HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL RODGERS !!
![Paul Rodgers MEN Arena 2005 ©Jen Tunney](https://brianmay.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DSCF0044_Paul_Rodgers_cr2_690x690.jpg)
In 1949 – Paul Bernard Rodgers born in Middlesbrough, N Yorkshire
– Happy Birthday to Paul [BIOGRAPHY]
In 1964 – The Cousin Jacks played City Hall, Truro, UK.
In 1965 – The Opposition played Gartree School, Leicester, UK.
In 1968 – The Art played Gartree School, Leicester, UK.
In 1977 – Queen played County Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA – John Deacon put hand through a plate glass window, resulting in 19 stitches in his arm.
In 1979 – Queen played the Purley Tiffany’s, London, UK. In 1980 – Flash Gordon reached UK album chart at No.10.
In 1988 – Brian May guest appearance with Bad News and Jeff Beck, The Marquee Club, London, UK.
In 1992 – Brian and Roger attended DoRo Productions 10th Anniversary Party in Vienna – played live with Nina Hagen and The Scorpions.
![Brian and Roger Vienna 1992](https://brianmay.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Brian_and_Roger_DoRo_10th_Anniv_Vienna_17Dec1992_snp774_800x607.jpg)
QUEEN – Doro Party Vienna 19th. nov 1992
– https://youtu.be/GHe8pHp6mew
In 1993 – Sotherby’s sold Freddie’s childhood stamp collection, plus several albums collected by his father, for £3,200, bought by the London Postal Museum.
![A page from Freddie Mercury's stamp collection](https://brianmay.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/freddie-mercurys-stamp-alb_a_page.jpg)
In 1993 – The Brian May Band played the Dramático de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal.
In 1994 – Brian May guest appearance with SAS Band as “Twit E. Conway“, Queen Fan Club Christmas Party Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK – played “Only Make Believe” and “Tie Your Mother Down”.
In 2008 – Brian May and Kerry Ellis’s performance at the 2008 Royal Variety Performance Show televised, UK. They played a rocking version of “Defying Gravity” approx 30 mins into show and later joined the rest of the artists in finale, singing The National Anthem. The TV footage also showed the band in the backstage area where the royal guests, Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall, met and shook hands with the performers.
In 2010 – ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ ranked 2nd “Dutch Radio Q Music Top 1000”, No 1 being “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay.
In 2010 – ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ voted “Best Road Song” by VH1 Classic Radio.
In 2013 – “We Will Rock You” N American Tour, played Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Fort Myers, FL, till 22.12.2013.
In 2017 – Brian May and Anita Dobson visited the Musical “Nativity” at the Hammersmith Apollo, London.
“Seriously – it’s been a while since I felt so lifted. Congratulations Nativity Team. Bri” REPORT