On This Day in Queen History – 29 July

In 1967 – The Reaction played Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, UK. 
In 1971 – Queen played The Garden, Penzance, UK, supporting the band, “Warm Dust”.

Warm Dust
Warm Dust Hamburger Pop & Blues Festival 1970. Photo: www.rockzirkus.de

In 1993 – The Cross played their last concert with Roger Taylor, Gosport Festival, Walpole Park, Gosport, UK.

The Cross
The Cross

A Village Lost and FoundIn 1994 – Roger Taylor performed with the SAS Band Walpole Park, Gosport, UK.
In 1999 – Brian May working with 5ive producer “Biff” on version of WWRY”, Windmill Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
In 2000 – ‘We Will Rock You’ – Five and Queen charted at No 1, the first time the song had ever charted and the first time two groups had combined on a No 1. [Source: Guinness World Records British Hit Singles 14th Ed: 867]
In 2010 – Special Guest lecture and book signing by Brian May and Elena Vidal, co-authors of “A Village Lost and Found”. Two presentation: 6:30 & 8:30pm in the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theatre, Griffith Observatory, LA. REPORT HERE |A Village Lost And Found

Elena Vidal and Brian May, Griffith Observatory
Elena Vidal and Brian May, Griffith Observatory

In 2012 – “We Will Rock You” London Cast performed in Hyde Park at “BT London Live Hyde Park” to mark the Olympic Games.

We Will Rock You – I Want It All
http://youtu.be/u8b2NYztr_Y

In 2013 – 20,000 music fans at Rakuten’s Play.com voted Queen No 1 in “Top 10 Artists Of All Time” followed by The Beatles and the Foo Fighters in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
In 2013 – A press release announced the full cast and band for the N American Tour of “We Will Rock You” Musical, the national tour due to launch in Baltimore, MD, at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, October 2013.
In 2014 – Queen flew home to London from Toronto.
In 2016 – The DVD “Rick Wakeman And Brian May – Starmus” is released and includes “Starmus – Sonic Universe Concert – Rick Wakeman and Special Guest Brian May” from 26.09.2014 at the “Starmus Festival 2014” in Tenerife. “Last Horizon” and “’39”.

"Rick Wakeman and Brian May DVD

In 2016 – A press release announced a third show by Queen + Adam Lambert at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo for 21.09.2016. The first two Tokyo shows (22.09. and 23.09.2016) were already completely sold out.
In 2017 – Brian May wrote on SOAPBOX: thanking BROOKLYN for first time ever, there previous night and  sharing photo from Barclays Center, New York, New York, USA show.

Brian May: Thanks Brooklyn 2017
Barclay Centre, Broklyn © Brian May 2017

In 2017 – The 12″ vinyl single ‘Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad) – Remix’ by Roger Taylor was released by Music For Freak label in UK. The two versions ‘Anna Wall & Corbi Remix’ and ‘Jamie 3.26 Punk Funk Version’ were on the 12″ single.