Showing posts with label recent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recent. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Another recent John Deacon photo

A quite recent John Deacon photo
I actually have this photo for a really long time, but I have 800+ Queen pic's on my pc so I actually forgot it...


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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

One of the best Queen ads ever


What if you don't like Queen?

Photos: John after Queen

Some time ago I posted a recent John Deacon Photo, I've found more!


1997

At his garden, 1997

On his Harley, 1997






John in 2001




At the wedding of his son Robert, 2009


At the wedding of his son Robert, 2009



unknown year

A holiday, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

Queen Guitarist Brian May Rocks Special Fan World

It’s one thing to see your favourite guitar hero in concert. But it is quite another to go to their house and have a jamming session.
Young Queen enthusiast Connor Walker was invited to jam with Brian May in his home, courtesy of Make-A-Wish Foundation UK, the charity that grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses.
Connor, aged 13 from Kingsbridge in Devon, suffers from Neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disorder that causes the nerve tissue to grow tumours, resulting in Connor having to undergo more than 18 operations.

Connor is also a massive Queen fan and to meet the band’s famous guitarist has been a long-held wish. On the day in question, Make-A-Wish arranged for Connor, along with his Mum Tammie, grandmother Natalie and sister Sophie, to be picked up in a limousine from their hotel and taken for lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe in London.
Sophie also suffers from Neurofibromatosis and was granted her wish to go to Disney Paris at the end of last year. They were then chauffeured to Brian May’s home, where Brian greeted the children with big hugs.
Connor had brought his guitar with him, which Brian signed and tuned before giving the family a personal tour of his garden. When they returned inside, two electric guitars were set up one for Brian and one for Connor.
After an hour’s jamming session and some one-on-one tuition on different tunes and chords, Connor emerged beaming and his mum tearful. Connor says: The day I met Brian was the best day of my life.
When I walked into his house and saw the two guitars set up, I was hoping one would be for me to play but I didn’t want to presume, so when it was it made me so happy.
Connor’s Mum Tammie says: Connor is an incredibly brave boy and never complains when he is in pain. To see Connor light up when he met Brian May brought a tear to my eye It was such an amazing day.
There are currently 20,000 children and young people like Connor and Sophie in the UK fighting a life-threatening illness. This year alone around 1,000 children will turn to Make-A-Wish to experience the magic of a Make-A-Wish wish. To grant all these, Make-A-Wish needs to raise at least £5 million in 2010.


To refer a child for a special wish or make a donation, please contact Make-A-Wish on 01276 40 50 60 or visit http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/


fame magazine, unknown date

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Queen review from newspaper of my school

I've also written for this newspaper, but this review is not mine

Old=gold

Queen- A Night At The Opera

1. Death On Two Legs
2. Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
3. I'm In Love With my car
4.You're my best friend
5. '39
6. Sweet Lady
7. Seaside Rendezvous
8. The prophet's song
9. Love of my live.
10. Good Company
11. Bohemian Rhapsody
12. God Save The Queen

Death on two legs is a song written by the anger of Freddie Mercury to their manager who swindlered the band and took the money. The intro of the song is really weird but changes into a great rock song!
(4/5)

Lazing on a sunday afternoon
A very short song (1 minute) but very beautiful and shows every part from Queen, and HOW? I love the guitar solo.
(3/5)

I'm in love with my car is a song written by drummer Roger Taylor. He's also singing this song, and his voice is perfect for it! Roger has a great voice for hardrock music.
(4/5)

You're my best friend is a song written by John Deacon for his wife. And luckily they're still maried!  It's a slow balled and it became a worldwide hit. I don't like this song really much, because I prefer hard rock.
(3/5)

'39 is a folk song written by Brian May. It is about the theory of ralitivity. Some astronauts come back to earth, for them it was a year in space, but on earth 100 years has been passed.
(5/5)

Sweet lady is a bad song. Skip it.
(2/5)

 Seaside rendezvous is a 50''s style song. It's romantic, and I don't like that. But the music is great.
(4/5)

The Prophet's song is 8 minutes long is a great song written by Brian May against the church. (Edit by Thirza: I actually don't think this song is totally against the church) It's good progessive rock with a weird intro and  3 minutes a-capella.
(5/5)

Love of my life is a ballad to Mary Austin, Freddie's girlfriend (He was bisexual, not gay) I absolutely hate balleds, but I like this one.
(4/5)

Good company is a 50''s style song, without electric guitar, but with an ukelele (?). It sounds nice but I want a guitar!
(3/5)

Bohemian Rhapsody is the best song of Queen ever!I love every part!
(5/5)

God save the Queen is the instrumental version of the British anthem. It sounds nice, but I don't get the point of it,

I think this album is great. Freddie's vocals are great and Brian May shows he's a great guitarist. Roger Taylor makes the album a little more rock and the basslines of John Deacon make this album 100%

Buy if: you like guitars, different styles and if you don't have any problems with man that get high notes.
Don't buy if: You don't like gay people (edit by Thirza: THIS IS NOT MY REVIEW, that is just a sick quote) or if you like older Queen songs.

Rate: (4/5) because nothing's perfect!







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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Bollocks to the economy


If you don't understand this: take a look at this site

Brian thinking of Freddie in 3D

Ever since boyhood, I have been quietly fanatical about 3D photography.
So I can't quite believe the technical progress that's been made over the past few years to bring us to where we are now — a moment so exciting I have to pinch myself to believe it's arrived.
For the first time, 3D could actually become more than the passing fad it has been since first becoming popular in the Fifties and make the leap into everyday life.

Tipping point: Films such as Avatar have shown us that 3D technology is here to stay this time
Tipping point: Films such as Avatar have shown us that 3D technology is here to stay this time
Our cinemas are full of 3D films and our electrical stores are packed with 3D TVs, which people are buying in serious numbers.
We are at the tipping point.
I've been obsessed with 3D photographs since a cardboard viewer with coloured lenses fell out of my Weetabix packet when I was eight, in the mid-Fifties. I loved the new world it opened up.
I learned to take stereoscope pictures — a basic form of 3D — with a camera I bought from Woolworths for 12-and-a-half pence.

You lined up the first picture with your left eye, then the next one with your right.
Once the pictures were developed, you put them next to each other and when you looked through a stereoscopic viewer, there was a 3D image leaping out in front of you!
All through the Queen years, I was passionate about 3D, meeting specialist dealers as we toured the world.
Childhood fascination: 'I have loved 3D photography since i was a boy'
Childhood fascination: 'I have loved 3D photography since i was a boy'
By then, I'd trained my eyes to 'free view', the same focusing technique you need to see Magic Eye images.
So I could rummage through photographs and instantly pick out the stereographs I wanted.
A lot of people don't realise, but 3D photography has been around since 1838. I soon became an avid collector of one of its hugely-talented 19th-century pioneers, T.R. Williams.
Two years ago, I co-wrote the words for a book of his beautiful stereographs, A Village Lost And Found, something I'm almost as proud of as everything we achieved with Queen.
But Williams is part of 3D's past. It's future, I'm convinced, lies with film-makers, such as James Cameron (Avatar), Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3) and Robert Zemeckis (Polar Express).
I vividly remember going to see Avatar and being blown away by the 3D effects. It was something I'd been waiting for my entire life.
I've interviewed these guys for a Sky documentary I've been making about the history of 3D and they're so excited about its potential.
We've had 3D films before, of course, with short-lived fads in the Fifties and Eighties, but this time I'm convinced the 3D effect is simply too good to throw away.
Last year, I was one of the 140,000 people in this country (double the market's expectations) who bought a 3D TV — the LG passive system —  and it's a great bit of kit.
Of course, there's only one channel to watch, Sky 3D, but I'm loving the sport, films and wildlife documentaries. They're exquisite and the photography is stunning.
But I confess I do still have doubts about 3D TV.
Leaping out at you: My latest project is a book of Queen photographs in 3D - its shame we don't have any 3D video of the band in our pomp
Leaping out at you: My latest project is a book of Queen photographs in 3D - its shame we don't have any 3D video of the band in our pomp
Not that it will give people headaches or be poorly executed — those days are long gone.
No, my doubts are about the way we watch television. The days when you sat in a darkened room watching in respectful silence are over.
These days, people multi-task while they watch TV — chatting, tapping at their computer, reading a newspaper. You can't do any of that if you're wearing 3D glasses.
But I'm convinced, given the current rate of technical progress, 3D TVs that don't require special glasses are not too far away.
One of my regrets is not having 3D footage of Queen live, in all our glorious, theatrical pomp. That really would have been a spectacle.
But thanks to that boyhood passion of mine, there are some really good 3D stills of the band.
My next project is to make a book of these, to be sold with my special Owl stereoscopic viewer attached.
Freddie in 3D... now, that's going to be quite a sight.


Note: I did not write this myself

Friday, May 27, 2011

John Deacon, A recent photo


Guy on the left? Yes it is really John Deacon! I don't know the exactly year/date of this pictue, but I'm sure it's recent.