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Official Queen Online Newsletter : 1 January 2011
Happy New Year!
01/01/11
2010 has been a great year. Thank you all for your continued support over the past 12 months.
It’s been a great year and we’re looking forward to 2011, which will see Queen celebrating their 40th anniversary of their formation in 1971.
Here’s some of the things we’re looking forward to in 2011: – The Stormtroopers in Stilettos Exhibition – Queen BBC documentary featuring interviews with Roger Taylor and Brian May. – The start of filming of the Hollywood Film starring Sacha Baron Cohen – The re-release of the entire back-catalogue to celebrate the 40th anniversary.
Happy New Year from all at the QOL team!
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Greatest Hits 1 & 2 re-issues out Today!
Today Island Records re-issue Queen’s Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits 2 collections, in celebration of Queen's 40th anniversary. Greatest Hits remains the best selling UK album of all time and combined with Greatest Hits 2 presents the definitive Queen collection. Together they form among one the seminal collections in rock history jointly selling an incredible 40 million copies worldwide.
Both albums have been digitally re-mastered for 2011 by Bob Ludwig, the legendary mastering engineer who has worked with U2, Coldplay and Radiohead, and come complete with refreshed sleeve notes.
The Greatest Hits re-issues start what is going to be a huge year for Queen, as 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of their formation in 1971.
The Anniversary year kicks off with a major exhibition, ‘Stormtroopers in Stilettos’ – a comprehensive look at the early part of Queen’s career. Taking place in The Old Truman Brewery in the heart of London’s East End the exhibition opens on February 25th running through to March 12th, and will cover the band pre-Queen, their formation and their first five albums from the first half of the 1970’s.
Newly signed to legendary label Island Records, and to coincide with the exhibition, the first five albums that Queen released – “Queen”, “Queen II”, “Sheer Heart Attack”, “A Night At The Opera” and “A Day At The Races – will be re-mastered and re-packaged into special deluxe album formats released in March 2011.
Subsequent to the exhibition there will be a major BBC TV Documentary featuring a rare interview with Roger Taylor and Brian May and many other surprises and releases to come through the rest of the year. 2011 will see filming begin of a major Hollywood movie about Queen, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury. Acclaimed script writer Peter Morgan (“The Queen”,” Frost/Nixon”) is working on the project, which is being produced by GK Films, Robert de Niro’s Tribeca Productions and Queen Films.
Buy now here:
Greatest Hits: Amazon, Play.com, HMV
Greatest Hits 2: Amazon, Play.com, HMV
Click here for full press release and tracklisting
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Queen are kicking off this year with a major exhibition. The "Stormtroopers in Stilettos" exhibition opens in February at Old Truman Brewery, open daily from 11am until 8pm.
The exhibition has it’s own site where you will be able to find all the information you need to know about the exhibition:
http://stormtroopersinstilettos.com/
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This year as well as continuing successful shows in London, Berlin and Utrecht, We Will Rock You will also be opening in the following places:
January 20 – Italy touring production opens Bergamo, Palacreberg
January 27 – Opening night WWRY Oslo, Norway
February 23 – Opening Night, WWRY Copenhagen, Denmark
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This year Brian May and Kerry Ellis will perform ANTHEMS: The Concert, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Sunday May 1st at 8.00pm for the benefit of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.
Full press release and ticket information here
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