On This Day in Queen History – 8 May

In 1974 – Queen played the Uris Theatre, New York, New York, USA.

Queen New York May 1974
Queen New York May 1974
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In 1977 – Queen played the Ice Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden.
In 1985 – Queen played the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan.
In 1994 – Nazis 1994 single charted in UK charts at 22.
In 2003 – Brian May guest appearance, Lonnie Donegan Memorial Service, St Paul’s, Covent Garden, London. Provided vocals on I’m Just A Rolling Stone (vocals) and guitar Have A Drink On Me.

Lonnie Memorial Progamme cover

Lonnie Donegan Memorial group photo
Brian May, Bill Wyman, Albert Lee, Joe Brown, Bruce Welch, Bert Weedon and others [from SteelGuitarForum.com]

In 2006 – Queen received Gold, Platinum and 5x Platinum awards Live At Wembley ’86 DVD, Gold and Platinum awards for Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl DVD US sales.
In 2007 – Roger Taylor made a guest appearance with the SAS Band at the Bain & Company, Sorrento, Italy, with The SAS Band (Madeline Bell, Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri, Chris Thompson, The Fabba Girls and Tommy Blaize).
In 2009 – Brian May and Roger Taylor attended Press Conference for “We Will Rock You – The Musical”, Hard Rock Cafe, Milan, Italy.

Milan Press Conference
Milan Press Conference

In 2011 – Brian May and Kerry Ellis played the Royal Centre, Nottingham, UK.
In 2012 – Brian May appeared on “Foxes Live In The City”, Channel 4, UK, talking about his experience of rescuing and raising wild foxes.

Brian May takes part in fox discussion Pt1 – 8 May 2012 – https://youtu.be/H2BK6w8mnbI
and Pt 2 – https://youtu.be/AA4nikpIfn0
In 2015 – In the early hours of the morning, Brian May popped into ITV’s Opinion Room early this morning, Pie Chart in hand, to give his comments on the 2015 General Election, in relation to his Common Decency campaign, alongside Katie Ghose, Chief Executive Electoral Reform Society.

Brian May and Katie Ghose in ITV’s Opinion Room 8 May 2015
https://youtu.be/msqWeokIkEw

In 2015 – Brian May was also a guest in ITV Election Studio for the “Good Morning Britain” show.
In 2020 – “Brian May Day” Planet Rock Radio, 6am-6pm, Brian on air from 10am–2pm…. + Kings Daughters dropped by to talk ‘Get Up!’ song.

Brian May Day - Planet Rock Radio