Queen honoured with 13 special Royal Mail stamps

From Planet Rock.

The Royal Mail is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Queen by launching a very special series of stamps in their honour.

There are a total of 13 different Queen stamp designs available to pre-order in a variety of packages on the Royal Mail website ahead of their official release on Thursday 9th July.

Eight Queen albums feature on the stamps – ‘Queen II’ (1974), ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ (1974), ‘A Night At The Opera’ (1975), ‘News of the World (1977), ‘The Game’ (1980), ‘Greatest Hits’ (1981), ‘The Works’ (1984) and ‘Innuendo’ (1991).

There are also four stamps featuring live shots of Freddie Mercury at Wembley Stadium in 1986, Roger Taylor at Hyde Park in 1976, John Deacon on stage at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975 on the A Night at the Opera Tour, and Brian May at Népstadion in Budapest, Hungary in 1986 on the Magic Tour.

Completing the stamp collection is an iconic photograph of Queen taken by Johnny Dewe Mathews at the group’s first-ever studio photoshoot in a Primrose Hill studio.

The full set of 13 stamps, available in a Presentation Pack, retails at £16.00.

Package prices range from £4.35 for a Queen Prestige Stamp Book right up to a whopping £699 for a Queen Gold Proof Coin Cover featuring five stamps, a £25 Queen coin struck by the Royal Mint and an individually numbered Coin Cover celebrating Queen’s legendary live shows.

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Queen Royal Mail stamps presentation pack

Enthusing about the Royal Mail’s Queen stamps, Brian May says: “It’s hard to put into words what I feel when looking at these beautiful stamps.

“Since we four precocious boys started out on our quest 50 years ago, our lives have been devoted to making our impossible dream come true. Sometimes it’s strange to wake up and realise the position in which we are now held – we have become a national institution! And nothing brings this home more than this incredible tribute from Royal Mail.

“It’s particularly poignant to look at this collection of images now – now that we are all in a world dominated by a coronavirus, in which none of this could have happened. I just know that I feel an overwhelming desire to own one of these sets! Somehow it will be a way of persuading myself that it really DID all happen!”

Roger Taylor adds: “Wow…….stamps featuring our albums! What an honour. We must be really part of the furniture now! Thanks, Royal Mail for stamping on us! In gratitude.”

Royal Mail’s Phillip Barker comments: “With their truly original, theatrical sound and effortless ability to mix musical styles, Queen are rock royalty. We pay tribute to one of the most loved bands of all time with these stunning stamps.

Queen are the third rock band to be honoured by the Royal Mail with stamps, following The Beatles in 2007 and Pink Floyd in 2016.

At the start of the year, Queen became the first band ever to be celebrated with an official commemorative UK coin collection from the Royal Mint.

All 13 Royal Mail Queen stamps:

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Queen ‘Queen II’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Queen ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Queen ‘A Night at the Opera’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Queen ‘News of the World’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Queen ‘The Game’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Queen ‘Greatest Hits’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Queen ‘The Works’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Queen ‘Innuendo’ Royal Mail Stamp

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Freddie Mercury Royal Mail stamp

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Brian May Royal Mail stamp

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Queen Royal Mail stamp

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John Deacon Royal Mail Stamp

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Roger Taylor Royal Mail stamp

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• Queen - News Of The World - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $63.00, €59.00 (New Item) (arrived 27-May-2022 11:40)
  on May 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm

  QUEEN News Of The World (1977 UK 11-track vinyl LP including We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, complete with die-cut lyric inner, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve has minimal wear and the vinyl which looks barely played EMA784)

• Queen - Japan Tour '82 - Japanese - tour programme - £60.00, $75.60, €70.80 (New Item) (arrived 17-May-2022 12:58)
  on May 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm

  QUEEN Japan Tour '82 (Official 1982 Japanese 28-page 12" square tour programme, includes tour dates listed at the front, profile and discography with all text in Japanese, and loaded with great photographs and glossy cover)

• Queen - A Day At The Races - 2nd - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.50, €29.50 (New Item) (arrived 11-May-2022 10:31)
  on May 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm

  QUEEN A Day At The Races (1976 UK 10-track LP, the fifth studio album from the legendary British band, including Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody To Love & Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, gatefold picture sleeve with die-cut picture inner. The sleeve,which still displays 'vintage' price sticker, shows some edgewear and general scuff marks, typical to this issue, whilst the vinyl appears barely played EMTC104)

• Queen - Sheer Heart Attack - 180gram Red Vinyl - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.80, €35.40 (New Item) (arrived 11-May-2022 11:31)
  on May 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm

  QUEEN Sheer Heart Attack (2015 UK limited edition 13-track remastered LP issue of their 1974 album now pressed on Audiophile quality 180gram Heavyweight Red Vinyl, including Stone Cold Crazy, Now I'm Here, Killer Queen and Brighton Rock. The vinyl appears barely played and comes housed within the picture sleeve with lyric printed inner. This pressing was only available exclusively in 'The Queen Studio Collection' box set)

• Queen - Live At The Rainbow '74 - Blu-Ray + Tshirt - Japanese - cd album box set - £75.00, $94.50, €88.50 (New Item) (arrived 11-May-2022 14:37)
  on May 27, 2022 at 4:21 pm

  QUEEN Live At The Rainbow '74 (2014 Japanese limited edition Blu-Ray / Tshirt box set comprising their comprising the previously unreleased first live album, surfacing after a forty year wait, recorded on Sunday 31st March 1974 at the legendary London venue the Rainbow, along with a concert from the same venue recorded on the Sheer Heart Attack tour in November 1974. Also included is a fabulous tshirt, with the same design from the boxset. The box (still in opened shrink!) shows minimal wear and the disc looks unplayed!)