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Post by The Real Wizard on Jul 21, 2020 4:35:59 GMT
deathtoming Is there anything in these books about why Queen didn't tour Japan for A Day At The Races and News Of The World ? No, I didn't catch anything, although there was an interview with John in Ongaku Senka magazine from the '79 tour that touched on that question: Ongaku Senka: The fans have been waiting a long time for you. John: Ummmm... Ongaku Senka: Were you busy? John: Yes, it's because we were busy, haha. Actually, we were trying to establish ourselves in place like Europe and the US, and we were recording between tours for that purpose... we pretty much didn't have a rest. Also, our second visit to Japan was only a year after our first, so we decided to have a bit of a gap before our next visit. Ongaku Senka: We Japanese fans would brag about having 'discovered' Queen before anyone else, but now we see you getting farther away from us as you get big, and that makes us both happy and sad. It's like, 'they probably forgot about us.' John: That's not true! We absolutely have not forgotten about you. We'll come back anytime!! It's just that it's a big world, and it takes 3 years if we go around visiting every place. That's valuable to read - thanks for posting that.
But of course they're constantly in PR mode when doing interviews. Something tells me there has to be more to the story.
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Post by deathtoming on Jul 21, 2020 15:47:39 GMT
The alternate Live Killers cover shot with both of Roger's arms down was added to Getty Images a couple of days ago, and the photo description says it's from the Budokan. I'm pretty sure this is the first time the actual venue was identified. And, I think I showed on Page 1 of this thread how at least a part of the actual cover shot was likely taken at the same time as this alternate shot. www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/british-rock-band-queen-performing-on-jazz-tour-budokan-news-photo/1255877644?adppopup=trueFor "date created," though, it says April 1, 1979, and Queen didn't even land in Japan until April 11. These were the first few dates, including all five Budokan (Tokyo) dates: April 13 - Tokyo April 14 - Tokyo April 19 - Osaka April 20 - Osaka April 21 - Kanazawa April 23 - Tokyo April 24 - Tokyo April 25 - Tokyo (ruled out due to video footage) If we go by photographer Koh Hasebe's story of how he got it on the third try, we can also rule out April 13 and 14, leaving April 23 and 24 as the only possible dates. Even though Hasebe took photos at the Osaka show(s), maybe he only attempted the cover shot at the Budokan? If that's the case, maybe April 23 (the third Budokan night) is the most likely date.
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Post by Ryan Newton on Jul 21, 2020 18:26:20 GMT
The alternate Live Killers cover shot with both of Roger's arms down was added to Getty Images a couple of days ago, and the photo description says it's from the Budokan. I'm pretty sure this is the first time the actual venue was identified. And, I think I showed on Page 1 of this thread how at least a part of the actual cover shot was likely taken at the same time as this alternate shot. www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/british-rock-band-queen-performing-on-jazz-tour-budokan-news-photo/1255877644?adppopup=trueFor "date created," though, it says April 1, 1979, and Queen didn't even land in Japan until April 11. These were the first few dates, including all five Budokan (Tokyo) dates: April 13 - Tokyo April 14 - Tokyo April 19 - Osaka April 20 - Osaka April 21 - Kanazawa April 23 - Tokyo April 24 - Tokyo April 25 - Tokyo (ruled out due to video footage) If we go by photographer Koh Hasebe's story of how he got it on the third try, we can also rule out April 13 and 14, leaving April 23 and 24 as the only possible dates. Even though Hasebe took photos at the Osaka show(s), maybe he only attempted the cover shot at the Budokan? If that's the case, maybe April 23 (the third Budokan night) is the most likely date. Geddy images rarely gets date/location info correct.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Jul 21, 2020 18:53:43 GMT
The alternate Live Killers cover shot with both of Roger's arms down was added to Getty Images a couple of days ago, and the photo description says it's from the Budokan. I'm pretty sure this is the first time the actual venue was identified. And, I think I showed on Page 1 of this thread how at least a part of the actual cover shot was likely taken at the same time as this alternate shot. www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/british-rock-band-queen-performing-on-jazz-tour-budokan-news-photo/1255877644?adppopup=trueFor "date created," though, it says April 1, 1979, and Queen didn't even land in Japan until April 11. These were the first few dates, including all five Budokan (Tokyo) dates: April 13 - Tokyo April 14 - Tokyo April 19 - Osaka April 20 - Osaka April 21 - Kanazawa April 23 - Tokyo April 24 - Tokyo April 25 - Tokyo (ruled out due to video footage) If we go by photographer Koh Hasebe's story of how he got it on the third try, we can also rule out April 13 and 14, leaving April 23 and 24 as the only possible dates. Even though Hasebe took photos at the Osaka show(s), maybe he only attempted the cover shot at the Budokan? If that's the case, maybe April 23 (the third Budokan night) is the most likely date. Geddy images rarely gets date/location info correct. But it does say Tokyo. Gettyimages may often get dates wrong, but they almost always get cities right. There's little reason to doubt "Tokyo, Japan, April 1979" as annotated here. April 1 is clearly just a stock date, to fill in a space in a database.
Based on all the back and forth we've done on the subject - including the banana and eggplant tale - it's looking like it's April 14.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2020 22:54:54 GMT
I think someone said that they'd thought at the time it would've been way too expensive.
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Post by deathtoming on Jul 30, 2020 15:50:30 GMT
I found a pic of this poster on Twitter, advertising the TV broadcast of the April 25, 1979 show. The latest version of the video release shared by Masahiko says it was broadcast "one day in the early 1980s" so I assume this information may be useful/new to some. Under the prominent display of the Hot Space album cover, it says "Latest Album Hot Space" in Japanese. To the right, in the box, are broadcast details: - Saturday, July 24 and Saturday, July 31, 12:25 am to 12:45 am (yes, late at night): NTV (Nippon TV, based in Tokyo), STV (Sapporo Television Broadcasting), KKT (Kumamoto Kenmin Televisions) - Thursday, July 29, and Thursday, August 5, 12:30 am to 12:50 am: TSB (TV Shinshu Broadcasting, based in Nagano) There's no year, but with Hot Space being released in May 1982, and the Hot Space Japan tour in October/November '82, I would go with July and August 1982 with the way the album is so prominently advertised, as opposed to 1983, although it'd still be their latest album in '83 as well. At the very top of the poster, in the tiny font in the yellow star, it says "1979 Japan show" in Japanese. Next to the broadcast information, in the yellow part of the box, it reads ザ・ライブ ("Za Raibu" / "The Live" / "The Concert") which is very generic but it matches the name and font of the Budokan '79 video:
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Post by The Real Wizard on Jul 30, 2020 19:07:38 GMT
I found a pic of this poster on Twitter, advertising the TV broadcast of the April 25, 1979 show. The latest version of the video release shared by Masahiko says it was broadcast "one day in the early 1980s" so I assume this information may be useful/new to some. Under the prominent display of the Hot Space album cover, it says "Latest Album Hot Space" in Japanese. To the right, in the box, are broadcast details: - Saturday, July 24 and Saturday, July 31, 12:25 am to 12:45 am (yes, late at night): NTV (Nippon TV, based in Tokyo), STV (Sapporo Television Broadcasting), KKT (Kumamoto Kenmin Televisions) - Thursday, July 29, and Thursday, August 5, 12:30 am to 12:50 am: TSB (TV Shinshu Broadcasting, based in Nagano) There's no year, but with Hot Space being released in May 1982, and the Hot Space Japan tour in October/November '82, I would go with July and August 1982 with the way the album is so prominently advertised, as opposed to 1983, although it'd still be their latest album in '83 as well. At the very top of the poster, in the tiny font in the yellow star, it says "1979 Japan show" in Japanese. Next to the broadcast information, in the yellow part of the box, it reads ザ・ライブ ("Za Raibu" / "The Live" / "The Concert") which is very generic but it matches the name and font of the Budokan '79 video: Excellent detective work !
Being such a poor performance, perhaps the late broadcast times were intentional. It's a wonder they showed it at all - maybe it was contractual ?
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Post by deathtoming on Aug 23, 2020 15:51:42 GMT
Oops. In the May 2, 1979 Tour Diary entry, I wrote about the fan who threw paper streamers at Freddie, and how he responded by throwing mascara. That should have read maracas, actually! Makes more sense now, doesn't it? Unfortunately, I'm not able to go back and edit that post for some reason. According to the fan, she threw towards Freddie a hand-made Freddie doll and around 20 rolls of paper streamers from the sixth row. He threw the maracas at her while smiling or laughing, striking her in the head around the time of the band introductions. That could explain the sudden screams right before '39. Earlier today, that fan posted those same maracas and her ticket stub on Twitter. While I'm at it, here's a tambourine that was thrown into the audience by Freddie in Japan during one of the shows in the '70s. I know the Sheer Heart Attack CD is there, but the pic is from the son of the person who caught it, and they didn't specify which tour. Anyway, this son is the singer in a band called Minotaurosu (Minotaur), and he used Freddie's tambourine in the song Koi no Chinchin Densha (Streetcar of Love), which has 1.3 million hits on YouTube in three years. I can't hear the tambourine, but it's neat to know that it has found a new life, all these years later.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 23, 2020 21:39:45 GMT
Oops. In the May 2, 1979 Tour Diary entry, I wrote about the fan who threw paper streamers at Freddie, and how he responded by throwing mascara. That should have read maracas, actually! Makes more sense now, doesn't it? Unfortunately, I'm not able to go back and edit that post for some reason. According to the fan, she threw towards Freddie a hand-made Freddie doll and around 20 rolls of paper streamers from the sixth row. He threw the maracas at her while smiling or laughing, striking her in the head around the time of the band introductions. That could explain the sudden screams right before '39. Earlier today, that fan posted those same maracas and her ticket stub on Twitter. While I'm at it, here's a tambourine that was thrown into the audience by Freddie in Japan during one of the shows in the '70s. I know the Sheer Heart Attack CD is there, but the pic is from the son of the person who caught it, and they didn't specify which tour. Anyway, this son is the singer in a band called Minotaurosu (Minotaur), and he used Freddie's tambourine in the song Koi no Chinchin Densha (Streetcar of Love), which has 1.3 million hits on YouTube in three years. I can't hear the tambourine, but it's neat to know that it has found a new life, all these years later.
Fantastic addendum. These threads of yours are gold.
I edited the post for you - editing posts (admins excepted) has been temporarily disabled while a kink is being sorted out. Explanation here:
And although it's not from Japan, I thought I'd add this here for fun - a friend of mine caught one of Freddie's maracas at a Toronto show in 1977/78. She still guards it with her life.
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Post by deathtoming on Aug 24, 2020 2:48:29 GMT
Oops. In the May 2, 1979 Tour Diary entry, I wrote about the fan who threw paper streamers at Freddie, and how he responded by throwing mascara. That should have read maracas, actually! Makes more sense now, doesn't it? Unfortunately, I'm not able to go back and edit that post for some reason. Fantastic addendum. These threads of yours are gold. I edited the post for you - editing posts (admins excepted) has been temporarily disabled while a kink is being sorted out. Explanation here:
And although it's not from Japan, I thought I'd add this here for fun - a friend of mine caught one of Freddie's maracas at a Toronto show in 1977/78. She still guards it with her life.
Ah, thanks for fixing the mascara/maracas error for me! Your friend is lucky to have such a great souvenir. Did a quick check online and saw a pair of maracas used by Freddie -- the same type seen in the photo I posted -- was consigned for auction by Ratty last year and they sold for £3,600. It's nowhere near the same, though, buying something like that. The magic comes from being there and catching it, for that briefest of connections. I wouldn't want to catch someone's used mascara, though. Ew.
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Post by Ri on Aug 24, 2020 2:50:44 GMT
Earlier today, that fan posted those same maracas and her ticket stub on Twitter. While I'm at it, here's a tambourine that was thrown into the audience by Freddie in Japan during one of the shows in the '70s. I know the Sheer Heart Attack CD is there, but the pic is from the son of the person who caught it, and they didn't specify which tour. Anyway, this son is the singer in a band called Minotaurosu (Minotaur), and he used Freddie's tambourine in the song Koi no Chinchin Densha (Streetcar of Love), which has 1.3 million hits on YouTube in three years. I can't hear the tambourine, but it's neat to know that it has found a new life, all these years later. I saw this tweet yesterday but I lost it now! Envying all these people just casually keeping Freddie's maracas lol.
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