Adam Lambert On Working With Queen...

Singer Adam Lambert says he's not taking over as the frontman for Queen, but adds “there's more stuff coming up this year.”

Brian meets Chickenfoot

Rock band Chickenfoot recently undertook a short jaunt round Europe to promote their really quite brilliant Chickenfoot III album. Brian May recently met up with them and commented: "I had a great time with these guys last weekend. And boy - what an encyclopedia of how to play great rock music. Chickenfoot rock - all real, all brilliant musicianship … all power and passion." (brianmay.com).

Origami Queen

Check out these insanely detailed and highly stylized, paper versions of Queen by People Too...

23 Queen songs in 9 minutes...

Musician Gregg M was invited as a guest in a ‘Queen evening’ and felt that a simple cover version was not the way to go. Therefore he decided to create something new and challenging, in order to entertain the audience, Gregg says it was “Like a Human Jukebox, actually …. It took a while for me  to figure out how to begin the monster and I worked it bit by bit. I separated it in several parts, each including 4 or more songs and then put the pieces together, just like a giant musical jigsaw puzzle. Two days later, and something like 20 hours of musical work of writing, rehearsing and demoing, I sent a draft to my singer (who’s with me in my band, The Sunchase, as well as my ‘twisted covers concept’, the Guest-Sessions) and we rehearsed it bits by bits some days later. We decided it would be more fun if we did not have any chart on stage so we worked really hard to remember everything and went onstage at ‘Le Zèbre’ in Paris the week after that.”

I hope you enjoy the Queen Mashup!

Further details for Gregg M and his music are available at ;
http://www.thesunchase.net/
http://www.onemonthonesong.com/

Why Queen's Hot Space Has Sadly Always Been Luke Warm

Are you sitting down? It really hurts me to say this, but in my opinion, this is Queen's worst album. In summary 1980's disco music never really suited Queen at all...

Out of Africa...

This is a guest post by LESLEY-ANN JONES, an award-winning journalist and author with over 20 years' experience in London, New York and Hollywood. Please, please check out her book FREDDIE MERCURY: THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY which was revised and updated in 2011.http://lajwriter.blogspot.com

10 Things You May Not Know About Queen

Perhaps the thing that gets lost in the noise about Queen, behind all the flashy stories of Freddie Mercury's personal life and the band's hit singles, is their recording and artistic prowess. 


So, here are ten facts that you may not know about Queen, from their recording techniques to the secrets behind the band's famous crest logo...

When Black Sabbath star Tony Iommi met Queen axe legend Brian May

ELO drummer Bev Bevan says that BLACK Sabbath guitar hero Tony Iommi is one of his best mates, and they love to meet up.

He also happens to be one of the greatest guitarists on the planet, the man who invented heavy metal.

There are few musicians who get even close to Tony’s level of skill, but Queen’s Brian May is one.

So it was a real pleasure to chat with the two of them backstage after Sabbath’s NEC gig in 1999.

And who’s that between the two guitar gods? Yes, that’s right, it’s Sharon Osbourne! I first met Sharon long before she married Ozzy because she is the daughter of our late manager Don Arden. You never know just who you’re going to bump into backstage at a Sabath show!

(Source: Bev Bevan's column in the Sunday Mercury Newspaper)

Freddie's Google Doodle voted amongst the top of 2011

The Google Doodle celebrating what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday was voted at number 19 in the list of 30 best Doodles of 2011. In a very rare and extraordinary tribute to Freddie, Google celebrated his 65th birthday by running a very special doodle on its homepage. The animated clip sought to capture the dynamism and diversity of Freddie’s career through an animation that was as colourful and playful as his stage performances.

The quirky tribute was created by Google’s in-house team of illustrators, animators and engineers. It was available for users outside of the US on September 5th, what would have been Freddie’s 65th birthday, and was on Google.com in the US on September 6th as a belated “Happy Birthday” to Freddie since his actual birthday fell on Labor Day.

You can still watch the full Freddie Mercury Google Doodle here...

Learn more about Google Doodles here: http://mashable.com/2011/08/03/google-doodles/

(some of this post uses some content first posted on BrianMay.com)

An Oak Table, Knitting Needle & Bicycle saddle bag - All found in Brian May's Guitar

The Red Special, - Brian May's famed and much-nicknamed guitar ranks as one of the most fabled tools in rock history.

The Red Special was born in 1963, the result of 18 months hard work and development between Brian and his electrical engineer father, Harold. Unable to afford the coveted Fenders and Les Pauls of the day, the pair set about designing and building their own interpretation of the perfect electric guitar.