With Youssou N'dour/Angelique Kidjo) - In Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel (With Yousou N'dour) - Biko
Bono / Edge / Beyonce/Dave Stewart - American Prayer
Bono / Dave Stewart (With Abdel/Youssou And Choir) - 46664 Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela - Speech
Queen - Invincible Hope/46664-The Call/The Show Must Go On
Angelique Kidjo - Afrika
Yvonne Chaka Chaka - Umqombothi
Bongo Maffin - The Way
Johnny Clegg - Asimbonanga
Jimmy Cliff/Johnny Clegg - People
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now
Corrs Breathless
Corrs (Roger Taylor) - Toss The Feathers
Ladysmith (With The Corrs) - Lelilungelo Ngelakiko
Ladysmith - Homeless
Brian May /Andrea Corr - Is This The World We Created
Abdel Wright - Lose We Now
Danny K - Hurt So Bad
Watershed - Indigo Girl
Bob Geldof - What So Funny About Peace Love And Understanding
Zucchero (With Roger Taylor, Brian May, Sharon Corr On Violin) - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain
Eurythmics & Yousou N'dour - 7 Seconds
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Ms Dynamite - It Takes More
Ms Dynamite - Don't Throw Your Life Away
Bono/Edge - One/Unchained Melody
Queen / Bono/ Anastacia / Dave Stewart/Andrews Bonsu - Amandla
Queen/Zucchero/Tandy - Medley (Bo Rhap (No Vox, I Want It All/Break Free/Radio Ga Ga)
Queen / Anastacia - We Will Rock You
Queen / Anastacia And Cast And African Drummers We Are The Champions
Choir - 46664 Chan

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New Queen song available on 46664.com
Invincible Hope, the new song by Queen, is now available for download from www.46664.com.

News from January 2004.

Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God
Critically acclaimed monodrama about rock icon Freddie Mercury returns to the Triad Theatre!
Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God is a passionate one-man drama about rock icon Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the legendary rock group Queen. His tragic death of AIDS in 1991 had a tremendous worldwide impact since he was the first rock star to publicly acknowledge his illness. In the play, the late Freddie Mercury seeks redemption before a God unimpressed by his celebrity. In his ultimate struggle to make sense of his grim fate, he realizes that his fame, fortune and talents are no longer enough to sustain him; that beyond the darkness of his fears, shines a light far brighter than the superstar he was on Earth. Mercury is directed by author Charles Messina and stars Amir Darvish. Presented by NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions in association with Peter Martin.

  • not appropriate for kids
  • concessions available
  • group tickets available
  • tickets available at box office

    QUEEN RE-RELEASE STUDIO ALBUMS IN JAPAN
    All the Queen original studio albums will be newly released in Japan with special paper-made sleeves from TOSHIBA EMI. The sound material itself is the same as Japanese "2001 digital remastered version".

    The following are scheduled or release on 11 February 2004:

    Queen - Cat No: TOCP67341
    Queen II - Cat No: TOCP67342
    Sheer Heart Attack - Cat No: TOCP67343
    A Night At The Opera - Cat No: TOCP67344
    A Day At The Races - Cat No: TOCP67345
    News Of The World - Cat No: TOCP67346
    Jazz - Cat No: TOCP67347
    The Game - Cat No: TOCP67348

    Followed by release of these albums on 25 February 2004:
    Flash Gordon - Cat No: TOCP67349
    Hot Space - Cat No: TOCP67350
    The Works - Cat No: TOCP67351
    A Kind Of Magic - Cat No: TOCP67352
    The Miracle - Cat No: TOCP67353
    Innuendo - Cat No: TOCP67354
    Made In Heaven - Cat No: TOCP67355

    News from March 2004.

    Queen nominated for DVD award in Holland
    Queen are nominated for an Edison Award for the best Music DVD of 2003. It's not clear which one, but i think it's for Live At Wembley...other nominees:
    Robbie Williams, The Rolling Stones, U2, Kane and DJ Tiësto.

    Brian Live in the US in 2004
    From Billboard.com:

    Famed rock guitarist Eric Clapton will stage a one-time three-day music event in Dallas to raise funds for the Crossroads Centre. Set for June 4-6 at Fair Park, the Crossroads Guitar Festival will culminate in an all-star concert featuring Clapton, B.B. King, Carlos Santana, Queen's Brian May, Pat Metheny, Jimmy Vaughan and Joe Walsh, among others. Founded by Clapton in 1997, the Crossroads Centre is a chemical addiction treatment and education center that provides residential care, family and aftercare programs on the island of Antigua. The organization also operates a separate facility, the Bevon House, exclusively for Antiguan residents, and the local school-based education series "Breaking the Cycle." The all-day June 6 concert at the Cotton Bowl Stadium will boast Booker T & the MGs, as well as Vaughan and Clapton's touring groups as the house bands. Other guests include Doyle Bramhall II, J.J. Cale, Larry Carlton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, David Hidalgo, Eric Johnson, Sonny Landreth, Robert Randolph, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Dan Tyminski and Steve Vai. Over the three days, the Crossroads Guitar Festival will feature exhibits and clinics sponsored by U.S. musical instrument retailer Guitar Center. The second day will feature performances on three stages, one of which will be sponsored by Sirius Satellite Radio, which will broadcast from the festival. Opening day (4-9 p.m.) admission is priced at $15, while second day (1-9 p.m.) tickets are $30. Tickets for the festival's final day (11 p.m. Guitar Center Village opening; 1 p.m. Cotton Bowl concert) are $60. Tickets go on sale March 13 via Ticketmaster. All proceeds will benefit Crossroads Centre. In addition to the festival, New York auction house Christies will stage a June 24 guitar auction to benefit the facility. "Crossroads Guitar Auction ~ Eric Clapton and Friends for the Crossroads Centre" will feature more than 50 guitars owned by Clapton, along with instruments donated by the Who's Pete Townshend and Vai, among others. An exhibition of the guitars will be held in Dallas during the festival, as well as June 8-12 in Los Angeles and June 19-24 in New York. http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000445927

    Queen ranked #7 in Britain's Ultimate Pop Star poll
    According to Yahoo:

    LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran singer Cliff Richard (news) has beaten the Beatles and Elvis Presley (news) to the title of Britain's Ultimate Pop Star as the biggest selling artist. Channel 4's The Ultimate Pop Star, broadcast on Sunday, said Richard had sold more singles than any other artist in the last 50 years, ahead of the Beatles in second place and Presley in third. Madonna (news - web sites) was in fourth place as the only female to make the top ten. She was followed by Kylie Minogue (news) at number 13 and The Spice Girls (news - web sites) at 15. Elton John (news) was named in fifth place, ahead of Michael Jackson (news) in sixth and Queen in seventh. Swedish group Abba were placed eighth and Paul McCartney (news) made the top ten twice, as a solo artist in ninth position. David Bowie (news) closed out the top ten. The program said Richard, the eternally youthful 63-year-old singer with a squeaky-clean image, had sold almost 21 million singles in his career of over 40 years.

    'We Will Rock You' Heads to Vegas
    The official press release has been released:

    ROCK THEATRICAL BASED ON MUSIC OF QUEEN COMES TO AMERICA

    Paris Las Vegas Rocks With Smash Hit Musical “We Will Rock You” Rock Theatrical Based on Music of Queen comes to America Las Vegas, February 23, 2004 – Paris Las Vegas in association with Tribeca Theatrical Productions co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal and Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor today announced the lavish rock musical “We Will Rock You” will open at Paris Las Vegas in September. De Niro, Rosenthal, and May and Taylor of Queen, are four of the several producers of the hit show which also include original UK producer Phil McIntyre. The show, which features 25 of Queen’s greatest hits including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are The Champions,” “Another One Bites The Dust” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” has played to sell-out crowds and standing ovations at every performance since it opened in London in May 2002, in a smash run at one of the largest venues in London’s West End. The show has already played almost 600 performances and to date grossed $50 million. The extended engagement at Paris Las Vegas marks the first run of the show in the United States. The show will be presented in the Paris Theatre Des Arts, an intimate 1,450 seat venue which will provide an extraordinary setting for audiences to experience the music and dance of “We Will Rock You,” which also features complex laser light effects and six gigantic plasma screens. “We Will Rock You” is designed and lit by a team responsible for some of the biggest international theatre productions and rock tours the world has seen: designer Mark Fisher has designed shows for Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson. Lighting designer Willie Williams created the acclaimed U2 multi-media shows. “Queen’s music is timeless,” said Robert De Niro. “We think this show is going to really rock Las Vegas.” “Bringing a production show of this caliber to Paris Las Vegas underscores Caesars Entertainment’s commitment to entertainment excellence,” said Anthony F. Santo, senior vice-president, Western and Mid-South regions, Caesars Entertainment, Inc., the parent company of Paris Las Vegas. “`We Will Rock You’ is a great complement to our other entertainment offerings at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, the Flamingo and Bally’s, and serves to strengthen our position as the heart of Las Vegas entertainment in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip.” “`We Will Rock You’ has shown that the legendary appeal of Queen’s music has never ended,” said Jane Rosenthal. “We are very excited about the musical’s opening in Las Vegas, as Queen has such a huge following of adoring fans here in the U.S,” she added. “Paris Las Vegas is excited to host the first U.S. production of this amazing rock musical,” said Bobby Yee, president of Paris Las Vegas. “As Las Vegas rapidly emerges as the entertainment capital of the country, visitors are looking for more sophisticated entertainment options. `We Will Rock You’ is exactly the type of world-class entertainment experience that our guests expect to find at Paris Las Vegas.” Ben Elton, the noted comedian, scriptwriter, film director and novelist is the musical’s playwright and will adapt and direct the Las Vegas production. Elton previously collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the West End musical “The Beautiful Game” and won an Olivier award for his play “Popcorn” which ran in the West End for two years and at present is under option to Ridley Scott for a feature film. Co-producers Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal had long been interested in working with Queen, and contacted the band’s manager Jim Beach eight years ago about the possibility of developing a project together. The end result is “We Will Rock You,” which features a futuristic world where conformity rules and all musical instruments are outlawed. A group of underground radicals ultimately decides to rebel, and set to the sounds and lyrics of Queen’s greatest hits, the story of the battle of the individual against the system is played out in Ben Elton’s unique satirical style. Mark Fisher, production designer for “We Will Rock You,” has created some of the most memorable rock concerts ever staged, including ‘The Wall’ for Pink Floyd, ‘Steel Wheels’ and ‘Bridges to Babylon’ for the Rolling Stones, and ‘ZooTV’ and ‘Popmart’ for U2. He also has designed two NFL Superbowl halftime shows, spectacles for Jean Michel Jarre, and ‘IllumiNations 25’ for Walt Disney World and directed and designed the acrobatic Millennium Show at the Dome in London. Recent work includes Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Concert in Capetown, Shania Twain’s latest USA tour, MTV’s European Music Awards in Edinburgh, and Robbie Williams ‘Escapology’ European tour. Current work includes the halftime show for Superbowl XXXVIII, production design of the new Cirque du Soleil show opening in Las Vegas in June, 2004, the design of the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006, and ‘Barbarella’, a new musical opening in Vienna in March, 2004. Gill Theatrical Management, Inc., a leader in the Las Vegas entertainment scene, is general manager for “We Will Rock You” Las Vegas. GTM has managed over 20 major productions on Broadway with a Las Vegas show roster that includes productions of Mamma Mia!, Storm, Chicago, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Tony ‘N Tina’s Wedding and Always: Patsy Cline. Upcoming Las Vegas productions include Jerry Herman’s Miss Spectacular, The Phantom Of The Opera and Larry Hart’s Sisterella. In addition to its triumphant run in London’s West End, “We Will Rock You,” has already completed over 100 shows in Melbourne, Australia, recently opened in Madrid, and will open in Sydney, Moscow and Cologne in the Fall of 2004. De Niro and Rosenthal’s production company, Tribeca Theatrical Productions, is one of three producing entities behind the musical, along with Phil McIntyre Promotions and Queen Theatrical Productions. “We can’t wait to bring ‘We Will Rock You’ to Las Vegas,” said Brian May and Roger Taylor, who are also musical directors of the show. About Paris Las Vegas Paris Las Vegas is a Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: CZR) resort. Caesars Entertainment is one of the world’s leading gaming companies. With $4.7 billion in annual net revenue, 29 properties on four continents, 29,000 hotel rooms, two million square feet of casino space and 54,000 employees, the Caesars portfolio is among the strongest in the industry. Caesars casino resorts operate under the Caesars, Bally’s, Flamingo, Grand Casinos, Hilton and Paris brand names. The company has its corporate headquarters in Las Vegas. Additional information on Caesars Entertainment can be accessed through the company’s web site at www.caesars.com .

    News from July 2004.

    Mlton Keynes DVD Heats Up
    There seems to be a build up of evidence suggesting that Milton Keynes will be the next DVD release. Firstly, there was an interview citing Jim Beach (Queen's manager) as saying that it will be the next release. A statement then appeared on queenonline.com saying Milton Keynes was one of the a few choices. However, recently Greg Brooks has asked fans for any rare "Milton Keynes related" items that would be good for bonus material for a possible DVD release. However, on Brian May's website, he indicated that they were currently mixing the sound for Milton Keynes.

    Queen 4th Longest Stay on UK Charts.
    The survey of both UK singles and albums charts by the Guinness Book of Hit Singles found Queen are fourth most successful artists.
    The top 5 were:

    1. Elvis
    2. Cliff Richard
    3. Beatles
    4. Queen
    5. Madonna

    Freddie: 2nd Greatest Voice of All Time
    I am proud to report that on MTV's 22 Greatest Voices of All Time, Freddie was #2, second only to Mariah Carey. He even beat Whitney. I was very pleased.

    The Queen Mob Rules
    On the last two episodes of the HBO series The Sopranos - arguably the best episodic drama on cable television in the United States alongside Six Feet Under & The L Word - "We Are The Champions" can be heard as a ringtone (hehe) on the cell phone of Steve Buscemi’s character, the cousin of Tony Soprano who is currently walking on thin ice by playing both sides of the paranoid and increasingly vulnerable power structure of the east coast mob world.
    Clearly we don't get much Queen related news here in the states. The latest exposure the general public has gotten lately is a Jaguar commercial playing "I'm In Love With My Car" in the background over stock footage of cars driving down the road leftover from other Jaguar commercial shoots. But it could be worse, American audiences could be bombarded several times a day with "We Are The Champions" being played in the background of a Viagra commercial thereby prompting potential fans to associate Queen with aged, flaccid penises whenever they hear the song. Thank goodness they finally released the long awaited box set so their legacy will be secured by their music and not an anti-impotence drug.

    New Queen DVD
    There will be a new Queen DVD - released in Japan only. The live video, Queen: Last Live In Japan, which was recorded at Yoyogi National Stadium (Tokyo) in 1985, will be re-issued on DVD within the next two months.

    European cardboards due july 12
    EMI announced the European remasters series in cardboard vinyl-miniatures will be released on july 12.
    It'll be the same batch as the recent Japanese releases, so no Live Killers, Live Magic nor Wembley. Also in this series will be the two different MIH sleeves. The remastered tracks will be the same as on the Japansese versions but for the sleeves this time of course the European versions are being used. Salesprice will be the same as a 'regular' cd. So in Holland it'll be approximately 20 euro's, depending on the shop in which you buy. Germany 17 euro's, Belgium 22 euro's, etc.

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