Steve Flower
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Post by Steve Flower on May 26, 2011 10:58:59 GMT
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 26, 2011 11:24:12 GMT
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Steve Flower
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Post by Steve Flower on May 26, 2011 11:31:48 GMT
I was aware of the documentaries, brought up in your thread containing rare and unseen footage, but as we all know, this doesn't always mean Top Of The Pops! It's nice that the BBC are screening the newly discopvered stuff, and to have it confirmed!! Anyway, thanks for alerting us in the first place Ray!!
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 26, 2011 11:54:13 GMT
I may well have been sworn to secrecy, but I am unable to comment! ;D
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Post by Rich Cornock on May 26, 2011 12:18:48 GMT
wow the clips came from a tape recovered from Dick Emery
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 26, 2011 12:48:18 GMT
Kal recovered some things from Dick Emery's estate and a clip of a Queen performance was shown at the MBW event last year:-
""Top of the Pops - an incomplete edition from 1974 was recovered from the estate of Dick Emery and transferred from low band U-matic by BBC Heritage. Jimmy Savile introduces Queen - "Killer Queen", The Javells - "Goodbye Nothin' To Say", Sparks - "Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth", The Glitter Band - "Let's Get Together Again", Peter Shelley - "Bye Bye", Roxy Music - "All I Want Is You", Pilot - "Magic", Sunny - "Headline News", Splinter - "Costafine Town" and Rubettes - "Juke Box Jive". Pan's People dance to Dionne Warwick & The Detroit Spinners - "Then Came You".""
HOWEVER you will note that 'Seven Seas of Rhye' from 21/02/74 is not the same recovery (i.e, not the same tape or performance) as the 'Emery'tape above. I'm sure Messrs May and Taylor are aware of the 'Killer Queen' Emery recovery, but the three Seven Seas of Rhye performances were known to exist OUTSIDE the BBC in pretty crappy b/w (due to off-air recording quality, with occasional colour interruptions). So any recovery of that performance in colour will be a new one, as such.
While I cannot at this stage comment on the source of the Seven Seas of Rhye (21/02/74) colour clip - and I don't know for sure anyway - I would like to reaffirm what I said on the Missing Episodes Board some days ago, and encourage TOTP/music aficionadoes to watch the show. The show has been superbly and thoroughly researched over some years.
Forgive me going o/t for personal reasons here - but I am not sure if any of Bophuthatswana TV's coverage of Queen's visit to South Africa will have been found or shown on the programme.
When I've seen the full show, maybe I can comment more!
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Post by LanceM on May 27, 2011 6:52:04 GMT
I am wishing deeply could see this Documentary.Sounds like a truly in-depth,and fascinating glimpse into the world of QUEEN!! As Ray very correctly stated,the mentioned Emery tape had been known about for some time.And was indeed listed in the material recovered,as well as shown at last years MBW event as well.Was rather surprised about mentioning this recovered performance that they did not display a clip from this there?Instead of the Seven Seas Of Rhye clip.Which,as we all have seen-heard was displayed at the Stormtroopers Exhibition of late.These were the clips which were seen on this displayed segment.A fairly good copy of the Seven Seas performance on 21/2/74 edition of TOTP has been floating about the net: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynnswWUUBYThen later see a full COLOUR version of both the Rhye clips which had been doing the rounds.Of course,not to forget the DLT performance for which have only just seen footage of there.Is really to early to state with exact certainty there,where exactly these superior copies were culled from?Is possible QUEENS management had superior copies of these performances?Is rather odd there,must admit,however feel that we will soon be reaching the bottom of this mystery soon enough.I for one am really hoping they display the Now I'm Here 1975 TOTP performance.As really does look like one of the best performances of the band have seen on period TV! www.youtube.com/watch?v=joGfq40ef9Y&fmt=18Fingers crossed.Thank you stevenwilliam for the clip posting there.And Ray did indeed have a very large article posting on this upcoming documentary,however is the first visual publicity have heard of there as yet.Always great to see there in regards. Cheers,Lance. |
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 27, 2011 7:28:56 GMT
As far as I know Lance, Queen#s management have NOT had copies for a long time at all.
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Post by John Fleming on May 27, 2011 8:40:00 GMT
The story I heard was that Queen's management purchased copies of their TOTP appearances from PVL. This could just be hearsay of course.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2011 8:46:55 GMT
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Post by LanceM on May 28, 2011 6:16:04 GMT
Ahh,interesting in that these may have been obtained from the PVL.As know the owner has stated time and again would not sell individual tapes or performances.Very glad here,if this is the case,that I was wrong on that one!!
Great to see even further publicity here.Thanks for the link Laurence.Thank you as well Ray for the additional info there.Very much appreciated as always!
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 31, 2011 7:53:57 GMT
As you may have gathered, the BBC (via the Queen doc) now have copies of the 3 clips of SSOR back in their possession and obviously, Queen's management do. These are RECOVERIES, as such, rather than finds, as they were previously known about.
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Post by Rich Cornock on May 31, 2011 8:18:54 GMT
This documentary used lots of interesting early footage of Queen, some of it would have been deemed unbroadcastable on other programs.The early Smile footage was very grainy while an interview with Roger Taylor and Bob Harris switched from black and white to colour and later in the program back to b & w again. (wonder why)
The Queen TOTP footage was interesting, such a shame they spliced it with interviews rather than showing the whole piece. You could tell it came off a domestic recording rather than the original VT as the colour wasn't the best and at times the image was blurry. Does any body know if the recording was restored or is this just as they found it?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 31, 2011 10:04:13 GMT
In addition to this, as previously stated, Now I'm Here from 1975 is a FIND.
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Post by Matthew North on May 31, 2011 11:14:21 GMT
Im guessing with the Bob harris / Roger footage some were from a domestic recording, and bits were from a TR or maybe just the colour information was too poor to use?
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