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KISS, QUEEN, FAITH NO MORE HEADLINE SONISPHERE 2012

By on Feb 20, 2012 in Featured, Festival Line-Up Announcements, Festivals, News

SONISPHERE KNEBWORTH has announced three headliners and the first batch of bands for its 2012 event, with tickets available fromwww.sonisphere.co.uk from 9am Thursday 23rd February.

 

Shooting rockets. Blood spitting. Face Paint. Shiny Boots and utterly jaw dropping triumphant live shows:  SONISPHERE is proud to announce KISSas Friday’s headliner. With a reputation for being perhaps the most flamboyant and entertaining band on the planet, the American Kings will bring their stage extravaganza to SONISPHERE as their only European performance of 2012. While many bands have been chasing the eye liner [...]

Queen, The Script and more honoured at 2011 BMI London Awards

By on Oct 05, 2011 in News
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Queen, The Script, Fraser T. Smith & More Honored
at 2011 BMI London Awards

LONDON, October 4, 2011 – American performing right organization Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) celebrated Europe and Asia’s premier songwriters, composers and music publishers tonight during its annual BMI London Awards. Guests filled London’s Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane to toast the past year’s most-performed songs on U.S. radio and television.

Songwriters and composers honored at the event are members of European and Asian performing right societies and are represented [...]

QUEEN TO BE HONORED AS BMI ICONS AT BMI LONDON AWARDS

By on Aug 15, 2011 in News

LONDON, August 15, 2011 – Queen will be named BMI Icons at the organization’s annual London Awards. The ceremony is slated for Tuesday, October 4 at London’s Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane.

 

BMI honors songwriters who have had “a unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers” as Icons. Queen’s Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon join a list of past honorees that includes 2010 recipient Don Black, Van Morrison, Donovan, the Bee Gees, James Brown, Willie Nelson, [...]

Direct Queen’s New Video!!

By on Jul 14, 2011 in Featured, MixTape, News

Mamas Gun Video for their version of Queen’s Bicycle Race

By on Jun 11, 2011 in News

Mamas Gun have released a little viral video for their cover of Queens ‘Bicycle Race’ which features on their new album ‘The Life And Soul’ – out now. The video is part studio footage, and part filmed whilst they were on tour in Holland where fans of the band turned up on their bicycles to be part of it.

“SUCKER PUNCH” SOUNDTRACK OUT NOW FEATURING ARTISTS: ALISON MOSSHART, QUEEN, EMILIANA TORRINI, AND BJÖRK

By on Apr 04, 2011 in News
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Sony Music is thrilled to announce the release of “Sucker Punch: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” on March 28, 2011. The audio companion to the film director Zack Snyder describes as “Alice In Wonderland with machine guns” has taken over two years to create, and will delight filmgoers and music fans of all generations.
Snyder (Watchmen, 300), collaborated with Grammy®-nominated composer and music director Marius de Vries (Moulin Rouge!) and composer Tyler Bates (Watchmen, 300, Californication) to select the collection of [...]

Queen – First Five Album Re-Issued

By on Mar 13, 2011 in Albums, Featured, Reviews

Queen hit the 40 years career this year, as well as 20 years from the sad day Freddie Mercury left fans around the world heartbroken. 40 years career is an impressive mark and Queen decided to celebrate it in style by joining Island Records (after being with EMI for 40 years); an itinerary exhibition which focuses on life before Queen and their first 10 years together as a band – that is, the 70s; and the release of the first [...]

QUEEN: first five albums re-issued on Island Records – March 14th 2011

By on Mar 08, 2011 in News

Queen release the album ‘Deep Cuts Volume One 1973-1976’on March 14th 2011, a bespoke collection of hidden gems from the band’s first five albums, specially chosen by Roger Taylor and Brian May in consultation with life-long fan, Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters.

‘Deep Cuts Volume One’ is designed as a companion piece to the first five Queen albums which are being re-issued by Island Records on March 14th as part of the bands 40th anniversary celebrations.

Designed to dig a little [...]

STORMTROOPERS IN STILETTOS NEWS!!TWO MAJOR WORLD EXCLUSIVES ANNOUNCED FOR QUEEN EXHIBITION!

By on Feb 28, 2011 in News

STORMTROOPERS IN STILETTOS NEWS!!

 

TWO MAJOR WORLD EXCLUSIVES ANNOUNCED FOR QUEEN EXHIBITION!

 

World Premier of Work-in-Progress Bohemian Rhapsody Video in 3D

Previously unseen Freddie Mercury childhood paintings and drawings

 

QUEEN announce two major exclusive additions to their ‘Stormtroopers in Stilettos’40th Anniversary exhibition which opened friday at Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London. The exhibition opened Thursday with a star-studded launch with guests including Roger Taylor and Brian May, [...]

QUEEN: FIRST FIVE ALBUMS RE-ISSUED ON ISLAND RECORDS – MARCH 14th 2011

By on Jan 26, 2011 in News

March 2011 sees the re-release of Queens first five albums – one of the most exciting and influential back catalogues of all time.  Recorded in the maelstrom of the early 1970’s London music scene Queen created a groundbreaking and unique soundtrack that remains globally influential today. Theatrical, imaginative, diverse, melodic and unpredictable they had a sound and a look all of their own. Sitting alongside their contemporaries like Led Zep and David Bowie, Queen set the standard for British rock [...]

2011: Queen 40th Anniversary

By on Jan 14, 2011 in Featured, MixTape, News
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2011 sees one of the most talented, glamorous and influential bands in musical history, QUEEN, celebrate the 40th anniversary of their formation in 1971.

With over 170 million global album sales, 18 Number One Albums, 10 Number One DVD’s, 700 concerts performed in every corner of the world including their historic appearance at Live Aid, Seven Ivor Novello Awards,  inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame and a Guinness [...]

Mick Rock – Rock: Music in association with Zippo review

By on Nov 12, 2010 in MixTape
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You probably heard about the “man who shot the 70s” before, but it’s worth telling the tale of rock photographer and living legend Mick Rock one more time.

Young Mick Rock started up, as some of you may know, by chance. In perfect ancient Greek fashion, a Deist, impersonated by a young lady he was dating at the time, provided him with the tool – a camera. The once modern literature and languages student at Cambridge University answered the call and [...]

Mick Rock: in association with Zippo.

By on Nov 09, 2010 in Featured, MixTape
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Mick Rock Rock Music in association with Zippo 10th November – 16th Jan Idea Generation Gallery www.ideageneration.co.uk

A retrospective of the legendary photographer’s work documenting the
most outrageous moments, people and legends in music history
Celebrated as ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s’, Mick Rock’s images define rock n’ roll. Rock launched his career in 1972 with his portrait of an unknown David Bowie and spent the next four decades capturing the most fascinating and
exciting characters in rock [...]

Queen Prepare Celebrations for 40 Years Career

By on Nov 08, 2010 in Featured, News

LONDON, November 8, 2010 – Queen and Universal Music Group have signed an exclusive, long-term agreement on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking group’s formation, in 1971.

With worldwide album sales of more than 170 million, No. 1 albums, singles and DVDs the world over, inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, over 700 concerts performed in every corner of the world including [...]

Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Freddie Mercury In Queen Film

By on Sep 17, 2010 in News
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Sacha Baron Cohen is to play singer Freddie Mercury in a film about Queen, it has been announced.

The movie, written by Peter Morgan, will focus on the band’s career up to their landmark performance at Live Aid in 1985.

Guitarist Brian May said Cohen, best known for his alter-ego Ali G, had been in the running for the role for “a long time”.

May admitted in an interview with the BBC’s HARDtalk show that his casting would “probably be a shock to [...]

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