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We will always remember you, Freddie ❤️

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The first video in Tim's new series is up, and it's about Earth!

And maybe even more interestingly, he's released a sci-fi book! Apparently he originally wrote it while on vacation in the 90s, and it's now available on Kindle:

Thank you for sharing more ressources, and the website is very good but it genuinely cannot replace this documentary series I recommended. A point by point website cannot replace newly-discovered archival footage, primary source documents, and the accounts of the refugees themselves as they lived the colonization of Palestine, along with an explanation of the plans of the British, the settlers, and all the tactics and dynamics that occured in chronological order.

Great full view of Roger and Lola during '39!

Also I see Roger sings on "the volunteers came home that day" and "but my love this cannot be" which I never noticed before by ear, but now I'm really gonna look out for it

The final night of QAL US tour 2023!

Roger the cuddlebug 🥹❤️

Brian was wearing a QAL cape for his Bo Rhap solo tonight and I love that!

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:

"When the machines take over. It ain’t no place for rock and roll” 'MACHINES' (OR BACK TO HUMANS)

Jaw-dropping show opener of The Rhapsody Tour to be released November 10 as new QUEEN digital single.

A thrilling collision of sound and vision dubbed “a masterclass” by USA Today, the Queen and Adam Lambert ‘Rhapsody' show opens with the juddering industrial beat and vocal harmonies of Machines (or Back To Humans) - a new reworking of the cult favourite track that opened the second side of The Works album in 1984. 

While immersive staging pulls the audience into a dystopian world of spinning cogs and hissing pistons, a battalion of CGI robots march across the giant video screens to the sound of “Machines” and look down on the crowd with unforgiving brimstone eyes – only to be vanquished with the assistance of a virtual Freddie vocal, the band then launching into a techno-infused but highly human Radio Ga Ga, which kicks off a two-hours-plus roller coaster of the band’s legacy catalogue.

In the opening of the new ‘Rhapsody' production, the audience hears Freddie Mercury and Brian May’s duetting lead vocals from behind, raising the alarm (originally in 1984!) that The Machines are about to take over.   Set against this, the robotic voices are provided by Roger Taylor’s vocoded vocals advocating the Machines’ point of view. The theme of this conflict bursts back in at various points later in the set. 

Brian May, co-creator (with Roger Taylor) of the Machines song, and advocate of the new theme, says: “The Robot Horde provide a narrative thread to our new show.  In these days of Artificial Intelligence beginning to invade our whole lives, these mechanical guys personify Robotic Insurgence.  In our still-developing current show, Back to Humans - is the soundtrack to us as humans reclaiming our control. Machines and Radio Ga Ga actually have a common ancestor, the beginnings of a collaboration between myself and Roger in the sessions for the Works album in 1984.  But we had different ideas of how it should develop, and the track split into two songs going in opposite directions … Roger piloting Radio Gaga to completion and into a worldwide hit, and me taking the route of making “Machines” into a kind of unending battle.  Putting the new show together, it hit me that ‘Machines' was more relevant than ever.  So the idea came about of theming the show with a 21st-century version of this battle - and, incidentally, bringing Ga Ga and Machines fittingly back together once again.  And this stands very well with our long-standing belief that a rock show should be live and dangerous rather than performed to clicks and electronic backings."

Adds Roger Taylor: “Machines” was born out of the electronica we originally explored on ‘Radio Ga Ga’ to create this sense of the battle between the electric side and the human side. Now at a time when it’s increasingly becoming a machines world and we’re all just trying to keep up, we felt it the perfect time to revive this idea of basically going back to humans.”

Reintroduced to the Queen setlist for the band’s current US tour, the feverish live reaction to Machines (Or Back To Humans) has now prompted the band to release the original track as a digital single becoming available November 10.

Roger Taylor says, "Basically, it starts off where everything is electronic – electronic drums, everything, And what you have is the ‘human’ rock band sort of crashing in.  What you wind up with is a battle between the two.”

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

save palestine - islamic relief canada

click to donate - arab.org

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

NOTE: journalists based in gaza are saying that donations are not going to help atm. what will help is a demand for ceasefire. so please contact your local MPs every single day demanding as such. palestine need a ceasefire right now, not money (i will update when monetary help is needed)

if you want to donate, do this instead:

help buy e-sims for people in gaza (you can follow this tutorial. if the simly app is not accepting donations or “gifts” then you can check out holafly. those are the only two that are working well right now. if you would like to stay updated, please follow @/Mirna_elhelbawi on twitter)

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty.org

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

they have been deleting private pro-palestine posts

location specific petitions

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians | (very very important please share + read the sources provided)

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

HE'S MADE IT A THING NOW 😭💖

📸 Ja'mie Queen West

"Here she is, standing beside her very, very well known father [..] Ladies and gentlemen, Lola Leng!"

Awww! 🥰

Looks like QAL filmed something when they were in Denver!! Another docu??