In 1979 – Queen played Ludwigsparkstadion, Saarbrücken, Germany, Roger Taylor sporting green hair, after a botched dye job, described as ‘the’ drumming parrot’ by Peter Hince in his book, Queen Unseen: My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century – the show pretty much ‘doomed from the start, the crew had missed flight, busy ‘perusing the wares in Dr Muller’s sex shop at Frankfurt airport’.
Saarbrucken Open-Air Festival, 1979
Credit: Rory Gallagher Facebook
In 2005 – Brian commented ON SOAPBOX on We Will Rock You becoming the longest running show at the Dominion the previous evening – on being snowed under – and overtaking The Beatles in UK Charts.
In 2009 – The 1995 track “Nobody Knew (Black White House)”, Brian May with Carmine Appice’s Guitar Zeus” single, appeared again on a Guitar Zeus24-track Double Disc “Conquering Heroes” released 18 August.
In 2009 – Sony released Singstar Queen for PlayStation®3 and PlayStation®2 released in USA.
In 2009 – Brian wrote that he had left LA – and Meatloaf – the previous afternoon and shared some (hilarious) videos from his time with Meatloaf.
Meat Loaf and Brian May!
– https://youtu.be/nPoQEwjlh1U
Meat sells Brian May’s book!
– https://youtu.be/9ppaEcMsV9U
Meat and Brian May continued…
– https://youtu.be/SvDY1NivQGU
In 2013 – “Astro Set 2” Astronomical Stereo Cards, created by Brian May, is published by The London Stereoscopic Company, complementing “Astro Set 1”.
In 2019 – Queen + Adam Lambert played Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL.