Queen – A Day at the Races 50th Anniversary Exclusive Picture Disc and Limited Edition Marbled Blue Vinyl! 💙
On 10 December, Queen’s fifth studio album, A Day at the Races, celebrates its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion, an exclusive picture disc and limited-edition marbled blue vinyl will be released on 11 December.
A Day at the Races was the band's first completely self-produced album, and includes the all-time classics “Somebody to Love”, “Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy” and “Tie Your Mother Down”.
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79-year-old Brian May performing last night in Tenerife.
Brian is in Tenerife for the opening of the STARMUS VIII science and music festival, which kicked off this weekend on the island. He was honored with a star on the Paseo de la Ciencia.
On this day in 1992, “How Can I Go On,” a duet by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, was re-released amid renewed interest in their album “Barcelona” following that year’s Olympic Games. It all began in 1987, when Freddie publicly expressed his admiration for the soprano, and the message reached Montserrat herself.
At a dinner at his home following one of her recitals, Freddie proposed writing a song about Barcelona, his hometown, which would eventually lead to an entire album composed in collaboration with pianist Mike Moran. Three tracks emerged from that collaboration: “Barcelona,” “The Golden Boy,” and “How Can I Go On,” the latter featuring Queen bassist John Deacon as the band’s sole guest.
Freddie and Montserrat had planned to sing “Barcelona” together at the opening ceremony of the 1992 Games, but Mercury’s death in November 1991 prevented that from happening. Montserrat ended up performing the song alongside José Carreras instead, while the BBC chose the song as the theme music for its Olympic coverage.
Terry O’Neill gave us this wonderful photo.
Freddie Mercury, still Freddie Bulsara, at his flat in Shepherd's Bush, London, in 1969, with an acoustic guitar during an interview with the Daily Express. That year he graduated from Ealing Art College with a diploma in graphic art and design, skills he later used to design the Queen crest. Captured by Mark Hayward.
👑 In August 1969 he joined Ibex, a band from Liverpool, and made his first public performance with them in Bolton. Did you know Freddie sang in other bands before Queen? 👑 👇️
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#OnThisDay in 1988, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé released Barcelona in the UK.
Bringing together Freddie’s rock background with Montserrat’s operatic world, the album became one of the most ambitious and distinctive projects of his solo career.
Sir Brian and Roger Taylor, his bandmate, still hope to stage a “revolutionary” immersive spectacular – but only if they can square the ethical issues surrounding the technology.
The hope, Sir Brian said, is to create something that will transport fans back in time and recreate performances by the original line-up of Queen ⤵️
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