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Queenworld.fr est le premier site francophone amateur, exclusivement consacré à l'univers du groupe Queen. Vous y trouverez: biographie, photos, videos, goodies ainsi que l'intégralité de la discographie du groupe. Merci et bon surf sur Queenworld.fr. Louis Goncalves
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Freddie Mercury doing a piano cover of the famous song written by Stephen Sondheim.The track originates from a tape that Jim Hutton(Freddie's last lover) recorded...it was recorded somewhere around 1985/1986.
You are watching and listening an unofficial special tribute to Queen, called "Open Your Eyes, Look, Touch and Feel".
This tribute is a 45 minutes audio & video mix by Sébastien Bédé and made with the original music written and performed by Queen (Brian May, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon) & Freddie Mercury (solo materials).
Chaque année depuis 2003, le premier week-end de septembre, un hommage particulier est rendu à l’immense star qu’était Freddie Mercury, chanteur emblématique du groupe britannique Queen et grand amoureux de la ville de Montreux, disparu tragiquement en 1991.
Mis sur pieds grâce à l’énergie d’une poignée de passionnés de la région, le « Freddie Mercury’s Montreux Memorial Day » propose notamment des concerts, des workshops et des rencontres avec des personnalités qui ont côtoyé Freddie Mercury de près. D’année en année, le succès de la manifestation ne cesse de croître.
Autour de la statue de leur idole, point de ralliement aussi symbolique qu’incontournable, ce sont ainsi plusieurs centaines de personnes provenant des quatre coins du monde qui se réunissent et communient avec émotion, s’inspirant peut-être d’une phrase que prononçait souvent Freddie Mercury : «Si tu veux la paix de l’âme, viens à Montreux».
Saturday September 5th 2015 saw fans from over 30 countries flock to Montreux in Switzerland to celebrate what would have been Freddie Mercury's 69th birthday. Check out the pictures from the night in this video. Donations to the Mercury Phoenix Trust – Fighting AIDS Worldwide can be made here : http://bit.ly/1gTSmCL
5 September: This weekend marks what would have been the Queen frontman's 69th birthday and despite his tragic death 24 years ago, it remains clear that his legacy still lives on. Mercury had a career with Queen that cemented his status as an iconic frontman who is still considered to have been one of the best. In his lifetime the musician had a revered, original and flamboyant stage presence that has gone on to influence many others who take to the stage.
The charisma and power in his performance style has over the years led to many artists quoting him as one of their biggest inspirations today. From rock icons like Bowie and Kurt Cobain, to pop stars Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, to rappers Wiz Khalifa and Lupe Fiasco, the diverse scope of artists that love Mercury is huge.
Check out my list of the artists that have been greatly inspired by the great Freddie Mercury.
Matt Bellamy: "The best band in the world is Queen, definitely."
David Bowie: "Of all the more theatrical performers, Freddie took it further than the rest. He took it over the edge. And of course i always admire a man who wears tights!"
Wiz Khalifa: "I jumped up in the air and landed on my knees and made my back touch the ground, it looked awesome, like some Freddie Mercury shit."
Adam Lambert: "Freddie's voice has so much texture to it. It's super sexy. He kind of grabs at everything, he squeezes it. He was completely over the top in the best possible way."
Kurt Cobain: "I used to take a nap in the van and listen to Queen. Over and over again and drain the battery on the van. Then we'd be stuck. That happened a few times. Wé'd be stuck with a dead battery because i'd listened to Queen too much."
Lupe Fiasco: "I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies."
Psy: "My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen."
Twin Atlantic: "The most influential artist of the past 25 years is Queen's Freddie Mercury."
Lady Gaga: "I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called 'Radio Gaga'. That's why i love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius."
Dave Grohl: "Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. I consider Freddie Mercury the greatest frontman of all time. You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but you know how he contrrolled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a fucking dude."
De "Queen" (1970) à "Made in Heaven" (1995), la totalité des 15 albums studio du groupe anglais (excepté "The Cosmos Rocks" avec Paul Rodgers) ressortiront dans un pack spécial. Ils ont tous été remasterisés pour l'occasion. Les collectionneurs et les fans de Queen seront très heureux de voir que chaque album a sa propre couleur, ce qui rend l'ensemble très esthétique.
Et pour ces 15 albums, il y aura 18 vinyles. Par exemple, "Queen II" qui n'a jamais eu de "Face A" et de "Face B" mais un "White Side" et un "Black Side" sera divisé en deux disques, l'un noir, l'autre blanc, forcément.
La conception de "Queen: The Studio Collection" a duré près de 5 ans, le temps de rassembler les pistes ayant la meilleure qualité possible mais aussi de retravailler le son.
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Happy birthday! Brian May turns 68 today - QUEEN - ROCK-MY-WORLD.FR
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Queen guitarist Brian May is celebrating his 68th birthday today. As a number of online tributes attest, he is one of the most acclaimed guitarists of his generation. Popular guitarist Brian May has always liked to keep a bit of himself hidden from view....
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Queen guitarist Brian May is celebrating his 68th birthday today. As a number of online tributes attest, he is one of the most acclaimed guitarists of his generation.
Popular guitarist Brian May has always liked to keep a bit of himself hidden from view. At 68th birthday, he remains a man of many facets.
Born in London on July 19, 1947, Brian May's career spans an arc over many different eras and tastes in British history. May's not just a great guitarist, he's an inspiration, an icon and a successful business man. At this point in his career, there seems to be little Brian hasn't done.
And we've got a feeling the next 12 months are going to be even bigger and better for Brian May as he promises more to come. After all, he's only 68.
Happy Birthday, Brian, you're the best!
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'Eight is Enough' actor Dick Van Patten has died
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Dick Van Patten, the star of TV’s Eight is Enough, has died. He was 86....
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Freddie Mercury‘s debut was the perfect solo album, in that it became a outlet for his inclination toward non-rock music away from Queen and never threatened his group’s integrity. In fact, it may have gotten Queen back on track.
Released on April 29, 1985, Mr. Bad Guy featured Mercury singing dance songs and anthem-sized ballads during a Queen hiatus, and handling all songwriting, as well as keyboards, orchestrations and some engineering duties. It served as a reminder of his rangy, often-overlooked skills in the studio, and as an expansion of the more lightly regarded elements of Queen’s most recent LP, 1982′s pop-focused Hot Space.
Only the expectations for a Mercury project were decidedly different. Queen had always balanced their dizzying array of influences with healthy dollops of straight-ahead guitar and drums. Mercury was, outside of a forgotten 1973 single, an unknown solo entity, and happy to be less than the sum of those parts.
Mr. Bad Guy became a labor of love, as Mercury took almost two years to pick and choose which portions of his Queen legacy intrigued him most. In the meantime, he scored a No. 10 U.K. hit with the 1984 solo single “Love Kills,” though bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor appeared on that session. Mercury’s care paid off when Mr. Bad Guy matched Hot Space‘s U.K. Top 10 finish and went gold, and “I Was Born to Love You” became a No. 11 hit overseas. His attention to detail is reflected in song narratives, which take on a much more personal lyrical focus than anything Mercury had ever committed to a Queen song.
Still, Mercury’s dedication to his main band remained. He dutifully dropped everything as Queen convened for subsequent projects like 1984′s The Works, an album that – after Mercury’s interest in dance music had been sated – returned to the group’s rock roots. Beyond May and Taylor’s contributions, Mr. Bad Guy also featured sideman Fred Mandel, who had earlier worked with May’s Star Fleet Project and would also be featured on The Works. Just a few months later, Mercury was fronting his old band once again when Queen took the stage at Live Aid.
In the years since Mercury’s 1991 death after a bout with AIDS, Queen’s connection with Mr. Bad Guy has grown. Mercury’s debut solo album has proven to be a treasure trove for posthumous releases. Both “I Was Born to Love You” and “Made in Heaven” were later updated by Queen’s surviving members for 1995′s Made in Heaven. And a discarded collaboration with Michael Jackson from the Mr. Bad Guy sessions, “There Must Be More to Life Than This,” ended up on 2014′s Queen Forever, as did the 1984 single “Love Kills.”
