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Post by The Real Wizard on Jul 31, 2020 0:00:50 GMT
And that's two entirely different statements - "Aylesbury" and "not 1972" are not the same thing.
So we know they're not from Aylesbury. Well, there's a slight chance they could be. But it's best we don't waste half a page of a thread like this after someone just says so without any good reason to.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 2, 2020 1:02:55 GMT
From a Swiss magazine called Illustre, a week before the Zurich 86 shows.
The main photo may be from 4-17-82.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 2, 2020 1:21:21 GMT
A rare overhead shot - from St. John Arena @ Ohio State University on 1-15-77.
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 2, 2020 17:18:09 GMT
Great shots thanks for sharing. I wonder when did you find them?
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 2, 2020 17:19:27 GMT
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 2, 2020 17:24:00 GMT
Here's another rare pic. I think it's from either 1975 or 1976. There's another shot of Brian with the same outfits and samsonite. http://instagr.am/p/CDYhqEwsUar Oh wait now I'm seeing the pic Brian is holding a ukulele. He had an ukulele when they were on Japan on April 1975. There was a pic of him with that ukulele in April 20th 1975 I think during their picnic at the garden of Tokyo Prince Hall Hotel. This could be from that date. He's also holding Queen music life magazine. They had that magazine when they was in Japan
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Post by ordinaryqueenie on Aug 2, 2020 18:57:47 GMT
From a Swiss magazine called Illustre, a week before the Zurich 86 shows.
The main photo may be from 4-17-82.
Have you read the article ? That journalist must really hate them...
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 2, 2020 19:05:02 GMT
Great shots thanks for sharing. I wonder when did you find them? It was a friend of mine digging online, mostly through newspaper archives.
The 1977 shot is from that year's University of Ohio yearbook. There are four other shots up on my site now:
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 2, 2020 19:15:59 GMT
Oh wait now I'm seeing the pic Brian is holding a ukulele. He had an ukulele when they were on Japan on April 1975. There was a pic of him with that ukulele in April 20th 1975 I think during their picnic at the garden of Tokyo Prince Hall Hotel. This could be from that date. He's also holding Queen music life magazine. They had that magazine when they was in Japan He could have carried around that ukulele any day.
It's almost certainly not the 20th. The first photo in this thread is from that day, and that's not he was wearing.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 2, 2020 19:16:25 GMT
From a Swiss magazine called Illustre, a week before the Zurich 86 shows.
The main photo may be from 4-17-82.
Have you read the article ? That journalist must really hate them... Nope, I'm far from fluent in French. Feel free to post a translation.
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Post by ordinaryqueenie on Aug 2, 2020 21:17:57 GMT
Have you read the article ? That journalist must really hate them... Nope, I'm far from fluent in French. Feel free to post a translation.
I tried my best, hope it makes sense Queen in Switzerland: Are they great or do they suckThe four musicians of queen arrive in Switzerland for two concerts. So the public is hurrying. But do these english men deserve it ? 13 years of service, 13 golden discs. 30 45 rpm records and 20 hits to better feed their bank accounts. For 13 years, the Queens have been showing off at ease amidst their hits. So much that it becomes bad. A concentrate of old strings topped with a good fashionable gravy. Apart from that they suck. In 1973 when Led Zeppelin were caving in, Freddie Mercury (vocals), John Deacon (bass), Roger Taylor (drums) and Brian May (guitar) took their chance. Being true ersatz to zeppelin, Queen got a part of Led Zep’s public easily. A half-hard half-baroque formula, deadly riffs (but not too much), a cheap aesthetic of bad taste, and the voice (or what’s left of it) of a guy who got more than his fingers stuck in a door. Ouch, that hurts: in 1975 Queen records « A night at the opera ». This album, made in no more than 7 different studios, had the effect of a bomb. And a good part of their fortune. Since then, the four queens can behave like kings. Megalomaniac drives, as much« glamor » as you want, and exhibitionism always: the singer shows off without any complexes a very hairy torso to his public. A bit of «gay » provocation. A ukulele, a japanese koto, a harmonium or even crumhorns ringing amidst guitars. Queen gives in openly to their worst fantasms. Excess and grandiloquence for pompous choruses, small ideas and big organs ( the disc « Hot Space »). Finally, to be even more unsympathetic, Queen didn’t wait long before going on tour in South Africa; gold in vinyl has no smell ! Question: How is a band as bad as we described it able to have sold 80 millions of discs and to bring together more than 20000 fans to only two concerts in Switzerland? Answer: Brian May occasionally braids guitar strings as strong as a rope. Arguably the voice of a castrato, Mercury’s tone is one of a rare magnitude and of an incredible penetrating force. So we won’t say anything about the last record « A kind of magic », to conclude on a good note. Bottom right picture : the band Queen has sold more than 80 million discs. Is that really the proof that they don’t suck ?
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Post by deathtoming on Aug 2, 2020 21:52:05 GMT
Here's another rare pic. I think it's from either 1975 or 1976. There's another shot of Brian with the same outfits and samsonite. Oh wait now I'm seeing the pic Brian is holding a ukulele. He had an ukulele when they were on Japan on April 1975. There was a pic of him with that ukulele in April 20th 1975 I think during their picnic at the garden of Tokyo Prince Hall Hotel. This could be from that date. He's also holding Queen music life magazine. They had that magazine when they was in Japan The pic was featured in the May 1975 issue of Music Life magazine in Japan, and was taken during their North American tour the same year. Here's the full set, with John still labelled as "Deacon John" in Japanese.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 3, 2020 4:15:31 GMT
A concentrate of old strings topped with a good fashionable gravy. Apart from that they suck. In 1973 when Led Zeppelin were caving in, Freddie Mercury (vocals), John Deacon (bass), Roger Taylor (drums) and Brian May (guitar) took their chance. Being true ersatz to zeppelin, Queen got a part of Led Zep’s public easily. A half-hard half-baroque formula, deadly riffs (but not too much), a cheap aesthetic of bad taste, and the voice (or what’s left of it) of a guy who got more than his fingers stuck in a door. Yikes - that's harsh. Even the worst American writers were more subtle than that.
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 3, 2020 6:09:55 GMT
Oh wait now I'm seeing the pic Brian is holding a ukulele. He had an ukulele when they were on Japan on April 1975. There was a pic of him with that ukulele in April 20th 1975 I think during their picnic at the garden of Tokyo Prince Hall Hotel. This could be from that date. He's also holding Queen music life magazine. They had that magazine when they was in Japan The pic was featured in the May 1975 issue of Music Life magazine in Japan, and was taken during their North American tour the same year. Here's the full set, with John still labelled as "Deacon John" in Japanese. Thanks a lot for the informations and shots.
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Post by pg on Aug 3, 2020 21:17:44 GMT
They all look like they're taken in an airport. Maybe the koto had to be hand luggage as it was a recent acquisition and had no flight case.
In which case, how many times did they board a flight in Japan that year? Were there internal transfers or could this be the final departure?
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 3, 2020 22:11:28 GMT
They all look like they're taken in an airport. Maybe the koto had to be hand luggage as it was a recent acquisition and had no flight case. In which case, how many times did they board a flight in Japan that year? Were there internal transfers or could this be the final departure?
Good observations.
They likely did ground transit, as the tour stops were all within a few hours by car at most. That should date the photos as early May.
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Post by deathtoming on Aug 3, 2020 23:15:13 GMT
They all look like they're taken in an airport. Maybe the koto had to be hand luggage as it was a recent acquisition and had no flight case. In which case, how many times did they board a flight in Japan that year? Were there internal transfers or could this be the final departure? The photos were for Music Life readers in Japan, but they were taken on the North American tour (February to April 1975), not in Japan. The Music Life magazine Brian is holding (December 1974 issue) was likely just a gift from the Music Life staff that went overseas to travel with them for a bit. I'm not sure if it's an airport because of the seating, area rug and other furniture, like the wooden hutch behind Roger and the lamp reflection behind Brian. Seems more like a hotel lobby, but it doesn't look to be on the ground floor, and the view from the window seems appropriate for an airport. It could be those hotels that are directly connected to the airport, which would have an above-ground lobby. Also, is that a pool behind Freddie? There's a shimmery surface and what looks like the handles of the ladder that dips into the pool. By the way, that's not a toy koto that Brian is holding. It looks like this:
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Post by littlequeenie97 on Aug 4, 2020 0:24:12 GMT
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Post by littlequeenie97 on Aug 4, 2020 1:59:22 GMT
Also, these 2 pictures from Toronto 82 have different shirts.
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Post by Mustapha Ibrahim on Aug 4, 2020 3:01:13 GMT
Also, these 2 pictures from Toronto 82 have different shirts. Maybe he changed it midway through the concert. But I'll have to check.
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Post by Mustapha Ibrahim on Aug 4, 2020 3:15:26 GMT
He wore a different shirt for the 2nd night, so he probably did just change his shirt midway.
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 4, 2020 10:31:45 GMT
This is another rare gem. It's appeared on Queen I back sleeve too. I think it's taken at Trident studio or probably De Lane Lea studio, it's taken between 1971_1973 I think. http://instagram.com/p/CDWn4f3MqOW
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Post by georg on Aug 4, 2020 12:43:42 GMT
This is another rare gem. It's appeared on Queen I back sleeve too. I think it's taken at Trident studio or probably De Lane Lea studio, it's taken between 1971_1973 I think. http://instagr.am/p/CDWn4f3MqOW I always loved this photo.
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 4, 2020 14:52:29 GMT
This is another rare gem. It's appeared on Queen I back sleeve too. I think it's taken at Trident studio or probably De Lane Lea studio, it's taken between 1971_1973 I think. http://instagr.am/p/CDWn4f3MqOW I always loved this photo. Beside the weirdness that it had on the pic, it's great to have such a rare shots like this
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Post by Chopin1995 on Aug 5, 2020 15:28:14 GMT
Arrow jacket in Japan? Is it a common knowledge, or this is the first time we can see Freddie using that jacket in Japan?
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Post by Chopin1995 on Aug 5, 2020 15:33:58 GMT
Some shots of Roger taken probably at his flat, I'm not 100% sure. Anyone knows where Roger used to live during this time?
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 5, 2020 18:50:20 GMT
Some shots of Roger taken probably at his flat, I'm not 100% sure. Anyone knows where Roger used to live during this time? Yes they're taken at Roger's flat during a photoshoot session with Mick Rock on June 1974. The pics later published on Music Star magazine on June 15th 1974.
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Post by Chopin1995 on Aug 5, 2020 21:34:09 GMT
So they were taken after the US tour and before recording sessions for Sheer Heart Attack. Nice! Thanks a lot for the explanation. At least now I know where to locate these pics in my collection.
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 5, 2020 21:37:25 GMT
So they were taken after the US tour and before recording sessions for Sheer Heart Attack. Nice! Thanks a lot for the explanation. At least now I know where to locate these pics in my collection. No problem
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Post by Mustapha Ibrahim on Aug 5, 2020 22:16:45 GMT
Freddie and Brian (Imperial College 1973)
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