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I don't know about you, but everything Freddie says in these is a thought I've had

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Roger's greeting and Brian's letter for the OIQFC Magazine Winter 2024 🥰💖

(Brian's Gold Series is still running!! And "new plans for Queen in the New Year" sounds super exciting!!)

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New photos of John Harris with Freddie, Brian, Roger, and John from the OIQFC Magazine Winter 2024 (my edit) 🥰 babies!!!

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The Star Fleet Project… genre whiplash

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Queen in 1975.

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A recent interview with Brian about Bohemian Rhapsody. Seeing that this song has been dissected to death for nearly 50 years there isn't a lot that we haven't heard or read before. But here are some interesting bits I picked out. These are chopped bits, please open the link for the whole thing.

LC: When you first heard or heard the first notes of “Bohemian Rhapsody” from Freddie, what did you think? BM:  Well, a lot of people ask this question thinking that it would be a shock, but it wasn’t really, because we’d already dealt with a lot of complexity, I suppose you would call it. If you look at “My Fairy King” on the first album, first of all, you would hear Freddie playing some bits and you’d say, “Well, what’s that?” He’d say, “Well, this bit goes with this bit” and whatever. So we were used to sort of building things up in the studio. And he came with a number of pieces of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and said, “Yes, this all connects to this and this.” And it was interesting, but not vastly out of the norm, I would say. It was just something else nice and juicy to work with and work on. LC:  Did you know when it was done, and, by that I mean, done being written or done being recorded, that you had what has since been called a “song for the ages”?  Did you know it was special? BM:  I think we did feel it was pretty special, yes. We knew it was unique. [...] There was a song that was equally long and equally complex on the other side called “The Prophet’s Song.”…  I think you then get to the point where it’s all done and you think, “Wow! We’ll unleash this on the public, and what is going to happen?” You have to make a choice about the single fairly early on, because that’s going to be your flagship, and pretty early on, that decision was made, but we were advised that [“Bohemian Rhapsody”] wouldn’t work as a single because it was too long. The information we had was that no one would play it, no radio station would play it…. John [Deacon] actually came up with an edit which started with the verse and the first couple of choruses, then cut out the whole of the operatic session and then finished with the conclusion of the chorus. But we all hated it. LC:  Whose idea, whose concept, was the video? Did Freddie come up with that or all of you or a director? BM:  We had a director, but, basically, I will go down in history as saying the concept was basically ours. We put it all together kind offline. We were already in rehearsal mode in a studio in, I think, in Shepperton, so we set it all up ourselves and discussed it. Freddie had the idea of using this top lighting that was very Marlene Dietrich for the album, which we’d already used conceptually for the cover of the “Queen II” album which was a couple of years old at this point. But we thought we’d like to bring the “Queen II” album to life, but there are people out there who will dispute and say it was their idea. One is Mick Rock, who claims that the idea of doing the Marlene Dietrich thing was his idea, and one is Bruce Gowers, who says that all the concept of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” video came from him. Actually, it’s not Bruce Gowers, it’s his wife, because Bruce, and I don’t think Bruce would ever have wanted to pick a fight with us, but now there are all sort of disputes pending out there because a lot of people want to rewrite history, especially very lucrative history. We’ve had a lot of people claiming, I mean, even like some of the roadies claiming to have had the idea for songs or whatever. It’s a bit of a–  what? It’s a minefield out there…

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Japan, 1976.

Via renrensoh on X.

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BRIAN MAY and JOHN DEACON (1979)

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FREDDIE MERCURY and BRIAN MAY performing Tie Your Mother Down, Live in Montreal (1981)

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Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, July 1985

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🎼🎤👑

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'Portrait of Brian May and Roger Taylor, members of the rock band Queen, photographed at the Hilton Hotel in Munich, 1995 (01-01-1995)' Photo rights managed by REDUX/belgaimage

Newly released (06-12-2024) photos of Brian May and Roger Taylor (X, X) - watermarks removed by me so if you repost these without credit, I will know!

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Wahoo

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Queen, 1975.

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𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: December 26, 1979

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆: London, UK

𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: Hammersmith Odeon

𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿: Dave Walmsely