| martin S 19.05.2011 10:13 |
19th May 2011 Press Release: 'Queen: Days Of Our Lives' Documentary MAJOR BBC TV DOCUMENTARY Unseen footage and rare interviews to celebrate 40th Anniversary Broadcast on BBC Two on 29th and 30th May 2011 Queen continue to celebrate their 40th anniversary in regal fashion with the broadcast of a major two part BBC Two TV documentary ‘Queen: Days of Our Lives’ which sees Roger Taylor and Brian May looking back at the band’s incredible career in candid detail for the first time. Showing on BBC Two at 10pm on 29th and 30th May the two one hour shows explore the remarkable story of Brian, Roger, John Deacon and Freddie Mercury - looking into the early struggles, huge obstacles, success, arguments, breakups, triumph, tragedy and an enduring legacy – all against a backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances. With an extensive archive of unseen footage (the producers uncovered Queen's first ever TV performance, missing believed wiped, and shown here for the first time) plus remarkable archive interviews with Freddie Mercury, the documentary is the band’s story in their own words – a compelling journey told with intelligence, wit, plenty of humour and painful honesty. The documentaries cover each of the band’s studio albums, their legendary world tours of the 70’s and 80’s as they conquered South and North America and Asia, Live Aid and their enduring success since the passing of Freddie leading up to the present day and a popularity that continues to grow yearly. The Sun annointed them ‘Britain’s Best Loved Band’ earlier this year. ‘Queen: Days of Our Lives’ is produced by Rhys Thomas (the comedian who famously broke the Mastermind all time record points score with a specialist subject of Queen) and Simon Lupton, and is directed by the renowned director Matt O’Casey. Rhys Thomas comments, “We have set out to make the definitive Queen documentary. It's a funny, honest, inspiring and ultimately tragic account of ‘a certain band called Queen’, as told by the band themselves. We tell the story of four students who met in West London, slogged hard and conquered the world, ultimately changing rock music forever.” The band will be previewing the documentaries in a rare radio interview as they guest live on the Chris Evans BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show on May 27th. Brian and Roger will also attend the 9th anniversary celebration performance of their hit musical We Will Rock You on the evening of Tuesday May 31 at The Dominion Theatre with Brian performing with the cast. Queen's 40th Anniversary year has kicked off in spectacular style so far with their first ever major exhibition 'Stormtroopers in Stilettos' in London’s East End which drew an incredible crowd of over 20,000 visitors in two weeks, and kicked off with a star studded launch party attended by the likes of Foo Fighters and Jessie J. Meanwhile the bands first five albums have been reissued to considerable acclaim. The Telegraph said of their early work, 'Queen's greatest music was extravagantly innovative, technically brilliant and created with a jeweller's care.’ The five albums covering the 77-82 period (News of the World’, ‘Jazz’, ’The Game’, ‘Flash Gordon’ and ‘Hot Space’) are also reissued on June 27th. source: link Looks very promising to me *g* cheers |
| plumrach 19.05.2011 16:52 |
i will be watching |
| MERQRY 19.05.2011 19:03 |
"With an extensive archive of unseen footage (the producers uncovered Queen's first ever TV performance, missing believed wiped, and shown here for the first time)" ---------------------- First ever TV performance?? Are they talking about Seven seas of rhye (TOTP)?? |
| Hangman2011 21.05.2011 06:32 |
how d'you think, what we see in this new documentary |
| Rick 21.05.2011 07:36 |
Hope someone will record it and share it here :-) |
| Bad Seed 21.05.2011 07:42 |
From the BBC website Queen - Days of our lives, episode 1 In 1971, four university students got together to form a band. Since then, that certain band called Queen have released 26 albums and sold over 300 million records worldwide. The popularity of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon is stronger than ever. Their story is a remarkable one, a narrative that covers early struggles, huge obstacles, success, arguments, breakups, triumph, tragedy and an enduring legacy - all against a backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances from every corner of the globe. In this film, for the first time, it is the band that tells their story. Guiding us through an extensive archive full of hitherto unseen footage, the documentary reveals how four strong-minded individuals, all capable of writing massive hit songs, worked together so successfully for four decades. Queen never did anything by halves - meaning their highs were massive, but their lows catastrophic. It is a compelling story told with intelligence, wit, plenty of humour and painful honesty. Queen - Days of our lives, episode 2 The story of British rock band Queen, formed in 1971. The second half of this documentary sees Queen at the peak of their powers. With the ultimate showman in Freddie Mercury and a string of rock anthems to their name, Queen smashed attendance records with a series of stadium shows across South America. But the band quickly learned that if reaching the top is tough, staying there is the biggest challenge of all. With a loss of focus in the studio, the decline in popularity in North America, increasing internal tension and a desire to pursue solo projects, it seemed as if the band had had its day. Then came the performance from Mercury at Live Aid, and their record breaking Magic tour in 1986. Queen were propelled back amongst the very best. Rejuvinated, the world was once again at their feet, but then tragedy struck and threatened to tear the band apart. Featuring musical performances, previously unseen and rare footage, and intimate interviews. Looking forward to it! |
| CESAR BELTRAN M 23.05.2011 08:52 |
Hi any chance someone on here could record and share it on HD ? I hope this can be possible. |
| Hangman_96 23.05.2011 08:56 |
Hope someone will record it. |
| Queen Archivist 25.05.2011 04:28 |
This documentary is really superb. I think it's the best documentary on Queen, by far, ever assembled. It covers MUCH ground and features lots of detail you won't have seen before. There are things in this that will startle you!! I fine job. DON'T MISS IT. |
| pittrek 25.05.2011 05:38 |
Queen Archivist wrote: This documentary is really superb. I think it's the best documentary on Queen, by far, ever assembled. It covers MUCH ground and features lots of detail you won't have seen before. There are things in this that will startle you!! I fine job. DON'T MISS IT.Will it be "commercially available" for all of us who can't catch BBC or should we all wait till it gets uploaded ? |
| Pim Derks 25.05.2011 12:07 |
I hope they release a 2-disc edition of this, with lots of extra's which would not be of interest to be released separately. Throw in a nice slipcase, a small booklet and I'm sure it would sell quite good. But we'll probably get a re-release of Flix 1 & 2 or something instead. Very much looking forward to this documentary though :) |
| Queenman!! 26.05.2011 03:49 |
Queen Archivist wrote: This documentary is really superb. I think it's the best documentary on Queen, by far, ever assembled. It covers MUCH ground and features lots of detail you won't have seen before. There are things in this that will startle you!! I fine job. DON'T MISS IT. ================== I think it will cover a lot of footage shown in the Stormtroopers thing. So SSOR and also the Houston rehearsal stuff. Am I right Greg? |
| Rick 26.05.2011 03:59 |
Queen Archivist wrote: This documentary is really superb. I think it's the best documentary on Queen, by far, ever assembled. It covers MUCH ground and features lots of detail you won't have seen before. There are things in this that will startle you!! I fine job. DON'T MISS IT. ============ Sounds promising :-) |
| The Fairy King 26.05.2011 04:46 |
Can't wait :) |
| The Fairy King 26.05.2011 04:58 |
Queen's Documentary Interview at BBC Breakfast 2011-05-26 link Nice interview with a few excerpts of the documentary. |
| Rick 26.05.2011 06:25 |
Great, thanks for posting the link! :-) |
| dysan 26.05.2011 06:30 |
longer: link :o) |
| Rick 26.05.2011 06:35 |
Great footage from 1977. And SSOR in colour, finally :) I want this documentary on DVD! |
| deleted user 26.05.2011 06:47 |
Rick wrote: ........And SSOR in colour, finally :) But will you get to see the whole video I wonder? It looks to me that the clip shown implies it will be inter cut with an interview. Hope I'm wrong. |
| Bad Seed 26.05.2011 08:19 |
If anyone was watching at around 8:30, there was a short 3-4 second clip of some 77/78 (crown) footage which I have certainly not seen before. Was pro shot from the audience, looked a similar quality to the other Bob Harris stuff. |
| Soapy Gonad 26.05.2011 08:34 |
Hooray for the Queen! I listened to Hot Space last night and it made me do foamy piss out of my knitted cock! I fucking love Queens! SG X |
| Leonardo Venegas 26.05.2011 10:58 |
Rick wrote: Great footage from 1977. And SSOR in colour, finally :) I want this documentary on DVD! It seems there will be a DVD from this great documentary in the future with extra material not included in the broadcast!!! In Brian May's page there's the link of a nice interview to Rhys Thomas link |
| Rick 26.05.2011 14:16 |
Very interesting, thanks for posting the link. (still I hope someone will record this, nonetheless...) |
| The Real Wizard 26.05.2011 16:03 |
Leonardo Venegas wrote: In Brian May's page there's the link of a nice interview to Rhys Thomas link =============== Very nice ! I really am looking forward to seeing this documentary. |
| DGAA 27.05.2011 06:06 |
Days Of Our Lives Teaser Clip link |
| Ghostwithasmile is BACK! 27.05.2011 08:45 |
Queen Archivist wrote: This documentary is really superb. I think it's the best documentary on Queen, by far, ever assembled. It covers MUCH ground and features lots of detail you won't have seen before. There are things in this that will startle you!! I fine job. DON'T MISS IT. Hey Greg , is it because the bankrupt torpedo twins aren't involved with this project ? If so I really hope EMI were the torpedo twins of the music industry... |
| Rick 27.05.2011 09:08 |
DGAA wrote: Days Of Our Lives Teaser Clip link ======== Nice! I'm really getting psyched now. |
| Leonardo Venegas 27.05.2011 11:06 |
Shit!!! This looks awesome, great footage! What beautiful harmonies!!! I can't wait to see this, let's hope it doesn't take too long till some nice queenzoner records this a share it with everyone! Cheers! |
| The Real Wizard 27.05.2011 11:54 |
Great teaser clip with new interview footage from '77. This is gonna be great. |
| Marknow 27.05.2011 16:48 |
If you do not have BBC T.V in your country download and install this link I have it about a year or so and it works great. Run the program, it will assign a British i.p for you, then simply navigate onto the BBC Iplayer website and watch live. link Remember to run the program before you navigate to the BBC website, and do not forget to turn it off when your done watching. Should work where ever you live. Regards. Mark. |
| Leonardo Venegas 29.05.2011 13:56 |
Thank you Mark, I'll try that one! Cheers! |
| drmurph 29.05.2011 15:57 |
Only 1/2 an hour until the documentary starts, I've been really excited all week and now sit with my DVD recorder waiting in anticipation. Hope it's good... |
| The Fairy King 29.05.2011 17:04 |
Just watched the first part of the documentary and i have to say: WOW!!! Still amazed they used a lot of new footage. Very satisfied, can't wait for tomorrow night!! <3 |
| paulosham 29.05.2011 17:06 |
Well that was awesome! I would have liked some Deaky though. |
| Hangman_96 29.05.2011 17:13 |
Just ended watching it a few minutes ago. That was EXTREMELY awesome!!! OMFG! They showed the footage of Queen recording We Are The Champions in the studio!!! I nearly had a heart attack! |
| Russian Headlong 29.05.2011 17:14 |
This documentary was BRILLIANT. I have several Queen Documentaries The Magic Years, Champions of the World. Freedie Mercury A Kind of Magic, The Bohemian Rhapsody Story and another Channel 4 one but this, this was amazing. The unseen footage like making of WATC, Madison Square Garden, Hyde Park, more footage of the 70's Bob Harris Interviews, it showed more than the Doro stuff and how funny a guy is Roger Taylor. Can't wait for part 2 tommorrow! |
| Gregoryvincke 29.05.2011 17:17 |
This documentary was absolutely tremendous. Finally, queen fans got what they had been waiting for many years, new footage! Can't wait to buy the dvd! |
| Pim Derks 29.05.2011 17:21 |
Very cool, especially the video's documenting the recording of Champions. Unbelievable that they finally seem to be willing to show/release this kind of stuff! |
| Parararam 29.05.2011 18:02 |
Queen - Days of Our Lives Part 1 Youtube 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link Rapidshare link |
| Ego Shredder 30.05.2011 07:51 |
Really enjoyed the programme, but now part two is tonight! Cannot wait!! Roger was pretty pissed off regarding certain points throughout the interview, which is understandable but you do not normally see this from him. Good to see they are finally showing what they really feel about things. |
| john bodega 30.05.2011 14:37 |
Despite their inability to put certain things on shelves, Queen still has a way of pleasantly surprising me. Great little documentary, can't wait for the second half. If it's as straightforward and honest as the first half, I'll probably be bawling by the end of it! |
| Parararam 30.05.2011 17:49 |
Queen - Days of Our Lives - Part 2 Youtube 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link |