{"id":5015,"date":"2026-07-22T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:29:53","slug":"supporting-mott-the-hoople-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=5015","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Mott the Hoople (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SAM_3576-scaled-1380x920.jpg\" alt=\"EMI promotional flyer, master reel, and press-kit items from the 1973 Mott the Hoople tour, exhibition display\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>In the autumn of 1973, a still-largely-unknown Queen got their first real break: a support slot on Mott the Hoople&#8217;s UK tour, promoting their just-released, self-titled debut album. Mott the Hoople were riding high off &#8220;All the Young Dudes&#8221; at the time, and the tour put Queen in front of paying crowds night after night for the first time &#8212; exactly the kind of exposure a new band signed to EMI needed.<\/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:block;text-align:center;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6452889443\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SAM_3578-scaled-1380x920.jpg\" alt=\"US promo edition, UK test pressing, and press photographs from EMI&#39;s 1973 launch of Queen\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>This case brings together four pieces from that moment: an EMI promotional flyer, autographed during one of the English tour dates; a historic reel, a copy of the master tape for the first LP; and the American promotional edition alongside a UK test pressing, both presented at a press conference EMI Records held in spring 1973 to introduce their new signing to the world&#8217;s press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:2em;\"><em>This piece is part of &#8220;Keep On Rockin&#8217; &#8212; the 2019 Exhibition.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?page_id=5013\">See the full exhibition here.<\/a><\/em><\/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:block;text-align:center;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5886106757\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/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>In the autumn of 1973, a still-largely-unknown Queen got their first real break: a support slot on Mott the Hoople&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[128,23,14,121,125,90,127,126,34,27,17],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queen-rare-records","category-tour","tag-emi-press-conference","tag-emi-records-uk","tag-freddie-mercury","tag-keep-on-rockin-exhibition-2020","tag-mott-the-hoople","tag-queen","tag-queen-1973","tag-queen-debut-album","tag-queen-rare-records-2","tag-test-pressing","tag-top-rarity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}