Queen Unseen (30 page)

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: Scenes of work and play at Musicland Studios in Munich.

Brian ‘resting’ with drumsticks – Munich, 1981.

The Live Aid award presented to me by Queen.

With Brian May at his racks of AC30 amplifiers at Oakland Coliseum in California, 1980.

Freddie sound-checking with an acoustic guitar at Morumbi Stadium in São Paolo, Brazil, March 1981. Queen played to 251 000 people over two nights – the biggest ever paying audience for a live show.

August 1978. Roger at his kit in the ‘salon’ room of the Casino de Montreux, which was used as the studio room to record the
Jazz
album.

John with his Musicman Stingray Bass performing ‘Tie Your Mother Down’ during a ‘live’ video shoot in Miami in 1977.

Brian in the studio in Munich, 1981.

Fred at rehearsals for the 1980 European
The Game
tour.

November 1983. Freddie battles with time on the set of the ‘Radio Ga Ga’ video.

Freddie in the control room of Mountain Studios in Montreux.
Above
: During the making of
Hot Space
in 1981 and,
below
, during the mixing of the
Live Killers
album in 1979.