Foolin' Around with The Freddie Mercury Album: Fan Feature by Paul Holmes
Foolin' Around with The Freddie Mercury Album by Paul Holmes November, 1992. It had been less than a year since Freddie Mercury’s premature death, at the age of 45. The…
Features Archive - 2012
Teenage Tales of Queen via Nine Objects: Fan Feature by Darren Waterworth
Teenage Tales of Queen via Nine Objects by Darren Waterworth “Memories, my memories, How long can you stay, To haunt my days” (Brian May, All Dead, All Dead, 1977) What follows is…
The Journey Back To The Light - Part 2: Fan Feature by Patrick Lemieux
The Journey Back To The Light - Part 2 By Patrick Lemieux By November of 1990, the Innuendo album was complete and the band focused on its promotion. Also, Hollywood…
The Journey Back To The Light - Part 1: Fan Feature by Patrick Lemieux
The Journey Back To The Light - Part1 By Patrick Lemieux The end of 1987 was a tumultuous period for Queen’s guitarist, Brian May. The band was on a much…
Styles And Tribulations - Part 2: Fan Feature by Simon Mann
Queen - Styles And Tribulations...or a study of the various genres Queen have dabbled in over their career (Part II) Click here to read Part I by Simon Mann The…
Styles And Tribulations - Part 1: Fan Feature by Simon Mann
Queen - Styles And Tribulations...or a study of the various genres Queen have dabbled in over their career (Part I) Click here to read Part II by Simon Mann Being…
27th Annual International Queen Fan Club Convention
Official International Queen Fan Club – 27th Annual Weekend Convention 27th – 30th April 2012 – Great Yarmouth, U.K. by Jim Jenkins Vauxhall Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth on England’s…
A Chronicle of Magic - The Making of an Album - Part 2: Fan Feature by Patrick Lemieux
A Chronicle of Magic – The Making of an Album (Part II) By Patrick Lemieux February, 1986. When the Highlander tracks were completed, Queen had to decide how next to…
Shove It! - Part 4: Fan Feature by Gavin Noble
Shove It! The Cross Story Part IV by Gavin Noble Shove It! - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Here we go. The final part of Shove It! The Cross…
Shove It! - Part 3: Fan Feature by Gavin Noble
Shove It! The Cross Story Part III by Gavin Noble Shove It! - Part 1, Part 2 So this is it. Part III of The Cross story. If you listen…
Shove It! - Part 2: Fan Feature by Gavin Noble
Shove It! The Cross Story Part II by Gavin Noble Shove It!: Part 1 can be read here. If this was a TV programme something along the lines of The…
Shove It! - Part 1: Fan Feature by Gavin Noble
Shove It! The Cross Story Part 1 by Gavin Noble One of the side effects of really getting into a bands music is that if the said band members have…
The Forgotten History of a Queen Track: Fan Feature by Patrick Lemieux
The Forgotten History of a Queen Track by Patrick Lemieux It was October of 1974. Queen had just finished recording their third studio album, Sheer Heart Attack. The lead-off single, “Killer…
B-Sides: Fan Feature by Adam Unger
B-Sides by Adam Unger - www.queenvault.com For those of you that are old enough to remember a single as a 45 record and not a download from iTunes, then you are…
Queen - A Life At The Races: Fan Feature by Steve Coles
Queen - A Life At The Races by Steve Coles Hmmm, QUEEN…for many, a potentially emotive subject. I guess I first saw them back in early 1974 on Top Of…
Hot Space or a Cold Enclosure?: Fan Feature by Gavin Noble
Hot Space or a Cold Enclosure? by Gavin Noble Those of you whom have read my earlier fan feature, Live Magic A.K.A My Life Has Been Saved, will know that…
Queen and Bulgaria - A Perspective from Behind the Iron Curtain: Fan Feature by Vladislav Taushanov
Queen and Bulgaria: A Perspective from Behind the Iron Curtain By Vladislav Taushanov The 1950s and 1960s were a bleak time for music fans in Bulgaria. Western imperialist rock music…
I Reconnected With My Queen Pen Pal After 25 years: Fan Feature by Leslie Fulton
I Reconnected With My Queen Pen Pal After 25 Years by Leslie Fulton As a 13-year-old girl in 1976 stuck in a small Ontario town, I was obsessed with one…
Live Magic a.k.a My Life Has Been Saved! Fan Feature By Gavin Noble
Live Magic a.k.a My Life Has Been Saved! By Gavin Noble Picture the scene. 15 June 1996. A packed church (okay hardly rock and roll but bear with me, it…
Knebworth 1986: Fan Feature By Rob Fletcher
Knebworth 1986. My Memories of the Day. By Rob Fletcher I had seen Queen in 1978 at Bingley Hall Stafford and was desperate to see them again so like thousands of…