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QUEEN II IS 50 TODAY
Queen's masterpiece Queen II was released fifty years ago today: 8th March 1974!
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rogertaylcr · 2 months
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Today, on 12th February, 1987
Freddie Mercury filmed “The Great Pretender” video, Battersea, London, UK, Director David Mallet
- Version of The Platters 1956 hit
Mercury's music video for the song featured him parodying himself in many of his Queen guises through video medium over the years, including visual re-takes of: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Radio Ga Ga", "It's A Hard Life", "I Want To Break Free", "I Was Born To Love You", "One Vision"
On the set with Freddie also Roger Taylor and Peter Straker
📸 Photo © #RogerTaylorOfficial
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rogertaylcr · 4 months
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So We’re dancing close, the band is playing Stardust Balloons and paper streamers floating down on us She says, You’ve got a minute left to fall in love In solemn moments such as this I have put my trust And all my faith to see I said all my faith to see I said all my faith to see Her naked body
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rogertaylcr · 8 months
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Happy 75th Birthday Freddie Mercury
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Roger rehearsing songs at Ridge Farm for 'A Night At The Opera' in summer 1975.
Photo by Watal Asanuma.
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The band at a photo session during the recording session for the 'A Night At The Opera' album at Scorpio studios in 1975. Photo by Watal Asanuma.
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rogertaylcr · 9 months
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haven't seen this one around lately
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Source Sotheby's.
Via deakycheaky on Instagram.
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@allthe-queens-men
Queen live at Sportorium in Miami, FL, USA - February 19, 1977
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The band had a week off after the Philadelphia show. The crew hauled the band's equipment through some brutally bad weather, arriving in Miami a few days prior to the show. It was at this venue where the Tie Your Mother Down video, directed by Bruce Gowers, was filmed. Bruce also directed Bohemian Rhapsody, You're My Best Friend, and Somebody To Love for Queen, as well as Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and John Mellencamp's (then John Cougar) "Jack And Diane." Other notable credits for him include the Eddie Murphy movie "Delirious," Woodstock 1994, Live 8, Live Earth, and American Idol.
Dave Pruitt, a member of the lighting crew, recalls getting "carried away with various powders used in the pyro." Four bars into the song, the button to activate the pyro was pushed, turning the stage into a disaster area. Roger, particularly, wasn't too fond of the crew after this, as he was blown off his drum stool and his drum kit was scattered all over the stage. "Pigeon crap, dust, dirt and who knows what else fell out of the ceiling for many minutes," recalls Dave.
A picture was taken during the video shoot by the head of the Queen crew, Peter "Ratty" Hince, and it can be seen on his website.
The photos seen above were taken by Brian's guitar tech Brian Spencer. The concert pic shows Brian with a Les Paul as a spare (an empty guitar stand is seen on the bottom of the photo).
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rogertaylcr · 9 months
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(everything about this gives me life: their interactions in the beginning & the end, John on the acoustic guitar, the rawness of it, the cheerfulness, Freddie’s voice)
John: How was that? Freddie: Oh! It’s lovely!
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Some photos from Sarina's birthday video 😍
Happy Birthday 🍾🎊🎉🎂
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“Fight the real enemy” - Sinead O’Connor. Rest in power.
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RIP
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“Hang in there, Baby” :)
June 13, 1974. London - Photo by Koh Hasebe (x)
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ROGER TAYLOR on Top of the Pops, 27th December 1974
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