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In 1971, four college students got together to form a rock band.
Since then, that certain band called Queen have released 26 albums and sold over 300 million records worldwide. The popularity of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon is stronger than ever 40 years on.
But it was no bed of roses. No pleasure cruise. Queen had their share of kicks in the face, but they came through and this is how they did it, set against the backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances from every corner of the globe.
In this film, for the first time, it is the band that tells their story. Featuring brand new interviews with the band and unseen archive footage (including their recently unearthed, first ever TV performance), it is a compelling story told with intelligence, wit, plenty of humor and painful honesty. / Bonus Features:
Additional Videos: new promo videos containing unseen rushes, performances and outtakes.
Seven Seas of Rhye
Killer Queen
Somebody to Love
We Are The Champions
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Under Pressure
Radio Ga Ga / Additional Sequences: featuring unseen interviews and archive footage, exclusive sequences that dig deeper into the history of Queen, and tell the stories that weren't covered in the documentary.
Queen: The Beginning
Queen On Tour 1974-5
Bohemian Rhapsody
Working Together
Leaving John Reid 1978
Don t Stop Me Now
Flash Gordon
Making Videos
Scrabble Wars
From Magic To The Miracle 1986-89
Going Slightly Mad: Making Innuendo 1990-91
Made In Heaven 1995 / Bonus Interviews: additional stories, taken from the interviews shot for this documentary with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Jim Beach.
Return To Imperial College
Brian s Health Scare 1974
Manager Jim Beach Meets The Band 1975
B-Sides
Freddie s Outfits
Another One Bites The Dust
Song Writing Balance Changes 1980 s
Freddie Legless!
Highlander
The Show Must Go On
Since then, that certain band called Queen have released 26 albums and sold over 300 million records worldwide. The popularity of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon is stronger than ever 40 years on.
But it was no bed of roses. No pleasure cruise. Queen had their share of kicks in the face, but they came through and this is how they did it, set against the backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances from every corner of the globe.
In this film, for the first time, it is the band that tells their story. Featuring brand new interviews with the band and unseen archive footage (including their recently unearthed, first ever TV performance), it is a compelling story told with intelligence, wit, plenty of humor and painful honesty. / Bonus Features:
Additional Videos: new promo videos containing unseen rushes, performances and outtakes.
Seven Seas of Rhye
Killer Queen
Somebody to Love
We Are The Champions
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Under Pressure
Radio Ga Ga / Additional Sequences: featuring unseen interviews and archive footage, exclusive sequences that dig deeper into the history of Queen, and tell the stories that weren't covered in the documentary.
Queen: The Beginning
Queen On Tour 1974-5
Bohemian Rhapsody
Working Together
Leaving John Reid 1978
Don t Stop Me Now
Flash Gordon
Making Videos
Scrabble Wars
From Magic To The Miracle 1986-89
Going Slightly Mad: Making Innuendo 1990-91
Made In Heaven 1995 / Bonus Interviews: additional stories, taken from the interviews shot for this documentary with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Jim Beach.
Return To Imperial College
Brian s Health Scare 1974
Manager Jim Beach Meets The Band 1975
B-Sides
Freddie s Outfits
Another One Bites The Dust
Song Writing Balance Changes 1980 s
Freddie Legless!
Highlander
The Show Must Go On
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Remarkable for its' honesty and its' depth...and yet still a sad one to take in...
February 1, 2012
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
God...Freddie.
How much we need Freddie in this world today. How much we need the "Queen" of this documentary...
If you see NOTHING else, watch Brian talk about his dad, and playing MSG for the very first time, and "Love of My Life". That is as poignant, and spiritual, and lovely and wonderful piece of video as I've ever seen. And you watch Freddie's decline throughout the entire second part, and see how HARD he fought just to present a "whole person", where you could tell he was dying. Watching him perform the video for "These are the Days of Our Lives" is almost impossible to do, as poor Freddie just looks skeletal. And you hear Bri tell of a story where Freddie shows his leg to Bri while their are out on a break from a session (I'm guessing maybe it was some Kaposi's Sarcoma lesions on the leg or something), and Bri recoils---and yet Bri tells of Freddie actually apologizing for putting his friend and bandmate into such a position. Once again, just moving, and riveting. I'd also never seen Roger cry---but when he finally gets to the "end", he simply cannot go on. You won't be able to either. There are happy and victorious moments all throughout, but the second half is very difficult.
I really hate that Deacon John decided to skip out on the whole music Kingdom, but I respect that; however, it'd have been nice to really have his current thinking in this wonderful and sensitive documentary.
Queen is/was the smart man's Rock band. Bands from Metallica to the Foo Fighters to Bowie, to every football team (American and Soccer) around the whole world have enjoyed and been influenced by their music. This documentary is great at showing us why.
Musicians will particularly enjoy the behind the scenes stuff, and the "layperson" will enjoy the human interest.
This is a documentary/musical that is as important as the "Beatles Anthology"...almost.
Don't miss it. See it...the price is amazingly inexpensive for the amount of material.
RIP, Freddie...
How much we need Freddie in this world today. How much we need the "Queen" of this documentary...
If you see NOTHING else, watch Brian talk about his dad, and playing MSG for the very first time, and "Love of My Life". That is as poignant, and spiritual, and lovely and wonderful piece of video as I've ever seen. And you watch Freddie's decline throughout the entire second part, and see how HARD he fought just to present a "whole person", where you could tell he was dying. Watching him perform the video for "These are the Days of Our Lives" is almost impossible to do, as poor Freddie just looks skeletal. And you hear Bri tell of a story where Freddie shows his leg to Bri while their are out on a break from a session (I'm guessing maybe it was some Kaposi's Sarcoma lesions on the leg or something), and Bri recoils---and yet Bri tells of Freddie actually apologizing for putting his friend and bandmate into such a position. Once again, just moving, and riveting. I'd also never seen Roger cry---but when he finally gets to the "end", he simply cannot go on. You won't be able to either. There are happy and victorious moments all throughout, but the second half is very difficult.
I really hate that Deacon John decided to skip out on the whole music Kingdom, but I respect that; however, it'd have been nice to really have his current thinking in this wonderful and sensitive documentary.
Queen is/was the smart man's Rock band. Bands from Metallica to the Foo Fighters to Bowie, to every football team (American and Soccer) around the whole world have enjoyed and been influenced by their music. This documentary is great at showing us why.
Musicians will particularly enjoy the behind the scenes stuff, and the "layperson" will enjoy the human interest.
This is a documentary/musical that is as important as the "Beatles Anthology"...almost.
Don't miss it. See it...the price is amazingly inexpensive for the amount of material.
RIP, Freddie...
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By bass boy
Format:DVD
A very good documentary - told in two chapters (you can watch them individually or consecutively) on the standard DVD. It's interesting to hear Brian May and Roger Taylor talk about Freddie's illness, and although they don't specifically say how early Mercury knew he had HIV/AIDS, they hint that he may have known as early as during the pre-concert rehearsals for LIVE AID in 1985. And Queen did rehearse - a lot - for LIVE AID, which I hadn't heard before. Some of that rehearsal footage is seen here.
Highlights include music-video "rushes" that feature alternate angles, takes and behind-the-scenes shots of Queen making their videos. The most shocking is a frail Mercury, in pain, standing up, for the "These Are the Days of Our Lives" video. The on-the-set color footage, showing Mercury waiting for the camera to start, is haunting. His sharp jawline (from AIDS) looks like it could cut through steel. Mercury's left eye is noticeably blood shot, and he looks plain ill, yet he pulled off one of his greatest on-screen performances for the music video.
It's nice to see the black-and-white film footage of Queen actually recording part of their "News of the World" album in 1977, and the 1976 live Hyde Park footage, although shown only in a couple too-brief segments, is magnificent. Footage of Queen's 1977 tour also is examined, through footage that wonderfully blends old videotape footage with film footage of the same gig.
I also learned of Roger Taylor's hatred for the "Hot Space" songs that sported dance-like beats, and how Queen almost broke up in 1982/83.
One of rock's greatest mysteries, though, has to be a now-missing-in-action John Deacon, Queen's bassist, who, for some reason, refused to take part in this documentary, as he has in all things Queen-related over the last several years. Is Deacon still alive? Anyone seen or heard from him? Supposedly Deacon gave May and Taylor his blessing to carry on with the Queen legacy, yet there's no word at all from Deacon. Was there any bad blood? Taylor was quoted a few years ago saying something like "You'll have to ask John about that, and I don't think he's in the right place to talk about that now." Maybe a bit of bad blood exists on John's part?
Highlights include music-video "rushes" that feature alternate angles, takes and behind-the-scenes shots of Queen making their videos. The most shocking is a frail Mercury, in pain, standing up, for the "These Are the Days of Our Lives" video. The on-the-set color footage, showing Mercury waiting for the camera to start, is haunting. His sharp jawline (from AIDS) looks like it could cut through steel. Mercury's left eye is noticeably blood shot, and he looks plain ill, yet he pulled off one of his greatest on-screen performances for the music video.
It's nice to see the black-and-white film footage of Queen actually recording part of their "News of the World" album in 1977, and the 1976 live Hyde Park footage, although shown only in a couple too-brief segments, is magnificent. Footage of Queen's 1977 tour also is examined, through footage that wonderfully blends old videotape footage with film footage of the same gig.
I also learned of Roger Taylor's hatred for the "Hot Space" songs that sported dance-like beats, and how Queen almost broke up in 1982/83.
One of rock's greatest mysteries, though, has to be a now-missing-in-action John Deacon, Queen's bassist, who, for some reason, refused to take part in this documentary, as he has in all things Queen-related over the last several years. Is Deacon still alive? Anyone seen or heard from him? Supposedly Deacon gave May and Taylor his blessing to carry on with the Queen legacy, yet there's no word at all from Deacon. Was there any bad blood? Taylor was quoted a few years ago saying something like "You'll have to ask John about that, and I don't think he's in the right place to talk about that now." Maybe a bit of bad blood exists on John's part?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Queen: Days of Our Lives is the DVD to own if you want a documentary that, without any doubt, is the definitive documentary of one of the most flamboyant rock acts in history: Queen.
The documentary is a raw, gritty, informative, warts-and-all portrait of the band. It tells the story of four college students met up in 1971and started one of the world's greatest rock and roll bands. Since their forming, the band recorded an astonishing 26 albums with estimates of sales of between 150 and 300 million units. With numbers like that, it's no mystery how and why the band's music is embedded both in the soundtrack of our youth and in our musical and societal DNA.
Directed by Matt Casey and produced by long-time Queen collaborators Simon Lupton and Rhys Thomas, it is in this DVD that, for the first time, the band shares their incredible story. The two-disc set is a treasure trove of interviews - including new interviews with Brian May and Roger Taylor - as well as recently discovered video of the band's first ever television performance and other never-before-seen archival footage.
In telling what drove this must-have documentary, Rhys Thomas said, "We 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 the world forever."
In the UK in May, 2011, BBC broadcast Queen: Days of Our Lives over two nights to a reported 3 million viewers, resulting in it being the highest rated TV show in its time slot.
I enjoyed watching every second of each disc. It's that good. There are two segments that are particular Boomerocity favorites:
* Guitarist Brian May tells of bringing his parents over from the UK to see Queen perform at New York's Madison Square Garden. It is a very, very touching vignette.
*The segments of the last recording session and color video outtakes of the music video show on this review show and tell a Freddie Mercury as his body was losing its battle against AIDS.
* The segments of the last recording session and color video outtakes of the music video show on this review show and tell a Freddie Mercury as his body was losing its battle against AIDS.
Boomerocity.com
The documentary is a raw, gritty, informative, warts-and-all portrait of the band. It tells the story of four college students met up in 1971and started one of the world's greatest rock and roll bands. Since their forming, the band recorded an astonishing 26 albums with estimates of sales of between 150 and 300 million units. With numbers like that, it's no mystery how and why the band's music is embedded both in the soundtrack of our youth and in our musical and societal DNA.
Directed by Matt Casey and produced by long-time Queen collaborators Simon Lupton and Rhys Thomas, it is in this DVD that, for the first time, the band shares their incredible story. The two-disc set is a treasure trove of interviews - including new interviews with Brian May and Roger Taylor - as well as recently discovered video of the band's first ever television performance and other never-before-seen archival footage.
In telling what drove this must-have documentary, Rhys Thomas said, "We 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 the world forever."
In the UK in May, 2011, BBC broadcast Queen: Days of Our Lives over two nights to a reported 3 million viewers, resulting in it being the highest rated TV show in its time slot.
I enjoyed watching every second of each disc. It's that good. There are two segments that are particular Boomerocity favorites:
* Guitarist Brian May tells of bringing his parents over from the UK to see Queen perform at New York's Madison Square Garden. It is a very, very touching vignette.
*The segments of the last recording session and color video outtakes of the music video show on this review show and tell a Freddie Mercury as his body was losing its battle against AIDS.
* The segments of the last recording session and color video outtakes of the music video show on this review show and tell a Freddie Mercury as his body was losing its battle against AIDS.
Boomerocity.com
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Documentary about Queen I've seen
I am a huge Queen fan and have seen most of the documentaries on them and also on Freddie Mercury. However, this one seemed more "authentic. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Irishactivist
5.0 out of 5 stars
Queen Rocks!
This is a must-read for any Queen fans. I breezed through it promptly, loaned it to my brother and haven't seen it since! Read more
Published 29 days ago by D. Standinger
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fine Queen documentary
"Days of Our Lives" is a very enjoyable history of the band, at least for the casual Queen fan such as I. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Karen A. Amrhein
5.0 out of 5 stars
Queen represents the best days of my late teens and early 20s.
There will never be another group like Queen and Freddie Mercury sure is a legend, far beyond a star. A poignant look at the origins of the most unique band ever!
Published 1 month ago by Bernard M Lynch Jr
5.0 out of 5 stars
love this documentry
this is an excellent documentry if you want to know more about the band memebers. i love all the interviews they have collected and the history about alot of the songs.
Published 3 months ago by gferguson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Queen
What an amazing documentary. I'll not spoil you. telling something about the video itself, but If you are a fan, you have to watch this
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Published 3 months ago by Victor
5.0 out of 5 stars
Queen Days of out Lives
Fantastic look into the history of Queen,,, Very well presented and thoroughly entertaining. Could watch it over and over again
Published 4 months ago by kak
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully made
Obviously made with an enormous amount of love, thoughtfulness and admiration. Brian and Roger are such thoughtful and kind people and it is obvious how much they love and still... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Irish67
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very well-made documentary!
This DVD is a fantastic inside look at a ground-breaking, timeless rock group. It really gave me a much more appreciative respect for the talents that these individuals had. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Daniel J. Buchanan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great job
Loved this documentary on one of the greatest rock bands that ever lived. If you are or have ever been a fan of Queen I defintely recommend this title. You won't be disappointed.
Published 5 months ago by Chris W
