Freddie Auction and Sotheby's book discussion

It is fascinating stuff. Its seems you have knowledge about the early live tapes. Can you\are you allowed to share more info about theme?

I don't have unfortunately any information about the early tapes besides a few bits I had heard over the years. I just know early live tapes do exist and the recordings are in the Queen archives. It's up to BM and RT whether we will ever get to hear them but it's very unlikely. (1.) Profit is their #1 goal and (2.) they would never release anything "raw" for fans.


Maybe Greg will play some bits at the Convention in the future, we can only hope.

There were many - 3 Freddie statues, an Oasis album, Artemis Fowl books, Gold discs from the FM album, off the top of my head.

Effectively, stuff was sent to Mary / GL automatically, plus (presumably) her family bought stuff too.

Spot of Googling suggests "Morning Sun" could very well be the Taste (Rory Gallagher) song. Bit more googling and, whaddaya know.. a Brian May quote from January 1 2018 on Rory's facebook page..

'Morning Sun' from the Taste album 'On The Boards' which was released on this day in 1970. Brian May "“Morning Sun” is great. And “Morning Sun”, of course, has that syncopation which is fairly rare in sort-of great rock hits. Is very, it’s much more blues than rock, and much more blues than pop of course...Yeah and that’s one of my favourites. Always will be. And we still play it at sound checks, you know. It will always be inside me."


www.facebook.com/RoryGallagher/videos/10156256224391807/

The World's most famous works of art are located at the Louvre museum in Paris, France. Most people will never get there. 
The treasures of Tutankhamun are located at the  National museum in Cairo, Egypt. Most people will never get there. 
There is a museum in Montreaux Switzerland called "Queen the Studio Experience". Most people will never get there.
When people condemn Mary Austin for her decision to put Freddie Mercury's estate up for bid at Sotheby's claiming "those things belong in a museum!" I must ask: Where in the World should it be located?
Garden Lodge cannot be turned into a museum as per zoning codes in London, Freddie wanted Garden Lodge to always be alive with life and the laughter of a family.
Freddie could have given or bequeathed HIS original lyrics,  HIS stage costumes, HIS instruments, HIS awards to the other members of Queen. He didn't and they all have lyrics, costumes, instruments and awards of THEIR OWN. 
Freddie loved beautiful things: statues, paintings, crystal, furniture, etc., and he loved acquiring them
I guarantee Freddy and Mary had many discussions about what would eventually happen to his home and estate, he told her where he wanted his ashes for crying out loud.
Like Freddie, Mary Austin cannot take it with her.
I applaud Mary's decision to not burden her sons with the job of overseeing their mother's dead ex-lover's stuff.
Not only was the bulk of Freddie's estate not museum worthy i.e. table linens, cutlery, suitcases, books, glasses, dishes, ashtrays, albums, clothing, shoes, old stereo equipment, etc. It wouldn't matter where a Freddie Mercury Museum would be located because most people would never get there. 
Some people were fortunate enough to place successful bids on items for sale at Sotheby's Freddie Mercury A World of His Own Auction. Most of the buyers are fans who will adore and treasure what items they were able to purchase. Some buyers bought "lots" featuring multiple items planning to sell some items in the hope of  defraying the expense, or to resell for profit. There is no wrong or right involved.
I wish I had been able to go to London to view the Sotheby's Gallery display of Freddie's Estate but like most people I was not able to get there.
I was able to be high bidder on lot #1545: A small spinach-green jade cup, 20th century. It's beautiful, so graceful, so unique and so special. I wish I had been able to buy a Japanese Woodblock print, or one if his Tansu, or a Lalique vase but I couldn't afford them.  I'm happy for those who were able to buy them. 
I understand there is a gentleman who is trying to organize and create an "immersive" museum gallery experience online and I hope he is successful because that would be a way for everyone to see Freddie's beautiful estate. 

Will they be documented online as well? Would be great for those who can't visit!

Hello! Can you tell us a little more about this collector’s item exhibition project? If this were to happen, where would it take place? The only place where there are permanent exhibitions is the studio experience in Montreux, but could this be done in these places? In any case, it's a great idea and I hope that many fan collectors will respond to the call!

Yes of course ! It's a nice idea anyway... I can't wait to find out more😊

It's a pity that a minority of people have declined to lend their items for a temporary period of time but it's naturally necessary to respect people who have decided to keep the item for themselves instead of share the joy with other fans of Freddie and Queen.

I'm myself "donating" probably 15-20 items for the purpose of the exhibition. I didn't see any reason to decline and I'll be proudly part of what will become a far more interesting project than those official photocopies and replicas in the Montreux casino. (And of course only interesting items will be on display - not things such as the above mentioned moustache comb that has never ever been used by Freddie in his entire life).

As far as I know everything will announced in the summer when all the contracts are signed and the list of items for the exhibition becomes complete.

I'm sure most museum situations result in a similar yield - some people like to help, and others don't, both for a whole score of reasons.

Thanks for being one of the good ones.

There was such a project few years ago. Quite successful actually and the title of the exhibition was if I recall correctly Stormtroopers in Stilettos.

Point taken that the archives might not be classified as tangible assets (my knowledge in accounting is pretty limited), but the accounts that have been filed take into account not only QPL, but also its subsidiaries (Queen Touring Limited, Raincloud Productions, WWRY Limited, etc.), and the increase in tangible assets is £8k to £220k for QPL alone, and £9k to £221k for the whole group. So this £212k asset that has been acquired – whatever it is – is in QPL's hands.

It could be some kind of acquisition related to the Sony deal.

But we'll probably never know - it's their business and not ours.