QUEEN Open London Exhibition To Celebrate 40th Anniversary
February 26, 2011, 13 years ago
According to Elizabeth Alker from the BBC News, QUEEN stars Roger Taylor and Brian May have opened a new London exhibition to mark the rock band's 40th anniversary, calling the experience "moving".
"There are things I have forgotten," said Taylor at the launch of Stormtroopers In Stilettos - which covers Queen's formative years.The musician added that many of the exhibits reminded him of the band's late frontman Freddie Mercury.
The exhibition runs until 12 March at the Old Truman Brewery in east London.
Themed rooms in the exhibition space - documenting Queen's journey to fame - are dedicated to the band's first albums and feature artwork, costumes made by British designer Zandra Rhodes and the band's instruments, plus a recreation of the studio in which Bohemian Rhapsody was recorded.
It also features video footage, interviews and photographs.
"Once you come into this exhibition you realise that we were just boys and we got together with a dream," says guitarist Brian May. "We worked night and day for many years and we were very lucky."
The 40th anniversary of the band is also marked this weekend with the release of a two-track single, also entitled Stormtroopers In Stilettos.
It features previously unreleased versions of early Queen tracks 'Keep Yourself Alive' (Long Lost Retake) and 'Stone Cold Crazy'(2011 Remaster).
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