On This Day in Queen History – 13 October

In 1973 – Queen played the Underground, Bonn, Germany.
In 1978 – ‘Bicycle Race’ bw ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ released UK.

Bicycle Race single sleeve
Bicycle Race single sleeve

In 1984 – Queen played the Super Bowl, Sun City, Bophuthatswana, S Africa.
In 1991 – The Cross played Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany.
In 1992 – Hollywood Records released video collections ‘Classic Queen” (black sleeve) and “Greatest Hits” (red sleeve) USA -the latter, Hollywood Records Greatest Hits VHS includes ‘Fat Bottomed Girls (Hollywood Records Video version)” written by Brian May- single edit, but album ending instead of fade-out.

Queen Greatest Hits USA VHS
USA Queen Greatest HIts VHS – Photo QueenVault.com

In 1993 – The Brian May Band played Modjeska Theater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
In 1998 – The Brian May Band played Posthof 2, Linz, Austria.
In 2008 – Queen + Paul Rodgers played the O2 Arena, London, UK – Al Murray joined band in Cosmos Rockin’ and reportedly Roger Taylor’s mother in the audience.

Queen Cosmos Rockin with Al Murray Live @ O2 Arena London
https://youtu.be/1pqjbenIUCI

Al Murray and Brian May O2
Al Murray and Brian May O2

In 2011 – Brian May joined Bristol We Will Rock You, Hippodrome, Bristol, for their Press Night.

Bristol Press Night
Brian, Noel Sullivan and cast – Bristol. Photo Sue Foxford

In 2014 – “One Night In Hell – Teaser 2” published by Brian May.
In 2015 – Queen Extravaganza, Crown Theatre, Perth, Australia.
In 2016 – Brian May was working with Denis Pellerin and Jamie Symonds on the “Queen in 3-D” book. A special 3-D Photo Session with Brian May and Denis Pellerin too place and 3-D photos by Denis Pellerin for the London Stereoscopic Company by Brian May and the News Of The World Robot and the Red Special are posted on Brian May’s website.
In 2017 – Brian May met with Bryan Singer on the film set of “Bohemian Rhapsody” – one day after Brian May’s Press Conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair, “Queen In 3-D (German Edition)” became the No.1 best-selling book in musicology and in Amazon’s top 100 sales charts.  SEE SOAPBOX with more photos

Bri delivering presentation, Frankfurt