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August 26th, 2005
	Roger presented KERRANG! award to the Foo Fighters Last night Roger and Sophie Howard were on hand to present the 20005 Kerrang! Award for Best Song, as voted for by the readers of Kerrang! Magazine and Kerrang.com. The Kerrang! Awards, as you would expect, features on the Kerrang! Music Channel on satellite TV, from 7pm and repeated later in the evening. Roger Taylor is seen greeting the Foo Fighters on stage, to receive the Best Song 20005 Award. (source) (Ed: If anybody out there would be able to record and email me the clip for the website I'd be more than grateful. Thanks!)

	Tour merchandise! A massive 23 new items have been added to the QOL store - 20 of which are Q+PR Tour Merchandise, the remaining three products are We Will Rock You Drumsticks, a Queen Wall Crest and A Day At The Races T-Shirt. Click here for the QOL Store. (source)


August 21st, 2005
	A Tribute to Michelle Bruheim (1986 - 2005) "Friends of Michelle, who met her on the UK/Irish leg of the Queen + Paul Rodgers' Tour, have set up a 'tribute' site. Basically a place where people can leave messages and upload photos as there are so many photos of her out there. The site went live today. Please sign the Book of Condolences and enjoy the many photographic memories. There is a lovely letter from Michelle's father, Arne Bruheim, giving details of the funeral, which is tentatively scheduled for next Friday, 26 August, probably in Oslo, and he has extended a warm welcome to Michelle's friends in the Queen community. Thanks from Sarah, Sam, Alessia and Jamie"


August 19th, 2005
	R.I.P. MICHELLE.... TAKEN TOO SOON (source) To Brian, the band, the crew and all the people she knew and loved amongst you. Yesterday, Wednesday August 17th 2005, Michelle had a fatal work accident at her second job at D'light where she worked daytime. I got know about his terrible thing while talking to her mother today when trying to call Michelle. I was her close friend and Sales Manager. I will really miss her. According to Michelle, Queen was her second family. She was unable to work when you played in London this summer. I had to wipe her tears that evening, reassuring her that she surely would see you on stage another time. I was terribly wrong. She was involved in the unloading of some heavy stage equipment from a truck. Something slipped and Michelle was hit. She died before the ambulance arrived a few minutes later. Kai Wangberg


August 18th, 2005
	This week sees the release of the Wire Daisies third single! Building on the success of their first two singles, the band release their third, hotly tipped single - Truth That Hurts, on Monday 15th August. Get hold of your copy either online at iTunes, or in stores. To watch the video for Truth That Hurts, go to www.video-c.co.uk where you will also have a chance to win a Fender Stratocaster Guitar courtesy of the Wire Daisies!

:::Site updates:::	WWRY - The longest running live show in the Dominion theatre! Brian and Roger along with writer Ben Elton attended a special celebration performance of We Will Rock You London last night to mark the show becoming he longest running live show ever in the Dominion theatre. They were also presented with an award by The Guiness Book Of World Records for becoming the biggest selling act (albums/singles). Click here to see some pictures of this event.


August 10th, 2005
	For good cause - Genuine Roger-signed drumstick! A Roger-signed drumstick has been put on eBay in aid of Edward’s Trust charity - a charity that cares for children and families during child illness and bereavement. "Owning it has given me pleasure for a good few years but now another kind of pleasure, giving it up for a good cause. Sue" Note from Brian's webmistress: "This is a genuine item - I was there - signed in an aftershow meeting at L2, Liverpool, 27 March 1999!!! Photos of the meeting exist... witnessed by at least 6 people." (Private bids can be mailed HERE / source)

:::Site updates:::	Took me a while and some nerves but the clip from "Top Gear" with Roger accepting the "award" for Top Gear's Greatest Driving Song is now online. Enjoy!


August 8th, 2005
	Top gear - Greatest driving song Over 2 million viewers voted for the Top Gear's Greatest Driving Song and Queen's "Don't stop me now" made the No. I spot. This is how the item went on TV... slightly irreverent, but totally tongue-in-cheek..... TOP GEAR: Of course we did have an award made but then we ran into a bit of a problem. We did, because you see Brian May, the guitarist with Queen says he doesn't like THAT song (?!!), Freddie Mercury's sort of dead, we couldn't remember the other bloke's name actually so it couldn't go to him, so that just left the drummer, who in accordance with EU Rock Star Regulations was floating around the Med on his yacht. [Scene switches to a quayside... somewhere on the Med.] Right... in a moment we're going to present Roger Taylor with this Greatest Driving Song Trophy, which we purchased for the princely sum of 699 pence. The only slight problem is the local engraver is a bit rubbish frankly, and he's left the DON'T out of "Don't Stop Me Now" - for crying out loud. [On deck...] Roger Taylor, on behalf of Top Gear I'd like to present you with this Greatest Driving Song In The World Ever Award. It's to you and the other members of Queen for "Stop Me Now". I'm sorry it's such a poor quality trophy. ROGER TAYLOR: No, no, no. no, don't say that. No actually, do. Yeah, we'll treasure this for ever and it'll go into our enormous Gong Cupboard and thank you on behalf of the band. Thank you so much to your viewers. (Ed: with thanks from brianmay.com! I hope to add the video of this very soon. So check back!)

	Q+PR nominated twice for Rock Honor of Fame! Queen and Paul Rodgers have been nominated as Band of the Year by England's Classic Rock Magazine in their first Classic Rock Roll of Honor Awards. They have also been nominated as the Classic Rock Event of The Year awarded to the greatest tour reunion of the last year. Also nominated: Cream at the Albert Hall, Pink Floyd Reforming for Live 8, Robert Plant for Album of the Year "Mighty Rearranger" on Sanctuary Records, and others. To vote go to classicrockmagazine.com. Induction to take place on October 4th, 2005. (source)

	"WATC" Live clip Hollywood Records have put together a player for the "Killer Queen" tribute album which includes clips from all the tracks, all the info on the album and many artist quotes, but more interestingly what it also includes in full length clip of Queen + Paul Rodgers performing "We Are The Champions" taken from the forthcoming live DVD! (source)


August 7th, 2005
:::Site updates:::	More pictures have been added to the Hyde Park gallery (with thanks to Jen & Trina!) and a new audio download is available (with thanks to Maki!). Enjoy!


August 5th, 2005
	Top Gear Remember to watch Top Gear this weekend - Sunday night, BBC 2, 8:00pm - to see if Queen have won the viewer's poll for best Driving Song with 'Don't Stop Me Now'... If Queen do win, you never know Roger may pop up and perform 'I'm In Love With My Car'. (source)

	WWRY - Longest Running Show We Will Rock You is set to become the Dominion Theatre's longest running show ever. On August 13th it will overtake the previous record of 3 years and 3 months held by Grease. This achievement will be marked by a special performance on Wednesday August 17th attended by Brian, Roger and the show's script writer - Ben Elton. (source)

	The Outl4w and Twisted X Recording Session The mighty Twisted X team of Christian O'Connell, Roque and Brian Murphy joined forces with Outl4w and Roger. As reported earlier Roger was behind the mixing desk at the Kore studios with Outl4w - winners of XFM 'summer hit' competition, to record their track ‘Rock & Roll Summer’. The single can be pre-ordered. Have a look at the pictures here! ! (source)


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