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Re-circulated from this video. Queen in Monterrey, Mexico, 8-9 October 1981.

Thanks for the heads up 7SeasOfQ!

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We Need To Talk About Henleys Masterpost

For all your Get Back needs!

Part 1 is here

Part 1.5 is here

Part 2 is here

Part 2.5 is here

Part 3a is here

Part 3b is here

Part 4 is here

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📸 Peter Hince

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some sketches with bugs!!!⭐️💘

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Peter Hince—Queen Uncovered

Some Bri Pictures share.

Support Ratty and purchase the book if you like it.

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Roger Taylor talking about Brian May and 'We Will Rock You'

(From a 2022 interview with 'Stars Cars Guitars')

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Unless I'm completely wrong this is Queen as the three musketeers and d'Artagnan ?? 🥺❤️

I see Freddie on the right (the shortest, with a beard!), Brian kneeling, Roger in the middle and John on the left. And they all look so soft, ahhh, and

Dearie Me

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i want everyone who still thinks that Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay to watch this video:

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More from 1992 Queen themed comic on the making of Night at the Opera (Hard Rock Comics, Revolutionary Comics). Here Freddie has added, “a few more ‘Galilleos’.” (note the misspelling, hehe) ;D

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Amo como le pintaron sus mejillas los de la revista jajaja bonito rog

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Roger Taylor (Queen)

“Not remembering people’s names always embarasses me. And I never do, unless it’s repeated to me about six times!

“I always try to avoid using the person’s name, but it’s a problem if I have to introduce them to someone!”

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Brian during the South American tour in 1992

for @ylly22

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queen inktober: day 14 ✨ this song is such an iconic masterpiece 🤍 | available on redbubble, link in bio |

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A Treasury of Great American Houses, 1970

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ROGER TAYLOR’S STYLE:

WHITE TANK TOPS

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THE REIGNING CHAMPIONS

Queen used to prance about in glitter suits (in ‘74) an people loved them. They used to dress up in leather and chains (in ‘80) and people adored them. Now they’re flying around in spaceships and people simply cannot get enough of them. Tom Hibbert looks at their past and present.

In April 1974 a stunningly flashy single called “Seven Seas Of Rhye”. by an unknown group called Queen, slipped into the Top Ten. A decade later, back with “Radio Ga Ga”, they’re still internationel celebrities with their extravagant music and polished style. “l always knew I was a star”, Mercury once confessed. 'And now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.”

Queen’s guitarist, Brian May, was born in July 1947 and studied infra-red astronomy (whatever that might be) at London’s Imperial College. Here he met Roger Meddows-Taylor (born in July 1949), a biology student who played the drums, and In 1967 the pair teamed up to form a group called Smile. Playing a stodgy brand of 'prograssive’ rock, with lots of extended guitar solos, they only maneged to impress few hippie students in Afghen coats and eventually split up in 1970. But not before the bass player had introduced May and Taylor to his flatmate, a bizarre charecter who pranced around in gaudy, flamboyant togs and called himself Freddie Mercury. His real name was Frederick Bulsara and he had been born in Zanzibar in September 1946. He had attended school in Bombey, he had studied ballet and art in Ealing, he had sung in wacky, off-beat student bands Wreckage and Sour Milk Sea, he had seen Smile on stage and condemned them es “rubbish”. What the world needed, he told May and Taylor, was a group thet blended the heavy rock of Led Zeppelin with progressive complexity and a striking “glam” image. The group would be called Queen —and Mercury would be its singer. May and Taylor thought they might as give it a go.

In 1971, the Queen line-up was completed with bassist John Deacon (who had a First Class Honours degree in electronics) and the band began developing their style carefully behind closed doors, eventually securing a contract with EMI. By mid-1973, they had an album, “Queen”, and a single, “Keep Yourself Alive” ready for release. In addition, Mercury had recorded an intensely silly version of the Beach Boys’ 'l Can Hear Music" under the name Larry Lurex in a misguided attempt to send up Gary Glitter and other glam pop stars of the day. Lurex’s little joke fell absolutely flat and Queen’s debut releases fered little better. Mercury’s mish-mesh of established rock styles was beginnin to seem like not quite such a good idea after —"a laughably bizarre mish-mesh of every other more successful band of their genre" as one critic was moved to remark at the time.

But at the next attempt, Queen were to prove such crltlcs wrong. “Seven Seas Of Rhye” was just the ticket and in March 1974, the band made their first Top Of The Pops appearence alongside imparishable groovers as Lena Zeveroni, Paper Leca end The Wornbles. In April, at a date at Stirling University, the crowd rioted when Queen refused to take the stage for a fourth encore. That same month, a second album, “Queen Il”, reached Number 5 in the charts. Queen were in the counting house and when the next single, the glossy and sophisticated “Killer Queen”, became a Number 2 smash, they began  counting the money in earnest.   

In 1975, the operatic “Bohemian Rhapsody” spent nine weeks at the top of the charts. the first record in pop history that successfully used the idea of the promotional video. “A Night At The Opera”, at the time reputed to be the most expansively-produced album ever, sold millions and throughout the year — and the rest of the decade — Queen seduced audiences around the world with lavish, spectacular stage shows in which such thrilling effects as smoke bombs, thunder-flashes, frenetic lights, huge hovering crowns and Star Wars-styled invesions played second fiddle to Freddie Mecury’s many costume changes. Dressed as a clown a leather- boy, in a kimono or a sequin-encrusted jump-suit, he would strut the stage, bering his chest, toasting his fans with champagne and hogging the spotlight with unabashed glee.

Over the years, Queen were to move away from the initial sound of multi-tracked harmonies to tackle a range of dittaring styles. On 1978’s vulgar “Fat Bottomed Girls”, they went for a no-nonsense, football terrace thumping approach; the following year, on “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, they transformed themselves into Shakin’ Stevens with a slice of 50s-styIed rockabilly. In 1980, they came up with some gritty disco-funk on “Another One Bites The Dust” ( a song later adopted as the battle hymn of America’s Detroit Lions football team and appallingly parodied by US funster Weird Al Yankovic on “Another One Rides The Bus’ —tee hee). And then Queen confounded their many critics, who for years had seen the group as dreadful, hoary old dinosaurs, by collaborating with ultra-trendy David Bowie on “Under Pressure”.

And now they’re back again with “Radio Ga Ga”. Freddie Mercury has short his hair, sprouted a macho-man moustache and continues to spend his cash on trinkets from the Orient. Roger Taylor keeps turning up on Pop Quiz and making a monkey out of people like Limahl with his superior knowledge of amazing pop facts, and May and Deacon remain in the background tinkering around in the studio.

Ten years on, with 22 hit singles and 12 best-seiling LP’s behind them, Queen seem about as likely to give up thelr throne as their namesake— you know, the one with all the corgis.

SMASH HITS MAGAZINE- 29TH FEBRUARY, 1984

Continua a leggere

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I present to you

One (1) bearded Bri playing the harp

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This one here:

Adds up to the others:

From the 'Sheer Heart Attack' Album Sleeve