2024 Queen Release Rumour Mill

Don`t expect anything and keep expectations low and you won`t be disappointed. Sad to say but it`s the best way to look at QPL releases.

QPL's 3rd millennium Business Model is based on little effort for maximum returns.
Rainbow and Odeon required very little work to bring them to release-worthy condition, HP and Ec require a moderate amount of work, but it's clearly too great an effort for QPL

Did anyone read the news that Brian and Roger are Re-mixing Queen The first?

Here the (italian) source: comunitaqueeniana.weebly.com/news-of-the-world/john-anthony-in-corso-un-nuovo-remix-ufficiale-dellalbum-queen?fbclid=IwAR1lEFA1d5Oa-fwzP_8nDBstKcD33X1Cj5BePgPvs54jXMNPe08u8NqediQ

taken out of thin air?

interesting to say the least......

No, because it's on an Italian website and there seems to be no evidence of it anywhere else at the moment. I'd like it to be true, but...

I propose a slight edit, zooming out to the bigger picture.  

Not to absolve QPL of their disappointments, but if it walks like a duck, we shouldn't be surprised to find that it's a duck.

you've (kinda) answered your own question:
because it involves absolute minimal QPL effort - and the same reason we get Greatest Hits reissued every few years.

I really don't see why you'd consider that to be the case. Why wouldn't March Rainbow '74 come with a Queen II reissue? Hammersmith '75 with an A Night At The Opera reissue?

Houston is a completely different situation to those other shows.
Houston '77 doesn't have multitracks or audience microphones. The 2017 documentaries used the mono soundboard with reverberation effects and a fake audience. Even in 1989, the official release of My Melancholy Blues was just the video feed audio. They also don't even have a copy of Houston in NTSC. They were never going to release Houston. To QPL standards, a mono mix with no audience and footage in the wrong video region would be a pretty shit release.

Earl's Court and Hyde Park both had multitrack work done to them with new mixes that had pitch correction and overdubs; it was shown in the Rags To Rhapsody 2017 documentary. Way more work than just a documentary's worth, as they even have people talking on top of parts with "fixes." 
Plus, Earl's Court has two shows worth of material, lots of possible patch-work, even with Freddie gone. It's just way more of a viable show for release than Houston is.

I could see Earl's Court coming with a Races boxset, but I also could see them not doing that. The live show for the Races tour and the Races album itself don't really feel that related to each other, and there aren't that many Races songs on that setlist. (5 songs from Races compared to 6 from SHA and 6 from ANATO)

What I think could be more likely than an Earl's Court release in a Races boxset is a soundboard recording of Saginaw '77's Long Away. They released Sleeping On The Sidewalk live with the NOTW boxset, and nobody even knew that they played that song live at the time. It'd be pretty much the exact same situation. Plus, Freddie singing Long Away would be a new thing for pretty much everyone.

Hammersmith isn't a show for The Game tour so I wouldn't think that'd make sense anyway. QPL seems to consider it as "Live Killers" as that's what Greg Brooks designates it as, and the recent WIAWI music video uses Hammersmith footage to represent Live Killers. They'd probably just use Montreal again for any live appearances.

strange if he posted about it and that it simply wasn't true.

fingers crossed for something in the pipeline. Brian has mentioned the debut album's lack of sound quality before, so who knows?!
also, when Greg mentioned that a possible way to deal with the debut album is to do a release which puts together the early years, surely that is something he has passed on to the band? if they go for it or not is of course another matter

I've moved the above few posts in to this thread, as this is still nothing more than a rumour.

Please don't start any 'official' threads until this has more substance than just a bloke having a dream.

I also find it hard to believe that Brian and Roger would contact him in that way, but hey, let's see what develops.

I’m applying QPL logic, in that there isn’t any. Trust me, I’d love nothing more than to be proven wrong, but if it doesn’t have a mustache or a big hit on it, more often than not it gets pushed to the back of the line. I think Rainbow and Hammersmith 75 were flukes, or else they’d have kept the line going in 2016 and 2017, but for some reason they didn’t. I guess it wasn’t worth the effort for however much each release sold.

We’ll see what 2026 and 2027 bring, but I’m not holding my breath.

No. I'm very familiar with everything that the existing Houston source has to offer, and it's just way more work than it's worth.

Now And Then isn't even a special case, separating ONE voice from a piano, people have been doing that with convincing results for YEARS. It was just incredibly publicized and hit the masses with this huge AI scare going around.

There's a difference between separating a piano from a voice and separating 6 different mono cymbals together. How would one untangle Brian's delayed guitar solo and make it stereo like it used to be? How would you untangle Get Down, Make Love's psychadelic section? Freddie's Prophet's Song vocal effects break? I truly doubt that any possible AI model exists for something like that.

Roger's vocals are SO distorted, that in one part of We Are The Champions, the other parts of the song get lost in fuzz, and their frequencies COMPLETELY disappear.

And still, no matter how good a team can be, frames get lost in the conversion from NTSC to PAL. No way to fix that without a better source. EVEN IF THERE WAS, you gotta remember- this is QPL. Did you not see the "remastered video" put out for The Miracle boxset? All they did was throw in a TERRIBLE smoothing filter and called it a day.

Hobbyists like Chief Mouse and Dry Paint Dealer Undr get such incredible results because they work with love, QPL works for the dime.

And then of course, there's We Will Rock You. Without an audience track, this would just sound stupid to the average listener.



AI isn't the answer to everything. It seems like magic right now, but it's still got its limitations. With all the work needed, I seriously wouldn't expect a Houston release until everything else is out there.

For many years we seem to have been fixated on a Houston release. Are there not any other potential candidates that could be viable for release from that tour?