Greg Brooks Video Interview

9:34 Greg discusses the idea of an Innuendo box, and a boxset combining Queen and Queen II content.


11:36 Discussing Knebworth release


41:01 Talking about the possibility of Dominion footage

Pretty cool stuff, I'll edit more timestamps if I find any more information.

Yeah I agree too about Knebworth…. Just ANOTHER Magic tour release and nothing tops Budapest for me (better performances than either Wembley night and much better recorded and mixed IMHO)

Innuendo is the most logical release for the next box set surely, using the template of this current release i.e. disc of alternative versions, disc of instrumentals, promo videos FINALLY!! etc etc.

The miracle boxset and all its different formats, peaked at number 6 in UK with sales under 10k , more specific 7,834.

I don't see new boxsets comming out in near future, record company will go for standard and secure releases.

I'm expecting 2027 myself. Either that or 2025 but for ANATO in time for Bo Rhap's 50th.

Frankly if there isn't a Queen1/Queen II boxset next year, I'll be very surprised and very disappointed.

I think they'd probably have enough if they're combining QI and QII. 

Some QI/QII songs have confirmed multitracks so we could hear something from that. KYA and Liar both have digitized multitracks confirmed by Rock Band and the 1991 remixes (I'm assuming that was done digitally), as does Seven Seas of Rhye. Could be cool to hear some stripped mixes like they did with I'm In Love With My Car and Bring Back That Leroy Brown I'm sure there's more where that came from. There's also the TMOTBQ and FHLI stuff that was shown off at the fan club conventions. Surely there's some more hidden gems we haven't heard.

If more exist, they could put Queen run-throughs of Smile songs like Polar Bear.

That era has the benefit of having live material, which The Miracle doesn't. We already know that Brian was considering releasing Imperial College 1970 last year, a QI/QII boxset would be perfect for that. If a studio run-through of Hangman doesn't exist, then a soundboard recording of the song would still be a huge deal too.

A definitive blu-ray of the early music videos and TOTP appearances would be a wonderful treat too. Alternate angles exist for Liar, so it'd be cool to have something like the DOOL Somebody To Love video.

Though unrealistic, my dream would be for a complete top-to-bottom re-mixing of the first two albums. The 2011 remaster was based off of the original mixes, which is faithful and how it should be, but the original mixes don't hold up very well, so it'd be nice to polish them up and bring them to the standard of later Queen albums. Just no pitch correction.

I think it would be a question of balancing effort required over potential sales. As GB said, most people would know The Miracle album from the multitude of singles (although, I can't see it appearing on the shelves as Tesco's, as he suggested) - they won't know QI & QII in the same way, so those two would largely need to be aimed at the more ardent collectors. Innuendo, again, had more singles and we know of at least half a dozen demos that haven't officially surfaced yet. I'd be happy with those and a sessions CD akin to The Miracle for an Innuendo box.

A song by Brian called Eyes of the White Queen and a song by John (that may be a weird acronym but is too convoluted for me to remember) appeared on Songview on BMI’s repertoire site. Given the first title I think the Q/Q2 package is a strong likelihood for next year.

It was five years between the NOTW box and The Miracle.  At this rate, I won't live long enough to complete the collection. 

I think it's a given they'd include all the stuff we've already got, but hopefully enough that we haven't got to make it worthwhile.

Id prefer 5.1 DTS mixes of every album. Now that would be nice :-) It makes a makes a massive difference listening to the music and being able to hear those little things u can't when they are stereo mixed. Probably likely to not be around before that happens.

Little Feat just re-released their Waiting for Columbus live album as a super deluxe box set, with the remastered original and three full shows from the tour (though I would’ve preferred all of them, like how the Grateful Dead do it), one of which was never intended for the live album itself, and a limited edition replica of a Japanese single released from the album.

I think Queen could do something similar: Live Killers original (add If You Can’t Beat Them, Somebody to Love, It’s Late, and Fat Bottomed Girls as bonus tracks, but put them in relation to the original setlist, not tacked on at the end of disc 2), two further shows (I didn’t realize how many multitracks there are from this tour, there are a LOT!), and a combination of the three nights in Paris. Maybe throw in a Blu-Ray of Paris and whatever else is out there. Throw in a 7” vinyl single of Love of My Life and We Will Rock You fast, and a four-track EP of the bonus tracks added to Live Killers. And make it $60, while I’m dreaming.

They could even include some tat memorabilia, like a Bicycle Race bell (you can ring along with them when it gets to Bicycle Race in Paris where the band let the fans ring their bicycle bells) or a Get Down Make Love whistle or a dazzling tie and maracas.

Last I heard about the Live Killers box set, I was just a college student browsing around QZ. It's old enough to go to school at this point