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1. We formed a band with friends in our school days and we often used to perform for some coins.

The first Queen interview in our country. (From Music Life September Issue 1974)

The first chance encounter between the long-standing music magazine “MUSIC LIFE” and Queen happened at the beginning of summer ‘74 at the time of the release of the famous second album “QUEEN II”. Unfortunately, Brian was absent due to an illness, but we’re reintroducing the unforgettable moment when Roger’s natural voice was delivered to Japanese fans for the first time.

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Can you tell us about your personal music career?

John Deacon: I started to perform with various amateur bands since I was 12-13 and attending Leicester School. When I was 18 I went to London to start university, but, even though I met a lot of friends, the first time I played with a professional band it was with Queen. I’ve been playing with Freddie, Brian and Roger for 3 years and a half, but they were already together for 6 months before they made me join. The first instrument I learnt was a six chord guitar but I switched to the bass guitar when I was 14. I learnt all by myself.

Freddie Mercury: I was born in East Africa and I spent my years as a young boy in India when I was 7-8. I was admitted into a school dormitory. Since the rules were strict, I could never go out. In those school days, I started learning the piano and I studied classic piano reaching the intermediate level. After that, I entered an art college in London and I met Brian and Roger. They were playing in a band called “Smile” and even if I was in a group called “Sour Milk Sea” the three of us hit it off immediately and we shared a rented apartment. Then, one day, Smile disbanded and the two of them asked me to form a group together. That was the beginning of Queen.

Roger Taylor: I started playing the drums seriously when I was 12, but since I was a huge fan of rock’n’roll I learnt immediately. Back then, I preferred to listen to Bill Haley, The Shadows, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix. I formed a band with my friends at school. We used to perform frequently as a semi pro band for a little money. Then, I started to attend university in London and I got acquainted with Brian and we formed Smile. At university, I was studying for a major in dental school, but I abandoned after a year. Then, I started a major in biology and I got a degree. At the end of those studies, Queen were formed.

At the time Queen were formed there were a lot of difficulties, right?

FM: To some extent, yes. But we were confident in the music we wanted to make and also we were certain which kind of direction we should take. First of all, we made a demo tape and we took it to many record companies. We didn’t think such things as “any record company is fine”. We kept on searching for the best record companies and the most appropriate for us. For this reason, we never compromised.

After recording the demo tape, how long did it take until the release of the first album “QUEEN”?

RT: A lot. Must have taken approximately 2 years. The recording was completed easily, but back then the record company thought it wasn’t still the moment to release it. The company waited until the suitable moment to release came, but given various problems, we didn’t sell much even when the album had been released. On the contrary, things went smooth for the second album and as soon as the recording was completed it was immediately released for sale.

Your sound is strongly English and you can feel elements from Led Zeppelin and Yes music…

FM: We have no intention to imitate those groups. I personally like Zeppelin, but not so much Yes lately. Surely, when our first album came out we were compared to other groups and probably they thought about us that way. But now that our sound has been established they are saying that other bands sound like Queen. We’re not trying to create Queen sound on purpose, it happened naturally.

Today Brian is not here, is he still hospitalized for his illness?

JD: No, he’s already been discharged. Since he’s currently resting at home and having proper meals, he should be completely recovered in 2 weeks.

The second album “QUEEN II” is divided in “White Side” and “Black Side”. Does it have a particular meaning?

FM: There isn’t that deep meaning. We came up with the idea by chance, during the recording. I wrote the song “The March of the Black Queen” for that album and Brian wrote “White Queen”, that’s where the idea came from. Also, that mood is reflected to a certain extent in both sides. The White Side radiates a bright feeling of a white mood, the Black Side turns into a rather dark image of a devilish feeling. We even wear black and white on stage and it becomes a really good contrast.

Tell us about the new album.

JD: We plan on concentrating on the third album through July, August and September. Since we’ll be away on tour from the middle of September, we intend to have it finished before then. We’ll be in charge of the production in collaboration with Roy Thomas Baker.

Tell us about your PA system and your instruments manifacturers.

JD: Roger uses Ludwig drums, Brian a handmade guitar and VOX “AC30” amp, I use a Fender Precision Bass guitar and an acoustic amp. The PA system is usually rented during tours.

I look forward to your visit to Japan next year. Thank you very much.

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T/N: First interview from the Music Life special issue about Roger Taylor. As always, I am not an English native speaker, so forgive any possible error. Also, remember that translating into a foreign language is difficult and I hope I have preserved the original meaning.

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Do you believe in God? Would you put your cryptocurrency holdings on it?

Augur, an ethereum-based platform for betting on the outcome of real-world events, aims to be a repository of crowd-sourced knowledge for journalists, investors and policymakers, as well as an effective tool for hedging against adverse outcomes.

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Forums for questioning a higher power are just one of many markets that currently exist on the decentralized prediction market, developed by the non-profit Forecast Foundation and funded with one of the world’s first token sales in 2015.

That token sale took place before people were even using the word initial coin offering, or ICO, to refer to these types of crypto fundraising schemes, and the project went through the ICO boom in beta – with the developers testing and vetting one of the most hotly-anticipated launches in crypto history.

As such, when it launched on ethereum’s live blockchain last month, it briefly surpassed the most famous decentralized application, CryptoKitties, in terms of the number of users. Although enthusiasm has since dipped markedly.

So far, most of Augur’s markets – and the vast majority of the trades on the platform – deal with relatively vanilla topics like the outcomes of sporting events or the prices of crypto assets. But a few take a truly dark turn, gauging the likelihood that prominent figures will be assassinated or that terrorist attacks and mass shootings will occur.

Others, though, are just goofy, evoking the cryptocurrency community’s peculiar obsessions, wild rumors and the sorts of riddles a bridge troll might ask before letting you pass.

So here’s to the Augur users who have selflessly donated their time and potentially their funds – market creators post a bond in the platform’s native REP tokens, which they lose if a market is deemed “invalid” because the outcome cannot be verified – all just to brighten their fellow users’ days.

In no particular order, here are a few of the weirdest markets on Augur today.

Vitalik’s girlfriend

Vitalik Buterin, creator of ethereum, the world’s second-most valuable blockchain, enjoys the kind of wealth and notoriety few 24-year-olds have.

But does he have a girlfriend? And if not now, when?

These questions have vexed the crypto community enough to spawn a dedicated article – one that’s apparently been viewed over 18,000 times. And now, indelibly etched into Buterin’s own creation, there’s an Augur market for it too.

Buterin himself must confirm the relationship, according to the market’s terms, and the couple must have been together for at least one full day.

It’s worth noting here that (as with many Augur markets) nobody has bet on this one at the time of writing.

Are you there, God?

Ostensibly, Augur markets must be based on verifiable events, but Augur is a platform without moderators, so that’s become more of a guideline.

As mentioned above, the perfect example: someone has posed the question, “Does god exist?”

They’re apparently in no hurry to find out, as the market expires at the beginning of 2020. And the resolution source must be the “news media.”

The heathen users that initiated the market give the creator of the universe a 10 percent chance of existing. No money is at stake at the time of writing.

SAFU or not SAFU

Naturally, Augur users haven’t passed up on the chance to sprinkle the platform with their particular flavor of memes.

Titled “FUNDS ARE SAFU?” one market references a bizarre – but popular – YouTube send-up of Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s attempt to reassure users that their crypto holdings on the platform were safe.

Looking at the market’s details, however, it appears not to be a joke, but a serious – if vaguely worded – question about whether Binance will be hacked: “Will the security of https://www.binance.com/ be negatively affected such that there is a newsworthy loss of money?”

The market expired without any bets having been placed.

Does not compute

Competition is stiff, but the trolliest market currently active on Augur may well be this restatement of the liar paradox – the sort of query one might use to incapacitate a murderous supercomputer.

For the uninitiated, the statement “this sentence is false” is a paradox because, if the statement is, in fact, false, that means it checks out. So it’s true.

If the statement is true – by being false – then it violates its own premise: it has to be false.

Thinking about this paradox goes back to at least the fourth century BCE, making it one of humanity’s longest-running time wasters. Adding a pinch of circular meta-salt to this concoction, the market creator made the point of reference for this market Predictions.Global, a site that scrapes data from Augur.

The pee tape

The allegation that Russian authorities possess compromising material on U.S. president Donald Trump is one of the stranger stories to emerge from the 2016 election.

The existence of this compromising material – originating from a collection of documents prepared by a former British intelligence officer working (indirectly) on behalf of Democrats – is often known as the “pee tape” due to its alleged content.

But it hasn’t been proven.

Judging by an Augur market on the topic, though, chances are around one in four that such a tape will emerge before the end of Trump’s first term.

Betting volume on the market has been very low, however, at the equivalent of less than $60.

McAfee’s bold prediction

Many of the most liquid and valuable markets on Augur deal with the prices of cryptocurrencies.

So at first glance, it’s hard to see what’s remarkable about one particular market predicting that the price of bitcoin will pass $1 million before 2020.

But there’s a clue in the fact that it’s tagged “McAfee.”

The anti-virus-software-creator-turned-cryptocurrency-hype-man has published many inadvisable tweets. Topping the list, however, is one from late 2017, when he predicted that bitcoin would hit $1 million and reiterated a promise he’d made earlier to “eat my dick on national television” if he proved incorrect.

Yet another Augur market gets to the, um, meat of the story.

And that’s probably enough Augur for today.

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