Queen The Greatest 45rpm releases

It's quite ugly if you ask me...

This 50th anniversary turned out to be a real disaster for loyal Queen fans. I have seen other bands turning 50 and had better celebrations but Queen's 50th is the worst of them all.
There was NOTHING exciting this year except Roger's new album but when it comes to Queen releases we got multiple Greatest Hits related releases. Brian's BTTL box which offered nothing new and there is
the horrible Queen The Greatest youtube serie which is 90% Days Of Our Lives documentary footage. They really shit on the fans who had stuck by them all those years. Their 40th anniversary was way better with some new outtakes, a great documentary and the excellent 40 years of Queen book. This year, ah well forget it, i am so done with this band.

Welp, set my alarm for 3:00am (my time), logged in and purchased the 7" and went back to sleep. Woke up this morning to a cancellation email from QOL Store saying:

"Sadly, demand today was incredibly high for a very small number of units of the Roger Taylor single.

The system has now allocated the stock for the first 500 people and unfortunately you were not successful this time, so your pre-order has now been cancelled."


Oh well. Pretty annoying that the system still let me order it and it's really annoying that I'll soon see these on Ebay at inflated prices.

Put it in my basket, paid for it, got the confirmation email..... and then received the cancellation email. Useless.

I've encounter the exact same problem: order placed at 11:00:39, received a confirmation email two minutes later, then another one at 12:20 saying that my order was cancelled...

That's quite disappointing, what's the purpose to confirm an order only for it to be cancelled one hour later?

I also had the same experience 11:00:44

The prices in internet are high.. While buying original first pressings LPS or really rare singles is lower.

After the movie, there are some new "fans" who buy and then sell collector's editions and some don't buy Queen discography only the new re-releases including limited editions.

Queen productions doesn't care about old fans and collectors. They love what is happening in social media where new audience love everything, from songs like body language were many cited as their favorite to every stupid product queen online might come out.
This is the target group.

I’d be happy if they release a second non-numbered batch of releases so the rest of us can have a copy. Limited or not.

Lots of unhappy people on the Official Q FB - order taken and then getting an email saying that the order was cancelled.

I stopped buying from QOL a long time ago because of the above reasons. Queen fans don`t have a chance to buy these limited issue releases. It always amazes me how fast they go up on Ebay though.

I agree with the sentiment above, I have collected Queen since 1983, it has been a joy. Even my kids are involved. But recently I am less inclined to keep up and to contribute to the pension scheme. I was fortunate to get a copy of this first single - but there is little hope for the other three to get ‘the set ‘. The releases are not for commercial gain individually to the band or record company. It’s purely a means of creating interest on social media - which I do not monitor. - but in terms of turnover it all adds up. It’s not lost on me that the chance to get a number 1 with minimal sales has resulted in the plethora of ‘signed bundles’ - 1 purchase - 4 or5 physical sales. That is pure vanity on a Bono- like scale. Frankly I expect better from Queen - who in my experience have always looked after their fans. Fred would be ashamed, John saw the writing on the wall and has my complete and utter respect. I feel let down by the keepers of the legacy - who still can make the hairs on my neck stand in concert.

It will be of no interest to BHM or RMT, but I am now quitting. Roger at least produces new stuff, but other than that the enterprise Is based on sellling the same tat - nothing for the long term fan. Minimum effort for maximum profit. Great business model - shitty way of treating the people who have made you and your future generations financially secure. Brian/Roger it’s time to take a cold hard look at yourselves

I find it difficult to argue with this. It's some consolation that I completely forgot to log-on on Friday to attempt to get the limited Roger single, given that in all likelihood I'd have got one of the 'sorry about that' emails so many others did. I suspect at some point I'd also have questioned why I'd spent so much on such an obviously skewed release - what was it, 15 quid? The value for money there is straight out of the window, I'd never have sold it so I'm left with a strangely expensive 7" which will never be played and fundamentally isn't something you'd frame. Watching prices rocket on eBay isn't something I take any comfort from, it's just depressing.

As has been pointed out so many times, the one obvious thing they can do for fans is to open up their live archive. Whether it's following the Pearl Jam model of doing this or Neil Young's, we know for sure that Brian recorded countless gigs and none of us are in the least bit bothered about fluffed lines or the occasional drop-out. They only mean something to us and the uniqueness of each performance, good or bad, keeps the passion for their music alive. They way they're currently shielded from us almost gives the impression that we'll suddenly learn that they couldn't play very well live, something we know is ridiculous. I'd don't actually mind the crazy roster of GH releases - it's right that new fans should be catered for - they're not for me but they aren't doing any harm. However, for those of us who felt like a live recording of Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke was like finding the Turin Shroud is real, it's a sad situation.  

As some of you will know, QOL cancelled a great number of orders last Friday, with the excuse that stock had been allocated.
What's interesting is I have spoken to a few people about this and it is clear that stock has NOT been allocated according to the time the order was placed.
This is a complete joke.


I sent this message to them today and I would like to suggest that many other people complain as well:


Dear Sirs,

Regards the cancellation of my order of the Radio GaGa single last friday.

Would you please provide a proper explanation as to how your system allocates orders?

I have checked my order status and it says the order was made at 11.00 and 43 seconds.

A friend of mine whose order was not cancelled has checked his order time and it is 11.01 and 13 seconds.



My order was clearly placed BEFORE his, yet mine was cancelled and his wasn't.



You have disappointed, upset and angered a LOT of people over this and I should like to recommend that for the next 3 singles, you reduce the number allocated to the pop-up shop to 100 and have 900 for worldwide sale online.

The number that have appeared on Ebay for upwards of £100 and over is disgusting and I can only assume these are from people who have bought from the Carnaby Street store.

Are THEY limiting numbers to one per person?



I look forward to your timely response.



Kind Regards,

Sorry if you find this offensive, but that's what you get for allowing yourself to be suckered into one of the many unethical money-grabs by QPL. I'd simply suggest not buying pointless overpriced crap like this. Because people who will shell out waaaay too much for totally pointless stuff is the reason QPL keeps putting out crap like this - there's easy money to be made from suckers who will throw money at them for essentially nothing, so why bother with good releases that take work?