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Merry
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| December 22th, 2004 | |
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46664 - 1 YEAR ON - THE EP
On January 4th 2005 '46664 1 Year On' - The EP is to be released for download on iTunes. The 46664 - 1 Year On- EP contains exclusive tracks that were specially written for Nelson Mandela’s Global 46664 initiative in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This collection of songs, including unique on-off collaborations by Queen and Nelson Mandela, Paul McCartney and David A. Stewart, Sting and Jimmy Cliff and Da Universal Playaz are the first set of studio tracks to immerge from these incredible sessions. The tracks were recorded for the campaign which launched at the historic 46664 Concert in Cape Town, South Africa in November 2003. A donation will be made to the Nelson Mandela Foundation in respect of each download sold. (source) 46664 - 1 YEAR ON - THE EP Tracklisting: |
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The first TV-clip from the WWRY premiere in Cologne is now online! (With many thanks to Queenie!) |
| December 20th, 2004 | |
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46664 SOUTH AFRICA SPEARHEADED
BY QUEEN (JO’BURG – 20th December 2004) Former President Nelson Mandela announced today plans for a second 46664 concert to be staged in South Africa early next year. Fifteen months after their participation in the historic 46664 founding concert in Cape Town last November, Queen, joined for the first time by singer songwriter multi-instrumentalist Paul Rodgers (Free / Bad Company), will return to further help the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s 46664 campaign in the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS with a concert at Fancourt on March 19. (please click here to read the full article on 46664.com) |
| December 19th, 2004 | |
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The following excerpt
is taken from Brian's newsletter for the Official
Queen Fan Club. Maybe this letter will also calm down some people
who are getting *far too excited* about the name "Queen"
used on the tour next spring.  "EXTRA!! Roger's "Invincible Hope" track (studio version), written for last year's 46664 concert which we organised for nelson Mandela's AIDS in Africa crusade, will be released on an EP of four songs, by the English 46664 company. The EP will also feature Paul McCartney, who also wrote a song specially for the 46664 cause." |
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| December 15th, 2004 | |
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Queen + Paul
Rodgers Tour - more possible news The following was posted on the forum of queenonline.com by the adminstrator Gallileo: "From the meetings I have had it will be PR, BM, RT and Spike Edney, plus ANOTHER bass player - poss Gail Anne Dorsey (Bowies soulful bass player) - no extra drummer or extra guitarist at this point at all." To get infos on this tour please register on queenonline.com (free service)! More news snippets here: NBC 4 Los Angeles | Rolling Stone | Boston Herald | CNN.com | The Sctsman | AFP via Yahoo! News |
| December 14th, 2004 | |
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Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour QOL can confirm the rumours and now endorse both Roger and Brian's comments in regards to the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour. The tour is official and will take place in the Spring of 2005 across mainland Europe and the UK. The show will consist of both Queen and Paul Rodgers material. Full details of venues and dates are to be confirmed very soon. Tickets will be made availaible on www.queenonline.com so make sure you are signed up to the database. (source) More on this news: chartattack | launch | soundgenerator | NME | Deutsche Welle | BBC News |
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WWRY Cologne Premiere It was a great premiere that took place at the Musical Dome on Sunday, 12th December. Again you can read a review on the website of Cologne's most important newspapers "Kölner Stadtanzeiger" and "Express". Click here to see a few pictures of this event. (I will add mine as soon as they are available). After the premiere those who were the lucky ones to be given an orange wristband were transported via shuttle bus to the "Flora" where the aftershow party took place. The setlist is on Brian's website. The cast started the gig and around 0.30 am Roger and Brian hit the stage. The only downer was that during Queen's performance it was not allowed to take any pictures which caused a small riot between Queen's management and the invited photographers. Apart from that the 40 minute gig was fun throughout and Roger and Brian obviously enjoyed playing! |
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"Wetten,
daß" Click here to see some pictures of the show (without watermark). More pictures can be seen at wegotit.at. You need to register to view the pictures but it's a free service! |
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1000 number
ones 70s Queen Bohemian Rhapsody, 1975 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was Queen's first No 1 in November 1975. It reached No 1 again after its re-release following Freddie Mercury's death in November 1991. In total it has spent 14 weeks at the top spot and is one of only five singles to sell more than two million copies in the UK. |
| Drummer Roger Taylor: "We didn't think of it as a single at first, it was just another record that we were making for our album. We just thought it was a fairly extraordinary piece of work and so it should probably be the first single. It was breaking all the rules, of course the record company held their hands up in horror and said 'you'll never get it on the radio for more than three seconds. Our career was on the up at the time. But it did affect us internationally; nine months later we arrived in Australia on a world tour and it was No 1 there, so it kind of echoed around the world for us. We did everything we possibly could to avoid appearing on Top of the Pops . It was one; the most boring day known to man and two; it's all about not actually playing, you know pretending to sing, pretending to play. We came up with the video concept to avoid playing on Top of the Pops . We couldn't be on TOTP because we were on tour, so we came up with a way of being on it without being there... It was difficult to perform live. We used to play the main sections live, and then unashamedly leave the stage for the central section which was unperformable, I mean we only had three singers in the band so obviously we couldn't. We used to disappear and have a change of frocks during that piece and come back with a big bang for the heavy section. Obviously I feel good about it topping polls but I'm sceptical of those things. I've got hundreds of favourite songs and I think to single out one is fairly ridiculous, but what is nice for us is that it resonates with so many people. I think we were all so swept away with Freddie's death that we didn't really notice when it was released in 1991 and went to No 1 again. But it was all a bit of a blur that time - slightly meaningless." (source) |
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| December 11th, 2004 | |
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German TV Show
"Wetten, dass" Roger and Brian and the cast took part in this show tonight. The cast performed "Radio Ga Ga", "Somebody To Love" and finally "We will rock you" and "We are the champions" with Roger and Brian. The day before Roger was interviewed by ZDF and revealed that he and Brian enjoyed playing so much that they decided to do a Queen tour in Spring 2005 with Paul Rodgers! The whole interview can be seen on the TV channel's website. (source). This has been confirmed by Brian. |
| December 10th, 2004 | |
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Cologne Press
Night - December 9th The Cologne Press Night was a huge success with a brilliant cast, great band and standing ovations from over 1200 people. Cologne's biggest newspaper "Kölner Stadtanzeiger" featured a nice review of the event. The official (VIP) premiere will take place this Sunday. |
| December 4th, 2004 | |
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Award presentations Roger and Brian were in Barcelona last week to collect a triple diamond award in recognition of 3.2 million CD sales of the Queen catalogue in Spain and a sepearate gold award for "Queen on Fire - Live at The Bowl". It was presented to the band and manager Jim Beach by record company EMI Spain at the end of the performance of We Will Rock You at the Teatro Apolo. (source) |
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Electric Six's
video of "Radio Ga Ga" Roger, who has penned this song, has been sent the video by Kerrang! and declared himself unimpressed. After viewing it his response was: “How brave. Thanks for the money.” (Click here to read the full article and watch the video.) |
Don't forget to set your VCR tonight for the BBC documentation "The story of Bohemian Rhapsody", tonight on BBC 3, 10.30 pm, followed by "Freddie's millions", also on BBC3, 11.30 pm. |
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