“What a team, what an audience, what a night So glad we came!.”
Roger Taylor

When it comes to taking on logic-defying challenges, Queen have never fought shy: think Hyde Park, Latin America, Live Aid. All these years later, Queen are still living adventurously. Queen + Paul Rodgers made it to Freedom Square for the night of September 12, 2008. Over 350,000 Ukrainians came to see them play and more than 10 million homes watched the show live on television. In all, more than 20 million took part in what the band recall as “an unforgettable experience…one of those rare things in life you know you will never forget. A meeting in Music, but also a coming together to fight a common enemy…”

The limited edition custom built tin box includes 1DVD and 2CDs plus a unique t-shirt (Large only) featuring a design previously only available from the unforgettable night in Kharkov.

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Click here to check out the Live In Ukraine widget for live footage, audio tracks and a selection of images.

Also released todat is the Queen Singles Collection Vol.2.

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Listen to all the tracks and check out the albums sleeves, plus send a special ‘Flash’ e-card at the newly updated Singles Collection website.

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Formats:
DVD AMARAY BOX
2CD Album + DVD Limited Edition
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Digital Download (Audio only)

When it comes to taking on logic-defying challenges, Queen have never fought shy: think Hyde Park, Latin America, Live Aid. All these years later, Queen are still living adventurously. Here’s the case in point: just weeks ahead of the start of the band’s 2008 Queen + Paul Rodgers’ The Cosmos Rocks tour the band were approached to help Ukraine’s AntiAids Foundation reach out to the youth of the country with the message ‘Don’t Let Aids Ruin Your Life”.

In a country facing the highest rising rate of infection throughout Europe, it is a message which cannot wait. For Queen + Paul Rodgers – already well prepared for a tour opening with two nights at Moscow’s SCO arena, it would mean some drastic rethinking. The venue on offer was Kharkov, Ukraine’s, historic Freedom Square, a place so big that during World War II it was used to land planes. For the band and crew it meant “Everyone had to run very fast, very suddenly, but then most of the great and worthwhile things in your life are a little dangerous.” Despite the seeming impossibility of it, Queen + Paul Rodgers made it to Freedom Square for the night of September 12, 2008.

Over 350,000 Ukrainians came to see them play and more than 10million homes watched the show live on television. In all, more than 20 million took part in what the band recall as “an unforgettable experience…one of those rare things in life you know you will never forget. A meeting in Music, but also a coming together to fight a common enemy…”

Learn more at:
www.antiaids.org / www.mercuryphoenixtrust.com

Tracklisting:
One Vision
Tie Your Mother Down
The Show Must Go On
Fat Bottomed Girls
Another One Bites The Dust
Hammer To Fall
I Want It All
I Want To Break Free
Seagull
Love Of My Life
‘39
Drum Solo
I’m In Love With My Car
Say It’s Not True
Shooting Star
Bad Company
Guitar Solo
Bijou
Last Horizon
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
C-lebrity
Feel Like Making Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cosmos Rockin’
All Right Now
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen

All orders placed before 31st March will be entered into the draw and the winners name will be announced on Queen Online.com

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Well done Tony!

Jonathan Wilkes, Kevin Kennedy, Brenda Edwards,
Georgina Hagen and Ashley Russell to star in record -breaking musical!

Actor and musician Jonathan Wilkes and former Coronation Street star Kevin Kennedy, will star in this year’s upcoming ‘We Will Rock You’ UK Tour. They will appear in the smash-hit Queen and Ben Elton musical alongside X Factor finalist Brenda Edwards, star of ITV1’s Britannia High Georgina Hagen and I’d Do Anything’s Nancy contestant Ashley Russell, who are also announced today. The eagerly anticipated 43-week regional tour opens at Manchester’s Palace Theatre on 21st March.

Jonathan Wilkes will perform the role of ‘Khashoggi’, the Chief of the Secret Police who answers to Killer Queen’s every command, whilst Manchester soap star Kevin Kennedy will assume the role of ‘Pop’, a librarian who is stuck in his ‘hippie’ past and is searching to find answers to the end of rock music. Brenda Edwards will play the domineering role of ‘Killer Queen’, Head of Globalsoft, the corporation responsible for the banning of all instruments and musical originality. TV star Georgina Hagen will star in the production as ‘Meat’, the main female of the Bohemians and Ashley Russell, will play the role of the ‘Teacher’, who befriends students whilst actually working as a spy for Globalsoft’s Secret Police.

The production opens at Manchester’s Palace Theatre on the 21st March for a twelve-week season. It will then transfer to play Sunderland Empire, Birmingham Hippodrome, Bristol Hippodrome, and ends 2009 with ten weeks at Edinburgh Playhouse commencing early November. It is written and directed by Ben Elton and Arlene Phillips continues in the role of Musical Staging and Choreography.

Speaking about the tour, Jonathan Wilkes comments, ‘I am chuffed to be part of this show and very excited to be working with such a fantastic company’

Kevin Kennedy is equally as enthusiastic, ‘I am over the moon at the prospect of appearing in We Will Rock You. Queen have always been my idols and I have seen the show every time I have been down to London never dreaming that one day I would play Pop. Opening in Manchester is such a bonus, I hope all my Corrie mates will come to the first night!’

Brenda Edwards says, ‘I am really excited to be a part of this huge rock musical tour and am looking forward to working with some rock and comedy legends as well as singing some Killer Queen songs!!’

‘I am honoured to be part of the company’ says Georgina Hagen, ‘I can’t wait until performances start in March’.

Ashley Russell comments, ‘I am completely ecstatic to be part of the We Will Rock You production. I can’t wait to get started on stage’

Having proved its enormous rapport with the public by achieving the distinction of becoming the longest running musical ever staged at the West End’s Dominion theatre where it is currently playing its seventh year, the musical will rock across the UK from March 2009 while continuing to play in London. The Dominion production is presently booking until October 2009.

Announcing the tour, Queen’s Brian May said: “We are excited to be able, finally, to send a brand new top class WWRY company out on tour around the UK. We are completely hands on, and will be visiting! The Mother Ship, in the Dominion Theatre, London, will be rockin’ on all the while, keeping the home fires burning, until further notice!”

The touring production reaches local UK theatres carrying with it an impressive legacy: when it first became news that one of Britain’s most phenomenally successful comedy writers Ben Elton was teaming up with legends of rock, Queen, for a musical there was much speculation on what such a unique collaboration would turn out. Especially when screen icon Robert de Niro became so impressed after attending the original workshop that his company Tribeca came on board as American partner.

The result was a new chapter in theatre history – “We Will Rock You” – a rock ‘theatrical’ which defied all comparisons and has gone on to rock London’s West End and theatres around the world for the past six years to an audience of well beyond 6 million.
With the London production alone having been seen by close on 4 million people, played over 2300 performances, and grossed more than £100 million at the box office, “We Will Rock You” is well on the way to becoming one of the most successful rock musicals ever.

Says producer Phil McIntyre: “We are bursting with excitement; at last provincial audiences will get a true rock extravaganza. We can’t wait to see the first night reactions throughout the country. We Will Rock You will rock the UK; it is the biggest and best rock theatrical!”

The show brings together a production and design team behind some of the biggest international theatre productions and rock tours.

Production designers Mark Fisher and Willie Williams have created set designs for Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson, and the acclaimed multi-media shows for U2.

Costume Designer Tim Goodchild has already achieved three Olivier Awards for his work in the West End. Choreographer Arlene Phillips has shown her distinctive style in some of the biggest stage musicals of the past two decades, including Starlight Express, Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Bobby Aitken (Grease and Mamma Mia!) is Sound Designer.

And with Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor as music supervisors, and behind the cast “a band without parallel in the theatre, reflecting the true power of the mighty Queen” you’d be right to expect “We Will Rock You” to rock as fiercely as the best of Queen’s concerts.

Writer Ben Elton has fashioned a hilarious futurist comedy around more than 24 of Queen’s biggest hit songs delivered in a show that boasts the scale and spectacle that marked Queen’s live performances.

“This show is all about legend,” says Ben Elton. “We take the legend of Queen and create our own fantastical story of young kids battling the might corporations who want to suppress their individuality and their love of music. They need a hero who can help them in their struggle, and we have two – the dreamer Galileo and the sassy rock chick Scaramouche. Guess who ends up winning?”

Says Brian May: “The amazing bonus is that Ben’s script subtly works as a metaphor too. People definitely come out of the theatre feeling that in a strange way they now know us, Queen, and our struggle, our journey.”

And Roger Taylor: “Creating the show with Ben was very much a three way thing. Which was great, because Ben has such a great active mind and has been a great pleasure to work with. He has a great fertile mind that never ever stops churning out ideas. He’s written a fantastic idea for the sequel. I counted 23 more hits he can put in it. Let’s see if people like this one first!”

About The Cast
Jonathan Wilkes has previously worked as a television presenter and musician but has more recently been seen on stage in productions such as ‘Guys and Dolls’ and ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ and played the lead role in last year’s touring production of ‘The Wedding Singer’. Actor Kevin Kennedy is best known for his role as ‘Curly Watts’ in the long running soap Coronation Street, which he starred in for seven years. He then moved to the stage, starring in productions of ‘The Extra Factor’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’. Luton born Brenda Edwards rose to fame in ITV1’s talent show ‘The X Factor’. Since appearing on the show, she was chosen for the role of Mamma Morton in the West End production of ‘Chicago’, which she has played at various intervals until early this year. Georgina Hagen, known best for her role as ‘Lauren’ in the ITV1 show ‘Britannia High’, has appeared in various stage productions, including the London Palladium’s ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’. Actress and singer Ashley Russell, gained public prominence when she appeared as one of the Nancy contestants in last year’s BBC1 show ‘I’d Do Anything’. Amongst others, she has performed in regional productions such as ‘Richard III’ and ‘The Waiting Room’.

We Will Rock You – not just a show, but a promise!

Want it all? You’ve got it now!

City/date: This March, rock lovers can recreate the excitement and magic of Queen’s iconic stadium concerts in their own living rooms thanks to SingStar® Queen from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) – an experience that lets you grab a microphone and belt out the greatest hits of the legendary group’s chart-topping, 30-year career with your friends. Exclusive to PlayStation® and hot on the heels of the hugely popular downloadable Queen SongPacks in SingStore, SingStar Queen will be available on both PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) and PlayStation®2 in PAL regions, giving every SingStar a shot at Queen home-stardom.

The tracklist is packed with the classic songs that made Queen one of the world’s favourite bands – a group so popular that they sold more than 300 million albums and had a worldwide hit musical created in their honour, We Will Rock You. Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are the Champions are there – as are Another One Bites the Dust and Don’t Stop Me Now. Whichever track is your favourite, you’ll be lining up to grab the mic and step into the trainers of the legendary Freddie Mercury to raise your living room roof.

With stellar tracks from the ‘70s. ‘80s and ‘90s (25 tracks on PS3 and 20 on PlayStation 2), SingStar Queen will rock SingStars who like to go solo, SingStars who like to duet and, quite possibly, the neighbours next door when they hear your performances coming through the wall.

And – for those PS3 SingStars downloading tracks from SingStore, loads of SingStar Queen Tracks are available to download right now!

Get ready for SingStar to rock you on PS3 and PlayStation 2 with the epic music of Queen this March.

The release date for UK is March 13th, and for the rest of PAL territories March 18th. The release date for US/Canada has not been confirmed yet, but will follow shortly.

Here’s the entire SingStar Queen Track list:

PlayStation 3
A Kind of Magic
Another One Bites The Dust
Bicycle Race
Bohemian Rhapsody
Breakthru
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Don’t Stop Me Now
Fat Bottomed Girls
Hammer to Fall
I Want It All
I Want To Break Free
Innuendo
Killer Queen
One Vision
Play The Game
Radio Ga Ga
Somebody to Love
The Show Must Go On
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Tie Your Mother Down
Under Pressure
We Are The Champions
We Will Rock You
Who Wants To Live Forever
You’re My Best Friend

PlayStation2
Another One Bites The Dust
Bicycle Race
Bohemian Rhapsody
Breakthru
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Don’t Stop Me Now
Fat Bottomed Girls
I Want It All
I Want To Break Free
Innuendo
One Vision
Play The Game
Somebody to Love
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Tie Your Mother Down
Under Pressure
We Are The Champions
We Will Rock You
Who Wants To Live Forever
You’re My Best Friend

GUITAR HERO® METALLICA® TRACKS TO FEATURE DIVERSE MUSIC FROM BAND’S 25-YEAR HISTORY PLUS 21 INFLUENTIAL GUEST BANDS

Tracks Represent Metallica’s Most Influential Music and Hand-Picked Guest Acts Including Queen, Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains

SANTA MONICA, CA – January 29, 2009 – Metallica’s influential music takes center stage this spring when Activision Publishing Inc.’s Guitar Hero® Metallica® takes music fans through the band’s fabled library of songs, plus the music and musicians who influence them. When the house lights go down this spring, virtual rock stars across the globe will shred, drum and wail to an explosive set list featuring over 45 tracks from Metallica’s illustrious career and a wide variety of other legendary artists personally selected by the band, such as Queen, Foo Fighters, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Slayer and Judas Priest. Featuring tracks from every Metallica studio album, the complete Guitar Hero Metallica on-disc set list will include their following hits:

“All Nightmare Long”
“Battery”
“Creeping Death”
“Disposable Heroes”
“Dyers Eve”
“Enter Sandman”
“Fade To Black”
“Fight Fire With Fire”
“For Whom The Bell Tolls”
“Frantic”
“Fuel”
“Hit The Lights”
“King Nothing”
“Master of Puppets”
“Mercyful Fate”
“No Leaf Clover”
“Nothing Else Matters”
“One”
“Orion”
“Sad But True”
“Seek And Destroy”
“The Memory Remains”
“The Shortest Straw”
“The Thing That Should Not Be”
“The Unforgiven”
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
“Wherever I May Roam”
“Whiplash”

Complementing Metallica’s intensity are the following 21 rockin’ tracks personally chosen by the band:
Alice In Chains – “No Excuses”
Bob Seger – “Turn The Page (Live)”
Corrosion of Conformity – “Albatross”
Diamond Head – “Am I Evil?”
Foo Fighters – “Stacked Actors”
Judas Priest – “Hell Bent For Leather”
Kyuss – “Demon Cleaner”
Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Tuesdays Gone”
Machine Head – “Beautiful Mourning”
Mastodon – “Blood And Thunder”
Mercyful Fate – “Evil”
Michael Schenker Group – “Armed and Ready”
Motörhead – “Ace of Spades”
Queen – “Stone Cold Crazy”
Samhain – “Mother of Mercy”
Slayer – “War Ensemble”
Social Distortion – “Mommy’s Little Monster (Live)”
Suicidal Tendencies – “War Inside My Head”
System of a Down – “Toxicity”
The Sword – “Black River”
Thin Lizzy – “The Boys Are Back in Town”

Gamers who have downloaded the Death Magnetic album on Xbox 360® or PLAYSTATION®3 will have access to the album while the Wii™ and PlayStation®2 versions will have “Broken, Beat & Scarred,” “Cyanide” and “My Apocalypse” included on disc.

“Ride the Lightning” with musical icons Metallica and 21 other rockin’ acts in an all new Guitar Hero® experience – Guitar Hero Metallica. Enter the world of Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo and experience the intensity and skill of one of the greatest bands of all time. Shred on the guitar controller, rip on the drum kit controller and wail on the mic to a set list featuring over 45 explosive hits from Metallica’s illustrious career and a wide variety of other legendary artists personally selected by the band, such as Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters and Queen. Fans will be able to rock as Metallica while performing in venues reminiscent of the band’s epic album covers, themes from their music and real world locales.

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Tickets can also be bought on the door, at a cost of 22,50 euros each. You can still order in advance with ticket price of 20 euro.

For more information check out www.queendag.nl .

Tickets can also be bought on the door, at a cost of 22,50 euros each. You can still order in advance with ticket price of 20 euro.

For more information check out www.queendag.nl .

Despite being in the limelight for over 20 years and selling nearly 200 million records, Freddie Mercury was a very private person – avoiding interviews as he was painfully shy and uncomfortable in the company of anyone who might intrude upon his famous ‘royal family’ of close friends.

This book takes us on the journey of Queen – three academics and a frustrated art student, tired of having no money, taking on the music industry on their own terms. Spurred on by an almost uncontrollable, ambitious and forthright Mercury, Queen succeeded, becoming the biggest band of the generations to come.

Compiled and edited by Greg Brooks and Simon Lupton, with a foreword by Freddie’s mum, Jer Bulsara.

The venue is called “Casa della Musica Federico Primo” (www.casadellamusicanapoli.it – inside the Palapartenope Theatre) and we are expecting to have about 2000 fans to celebrate Queen. Particularly this time we’ll look at the “Live Killers” and “The Miracle” anniversary with videos and rarities from that period. The live concert will be held by the Italian cover band Killer Queen. Inside the venue you’ll find also some official merchandise at the fan club stand.

In cooperation with Fanzine.net ( www.fanzine.net ) and Radio Kemonia we are delighted to announce that the concert will be broadcasted via live streaming starting around 21,30 (CET) at www.radiokemonia.it

For further information check out our website www.wewillrockyou.it

Queen’s Roger Taylor to perform with son Rufus Taylor this Saturday at O2 indigO2 Venue

Queen drummer Roger Taylor is the latest famous musician to have his son follow in his footsteps. Taylor’s 17-year-old son, Rufus Taylor, is to join his father on stage for the first time when the two will make a special appearance at London’s indigO2 venue at London’s O2 this weekend.

Taylor and his drummer son will appear as special guests at Queen music director Spike Edney’s SAS Band Ultimate Rock Party concert this Saturday January 24, which sees Edney’s band perform with a veritable Who’s Who of rock and pop names including Roy Wood (Wizard/The Move), Madeline Bell (Blue Mink), Graham Gouldman (10cc), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann’s Earthband) Jeff Scott Soto (Journey) Patti Russo (Meatloaf) and Toyah Wilcox.

Also appearing will be Work Superbike Champion James Toseland with his band Crash who will open the show.

The young Rufus Taylor has been learning his father’s skill almost since he was able to pick up a drum stick. Rufus’ first big public appearance was in December’s Royal Variety Show when he backed Queen’s Brian May and singer Kerry Ellis on their performance of the May produced track ‘Defying Gravity’.

Rufus spends much time working in father Roger Taylor’s recording studio and has no doubts about the fact that he intends to follow a professional career as a drummer. The young Rufus is even considering an offer to be resident drummer in the house band for the up-coming touring production of the Queen musical, We Will Rock You.

Queen’s keyboard player since 1984 and music director on the band’s two recent concert tours, Edney formed his SAS Band in 1994 as a means of bringing together his musician friends together to celebrate their love of music and performing. Events come together when Spike sends out an email to all his musician friends asking ‘who’s up for having some fun?”. His most recent surprise guest was Jack Bruce of Cream; others have included Lionel Richie, Chaka Khan, and Bob Geldof, to name a few.

The SAS New Year Bash – The Ultimate Rock Party is Edney’s aim at providing an antidote to the post Christmas and New Year blues: “The start of the year is always something of a downer for most people, more-so in this current climate. Roger, Rufus and this great line-up are coming together to hopefully provide a night to rock off those winter blues and enjoy some of the best music of our times.”

The SAS Band with Roger Taylor, Rufus Taylor and a host of artists – this Saturday 24 January, at indigO2, the intimate live entertainment venue at London’s O2, Greenwich, SE10.

Tickets: £27.50 and £45.00.

Tickets from www.ticketmaster.co.uk or call 0844 844 0002.

For SAS Band/ticket enquiries:
Kyle Verwers. Tel: 07720 398 368

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The Kennedy Center Honors
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20566

They welcome grassroots nominations. In your letters you might want to include tidbits of information that would demonstrate how Queen have extraordinarily contributed to the Arts within the USA. People are recognized for their excellence and their contributions. With their record sales and number of top selling singles and albums in the USA you would think it would be impossible to ignore them. Hopefully if enough letters are received they will have to recognize Queen in their next group of hopefuls!

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We are now thrilled to confirm that Roger will be joined by his son Rufus on stage in a World exclusive one-off ‘father and son’ live performance!

Other guests will also include Roy Wood (Wizard/The Move), Graham Gouldman (10cc), Jeff Scott-Soto (Journey) and Patti Russo (Meatloaf).

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Queen + Paul Rodgers keyboard player Spike Edney and his SAS Band are playing their ‘Ultimate Rock Party’ New Year Bash at the IndigO2 on January 24th.

In addition to Roger performing, guests will also include Roy Wood (Wizard/The Move), Graham Gouldman (10cc), Jeff Scott-Soto (Journey) and Patti Russo (Meatloaf).

Click here for more information and tickets.