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How to Identify and Collect Authentic Queen Band Member Autographs

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In 2009 I unwittingly bought what was very likely a fake item (an LP album cover autographed by all four members of Queen) from a reputable high street dealer of signed memorabilia in a popular U.K. tourist destination. After I had sought specialist advice from a knowledgeable collector and challenged the retailer, he accepted the item back and refunded my money in full.

Since then I have acquired a number of items signed by Brian May from official sources: Barry Moorhouse at Brian May Guitars, an in person meet and greet at the SSE Hydro arena in December 2017 and direct from his equipment technician, Pete Malandrone via charity auction at an enthusiast meet.

My YouTube content for January is a brief video lasting less than five minutes which aims to provide some insights and tips on how to identify and obtain authentic items signed by the Queen band members, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.

Some of the content has caption credits in video (thanks to Jamie Rail, Shawn Leaver and Brian May via Instagram). I have extracted clips from other YouTube channel content under the fair usage policy. Photographs of signed Queen memorabilia also came from the following sources:

Queen Fan Store (eBay)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/queenfanstores

Queen Museum
https://queenmuseum.com/

First Class Memorabilia
https://firstclassmemorabilia.com/

#BrianMay #FreddieMercury #RogerTaylor #JohnDeacon

Supreme Queen Tribute Band Full Concert

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Supreme Queen tribute band guitarist Luke Timmins invited me to attend their concert at The Town House in Hamilton near Glasgow, Scotland on 30 September 2023 and back stage to film their set-up and sound checks. I was able to take advantage of empty gallery seats immediately overlooking the stage on the band’s left (right from the audience’s perspective) to film the band close up. Check out the video below which is 1h 46m in duration; each song is time indexed from the description.

The set list plus additional information and links can be found here:
https://dsgb.net/events/supremequeen/

Supreme Queen Tribute Band – Behind The Scenes

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Billed as “a concert through time and space” and a “dazzling tribute”, let me welcome you ladies and gentlemen behind the scenes at the Supreme Queen tribute band concert at The Town House in Hamilton near Glasgow in Scotland on Saturday, 30 September 2023. I cover band set-up, full song sound checks and some concert footage is included.

Supreme Queen are Scott Maley as Freddie Mercury on lead vocal, Luke Timmins as Brian May on lead guitar, Allan Brown as Roger Taylor on percussion, Alan Wallbanks as John Deacon on bass guitar and Ben Marshall representing Spike Edney on keyboards. Check out their website for futher details about the band:

https://www.supremequeen.co.uk/

Crew technical support is provided by Blue Thunder Sound from Ivybridge in Devon: https://www.bluethundersound.co.uk/

Queen + Adam Lambert Rhapsody Tour 2022?

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Like many parents who were hoping to take their children, the next generation of Queen fans, to see Queen + Adam Lambert play on the postponed U.K. and European Rhapsody Tour, we are disappointed to learn of its inevitable further postponement to 2022. Unfortunately for us, our four tickets which cost £987 in total were originally for a weekend (Saturday, 6th June 2020) but have now been rescheduled to a weekday (Thursday, 9th June 2022) which make it considerably more inconvenient for us to attend. I have contacted Ticketmaster to see what can be done, but the upside is that tour T-shirts can be bought cheaply from eBay resellers and make excellent nightwear. Rock on!