On This Day in Queen History – 4 January

In 1977 – Queen flew to Boston Massachusetts, USA to rehearse for A Day at The Races Tour.
In 1988 – The Cross released “Shove It” / “Rough Justice” + 12″ maxi single “Shove It” extended version.
In 1999 – Brian May article for Guitar World magazine (USA) published: Wire Choir “Stolen Moments – THE SOLO TO ‘KILLER QUEEN’ EXPLAINED”. READ HERE

Wire Choir

In 2002 – “The Untold Story” by Rudi Dolezal & Hannes Rossacher nominated in the 44th Grammy Awards.
In 2005 – iTunes UK & USA released exclusive download EP single “46664: One Year On – The EP: Internet EP Single” with: “Invincible Hope (One Year On Remix)” – Queen, “Whole Life”- Dave Stewart & Paul McCartney, “People” – Jimmy Cliff, Sting and Tony Rebel and “Freedom’s Coming” – Da Universal Playaz.
In 2007 – Brian May and Roger Taylor appeared on CBC TV’s ‘The Hour’ programme in Canada 4 January. 


Brian May & Roger Taylor The Hour 4 Jan 2007 – https://youtu.be/yQ7JufqIt98
TRANSCRIPT: PART 1 and PART 2

In 2008 – Brian May appeared on This Morning TV, announcing Queen+PR would be touring that year.

Brian May on This Morning

In 2010 – Roger Taylor released “The Unblinking Eye (Everything Is Broken)” CD single UK. In 2010 – Jim Hutton buried in Carlow, Ireland.
In 2010 – Roger Taylor could be heard every morning of first week of January on “The Ken Bruce Show” on BBC Radio 2 “Tracks Of My Years” presenting his favorite songs.
In 2011 – Queen “Greatest Hits” and ” Greatest Hits II ” published by Iceland Records (Austria and Germany).
In 2012 – Promo ad for Google+ appeared in US around 25 Dec with “Under Pressure”. And 4 Jan selected as No2 in the Top 5 Ads on Ad Forum. Here the Top 5″.

TV ad for Google + with The Muppets – Queen and David Bowie – Under Pressure
https://youtu.be/o0X7-ztBiNI

In 2013 – Spike Edney released a promo DVD video of SAS with clips from performances with Brian May (‘With A Little Help From My Friends’), Roger Taylor (‘Radio Gaga’, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’), Tony Hadley (‘Hammer To Fall)’ and Chris Thompson (‘The Show Must Go On’).
In 2013 – Roger Taylor on BBC Radio 2 programme “Taylor Made” playing records from his collection, followed by “Queen At The BBC”.
In 2014 – Brian May spoke to the Buxton Advertiser, about life in the band, Queen, and promoting forthcoming concert with Kerry Ellis at Buxton Opera House, 19 Feb. FULL INTERVIEW

Brian May talks about life in the band [Queen] 4 Jan 2014
https://youtu.be/msbcQiwfmL4  – Transcript HERE

In 2014 – Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers dies aged 74 in California. Brian May wrote a personal obituary. READ HERE
In 2015 – The Australian premiere of the film “One Night In Hell” to be presented at the “Flickerfest 2015 – 24th International Short Film Festival” 25.02.2015 at the A & I Hall in Bangalow.
In 2017 – Brian May signed 13 of the “Rhapsody” Tour exclusive guitars at his house, the “Rhapsody” being the new “Acoustic Sister” of the Red Special, and which Brian played on “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” on the Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2016.
READ HERE.
In 2017 – A video trailer for “We Will Rock You Denmark” released.