May 30, 2004
For all of you in the States watch out for Roger next month. According to lasvegassun.com he as well as Brian, Ben Elton AND John Deacon will be there for a news conference.

VegasBeat - Timothy McDarrah: De Niro to embrace Queen at Paris (source)
"Robert De Niro is going to play Las Vegas. For one night, at least. The Oscar-winning film star will be at Paris Las Vegas on June 27 to make the official announcement about the Queen musical, "We Will Rock You," which his Tribeca Productions is co-producing. Previews start Aug. 14 and a gala red-carpet, Las Vegas premiere is penciled in for Sept. 8. At the news conference, De Niro will be joined by Queen members Roger Taylor, Brian May and John Deacon, Brit scribe Ben Elton (who wrote the original London production) and producer Jane Rosenthal, De Niro's partner at Tribeca Productions. "That is pretty much the only day Bob has off until the show starts previews, and we felt it was important he come to Vegas for the announcement," according to a source involved in the production. De Niro is filming "Meet the Fockers" with Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. The film is a sequel to the 2000 comedy "Meet the Parents." The first news that the show was coming to Vegas was exclusively reported on this page in October."

And while surfing this website for more news I stumbled over a few other gossip snippets. Here they are:

Celeb eats - April, 6 (source)
"When Elton John is in town -- and often when he isn't -- the stars who attend his Caesars Palace show are making Bradley Ogden the de rigeur destination for their pre- or post-show supper. Over the weekend the restaurant fed Sir Elton and his partner, David Furnish, along with a slew of celebs who attended one of his "Red Piano" performances. A partial list: "Will & Grace" star Eric McCormack, Matthew Perry, Drew Carey and show castmates Diedrich Bader (Oswald) and Kathy Kinney (Mimi), Martin Short, Tom Green, Kiss frontman Paul Stanley, Victor Garber (Jack Bristow on "Alias"), Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon of Queen, former NFL running back Christian Okoye, "Gilmore Girls" star Lauren Graham and celeb restaurateur Alan Stillman of Smith & Wollensky fame."

Champions - April 5 (source)
"Queen bandmates Roger Taylor and Brian May and Brit scribe Ben Elton -- who penned the London musical "We Will Rock You" -- had lunch Friday at Olives (Bellagio). They then spent much of the afternoon in the stores along Via Bellagio. After that they camped out much of the weekend at the Theatre des Arts at Paris Las Vegas, getting a feel for the Vegas home of "Rock You," which opens a Vegas production in August..."

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New downloads are available both in the audio and video section of the website. Enjoy!

 
May 23, 2004
Roger and Brian spent 6 days here in Cologne, Germany, to audition the actors and actresses as well as the band for the German "We will rock you" show. The premiere will be on December 12, 2004. The show will be (as Brian puts it) "in an enormous strange tent-like structure at the far end of the bridge". In fact this is called the Musical Dome and it is also just in walking distance of the beautiful Cologne cathedral. Click here to take a virtual tour or take a look inside the Musical Dome. Apart from that they obviously found some time to relax. They were spotted in an Italian restaurant, the hotel's "Biergarten" and also met some fans. I hope to add some pictures soon. See also Brian's soapbox for a first comment on those final recalls.

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To while away your time I installed a new feature: "Games". Click here or on the navigation bar on "Fun Stuff", then "Games". Enjoy! (Thanks to Queenie for your help and inspiration!)

 
May 16, 2004

Benidorm Spotlight reported on April 8th, 2004 that preparations are underway to mount the Latino version of the 46664-concert for the Nelson Mandela Foundation for AIDS which is planned for the 21st of August. A delegation from Mandela's organisation has inspected the town's football ground where the event will be held. Although the stadium's facilities will have to be amplified, as with the Rolling Stones' concert last year, there will be further logistical problems because of the large number of artists appearing. The concert will be an almost totally Latin music affair with at least 10 groups from Spain, but dominated by Latin American artists. English speakers needn't worry too much as legendary British group Queen have already confirmed their appearance at the event. (Source: brianmay.com).
On Brian's site an Ed's note referring to this article was added: "Although confirmed to be taking part in the event, details are not yet available of Queen's exact involvement".

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The navigation bar has been edited again. This time a button "Fun stuff" was added. This section is new and eventually you will find lots of different things here - things like screensavers, wallpapers, games, etc. At the moment you only find jokes about drummers here. I found some of them so hilarious that I could not resist to add them to the website. It's not a patch on Roger - we all know Roger is a clever guy (if you don't know about that read his "biography").

 
May 13, 2004
Just a bit of gossip I stumbled over: The Sunday Times Rich List 2004 has been published. Roger is listed at No. 777 with 50 Mill. GBP (last year No. 689 with the same amount). Here is what they wrote about Roger:
"Queen drummer Taylor, 54, now a solo artist, still benefits from the rock band's past triumphs as well as the money-spinning musical We Will Rock You." (source)

 
May 8, 2004

The following is the official clarification from Queenonline regarding the release of the Milton Keynes DVD:
"Further to online reports surrounding the latest Queen DVD release, QOL can officially confirm that Queen are currently in production on various DVD projects including the 1982 Milton Keynes concert. The final decision on what will be released for this Christmas 2004 will be made over the next month."

And here is another snippet of an email from Genesis publication relating to "30 Flight Rock" (see news: May 1, 2004):
"Further to our email yesterday, we’d like to apologise for the slight factual error. The Saab gallery is in London, and it is opposite the Ritz hotel. It is NOT however on The Strand. The Plattform Space, at the Saab showroom, is at 77 Piccadilly, London, W1. The writer of the last email has now been locked in a room with a copy of the London A-Z."

Presently Roger can be heard singing his 'Im In Love With My Car' as background to a Jaguar car advertisement on American TV. (source)

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New screencaps of "Spread your wings" are added as well as an excellent new picture from the backstage door of the Dominion Theatre on April 17, 2004 (see Close Encounters. Thanks to Rien for sending it and to Catherine and Steven for letting me use it!). And also thanks to Rien a picture of the Smile album is now available in the Discography. Enjoy!

 
May 4, 2004
Finally some news about upcoming projects! These news are kindly donated by Paul. Thank you! (To visit his website please click here)

When Roger and Brian were in Moscow last month Paul had a chance to ask Mr. Jim Beach a few questions and he was kind enough to answer.

Paul asked him about 46664 studio tracks. Mr. Beach said that Roger and Brian are working on 5 tracks at the moment for the upcoming 46664 studio album! This means of course that there are some tracks we did not hear until now.

Then Paul asked him if there would be new Queen album in the future. Mr. Beach's answer was that there won't be any new album until they have not finished all the work that comes with the musical. But he did say that Roger and Brian definitely WILL record a new album (The only question is when?).

Also Mr. Beach mentioned three new tracks with Freddie's vocals from the middle 80's that are unknown to the public. He added that Roger and Brian will record the backing tracks and the tracks are meant to be released soon...

And there is a new DVD on the horizon: October will see the release of the full Milton Keynes concert.

 
May 1, 2004

This is a snippet of an email I received yesterday for those people in the UK that want to see some of Mick Rock's pictures:
"We are delighted to announce a large exhibition of photos of rock icons in the heart of London. Thirty Flight Rock (TFR) will open on 13th May and continue until 2nd June at Saab's Plattform space at 77 Piccadilly, London W1 almost opposite The Ritz.
Photos from 30 years of our books will be shown, featuring The Beatles, Stones, Queen, The Who, Dylan, Lennon, Bowie, Marley and Hendrix. There will also be photos from our modern history of Liverpool FC, This Is Anfield."

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It's labour day - nonetheless I was busy doing new screencaps of "Somebody to love". Click here to view them.
And the website had it's 1000th visitor today. So thank you all for coming here!