{"id":4141,"date":"2016-12-04T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T22:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2016-12-23T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T18:01:35","slug":"queen-ii-autographed-lp-on-australian-tour-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=4141","title":{"rendered":"Queen II autographed LP on Australian tour 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old Queen fan from Australia which kindly\u00a0provided me this Queen II lp , autographed in the inside sleeve, shared his memories\u2026.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4142\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4142\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/signed-Q2_australia_qm.jpg\" alt=\"Queen II autographed LP\" width=\"500\" height=\"507\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=29&p=26&l=ur1&category=prime_video&banner=145YC6XKJN2WZ21YRD82&f=ifr&linkID=04b588e03156f0ac163b0eee69e01120&t=queenmucom-21&tracking_id=queenmucom-21\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\r\n Queen II autographed LP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI first became interested in Queen after reading about them in the English music press. At the time, there was very little, if any, interest in Queen in Australia. Things changed dramatically with the success of the single Killer Queen in 1974. After the following year Bohemian R<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">hapsody was as big a success in Australia as it was in Britain, Australia became added to the band\u2019s A Night At The Opera world tour. I had no idea at the time, but the very last show of the tour took place in my city, Brisbane, Queensland, on April 22, 1976. I attended the concert at Brisbane\u2019s Festival Hall with several old high school friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the concert, my friend and I went to the Park Royal Hotel, where all the big bands stayed when they came to Brisbane. (This place now calls itself the Royal On The Park Hotel.) We waited outside the entrance of the hotel in the hope of getting the band\u2019s autographs. After about 30-40 minutes, Brian May and Roger Taylor arrived in a black limo. They got out of the vehicle and began chatting and signing autographs for the assembled fans. They were polite and extremely affable. They both signed my copies of Queen II and A Night At The Opera. Frank later told me that he\u2019d covertly felt up Taylor\u2019s hair. He had wanted to know what it felt like and the phrase he used to describe it was \u2018stiff as a board.\u2019<\/p><div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- quadrato -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:500px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6452889443\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>After May and Taylor left, the hunt was on to find Freddie Mercury. A couple of people were circulating around and about the hotel in an effort to track him down. While we waited, I distinctly recall hearing the band\u2019s tour manager \u2013 or he could have been a roadie \u2013 soliciting girls to \u2018go upstairs to meet the band.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Eventually we heard calls that Mercury had been located in a lift. A rush of about a dozen people headed through the hotel foyer towards the lifts. Mercury was found cowering \u2013 in feigned terror \u2013 in the lefthand corner of the first lift on the left. He was obviously in an extremely playful mood and professed amazement that we wanted his autograph. He duly signed my copies of Queen II and A Night At The Opera.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember anything that happened that night after being part of the throng that surrounded Mercury in the lift, but I imagine we waited for sometime afterwards in the hope of also getting John Deacon\u2019s autograph as well. All I know is that he never showed up and I was stuck with album covers that had only been autographed by three out of the four!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\n    google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-6280590296994447\",\n    enable_page_level_ads: true\n  });\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- stretto -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:500px;height:100px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5886106757\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old Queen fan from Australia which kindly\u00a0provided me this Queen II lp , autographed in the inside sleeve, shared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[88,90,86,87,38,89],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-signed","tag-freddie-mercury-memorabilia","tag-queen","tag-queen-autographed-lp","tag-queen-genuine-signature","tag-queen-handwriting","tag-queen-museum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}