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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor Awarded Polar Prize by King Carl Gustaf of Sweden

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Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen have been awarded the 2025 Polar Music Prize by Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf.

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Hank Marvin On Brian May’s Ear-Piercing Recording Session

by Paul Cashmere

In 1970 in the very early days of Queen, Queen used to play a Cliff Richard and the Shadows song ‘Please Don’t Tease’. The Shadows co-founder and guitarist Hank Marvin tells Noise11 that he wasn’t aware of that fun fact but he has recorded with Sir Brian May over the years.

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Roy Thomas Baker photo by Jimmy Steinfeldt supplied

Legendary Record Producer Roy Thomas Baker Has Died At Age 78

by Paul Cashmere

Roy Thomas Baker, the legendary record producer behind Queen, The Cars, Motley Crue, Devo, Ozzy Osbourne and Cheap Trick, has died at the age of 78.

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Brian May Queen Melbourne 2014, photo Ros O'Gorman

Brian May Says New Music From Queen Is Still Possible

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Sir Brian May says new Queen music “could happen”.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen To Receive Polar Music Prize

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Queen will be bestowed with the Polar Music Prize for 2025.

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Gibson Brian May SJ-200 12-string launch event Hi-Res_12 photo supplied by Gibson guitars

Gibson To Release Brian May 12 String

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Gibson has partnered with Sir Brian May to release the Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitar.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sir Brian May’s Wife Lady Anita Gives Updates on his Health

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Sir Brian May’s wife Lady Anita Dobson has given an update on his health, seven months after he had a stroke.

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Queen 1 box

Brian May Unboxes ‘Queen 1’

by Paul Cashmere

The next box set from Queen is the debut album ‘Queen’, now called ‘Queen 1’.

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Drummer Roger Taylor of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen Hint At New Music

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Queen have discussed releasing new music. Queen haven’t put out an album since 2008’s ‘The Cosmos Rocks’ with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company/Free but drummer Roger Taylor has revealed he and guitarist Brian May “might” just give fans some new music.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Brian May Suffers A Minor Stroke

by Paul Cashmere

Brian May of Queen has suffered a minor stroke but the good news is he is out of danger.

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Steve Cropper

Brian May and Billy F. Gibbons Join Steve Cropper on ‘Friendlytown” Album

by Paul Cashmere

Steve Cropper has recruited Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top and Brian May of Queen appear on the new album by Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour album ‘Friendlytown’.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen Catalogue Sells For Almost $AUD2 Billion

by Paul Cashmere

Queen has sold their catalogue for $US1.27 billion ($AUD1.9 billion).

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Brian May Queen Melbourne 2014, photo Ros O'Gorman

Brian May Is Finding Bohemian Rhapsody Difficult To Perform

by Paul Cashmere

Brian May struggles to play the complex ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ guitar riff on stage.

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Freddie Mercury Liked Somebody To Love more than Bohemian Rhapsody

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Bohemian Rhapsody has once again been named the greatest song of all time by over 6,500 Greatest Hits Radio listeners – the biggest number of votes in the annual countdown ever. The station’s fifth survey of the greatest songs of the 70s, 80s and 90s, put the iconic Queen track top of the charts for the fifth year in a row – fittingly as the station is about to celebrate its fifth birthday in a couple of months time. So popular was it with listeners that Bohemian Rhapsody received more votes than the rest of the Top 10 combined.

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Queen Greatest Hits

The Queen Fat Bottomed Girls ‘Woke’ Story Is A Media Beat-up

by Paul Cashmere

Have you seen the stories spreading globally about Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls being removed from their Greatest Hits album? Well, it is all bullshit.

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Paul Rodgers To Release Sun Records Debut ‘Midnight Rose’ and Premieres ‘Take Love’

by Paul Cashmere

Paul Rodgers, formerly of Free, formerly of Bad Company, formerly of The Firm (with Jimmy Page) and formerly of Queen + Paul Rodgers, has a new solo song ‘Take Love’.

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Queen and Adam Lambert perform at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen + Adam Lambert To Tour Japan In February 2024

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Queen and Adam Lambert are returning to Japan in February 2024 for their first shows their since 2020.

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Dolly Parton in concert photo by Ros O'Gorman

Dolly Parton Premieres Her Queen ‘We Will Rock You’ Cover

by Paul Cashmere

Dolly Parton has premiered her cover of Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions’ from her upcoming album ‘Rockstar’.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen Honoured With Brit Billion Awards

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Queen have received the Brit Billion Award for surpassing the landmark of 1 billion career streams in the U.K..

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Brian May Releases Complete Star Fleet Sessions

by Paul Cashmere

When Queen took a break in 1983, Brian May went into the studio with Edward Van Halen (guitar), Alan Gratzer (drums), Phil Chen (bass) and Fred Mandel (keyboards) and recorded his solo ‘Star Fleet’.

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Brian May’s Queen 3D Exhibition To Open In England

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A new exhibition capturing the history of Queen through Brian May’s own stereoscopic (3-D) camera lenses and sharing images that have never been exhibited before.

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Queen + Adam Lambert, Melbourne 2014. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Adam Lambert Says Queen Has More To Come

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Adam Lambert doesn’t believe his journey with Queen is over yet.

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Sam Ryder and Sir Brian May ‘Fought & Lost’ Premieres In ‘Ted Lasso’ Episode

by Paul Cashmere

That song you may have heard in this week’s episode of Ted Lasso that sounded a lot like Queen sounded a lot like Queen for a reason.

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Drummer Roger Taylor of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Roger Taylor Addresses Rumours of Son Replacing Taylor Hawkins in Foo Fighters

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Queen’s Roger Taylor has refused to confirm or deny if his son Rufus Taylor is going to replace the late Taylor Hawkins as Foo Fighters’ drummer.

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Graham Gouldman’s Most Recent Music Is With Sir Brian May

by Paul Cashmere

When Graham Gouldman of 10cc wrote ‘Floating in Heaven’ about the James Webb Space Telescope he went to astrophysicist and Queen founder Sir Biran May to help him with it.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sir Brian May Hints At New Music for Queen

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Brian May has hinted Queen might release new music with Adam Lambert one day.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Brian May Receives Knighthood From King Charles

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Brian May was knighted by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen Launches Year Long ‘Greatest Live’ Series

by Paul Cashmere

Queen will premiere a Queen Live video every week for 2023 as part of the new ‘Queen The Greatest’ series on YouTube.

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Queen + Adam Lambert, Melbourne 2014. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Adam Lambert Covers Bonnie Tyler’s Footloose Classic ‘Holding Out For A Hero’

by Paul Cashmere

Adam Lambert has covered Bonnie Tyler’s 1984 Footloose soundtrack song ‘Holding Out For A Hero’.

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Brian May Queen Melbourne 2014, photo Ros O'Gorman

Sir Brian May Is A Good Knight Sending A Thank You Message

by Paul Cashmere

The newly knighted Sir Brian May has sent a special message to fans following his knighthood by King Charles III in the New Year’s Honors.

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