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Hi Rhye!

The Game. What a perfect album to start with!

Ah cassette! Have loads in the loft!

You got a letter published Rob. That is an achievement mate!

Since everyone is doing this, here we go!!

Real Name: Steve.
Location: London, England.
Age: 38.
Times saw Queen: never with Fred or John. Saw Q + PR twice and QAL 5 times.
Trading? Have the usual demos and rarities.
Claim to fame: My Auntie was good friends with David Mallett.
First Queen album: The Works. Bought in 1988.

With a relatively small budget, the film took 12m dollars!

Oh hell, I might as well give this a go:

Real Name: James
Location: Scotland
Age: 39
Times saw Queen: never with Freddie/John. Saw Q+PR and Q+AL once each. PR was far better!
Trading? Used to do the old snail mail in the late 90's, and ended up with some real cool stuff - which is now bread and butter for free on QZ lol
Claim to fame: My second cousin managed Queen and Elton John. His name is John Reid. I've never met him. Met Brian and Roger at the King's Theatre in 2011. Brian was nice, Roger was okay to me but a dick to others - probably because I didn't wave shit in his face. Also met Rufus, who was very down to earth and happy to talk for ages. 
First Queen album: Made In Heaven. That was my first "my" Queen album, but I had been well introduced by my parents, who owned everything from Queen II to The Game. Early Queen fandom was me dressed in a vest and jeans, pretending to be Freddie whilst miming to I Want To Break Free. I was 4 or 5.

Oh, I loved it. Was great to see Angus again, and so sad we lost him so soon afterwards. I really appreciated they put it out, and know it was a labour of love, but it just ended so oddly. Phantasm is a real mind f*ck, from start to finish. I take different things from it every time, but I never tire of it  

Hello boys and girls,

So glad to see a fully functional forum with all the avatars, working links and hopefully a healthy collective. I know the idea has been floating around for some time, so big thanks to everyone involved in the behind-the-scenes hard work and patience to make it a reality. Hope you keep it up and running for a long time!

My name is Sina Jakelic, a 40 y/o Croatian musician, currently living in Norway. First time I saw Queen was in a local Croatian newspaper, 26th November, 1991. I was 11. The title read simply but horribly blunt, 'Freddie Mercury died'. Little did I know he will become my single favourite artist, a lifetime inspiration and a personal hero for the rest of my days. The more I learned about him, the more I loved every bit of music he created that I could get my hands on - with Queen, solo or collaboration - the more I felt a hole that nothing could fill. I suppose most of you know the feeling, like something is missing or as if a good friend is gone forever. My first contact with him was his parting, so the shock and realisation of that loss came in waves for so many years. Still does. The more you love him, the more you miss him. I've probably spent more time with Freddie than with some members of my family. The sheer amount of music, and inspiring energy eminating from his interviews, written words, lyrical wisdom, bold lifestyle and determination leaves such a strong positive and inspiring mark for any sane human being. So, I've never had the luck as some of you did, to see him perform live. All the more reason to be a part of place like this, to get a glimpse. For a true fan, there is never enough material to read, watch and above all, listen.

Didn't plan this post will go this way, but writing this made me go and dig up the archives of that Croatian newspaper and find that exact article. Fortunately it is easily accessible online. I will translate it and share it on the forum, if you are interested. While searching for the exact date (they reported it on the 26th), I was sure I still remember the exact picture they used, even though at that time I didn't know who he was... It got completely etched in my memory, hard to explain, but there it was. Only difference, I remebered it being a centerfold article, over 2 pages, when in reality it's a little picture and a short article. Either I was small or it made a big impact...

Nice to be here.
Cheers!

More or less yeah, unless stuff was shared via the request board or something.  

I’ll start doing that over the next few days, all the big stuff first.

-Chin 

If it was me, pretty sure every time I would have updated the original post in the announce section with the new link anyway.