I only just spotted this on www.queenonline.com:

EMI MUSIC AND QUEEN TO RE-RELEASE ENTIRE QUEEN STUDIO ALBUM CATALOGUE ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL

Click here to pre-order now!

First Set of Releases March 16, 2009:

Queen II – ICPN 5099926657219
Sheer Heart Attack – ICPN 5099926657318
A Night at the Opera – ICPN 5099926658513
A Day at the Races – ICPN 5099926659510

EMI Music and Queen are announcing the re-release over two years of the entire Queen studio album catalogue on long playing vinyl albums. The album packaging will include every detail of the original releases in their original 12” format. Bonus posters, extra pictures, and all the unique content of the original albums will be faithfully reproduced.

The first group of releases, out March 16th, will consist of four classic Queen albums Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera and A Day At the Races.

Following in May 2009 will be come five further albums including the very first album, Queen, along with News Of The World, Flash Gordon, A Kind of Magic and Innuendo, with successive releases coming approximately every 6 months.

In a deliberate move, the albums are not being released chronologically but instead sequenced over the twenty-two year period of release allowing buyers wider choice with each new batch of releases.

Queen’s original studio albums:

Queen
Queen II
Sheer Heart Attack
A Night At The Opera
A Day At The Races
News Of The World
Jazz
The Game
Flash Gordon
Hot Space
The Works
A Kind Of Magic
The Miracle
Innuendo
Made In Heaven

Videos from youtube!

Under Pressure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw_JXndPdQw

Tenement Funster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBIZbNeAJwU

A Kind of Magic and Cosmos Rockin’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4lAKEKoIqA

Cosmos Rockin’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwE_zT_8KGE

Go Roger!!! This story was also in the Sunday Express on 25 January 2009.

http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk

International superstar Roger Taylor of the rock band Queen has condemned outsiders for putting at risk the livelihoods of fishermen who work in the area where he owns a home, in Helford.

His words come as a BBC1 television programme last night highlighted the difficulties of the fisherman in the village, who want to build a new jetty but have been stopped by second home owners.

As featured in the Packet yesterday, fisherman Chris Bean has been trying for five years to build the jetty in the creek.

Plans for the new jetty and roadway were approved by Kerrier district council almost two years ago to the satisfaction of local conservation bodies.

But it is on hold because members of the Helford Village Society – which is dominated by owners of second homes in the village – have forced a judicial review of the council’s decision. It will cost Kerrier a considerable amount of money to put their case and local council taxpayers will have to foot the bill.

Queen drummer Roger Taylor heard about the fishermen’s plight when he arrived home from a tour in South America to find a letter from the fishermen asking him to support their cause.

He would particularly affected by the planned new jetty as his home is directly opposite, on the other side of the river.

Mr Taylor, who was brought up in nearby Truro and spends a large amount of time at his Helford home and the surrounding area, said: “I lived and grew up in Cornwall and I cannot see one single reason why the jetty should not be built.

“Fishermen work there year round and live there year round and they have a hard life. It is a bit of a joke that they are not allowed it.”

He added that he did not believe the jetty would change the scenery in any way.

“Those guys who live and work there all year round, why shouldn’t they have a good old-fashioned jetty? A beautiful old-fashioned granite jetty would make the fishermen’s lives a lot easier.

“People who do not live there and do not know the area much should just shut up and get on with their lives,” he said.

Mr Taylor’s family moved to Cornwall when he was young and he attended boarding school in Truro.

Photos: http://www.girlonfire.co.uk/photos/thumbnails.php?album=266

Wow!!! What a gig! After a few drinks with Terry, Parky, Danielle, Andy and Catherine, we wandered over and got a good place in the 5th row!

The support band Crash were quite good and I had a good sing-a-long! The singer was James Toseland, World Superbike Champion!

Crash Set List:

Message in a Bottle
Love in an Elevator
If I Ever Lose my Faith in You
Walk This Way
Sweet Child of Miine
Fat Bottomed Girls

Before the SAS Band started, Spike threw lots of party poppers out into the crowd and everyone let them off together!

SAS Band Set List

Band introduction and party poppers!
Vehicle (all)
Respect (Patti Russo)
Baby Love (Patti Russo)
Lady Marmalade (Patti Russo)
Tie Your Mother Down (Jeff Scott Soto)
I Wish (Jeff Scott Soto)
Rehab (Madeline Bell)
Natural Woman (Madeline Bell)
Move On Up (Madeline Bell)
28 Riff Overture
Waterloo (Fabba Girls)
Dancing Queen (Fabba Girls)
For Your Love (Graham Gouldman)
Dreadlock Holiday (Graham Gouldman)
Rubber Bullets (Graham Gouldman)
Are You Gonna Go My Way (Toyah)
School’s Out (Toyah)
River Deep (Toyah)
California Man (Roy Wood)
Blackberry Way
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (Roy Wood)
Love Of My Life (Jeff Scott Soto)
Don’t Stop Me Now (Jeff Scott Soto)
Under Pressure (Roger Taylor + Patti Russo)
Tenement Funster (Roger Taylor with Rufus on drums)
A Kind Of Magic (Roger Taylor with Rufus on drums)
Cosmos Rockin’ (Roger Taylor with Rufus on drums)
We Will Rock You (all with Roger and Rufus on drums)
We Are The Champions (all)
You’re The Voice (Madeline Bell)
All The Way (all)

Madeline Bell was totally fantastic! Roger Taylor was on top form, I was shocked when he started singing Under Pressure with Patti Russo. I was totally shocked when he did Tenement Funster, he introduced it by saying ‘This is a first, I’ve got my son here on drums, Rufus Taylor, Rufus Tiger Taylor. This is an ancient song, very old, some of you might be old enough to remember it’. He did all the old moves from the Electric Fire days! It was brilliant. He then did a ‘not quite so old song’ A Kind Of Magic then I almost passed out on the floor when he did Cosmos Rockin’. He introduced it by saying ‘This is a version of a roll and roll song, it was called the whole house rocking at first but that changed, from a house to a cosmos. He got the words slightly wrong ‘To the Panama (instead of Across the seven seas), mumble mumble muble (instead of ‘to the Panama’). At the end of it, he grabbed the tambourine and threw it in the air, and even managed to catch it!! Rufus was fantasic on drums and Roger kept going over to him at the end of the songs and looked like a very father! After Cosmos Rockin’, Rufus went to the drum kit at the end of the stage and Roger went to the other drum kit and they both drummed WWRY!

Rufus has been confirmed, check out the Queen Fan Club website for more details!

http://www.queenworld.com

Get yourself a ticket now for the SAS band New Years Bash at indigO2!! Roger will be there!

www.sasband.com