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Win
Q + PR tickets for The radio station KLOS 95.5 in Los Angeles is giving away Queen concert tickets about every 4 hours or so. Sometimes they ask a trivia question, and sometimes not. The phone number is 1 800 955-5567 and the website is www.955klos.com. It's a terrific package that includes (most importantly) a "meet and greet" with the band as well as the live CD that's coming out next month. You are also entered to win a the grand prize - a trip for two to Las Vegas to see WWRY. (source) |
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Q104.3
Presents a Queen Weekend Q104.3 welcomes "QUEEN PLUS PAUL RODGERS" to the Continental Airlines Arena October 16th. General tickets go on sale Saturday 7/30 at 10am through all ticketmaster outlets. But all weekend long on the Q, tickets are FREE! Just listen for guitar great Brian May to reveal his Q-to-call. When you hear it, be the 25th caller at 1-888-872-1043 and your in! Q-workforce members through-out the weekend qualify to win our front row upgrade, which Jim Kerr will announce Monday morning. Visit www.q1043.com and register for Q-workforce (source) |
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"Truth
that hurts" The brand new video for "Truth that Hurts" has just been added to the new look www.wiredaisies.com. This is the band's first official video so check out the Music/Video section to watch. "Truth That Hurts" is released
on 15th August and has just been added to the Radio 2 B-list! (source:
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| :::Site updates::: | More
picture galleries have been added to the website.
The photos are from the gigs in Lisbon, Cologne and Hyde Park (with
thanks to Jen, cooper and Laura). Also a new audio download is available (with thanks to eebo!). It's from the mid 80's Radio 1's My Top 10 (if anybody knows the correct date please let me know). Enjoy! |
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| July 28th, 2005 | ||||||||||||
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US
Pre - Sale Starts Today! Legendary rock icons Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company and Free, just off a sold-out, 32-date arena tour of Europe under the banner of Queen + Paul Rodgers, are headed for the U.S. later this year. They will bring their acclaimed show to the U.S. for two rare performances this fall, touching down on each coast before heading out for a stadium tour of Japan. Queen + Paul Rodgers have confirmed
much-anticipated shows for: For these shows, Queen + Paul Rodgers will be offering Premium Tickets and VIP Packages to their loyal fans before they go on sale to the general public. This is a first come first serve online ticket ordering system. The maximum order is four tickets. All orders require a credit card. Tickets for New Jersey are $125 and $85 plus applicable service fees. The presale will start at 3pm Eastern Time on Thursday, July 28th. Tickets for Los Angeles are $150 and $200 plus applicable service fees. The presale will start at 3pm Pacific Time on Thursday, July 28th. In addition to the presale tickets, there will also be a limited number of very exclusive VIP Ticket Packages available. To take advantage of this PRE-SALE you will have had to have signed up to the QOL mailing list. You should have recieved your username and password and a link to buy tickets. You can also find out GENERAL SALE info by going to www.ticketmaster.com. A buy link will appear at precise moment tickets are available. |
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| Also check out the official press release on thoses dates and while surfing the website have a look at the Hyde Park pictures in the Tour Gallery! It also holds two new images for the promotion of the US dates and DVD/CD releases set for this autumn. The first is of studio photo of Brian, Roger and Paul by taken by Andy Earl and the second Is the single promo sleeve for the “Reaching Out/Tie Your Mother Down” single that is backed with “Fat Bottomed Girls”. According to 101cd.com the live double CD will be released on September 19th and features a 16 page booklet with photographs taken by fans throughout the tour. | ||||||||||||
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speaking of photographs taken by fans during the tour: check out this
link and submit your photos to the official website to help create
a huge fan photos only mosaic. Click here
for details. (all of today's news source: Q+PR.com) |
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| :::Site updates::: | Lots of new stuff on the website... | |||||||||||
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Capital Gold interview with Roger, 14th July 2005 | |||||||||||
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Capital Gold interview backstage from Hyde Park, 15th July 2005 | |||||||||||
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| New video interview to download: | ||||||||||||
| • | Roger on "Richard and Judy", 5th July 2005 | |||||||||||
| New image galleries: | ||||||||||||
| • | Two more galleries from Cologne | |||||||||||
| • | More pictures from the Birmingham show | |||||||||||
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| July 13th, 2005 | ||||||||||||
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Hyde
Park To Become A Tribute Queen and Paul Rodgers have decided to offer thousands of free tickets for their rescheduled HYDE PARK show to members of LONDON’s emergency services. Surviving members of the classic rockers, who are currently on tour with former Free singer Paul Rodgers on vocals, decided to make the personal gesture to police, paramedics and firefighters following their heroic response to the recent bomb attacks in the city. A statement on the official website reads: "We feel it is fitting to thank London's emergency services for their extraordinary response in dealing with the effects of the bombing attacks and and to indeed celebrate the historical resilience of Londoners in their response to yet another atrocity." Queen and Paul Rodgers are working with London Mayor Ken Livingstone's office to invite thousands of those from London's emergency services who played a part in the rescue operations last week to be at the band's concert this coming Friday evening. The group, who were due to play the gig last Friday (July 8), took the decision after seeing the news coverage of the attacks unfold on the television. ”We were away playing a concert in Germany and arrived back Thursday morning to see all this going on. We were unbelievably shocked and saddened. The heroes that day, and since then, are the police and emergency services coming together as one, calmly and bravely dealing with the tragedy and getting London's wheels turning again. We'd like to offer an appreciation," said guitarist Brian May. Drummer Roger Taylor added: "You can only admire how calmly, how bravely they behaved in such appalling circumstances. They deserve the thanks of everyone in London." Ticket collection points are currently being set up at London's Dominion Theatre and Capital Radio's Leicester Square headquarters for this Friday’s concert. Members of the emergency services will be asked to show their affiliation cards which will entitle them to two free tickets from 10am today (July 13). (source) Read the full statement on queenandpaulrodgers.com including all information on ticket collection points. |
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Roger
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Guinness
Book of British Hit Singles and Albums According to the compilers of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums, Queen have spent 1,322 weeks on the chart, compared with the Beatles' 1,293 weeks. Roger Taylor, the group's drummer, said yesterday (Ed: sorry, older news from July 5th) he was staggered by the news. Speaking from Lisbon, the latest leg of Queen's European stadium tour, he said: "We were always incredibly ambitious. But we never expected to see a list that read Queen, then the Beatles, then Elvis." |
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20th
Anniversary Edition of Rhythm Magazine Here is the actual full transcription of Steven Adler's Tribute to Roger Taylor from the July 2005 20th Anniversary British Drum Icons Edition of Rhythm Magazine. (Page
54 Under Gorgeous color photo of Roger Taylor Pounding the tubs!)
Steven Adler: "
Roger Taylor is a drum god and a true rock star! When I was a kid,
I had all of Queen's records and I would listen to them over and
over on my little record player at my grandma's house. Roger could
play so off-time, but so ''on-time'', you know what I mean? It wasn't
just the typical one, two beat over and over. He was so in the pocket
with that band. Every note they played together just hit you and
they made some of the greatest music ever." |
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| :::Site updates::: | The third open air show took place this week in Arnhem. It wasn't really an open air show because the roof of the Gelredome remained closed throughout the show. The atmosphere among the audience was really fantastic but the show had some technical problems. Anyway, click here to see some pics of this concert. | |||||||||||
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Hyde
Park: Queen and REM shows postponed Due to the tragic circumstances on thursday, the Safety Advisory Group for Hyde Park has agreed that the planned Queen and REM concerts for this weekend (8th & 9th July) will be postponed. The Queen + Paul Rodgers Hyde Park show on Friday 8th July, will now take place on: Friday 15th July. (Please click here to view the whole press release). "We're all devastated to wake up and see the appalling bombing in London," said Queen guitarist Brian May on Thursday. "Our hearts go out to all those innocents so cruelly attacked." |
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On
Fire Platinum in Germany Queen were presented with platinum awards for "On Fire at the bowl" while being in Cologne this week: CD - Platinum in 2005 (200,000 copies inc DVDs) DVD - 2x Platinum (100,000) Picture: Roger, Brian, Jim Beach, EMI
staff and German Promoter in Cologne. (Click here
to enlarge the picture on the left, source) |
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Roger
Taylor interview in this month's Rhythm (August) Taylor Hawkins stars as guest editor where he interviews his main influences. Coincidently Roger features as one of Taylor's big influences. The interview is a four page spread with an indepth interview on Roger's approach to the drum-set and music, also featuring some tour pictures. (source) |
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| :::Site updates::: | The second open air show took place this week in Cologne. Though the weather could have been better and it was not sold out the atmosphere was still great and it was a really good show (though I heard some of the band members including Roger disagreed). Anyway, click here to see some pics of this concert. | |||||||||||
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Radio
and TV tomorrow and Friday Brian May and Roger Taylor will be appearing on radio and TV tomorrow, 5th July, and Friday 8th July, as follows (source):
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Hyde
Park running order Running Order for the Queen + Paul Rodgers, Hyde Park show on Friday 8th July (subject to change) (source)
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| :::Site updates::: | With
a big "Thank you" to Alessia pictures of the first open
air in Lisbon last Saturday are now online.
Cologne will be next. Here's a little glimpse of the stadium and the stage. According to newspapers the stage set up started on Saturday. The weather here doesn't look very promising for Wednesday. It cooled down a lot during the afternoon's storms and more of that to come on the actual day. Oh well.... |
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