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VH1 Rock Honors
Update! (From brianmay.com:) Last night at the VH1 Honors, QUEEN guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor opened the show with the FOO FIGHTERS, who were paying tribute to QUEEN at the event. Brian May, Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers went on to storm through Under Press, The Show Must Go On, We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions. Brian also joined Def Leppard in their set- "20th Century Boy". "VH1 Rock Honors" setlist
– May 25, 2006 at Mandalay Bay Events Center - Las Vegas,
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Freddie Mercury
Memorial Weekend, Montreux / Queen Fan Club IOQFC contact details: http://www.queenworld.com / Email: qfc@dircon.com New address: The Queen Fan
Club, P.O.Box 141, West Horsley, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT24 9AJ |
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LOLSOS.COM A holding page for the new Freddie Mercury site www.loveroflifesingerofsongs.com is now live. The site is being produced to coincide with the 60th Birthday of Queen's front man and series of new releases in September of this year. More information very soon. (source) |
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Wire Daisies
Festival News The Wire Daisies have just accepted an invitation to perform at this year's star studded Guilfest. The festival will host band of the moment - Embrace, as well as Billy Idol who will be performing his only UK gig of the summer at the festival. The Daisies will be playing on the Ents24 stage on the opening evening of the 3 day event. Guilfest takes place from 14th - 16th July, for more information and tickets visit www.guilfest.co.uk. The band will also be playing the Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse on 4th June, and the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on 15th July. |
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| :::Site updates::: | All the (Roger
related  )
pictures that I found on the net from the VH1 Rock Honors show are
all in one place now. Click here to
see them. Enjoy! |
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| May 25, 2006 | |||||||
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Rehearsal pictures
from VH1 Rock Honors Gettyimages and wireimages had a couple of pictures online from the rehearsals "VH1 Rock Honors" at the Mandalay Bay Hotel on May 24, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Click here to have a look. Enjoy! |
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| May 20, 2006 | |||||||
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Crazy frog update! The Crazy Frog goes Football Crazy with his version of the Queen classic - We are the Champions (Ding a Dang Dong). Click here and enjoy the full length Crazy Frog - We Are The Champions video. The Crazy Frog's version of this song is released on June 5th. |
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| May 17, 2006 | |||||||
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46664 Toscana 46664 has decided to postpone the concert in Florence until further notice due to certain local issues remaining unresolved. Thank you for your understanding and please watch this space for further news on forthcoming events and activities. (source) (Ed: The event was originally scheduled for June 11 in Florence (initiative by Zucchero) at the Artemio Franchi Stadium. It was rumoured that this event possibly involved an appearance of Brian and/or Roger.) |
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"Queen
- Die Show" On account of having sold more than 190 mio. albums and having such big hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody" or "We Will Rock You", Queen is one of the most successful bands ever. Kabel Eins dedicates a show to the group (Monday, 15 May, 8.15 pm), which indicates the the most exciting moments of the band. Guests will be Klaus Meine, Doro Pesch and Rudi Dolezal. On Stage: The Scorpions, Chris Norman and the WWRY ensemble. (source) |
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We will rock
you - 4th anniversary As expected Brian, Roger and Ben Elton were present at this show. You can read Ben's speech on Brian's website. Brian perfomed with the band. Roger did not perform nor did a speech. According to a band member he's been quite ill. (Ed: This statement was later edited on the message board it was posted on). |
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Fan club news
Sadly the fan club is in a terrible situation right now. Val has to leave cause the club cannot afford her any longer and the office will be closed. Jacky will continue to run the club from her home office. What can you do? If you are a member of the fan club and post on any of the official message boards you can can show your support to the club by simply adding this little picture to your avatar  .
If you are not a member but want to see the fan club stay: Go
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"Highclere
Rocks" I stumbled over this so I don't know if it's definate or not. Roger's name has been removed from the list of artists that perform at this gig on May 20th. No official announcement has been released if or if not he is taking part or why he is no longer featured. I just thought I post it here cause there have been some heated discussions going on various message boards if or if not he should play at this gig. |
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| :::Site updates::: | Nothing really....
But I deleted the gig at Highclere Castle in the calendar section. And a personal plea: I am very grateful for all the messages in the shout box and it's doing really well. Don't get me wrong, we all "love" Roger but I think there's really no need to spam the shout box with it all the time. I reserve the right to delete spam messages. Thank you! |
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We Will Rock
You Stays Alive in London (by Theatre.com Staff) We Will Rock You will rock on in London after all. The Queen musical, which interpolates Queen songs into an original story by Ben Elton, had announced a closing of October 7 at the Dominion Theatre, but the producers (Phil McIntyre Entertainment, Queen Theatrical Productions and Robert De Niro's Tribeca Theatrical Productions) have now announced that they will extend the show's booking period into April 2007. "The fact is, the show has proved such a continuing draw with both the home market and visitors to London, that it became obvious that a move this year would be premature," said producer McIntyre in a statement. "Besides which, the theatre owners very much wanted us to stay. In the end, they, and the public, made the decision for us." The theatre owners—Live Nation, formerly Clear Channel Entertainment—were originally negotiating with Kevin Wallace Productions to open a London production of the current Toronto stage version of The Lord of the Rings at the Dominion. But following mixed reviews in Toronto, those plans have now changed. The press agent for The Lord of the Rings says that a London production will still go ahead, but "perhaps in a different venue." We Will Rock You will mark its fourth anniversary at the Dominion on May 11 with a performance that Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor and scribe Elton are expected to attend. A new production of the show also opens at Johannesburg's Nelson Mandela Theatre on May 9, and further productions are expected in Zurich in December and a return to Japan in the same month. We Will Rock You will also embark on a UK tour. (Ed: For those that booked tickets, flights, etc. for October 7, please read Brian's letter from May 3 about this subject here!) |
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Crazy Frog update
Click here to check out a press page for the release of the Crazy Frog single We Are The Champions. Later this week there will be a new site at www.crazyfrogfootball.net. The Crazy Frog's version of We Are The Champions is released on June 5th. QOL has indeed heard the version and can confirm that it will indeed look like another No.1 for Freddie Mercury! (source) |
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Imports in (QOL)
store soon! Stone Cold Classics and Super Live In Japan are to be made available in the QOL next week. The US album and Japanese DVD are both currently available in their respective territoires. |
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VH1 Rock Honors ATTENTION STATIONS: ROCK HONORS RADIO. VH1will be giving Rock Honors to Queen, Def Leppard, Kiss and Judas Priest. It’ll be a show filled with rockin’ performances from all honorees and bands paying tribute to them. Bring the whole thing to your audience with a live broadcast of the show as it airs on VH1 May 31st at 9 PM Eastern. AND A SPECIAL, TOO! Get the rock out this Memorial Day Weekend as VH1 Radio Network honors the music that made us all want to crank it up to ELEVEN! The VH1 ‘Rock Honors’ Special honors Queen, Judas Priest, Def Leppard and Kiss with performances and tributes from the Foo Fighters, the All American Rejects and more of today’s hardest rocking artists. Get the rock out this Memorial
Day Weekend as VH1 Radio Network honors the music that made us all
want to crank it up to ELEVEN! From the stories behind their biggest
hits to tales from the tour bus, VH1 Classic’s Eddie Trunk
hosts 60 minutes of stars, guitars and the music we call ours. (source) |
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| :::Site updates::: | Toby thinks Queen
are awesome and got himself a second hand Yamaha recording custom
kit simular (white) to the one used on the Magic tour. Click here
to see it (Thanks for this!) And ...new concert pictures from Toronto are online with thanks to Karley. Enjoy! |
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Crazy Frog -
"We are the champions" Just when you thought you got rid of him - he's back. This time with the release of "We are the champions". The release details of Crazy Frog on Guto Records are: 5 June: UK, France and rest of Europe. The US release is on 16 June. In Germany RTL will feature a promo video twice a day from June 5th to 26th. In France TF1 will show the video in a similar way. JAMBA will conduct a pan-European ring tone campaign. (source) You can pre-order the single at amazon.co.uk. Ding A Ding Dong.... |
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New "Mary
Jane" video exclusive It is finally in! The finished version of the Wire Daisies NEW video for their next single Mary Jane (released through Transistor/ Angel EMI on Monday 8th May). The video was shot over two days in Kentish Town in London with director Charlie Paul (Turin Brakes). Check out the links below to take a look!
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Japan live downloads! (from QOL): Following the release of the Super Live In Japan DVD today and the recent launch of the Greatest Clips 1 on iTunes, we are now thrilled to reveal that on May 9th there will be 7 NEW and live tracks from the Q+PR Japan shows made available for download on iTunes. The tracks are: |
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What's next
for Queen? We music media people can never be content with the here and now. We always are asking “what’s next” of our favorite bands. That’s exactly what we did when we caught up with Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen. Not surprisingly, they decided to have a little fun with the question. “(Brian) I don't know, I think, (Roger) St. Bart's, (Brian) Yeah, some place with my cats. You know we don't have definite plans that's the way we are, we're not planning a future of career or what ever, but I have a feeling this relationship with Paul (Rodgers) is not an overnight thing." Queen + Paul Rodgers have just
finished spending many nights together on tour; if you missed it
and care to see what the chemistry is like, you can look forward
to a new DVD release chronicling their show in Japan. It’s
called Super Live in Japan *and it’ll be out in the U-K on
Friday; U-S release date T-B-D. (ED: The final part of the last
paragraph above (in italics) is an error.) source
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| :::Site updates::: | Roberta has been kind enough to send new screencaps (Thank you very much, Roberta!). You can find them here. | ||||||
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