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March 2005
March 31st
Paris setlist from 30 March
Same songs as Brixton, different order. Paul sung "I Want It All" on this one.
- Reachin' Out
- Tie Your Mother Down
- Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
- I Want To Break Free
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Seagull
- '39
- Love Of My Life (Brian May sam)
- Hammer To Fall
- A Little Bit Of Love
- I'm In Love With My Car
- Brighton Rock
- Last Horizon
- These Are The Days Of Our Lives
- Radio Ga Ga
- I Want It All
- A Kind Of Magic
- Feel Like Making Love
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Show Must Go On
- All Right Now
- We Will Rock You
- We Are The Champions
- God Save The Queen
Source: Queenzone.com notice board and http://queentour2005.blogspirit.com/
March 29th
Brixton Academy setlist!!!
You can go and read reviews from the concert here at Queenzone. The set list for Queen + Paul Rodgers live at Brixton Academy, London on March 28, 2005 was as follows:
- Paul Rodgers vocal intro
- Tie your mother down
- A little bit of love
- I want to break free (audience sings most of the song)
- Fat bottomed girls
- Crazy little thing called love
- Seagull (Roger Taylor on percussion)
- '39 (Brian May alone)
- Love of my life (Brian May and crowd)
- Hammer to fall (slow version followed by normal version)
- Brighton rock
- Last horizon
- These are the days of our lives (Roger Taylor on vocals) [Queen in Japan footage on screen]
- Radio Ga Ga (Roger Taylor on vocals then Paul Rodgers joins)
- Can't get enough of your love
- I'm in love with my car (Roger Taylor on vocals and drums)
- I want it all (Brian May on vocals)
- A kind of magic
- Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury on vocals - footage from "Live at the Bowl" on screen, band joins for the last part of the song)
- The Show must go on ---- Band leaves the stage
- Feel like making love
- All right now ---- Band leaves the stage
- We will rock you
- We are the champions
- God Save The Queen
Source: http://www.therockradio.com/2005/03/queen-and-paul-rodgers-live-at-brixton.html
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March 28th
Queen + Paul Rodgers tour starts today!!!
QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS TOUR STARTS MONDAY!
Finally after all the rumours, the confirmations, the press releases and reports, the scramble for tickets and feverish discussion by music fans Worldwide - it is now time for the chords to be strummed, the cymbals to crash and the mic to be grabbed. The most anticipated tour in recent rock history officially kicks off at the Brixton Academy on Monday 28th March 2005 - Queen + Paul Rodgers - On Tour.
After the intimate Brixton show in front Queen Online users and Official International Fan Club, the band hit the road for a further 27 shows across the main land Europe and the UK before returning to the stage in July for a handful of massive outdoor shows in Portugal, Germany, the UK and Holland.
Queen + Paul Rodgers…will rock you.
For all tour information and ticket availability go to www.queenonline.com or www.paulrodgers.com .
Live Downloads – Create Your Own Live Album!
After each show on the forthcoming tour, the band will be making live tracks available for download exclusively on www.queenonline.com . You can burn these tracks onto a special packaged blank Q+PR CD that is available now to buy in the online store. The idea is that once you have purchased the disc you can then burn the live tracks to it and create your own Queen + Paul Rodgers live album!
For more info and to buy the Queen + Paul Rodgers Download CD go to www.shop.queenonline.com
All profits from the CD go to The Mercury Phoenix Trust –‘Fighting Aids Worldwide’ www.mercuryphoenixtrust.com
Also look out for the forthcoming tour site - www.queenpluspaulrodgers.com . The site will be following the shows and growing as the tour progresses. It will include tour news, set lists, information on tickets, images from each show, plus tour promotional video footage and audio.
KERRY ELLIS DOWNLOAD
If that is not enough for you we also have a very special download currently available on www.queenonline.com
The track, which is now available exclusively as a download on www.queenonline.com is a new version of the musical's show stopping ballad, "No-One But You" performed by Kerry Ellis, creator of the role of 'Meat' in WWRY, in an entirely new full orchestral production by Brian May.
It is expected that this initiative on the part of Queen will be the first of a series of special projects based around the massive hit musical. The download is compatible with both PC and Mac computers.
Says Brian May: "This is a project I have been working on in my mind ever since we opened We Will Rock You three years ago. We now have many productions of WWRY operating around the world, all featuring 'No-One But You', everywhere performed by great singers.
"But the standard was set by Kerry Ellis who created this role in the very beginning. I have always wanted to make the "Ultimate Version" of this song on record, and at last I feel this is it!"
May originally wrote the song as a tribute to Freddie Mercury and recorded a version of it intended for his solo album. When fellow Queen member Roger Taylor heard the song (Taylor plays drums also on this new recording) he felt it was a song that Queen should record as a band. The recording brought back together May, Taylor and John Deacon for the first and so far only Queen single released without Freddie Mercury, following the singer's death. The original single can only be found on the band's Queen Rocks album and the Queen Platinum Collection.
For more information and to download this gorgeous version of ‘No One But You’ go to www.queenonline.com/kerryellisdownload/
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March 22nd
46664 setlist (from 19 March 2005)!
Queen and Paul Rodgers played:
- Tie Your Mother Down
- Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
- I Want To Break Free
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Say It's Not True (B-Stage, Roger Taylor on lead vocal)
- Too Much Love Will Kill You (feat. Katie Melua)
- Hammer To Fall (Slow Version, Brian May on lead vocal intro)
- A Kind Of Magic
- Feel Like Making Love
- Radio Ga Ga (Roger Taylor on lead vocal)
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- The Show Must Go On
- All Right Now
- We Will Rock You
- We Are The Champions (feat.African Childrens Choir)
March 18th
Extracts from Hungarian Interview!
In a Hunagrian Interview Brian said the following:
- Budapest show will have no warm-up act
- the concert will be 2.5 hours long
- because of Paul's abilities the show will mostly consist of heavier tracks
- they have written ONE new song with Paul, and that's 'not really Queen, not really Paul Rodgers, but something completely new.
March 16th
Rehearsals at Bray Studios & Fancourt concert
You can go to WeGotIt site and have a look at Fancourt concert plans and schedule... or you can go to their Bray studios rehearsals site and watch pictures. Have a look at new tour dates on my Queen + Paul tour schedule. [back]
March 9th
Open Air in Cologne!
Next news is, Queen and Paul Rodgers are going to play Open Air Festival at Rhein-Energie Stadion, Cologne, Germany. The show will be held on 6th July 2005.
March 8th
More tour dates in Summer!
It has been announced by the Dutch Queen Fan Club that Queen and Paul Rodgers will do a show on July 10, 2005 in Goffert Park, Nijmegen, NL. It also has been announced (on offcial Brian May site) that Queen and Paul Rodgers will do another 46664 Concert, this time in Norway. It will be called "46664 Artic" and it will be held on 11 June 2005 in Tromsø,No. It is probable, that the Norwegian concert will be broadcasted by a local TV channel NRK. [back]
March 7th
More tour dates!!!
Some recent news. Paul Rodgers cancelled his solo tour to do more dates with Queen. The result is two more dates in Ireland, namely 13 May 2005, Odyssey, Belfast and 14 May, The Point, Dublin. Below I also add an official rehearsals note.
Q+PR REHEARSALS
It all starts here! The band have now been holed up in rehearsals for a few weeks now and the reports from various members connected with the Queen and Paul Rodgers camp are that it is sounding nothing short of phenomenal! QOL has been already filmed at the ‘load in’ and will hopefully gain access to the full band sessions to give you some exclusive footage of the boys in action!
It is just two weeks until Queen + Paul Rodgers step out for 46664 South Africa at Fancourt…excited?
There are still a handful of tickets available for some of the European shows. All UK arena shows are sold out.
BRIXTON SHOW LOTTERY Keep checking your inboxes as the latest round of the Queen + Paul Rodgers Brixton Academy lottery will be drawn very soon! More tickets have been released for this very special fans only show and we want you to have them!
Fingers crossed it is you!
TOUR QOL SHOP OFFERS
To celebrate the Queen + Paul Rodgers European Tour, the QOL store has got in on the act by setting up some special offers on albums and DVDs at www.shop.queenonline.com. Just look at the promotions below, especially on the much sought after Japanese ‘mini vinyl’ CDs!
Single 'mini vinyl' CDs L14.99 - buy 1 get 1 free
Double 'mini vinyl' CDs L19.99 each - buy 1 get 1 free
Single CDs L7.99 each OR 3 for L20
Double CDs now L9.99
DVDs from L11.99
(The offer runs until May 27th 2005)
www.shop.queenonline.com
QUEEN TOP 100 BOOTLEGS
The latest batch of Queen Top 100 Bootlegs are currently be readied for release in the QOL download store. It currently looks like the next three will be Bonsoir Paris, Crazy Tour and Done Under Pressure – keep checking the news for all Queen download updates, because there will be all sorts coming up very shortly!
SOURCE: www.queenonline.com [back]