QUEEN DURING THE GROUP’S 1984 EUROPEAN TOUR

12 February 1981, Queen performed at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 a short ‘Flash Gordon’ tour (The Game Tour) This is the first of five shows at the Budokan, which are essentially warm-up gigs for the upcoming stadium shows in South America. In an...

Queen live at the Stampede Corral, in Alberta, April 3rd, 1975. Credits to Gord McCaw.

“I’d been living in the same little Kensington flat for ages, so I phoned Mary, my girlfriend from America, where we were on tour, and asked her to find a place, sent me some photos, I saw the house, I fell in love with it,...

“I used to get a bit annoyed when I was misquoted on the press. Misguided opinions can hurt because you feel that the guy hasn’t done it properly, but yet people are going to read it and take it as accurate, but what on you...

Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words, compiled and edited by Greg Brooks and Simon Lupton (with Foreword by Freddie’s Mum, Jer Bulsara. Published by Omnibus Press made available in paperback 5 January 2009. “This book is about my boy, Farrokh Bulsara of course,...

“First there came rock groups. And lo, they were good. And then came Queen and the world trembled. For Queen are not just a group, they are a way of life, an institution, and they have a place in the national heritage of treasures.” Chris...

This is another fantastic late 1977 show. Without a doubt this leg of the tour finds Queen at their peak on stage as an artistic entity. Freddie Mercury’s development as a singer is fully evident here as well, as he is dynamic and versatile –...

One time Freddie went shopping, he saw a shirt and said: ‘Oh that’s very Crystal, I’ll get it for him as a Christmas present’. The next time I went to his house, Freddie told me how he had seen this shirt and got it for...

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On a flying visit to Montreux in 1990, Freddie and I stayed at the Montreux Palace Hotel with Joe and Barbara Valentin. It was on that trip that Freddie wrote his song ‘Delilah,’ dedicated to his favourite cat. The shops were still open when the...

The ‘South America Bites The Dust’ tour (Game) saw the band being the first to play in South American stadiums in early 1981.The tour began on February 28, with two consecutive nights at Estadio Velez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires, where the band drew a crowd...

Queen Live !! November 26, 1979, The band performed at Apollo Theatre in Manchester, England. “Crazy” Tour This is the first of two nights in Manchester. Because of technical issues with their lighting rig, the show began nearly two hours late. The band opened with...

I’ll carry on as long as I write music and people want to buy it. That’s important to me, but it’s not the be all and end all. I’m not going to be one of those old hams that keep going and going. I’d rather...

Brian and I were thinking about poverty going on all around the world and that’s why the track “Is This The World We Created” came about. I think for Live Aid we’re actually going to do that as a special thing, right at the end....

“Freddie told me he had AIDS soon after he was diagnosed in 1987. I was devastated. I had seen what the disease had done to so many of my other friends. I knew exactly what it was going to do to Freddie. As did he....

The Crazy Tour was a short tour by Queen during November and December 1979. After the release of the single “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, the band decided to change the concert dynamic they used to do the last years. In this tour Queen would...

Freddie had special interest in a lot of aspects of the Japanese culture, he was most interested in art. He was really into Japanse craft and he used to buy a lot of articles to add to his collection everytime he traveled to Japan. On...

Music became an outlet for Freddie Mercury at boarding school – and transformed his life. “I took piano lessons at school and really enjoyed it. That was my mother’s doing,” he said. “She made sure I stuck at it and I did it up to...

Queen Live !! November 18, 1974, The band performed at New Theatre in Oxford, England with Hustler opening. “Sheer Heart Attack” Tour

Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor backstage at Queen’s Concert @ Colston Hall in Bristol, England November 18, 1975. ‘A Night At The Opera’ Tour “Queen will probably always be remembered, because as their tour is beginning to demonstrate, they have the ability to actualise and...

Nobody could take the piss out of me as much as I take the piss out of myself. I did that with all those costumes and various other things. I was thinking, “Don’t take yourself so seriously.” And the best way to do that is...

All my lovers asked me why they couldn’t replace Mary Austin, but it’s simply impossible.Mary is one of my closest friends in the world. Ours is a pure friendship of the highest standard. It’s an instinctive thing. I have built up an immense bond with...

Queen played twice in San Remo, February 3th and February 4th. On both performanced the band only played “Radio Ga Ga”. Queen were the headlining act at the annual San Remo Song Festival, miming their new single “Radio Ga Ga” in front of a couple...

Queen Live !! November 16, 1978, The band performed the first of two evenings at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, USA “Jazz” Tour Freddie, after the third song: “Straight away we’d like to do something from the… another song from...

November 15, 1977 – The band performed at at the Providence Civic Centre in Providence, Rhode Island, USA ‘News of the World’ tour Tim Longo managed to sneak backstage to snap this amazing picture of Freddie Mercury and Brian May. Apparently, there was not too...

Queen Live November 15, 1975, The band performed their second Sold-Out evening at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool, England‘A Night At The Opera’ Tour The band are in fine form at this early tour show. Freddie greets the enthusiastic audience after Ogre Battle. “Good evening,...

Freddie behind the lens in Budapest 1986Famed photographer Denis O’Regan is behind him. Picture snapped by Richard Young

Freddie Mercury on stage at Queen’s first concert at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City 5 February 1977. This concert sold out within moments of the tickets going on sale! ‘A Day At The Races’ tour

“I met the amazing Freddie and the band in the lift of the hotel they were staying at in Melbourne during their concert.  My then husband and I stayed at the hotel for the entire time Queen was there and had tickets to every concert...