QUEEN continue to celebrate their 40th anniversary in regal fashion with the broadcast of a major two-part BBC 2 TV documentary, Queen: Days Of Our Lives which sees Roger Taylor and Brian May looking back at the band’s incredible career in candid detail for the first time.

Showing on BBC Two at 10 PM on May 29th and 30th, the two one hour shows explore the remarkable story of Brian, Roger, John Deacon and FREDDIE MERCURY - looking into the early struggles, huge obstacles, success, arguments, breakups, triumph, tragedy and an enduring legacy – all against a backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances. With an extensive archive of unseen footage (the producers uncovered Queen's first ever TV performance, missing believed wiped, and shown here for the first time) plus remarkable archive interviews with Freddie Mercury, the documentary is the band’s story in their own words – a compelling journey told with intelligence, wit, plenty of humour and painful honesty.

The documentaries cover each of the band’s studio albums, their legendary world tours of the 70’s and 80’s as they conquered South and North America and Asia, Live Aid and their enduring success since the passing of Freddie leading up to the present day and a popularity that continues to grow yearly. The Sun annointed them ‘Britain’s Best Loved Band’ earlier this year.

Queen: Days Of Our Lives is produced by Rhys Thomas (the comedian who famously broke the Mastermind all time record points score with a specialist subject of Queen) and Simon Lupton, and is directed by the renowned director Matt O’Casey.

Rhys Thomas comments, “We have set out to make the definitive Queen documentary. It's a funny, honest, inspiring and ultimately tragic account of ‘a certain band called Queen’, as told by the band themselves. We tell the story of four students who met in West London, slogged hard and conquered the world, ultimately changing rock music forever.”

The band will be previewing the documentaries in a rare radio interview as they guest live on the Chris Evans BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show on May 27th. Brian and Roger will also attend the 9th anniversary celebration performance of their hit musical We Will Rock You on the evening of Tuesday May 31 at The Dominion Theatre with Brian performing with the cast.

During the week of May 30th, Queen legends Brian May and Roger Taylor will be guests on In The Studio talking about the Queen (1973), Queen II (1974), Sheer Heart Attack (1974) remasters with professional radio broadcaster and rock musician interviewer Redbeard. For a preview of the episode visit Inthestudio.net (left-hand-side at the bottom).

Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera (1975) and A Day At The Races (1976) have been specially remastered and each has been released as a standard CD as well as a deluxe two-disc set which features new bonus content. Each deluxe album has also been released on iTunes featuring bonus tracks plus additional sleeve notes, unseen pictures and videos.

One of the most exciting and influential back catalogues of all time. Recorded in the maelstrom of the early 1970’s London music scene Queen created a groundbreaking and unique soundtrack that remains globally influential today. Theatrical, imaginative, diverse, melodic and unpredictable they had a sound and a look all of their own. Sitting alongside their contemporaries like LED ZEPPELIN and DAVID BOWIE, Queen set the standard for British rock in the 1970’s and became one of the most thrilling, glamorous and downright rock n roll bands of all time, directly influencing a contemporary roll call of artists from FOO FIGHTERS and AXL ROSE to LADY GAGA and KATY PERRY.

From the pure raw rock of Queen through to the majestic anthems on A Day At The Races, the first five albums highlight the diverse talent, musical ambition and already global success of a band made up of some of the best songwriters, musicians and performers of all time.