Any info on The Miracle Box Set

Yup. This is why I've stopped giving them my money. They don't listen to the fans; they listen to the fanatics, and right now the fanatics want a Q+AL live album. Can't say I can blame them – a quick buck is a quick buck – but they can easily remain current and dive into their past. As it is, I'm more willing to give my money to a band who gives a shit about their fans.

It would be very naive of them to think that live performances will be possible in the same magnitude within a year or two. Vaccines are still not ready, their real world effectivity is yet to be seen, people are generally wary about crowded places (the very thought of going to a gig seems like a really bad idea as of now), etc.

Hopefully Brian realised this reality and that's why he teased the solo box set. Their best source of income this next couple of years should be archive releases.

Delayed / cancelled releases are, sadly, par for the course over the last 30 years.

I'm not as frustrated about this one though- partly because this whipping is just landing on scar tissue, not skin . Mainly though it's because a Miracle box set wasn't a particularly exciting concept in the first place, and it's not very fair of me to criticise the non-release of something I wasn't likely to buy anyway.

That said, assuming it was all fully signed off and ready to go, it should be easy to resurrect at short notice in the future.... in theory.

I don't mind Queen + ending soon...

I am sick and tired of them playing all the very same songs over and over again. It's like listening to GH1 + some other tracks live.

I think B&R have every right to continue while they can, and equally, people have the choice as to whether to buy their album or go to see them in concert.

It can't be disputed that they put on a spectacular show (for spectacular ticket prices!), and they're playing largely to the 'Greatest Hits' brigade of Queen fans, but at least you go to the show knowing what to expect.

To be fair, they have played some deeper cuts (ITLOTG, Stone Cold Crazy to name a couple), and the last quarter of the set has mostly been the same since about 1982. I would like to see some set variation, and certainly some more album cuts, but I guess they can't change the set much due to the technicalities of the show, so it is what it is, and slagging it off doesn't really achieve anything.

What would Brian and Roger be doing were it not for Q+AL? Neither of their solo careers were as commercially successful as Queen, and now they have the opportunity to put on big shows again, which they couldn't really do on their own. From a commercial perspective, it's a no brainer.

I agree too .

I have tickets for the UK part of the tour because I know it will be only chance to see Brian , Roger and Spike .

I couldn't say it any better than JFN and Lord Fickle. So I'll just say I'm one of those fans that joined too late. I was born in 1988 and knew nothing of them in the 1990s. It wasn't until 2003 that I fell in love with the band and their legacy. I remember begging my parents to take me to a Q+PR concert, but we couldn't afford it. When that project disbanded, I thought that was it. I had no hope of seeing a Queen concert. So when rumors started flying that they were going to tour with Adam Lambert I was absolutely thrilled. I'll never forget my first Q+AL concert in Madison Square Garden and hearing Brian's opening Now I'm Here riff. I was moved to tears. That moment meant everything to me. So as much as I dislike things like The Miracle box set being put on hold, I can't blame Q+AL. Without their collaboration, I still wouldn't have heard my heroes in concert. And I'll continue to go as long as they're still playing. After all. there might not be too many tomorrows for them, if at all.

Ok, I honestly hadn't even considered Guns N' Roses when I said 'major band', but I suppose they are. Looks like their deluxe reissue of "Appetite For Destruction" was a pretty good set, but that seems to be pretty much all they've got, so I have to give you that one. I do think we can agree that Queen is quite a couple of rungs higher on the ladder of stardom than GNR, though, so I don't think the comparison is entirely fair.

I really hope they do consider us hardcore fans!

I have wondered this too...like maybe the floodgates will open and we will get stuff once they are no longer around.  Or maybe they will give someone like Sarina or one of the kids strict instructions to keep things locked down.  Hard to know.

Madness?

The question was about bands with little archival releases. They don't have to be dead!

I was thinking the other about a quote from someone, forgot who it was though. He said regarding to QP: if you expect dissapointment from QP, you won't be dissapointed.

Do any of us here remember in 1995, Queen were to release the complete BBC sessions? The B-sides of Let Me Live on the CD single were from the forthcoming BBC sessions, and it never materialised at the time. It took until 2016 for that set to be released and even then it seems the complaint is it was heavily autotuned although I haven't actually listened to it myself.

I would have been so excited to have this in 1995 and I would have bought it, but by 2016, I didn't want to part with my cash. I've bought so much Queen product over the decades including a BM guitar, I don't think that QPR missed my £40.