Showing posts with label queen band. Show all posts
Showing posts with label queen band. Show all posts

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Queen Touring America Book Review



This video reviews Gary Taylor’s book which details Queen Touring America from 1974 - 1982 















Friday, October 19, 2018

Bohemian Rhapsody Movie Soundtrack Review




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Original Queen And Smile recordings from the soundtrack of the movie.

This limited edition collectors version comes with alternative cover slipcase and folded poster only available from the official Queen Online Store.

Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury.
Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet.
The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered greatly without the collaboration of Queen, Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid. While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, Freddie leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music.

Queen cements a legacy that continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.

120th Century Fox Theme Tune (Performed by Brian May) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
2Somebody To Love
3Doing All Right (2018 Smile Version) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
4Keep Yourself Alive (Live at the Rainbow, March 1974)
5Killer Queen
6Fat Bottomed Girls (Live in Paris 1979) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
7Bohemian Rhapsody
8Now I'm Here (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 1975)
9Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10Love Of My Life (Live In Rio, 1985) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AS AUDIO ONLY
11We Will Rock You (Studio/Live Movie Version) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
12Another One Bites The Dust
13I Want To Break Free
14Under Pressure
15Who Wants To Live Forever
16Bohemian Rhapsody (Live Aid 1985) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AS AUDIO ONLY
17Radio Ga Ga (Live Aid 1985) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AS AUDIO ONLY
18Ay-Oh (Live Aid 1985) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AS AUDIO ONLY
19Hammer To Fall (Live Aid 1985) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AS AUDIO ONLY
20We Are The Champions (Live Aid 1985) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AS AUDIO ONLY
21Don't Stop Me Now (2018 Movie Version) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
22The Show Must Go On









Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Queen A Day At The Races Album Review

Queen A Day At The Races Album Review 


Released 10 December 1976 Queens fifth studio album.

The follow up album to A Night At The Opera And really could have been a double album 


Tie Your Mother Down kicks the album off. Not a big hit in the charts but still a firm favourite with Queen fans

You Take My Breath Away follows a typical piano ballad by Freddie Mercury which only he could do.

Long Away played on Burns 12 String Guitar and sang by Brian May is a brilliant song though failed in the charts in the US

The Millionaire Waltz about John Reid is quite brilliant with lots of twists and turns and some very good guitar work by Brian.

You and I which was a b side to Tie Your Mother Down was John Deacons Song which gives a nice feel to the album.

Side two begins with the biggest hit from the album Somebody To Love which reached number two in the U.K. charts stopped only by Shawaddywaddy 

White Man follows which is a song about native Indians 

Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy follows which was a hit and played by Queen on top of the Pops 

Drowse is Rogers song with Brian May on slide guitar and is one of my favourite Roger songs

The album ends with the amazing Teo Torriatte dedicated to the Japanese Queen fans 


Video by James Rundle of Rock Licks Guitar Tuition in South Shields https://www.rock-licks.com




Saturday, September 30, 2017

Queen in 3-D Book

Queen in 3-D Book
Buy Book On AmazonQueen in 3-D (3d Stereoscopic Book)

Review

Lovingly created, visually engaging 3-D-illustrated book ... Queen In 3-D, as well as providing the closest thing to a completely nonghost-written Brian May autobiography we're ever likely to get, chronicles (with the aid of numerous beautifully restored and reproduced shots from May s own archive that can be viewed with a specially designed and included OWL stereoscope) the author's journey from childhood experiments, with his ever-ingenious Red Special designer dad, to the publication of the book itself. A singularly engaging trip that incorporates his entire Queen career along the way. --Classic Rock

Queen guitarist Brian May is set to delight fans with the release of a new book, which includes never-seen-before images of the group from his personal photo archive. Many of the book's 300 images were captured on various stereoscopic cameras that were carried by the rock legend during the height of the band's fame. May said of the collection, which he describes as a 'labour of love': 'As I looked at the 3-D photos, memories were triggered and the stories poured out. 'It's the 3-D element that makes it so evocative. I believe each image will draw readers in deeper, like me, inviting them to immerse themselves in a scene, to share a previously unseen Queen moment.' The book is the first of its kind to be published by a member of the band on the band and was put together with the help of Denis Pellerin, stereoscopic historian, and official Queen archivist, Greg Brooks. --MailOnline

May, whose perspective from the inside of Queen is expanded on in his new memoir (augmented by stereoscopic photography) Queen In 3D, brings out unsung sides of Mercury, especially as a composer and arranger of hard rock. --Mojo





Queen in 3-D (3d Stereoscopic Book)

Monday, March 21, 2016

Brian May Mini Guitar Review (Feat Charlie Rundle)





NEW UPDATED BRIAN MAY MINI GUITAR - REVIEWED BY CHARLIE RUNDLE

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Brian May has used the 'Mini May' on the recent One Voice tour. 

Advertised as a travel guitar but also ideal for young guitarists 

The new design features a 18 fret neck with bridge nearer back of guitar for better intonation and playability.

One trisonic Brian May pickup routed into body of the guitar. 

Video by James Rundle of Rock Licks Guitar Tuition in South Shields