auction says: Mercury writes just as Queen has broken big in America, to the man who made it possible, expressing his sincerest thanks.
So this means Queen had some kind of a following in the US before they toured with Mott The Hoople there in 1974...? I thought the tour is what created that, since the first two albums didn't sell well.
pittrek wrote: WTF 10 000 for a letter ???
Yeah, I'll just save the scan to my hard drive, thanks.
If I can get 10,000 people to give me a $1 I can get this. Come on people. Cough up. It's what Freddie would have wanted!
Here are direct links to Jac Holzman's letter describing the Freddie letter: link link
Sounds like Brian tried to propose to him in 2006 at the RnR Hall of Fame ceremony.
Screw me. I guess this is real.
But the price, the time it took to list it (3 months), just in time for the new album, there are lots of things that I would question... but the first would have to be my sanity for even considering paying THAT!!
No, it's not.
A "Music scholarship"? Please. In India? How exactly is that a good cause? So someone is going to get $9999.00 to learn how to play the Sanfur. Great.
Maybe one day they'll be on Peter Gabriel's Realworld label and you'll find it in the cut-out bin, since no one buys that crap.