Queen 50th Anniversary & Queen The Greatest: Youtube

Funnily enough, I've been having a brief discussion about Yes elsewhere this evening. I only really got into them with the 90125 album and have never been able to get along with the earlier stuff, including the much revered CTTE. I really like Prog, but a lot of their stuff just seemed to be self indulgent twiddling, and I've never really liked Steve Howe's guitar style or tone. I've heard some of the SW remixes, and admittedly they do sound fresh and alive, but for me, it doesn't detract from the original content. I adore 90125, Big Generator and Talk, but their 70s stuff just leaves me cold.

I really like Drama as well, but I think that CttE and tYA are better.   90125 is reasonably ok, but nothing compared to their 70's work (IMHO).

There are some tracks I like. GFTO is one, Time And A Word, ISAGP, Awaken, Roundabout, and indeed And You And I, but I've tried many times, and I just can't get along with those early albums.

Sooo are we just assuming Queen doesn’t give a shit about the 50th anniversary?? More plugs for the app game and ‘Around The World’?

you knew it waaaayyyy before you even posed the question.

I know some folk expected stuff this year, but I never did. I always felt it was 2020 or never. the 50-YT clips thing starting a couple of weeks ago, makes little sense. i think this was nothing more than a marketing exercise for reminding the casual fan that there's plenty of compilations LPs (other than GH I) still to be bought...and (if anything) - they've put this out as an afterthought - it's nothing more than a reminder that they still exists after all those 2020 Gigs were cancelled due to Covid.

This year was NEVER the 50th anniversary. let's accept some facts. It's not about when the FOUR first performed together - much as folk want it to be.

I remember disagreeing with someone on QZ about when the 50th would actually be. I've always felt that year zero was June 1970 - the first gig as Queen. I know others have felt that the classic line-up first gig is the start date, but it's not the case. Lots of bands' classic line-ups are were Mk II or III, but history will always dictate that a band came into existence the first time it used the name by which it's known.


Queen’s first gig was on June 27 1970, in your home town of Truro. What do you remember about it?
"My mother put on the gig. It was for the Red Cross. People did not know what to make of the not-quite-fully-formed Freddie, who was fairly outrageous."


Bottom Line: Covid didn't put an end to any grand plans - there were none. It's all there in the interview. And, the fact that they didn't make a fuss, should mean we do the same. There's nothing for the non-casual fans in anything they do, so we should ignore them in return.

Their 50th has long gone, we're 86 days from their 51st Anniversary. I kind of feel that this thread needs locking or the discussion needs to develop/evolve - 13 pages of discussing the unlikelihood of hypothetical non-releases and events. Pah!

This. Screw the masochism from expecting anything great at all.

My most optimistic outcome for the year:

- Brian revisits "Back to the Light"
- Roger revisits "Fun in Space" and/or releases a new album.
- A minor new Queen release and/or GH compilation.

The first two, we already know about. The second one is wishful thinking. Fuck that at this point.

Looked like there was a brief moment where we saw the band recording Killer Queen in the video. I feel like I've seen it before though...maybe it was the Days Of Our Lives documentary? I suppose it was cool to see footage of Eric Hall, but it was a bit underwhelming. I'd rather they treat us to more behind the scenes of the band. But as we know, this will suffice for your newer fans who don't know everything by now. So frustrating, isn't it.

On the bright side, Simon did say during the last Queen Pod episode that you could expect a 'surprise' in the fourth episode. It's anybody's guess though, and I'm definitely not going to hold my breath.

I have seen that footage of the band recording Killer Queen before. I believe it was 2 years ago on a swedish program.

Pretty significant.

Still trying not to get my hopes up too high. And also, I wish they'd put all this unseen/unheard stuff in some kind of release. Not drip feed it to us like this. The only perk is we don't have to pay, but still. 

I'm absolutely convinced that it will appear in some kind of release that we will have to pay for, just like all the YouTube videos for Live Around The World.