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Post by lumi on Jun 7, 2024 8:34:12 GMT
I was having a look around Wikipedia when I stumbled upon the following (unsourced!) claim on the Freddie Mercury Discography article: This is the first time I see anything about this, and a search on the QZ archive brings up nothing. Does anyone know more about this alleged collaboration, or at least the source of this information? |
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Post by scallyuk on Jun 7, 2024 12:00:00 GMT
I've seen it mentioned a few times but never seen anything concrete. I have asked Trax's drummer George Frederick if there's any truth to it.
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Post by lumi on Jun 7, 2024 13:17:16 GMT
I've seen it mentioned a few times but never seen anything concrete. I have asked Trax's drummer George Frederick if there's any truth to it. Keep us posted if/when he replies! |
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Post by pg on Jun 7, 2024 15:15:21 GMT
I think it appeared in fan club biographies as early as the mid 80s...
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Post by lumi on Jun 7, 2024 18:27:21 GMT
I think it appeared in fan club biographies as early as the mid 80s... And I don't suppose there's an online archive of the fanclub materials from the 70s/80s for us young'uns to peruse, is there? |
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Post by Chopin1995 on Jun 7, 2024 20:01:10 GMT
I think it appeared in fan club biographies as early as the mid 80s... And I don't suppose there's an online archive of the fanclub materials from the 70s/80s for us young'uns to peruse, is there? They were uploaded on Queenzone in the late 2010s. I have 150 of them (magazines, that is). If they are nowhere to be found, perhaps I should bring them over here. Let me know. |
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Post by lumi on Jun 7, 2024 22:11:23 GMT
And I don't suppose there's an online archive of the fanclub materials from the 70s/80s for us young'uns to peruse, is there? They were uploaded on Queenzone in the late 2010s. I have 150 of them (magazines, that is). If they are nowhere to be found, perhaps I should bring them over here. Let me know. I would be interested if they aren't already available somewhere online, but I'm not sure if the mods are on board... |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 7, 2024 22:17:50 GMT
They were uploaded on Queenzone in the late 2010s. I have 150 of them (magazines, that is). If they are nowhere to be found, perhaps I should bring them over here. Let me know. I would be interested if they aren't already available somewhere online, but I'm not sure if the mods are on board... Let us consider it. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 8, 2024 9:13:01 GMT
Yes, we can go with that. Chopin1995, how would you propose to share them? |
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Post by Chopin1995 on Jun 8, 2024 18:14:56 GMT
Yes, we can go with that. Chopin1995 , how would you propose to share them? I would upload them as PDF files (and JPGs for 1973 & 1974) in one mega folder. Perhaps the mods could create a seperate chapter in the download section of the forum? The latest magazines come from 2020. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 8, 2024 18:52:54 GMT
Yes, we can go with that. Chopin1995 , how would you propose to share them? I would upload them as PDF files (and JPGs for 1973 & 1974) in one mega folder. Perhaps the mods could create a seperate chapter in the download section of the forum? They latest magazines come from 2020. I think that would be fine, and a good idea to have a sub-board for them, but just let me check with the team again as to whether we're happy to have them shared up to 2020. 🙂 |
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Post by pg on Jun 9, 2024 12:39:57 GMT
Maybe an earlier cutoff would be respectful. Nothing newer than 10 years?
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 9, 2024 13:26:28 GMT
Maybe an earlier cutoff would be respectful. Nothing newer than 10 years? Is the fan club still running and currently issuing magazines? |
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Post by pg on Jun 9, 2024 14:41:03 GMT
Maybe an earlier cutoff would be respectful. Nothing newer than 10 years? Is the fan club still running and currently issuing magazines? 100% still running. Fairly sure still issuing mags, but cannot be definitive |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 9, 2024 15:20:29 GMT
I think perhaps we need to clarify that the magazines being offered for sharing are indeed out of print, and not otherwise available on subscription. Chopin1995 - could you please confirm why your archive stops at 2020? Was there a change at this point, or did the magazines cease from then? Thanks. |
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Post by emrabt on Jun 9, 2024 15:35:16 GMT
The first few of the fanclub newsletters are actually in the public domain as they were printed with no copyright notice before 1989.
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Post by Chopin1995 on Jun 9, 2024 17:09:14 GMT
Chopin1995 - could you please confirm why your archive stops at 2020? Was there a change at this point, or did the magazines cease from then? Thanks. Naturally. I grabbed most of them when they were uploaded on Queenzone, perhaps in 2018. I don't have physical copies of the magazines. The latest issues (2019 - 2020) I got from random places on the internet, simply when I stumbled upon them. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 9, 2024 19:33:02 GMT
I think we can probably go with this. Chopin1995 - if you'd like to open a thread in the Newspapers and Magazines section, these will be available to members only. We will then make the thread stickified. I don't think it's worth a sub-board, as essentially it's just one download link. pg - comments noted. Given these seem to have been available online for a while, we might as well have the full collection on here, rather than making a 10 year cut off, in my opinion. Assuming these are now all out of print, I don't see that we would be disrespecting or doing a disservice to the fan club by having an archive linked to on here. |
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Post by Ri on Jun 10, 2024 7:28:59 GMT
Not sure if this helps but the fanclub website have all these. I'm unsure if the 70s ones are complete in pages, I don't have any hardcopy reference to check against.  |
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Post by mattzarella on Jun 10, 2024 8:56:08 GMT
Neat. I was just proclaiming (*to those who might not even care) how meticulous and precise Queen fans have been with accumulating and respectfully archiving and sharing stuff where and when necessary and how in the past many were quick to intercept other routes where others had tried to make a buck off of people's shared bits.
A respectful archival lot. There's a lot to be admired
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Post by pg on Jun 12, 2024 10:03:02 GMT
I think it appeared in fan club biographies as early as the mid 80s... To clarify - the fan club magazines wouldn't necessarily include this (unless it's in one of the ones from 1975/6 itself and I've just checked and it isn't). I was referring to the biographies that the fan club would send out to new members - they were refreshed gradually as time went on, I think, but obv I only ever had one - and that's what I mean. I can't currently find it though.....moving too many boxes around is a bad idea with a slipped disc. If DOES appear in the Ken Dean biography from 1986, but oddly the more granular As It Began, The Early Years, and Life On Two Legs all miss it - overshadowed by the Trident divorce, I think |
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Post by pg on Jun 13, 2024 11:26:54 GMT
Final update from me - I found the Fan Club Biog - in fact I found two, one from late 1986, and one from mid 1989 (between Breakthru and Scandal single releases).
...and inevitably there is no mention of Trax anywhere, and my memory has once again been shit. You're all welcome!!
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Post by leighburne on Jun 13, 2024 11:52:30 GMT
Tbf this isn’t the first time I’ve seen the Trax collab mentioned.
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Post by Walter B. on Jun 13, 2024 12:02:41 GMT
In the book Queen, The First 10 years (1981) by Mike West the collaboration is mentioned on page 70:
"Mercury/May and Taylor recorded some tracks with this band at Trident with Mike Stone engineering in August 1975 but nothing was ever released commercially."
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Post by billy on Jun 23, 2024 23:11:33 GMT
Trax was one of the bands/collaborations that was on a list I kept in my wallet for whenever I found myself in a record store. No wonder I never found anything by them!
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Post by dragonkiller on Jun 24, 2024 11:58:07 GMT
Trax was one of the bands/collaborations that was on a list I kept in my wallet for whenever I found myself in a record store. No wonder I never found anything by them! Same here! Every record fair I went to I had my wallet list of bands and collaborations to look for, got quite a few but Trax never found it. |
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Post by scallyuk on Jun 25, 2024 9:06:28 GMT
Trax did release 2 singles in 1974 BUT they were a soul/funk band being produced by Shel Talmy who had previously produced the Who. I can't see Queen influencing their production in any positive way. www.discogs.com/artist/467928-Trax-6 |
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