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Queen – The Complete Illustrated Lyrics book released

by Shanes Queen Site | May 25, 2012 | Queen Related Books

Queen: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics is the first book of its kind as it is not only a complete Queen lyrics book but it also features hundreds of images accompanying the songs. These photos range from handwritten lyrics by Freddie and the Band to never-before-seen photos from the stage to the studio.

Also included in the Complete Illustrated Lyrics is a complete discography, pairing each song with the album on which it was originally released through Queen’s 40-year history and back catalogue.

Queen’s Greatest Hits, released in 1981, is the U.K.’s best-selling album of all time and this book allows you to sing along to all of Queens hits and also review some great photos and memories.

Queen: Complete Illustrated Lyrics was designed by Queen’s longtime creative director Richard Gray and is as true to the band as can be.

If there is one book for a Queen fan to own, this is the one.

Queen – Complete Illustrated Lyrics is out now in North America. Released from June 1st in Europe and the UK.

Visit www.queenonline.com for more details

Have you purchased Queen The Complete Illustrated Lyrics book? If so, please let us know what you think by leaving a comment below or on the Shane’s Queen Site Facebook Page.

Queen Collector (French Version) Queen & Freddie Feauture

by Shanes Queen Site | Nov 24, 2011 | Queen Related Books

Queen Collector Queen & Freddie Feature

The most popular rock band in England is not called The Beatles but Queen. This charismatic singer Freddie Mercury died 20 years ago today, from AIDS, November the 24th, 1991. A special issue of Queen Collector (French Version) has a special feature on Freddie and Queen including;

• Interview with Freddie Mercury
• Interview with Brian May
• Mercury and choreography
• Mercury and Opera
• On the road with Queen
• Complete Discography
• 100 rare photos

I have taken a look at the Queen Collector edition on ISSUU (the VibrationsMusic link did not work at the time of my testing). I can tell you the visuals are amazing but the document, as you would expect is in French, as this is the French version of Queen Collector. I can read French but it took me a while. It is a very interesting read and a good one for anyone who can lire Francais. Enjoy !

To see a preview : http://issuu.com/consart/docs/queen_maglowr
To buy this issue : http://www.vibrationsmusic.com/shopping/303-HORS_SERIE_QUEEN.html

Queen Collector Queen & Freddie Feature – update

I was just checking that the link still existed and I can confirm that as of October 2021 this link was still working for those who want to take a look at it. The comment on the piece on Issuu is ‘Hors-série Vibrations magazine Queen’ which translates as ‘Special edition Vibrations magazine Queen’. I hope you enjoy!

If you have read this piece and you want to add your commentary or your review on the issuu publication, please drop me an email or contact me on social media. My Social media links are listed at the bottom of this page.

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Queen Unseen by Peter Hince goes on-sale

by Shanes Queen Site | Oct 9, 2011 | Queen Related Books

Queen Unseen - My life with the Great Rock Band of the 20th Century - by Peter Ratty Hince

The new Queen book, Queen Unseen by Queen Roadie, Peter Hince, has hit the shops.
I will have a review of the book on this site in the next few weeks. I have provided Amazon links and some details from the author below.

A Word From the Author – Peter Hince

Queen Unseen is a unique account of the many exciting years as a young man I spent on tour, in the recording studio, on video shoots and day to day life at home with one of the world’s biggest and best ever rock bands. It is an insightful, enlightening and mostly humorous account for anybody who has ever wondered what working for Queen, or indeed most rock bands of that era really entailed….. the highs and the lows. It is not a chronological history or definitive biography of the band, but a personal story of what it was like to spend your youth travelling the world and living the rock and roll lifestyle – to the full!

I make observations and comments about all the fantastic places we visited and played, and what it was like living, at times, a crazy and surreal existence.

The book covers all the areas that were relevant in Queen’s working life, during my time as Queen’s longest-serving roadie and head of their crew. There is lots of new material and surprises for Queen fans and it is a book to interest anybody who likes stories of rock and roll life in the 1970s & 1980s.

Mine is a truly unique book on Queen – no journalist or author could have written it – they were not there. I was, and I remember it all like it was yesterday…..
Wonderful memories.

There will be photo sections in the book that contain colour and black & white images from my successful Queen The Unseen Archive show that was exhibited in London and Australia recently. There will be additional rare and unseen photos and other images items of interest.

I hope you will join me on an Access All Areas journey through a magical era when we were young; feeling we could take on the world and win. Invariably we did.

Buy Queen Unseen on Amazon

Review of Queen Unseen

My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century “Queen Unseen” – Cover is Revealed

by Shanes Queen Site | Jun 29, 2011 | Queen Related Books

The cover of “Queen Unseen” – “My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century” has been revealed…

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Queen Unseen is a personal memoir by Queen’s longest serving tour roadie, Peter “Ratty” Hince. This new book will be published in October 2011.

To order a signed copy of Queen Unseen, which will be published in October 2011, for £17.99
Please contact John Blake Publishing Ltd with your name, address and contact number on 020 7381 0666 (mon-fri) or email words@blake.co.uk

UK P&P is free – overseas P&P £3.00.

“Queen Unseen” will also be available from shops and online via Amazon etc.

Here’s what Peter has to say about it…
“Queen Unseen is a unique account of the many exciting years as a young man I spent on tour, in the recording studio, on video shoots and day to day life at home with one of the world’s biggest and best ever rock bands.

It is an insightful, enlightening and mostly humorous account for anybody who has ever wondered what working for Queen, or indeed most rock bands of that era really entailed….. the highs and the lows.

It is not a chronological history or definitive biography of the band, but a personal story of what it was like to spend your youth travelling the world and living the rock and roll lifestyle – to the full!

There will be NO lurid details of the band’s private lives. There is plenty of sex and drugs and rock and roll – and of course everybody knows it happened….

I make observations and comments about all the fantastic places we visited and played, and what living what at times, was a crazy and surreal existence.

The book covers all the areas that were relevant in Queen’s working life, during my time as Queen’s longest serving roadie and head of their crew.

There is lots of new material and surprises for Queen fans and it is a book to interest anybody who likes stories of rock and roll life in the 1970s & 1980s.

There will be photo sections in the book that contain colour and black & white images from my successful Queen The Unseen Archive show that was exhibited in London and Australia recently.

There will be additional rare and unseen photos and other images items of interest.”

Queen Unseen, by Queen’s longest serving roadie Peter ‘Ratty” Hince

by Shanes Queen Site | Jun 19, 2011 | Interesting Queen Items, Queen Related Books

Queen Unseen, a personal memoir by Queen’s longest-serving roadie Peter ‘Ratty” Hince will be published in October 2011.

“Queen Unseen is a unique account of the many exciting years as a young man I spent on tour, in the recording studio, on video shoots and day to day life at home with one of the world’s biggest and best ever rock bands.

It is an insightful, enlightening and mostly humorous account for anybody who has ever wondered what working for Queen, or indeed most rock bands of that era really entailed….. the highs and the lows.

It is not a chronological history or definitive biography of the band, but a personal story of what it was like to spend your youth travelling the world and living the rock and roll lifestyle – to the full!

There will be NO lurid details of the band’s private lives. There is plenty of sex and drugs and rock and roll – and of course, everybody knows it happened…

I make observations and comments about all the fantastic places we visited and played, and what living what at times, was a crazy and surreal existence.

The book covers all the areas that were relevant in Queen’s working life, during my time as Queen’s longest-serving roadie and head of their crew.

There is lots of new material and surprises for Queen fans and it is a book to interest anybody who likes stories of rock and roll life in the 1970s & 1980s.

There will be photo sections in the book that contain colour and black & white images from my successful Queen The Unseen Archive show that was exhibited in London and Australia recently.

There will be additional rare and unseen photos and other images items of interest.”

To order a signed copy of Queen Unseen, which will be published in October 2011, for £17.99
Please contact John Blake Publishing Ltd with your name, address and contact number on 020 7381 0666 (mon-fri) or email words@blake.co.uk

UK P&P is free – overseas P&P £3.00.

The book will also be available from shops and online via Amazon etc – Click here to read a book review of Queen Unseen by Peter Hince

Click Here to Buy Queen Unseen

New Book – ‘Freddie & Me’ Book ; Queen Influenced Book

by Shanes Queen Site | Nov 2, 2009 | Queen Related Books

I have just received this new book, titled, Freddie & Me, by Mike Dawson. It is a cartoon based memory of how Queen’s music influenced peoples lives. Once I picked up this book I could not put it down, as there were so many parallels with my life. From the first time he heard Queen to the sadness of Freddie’s death.
I will be reviewing this book in full over the next few days … In summary, this is a Great Book which will leave you caught in a landslide of memories and will also Entertain You.

Full Review to Follow… I have read the book twice and it is excellent!!!

See Link for details … Buy Freddie & Me on Amazon.

Author’s Review;

High Fidelity meets Wayne’s World in this utterly charming graphic memoir about a young man’s life-long obsession with the rock band Queen. All of us have had that one band with which we identify, the band that was always there for us during good times and bad. For Mike Dawson it’s always been Queen and Freddie Mercury. Not unlike “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddie & Me takes readers on a rock-opera-like journey–from Mike’s childhood in the UK, through high school in New Jersey, and into the nineties, when grunge ruled the day and Queen was terminally uncool. As Mike works to navigate the trials and tribulations that accompany the road to adulthood (with Queen behind him every step of the way), he must grapple with the fears we all find ourselves facing: committing to one person for the rest of our lives, pursuing our dream job, coming to terms with our familial responsibilities, and even facing our own mortality. With humor, sensitivity, and some wonderfully imagined appearances by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, George Michael, and Andrew Ridgeley (among others), Freddie & Me is a touching reminder of how our favorite music is the soundtrack for so many of our most important memories and moments. And how one note can bring them all flooding back.

If you have the Freddie & Me Book please let em know what you think of it. You can browse other Queen Books below.