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Queen duo Brian May and Roger Taylor made a New Year’s Eve appearance on Japan’s biggest TV show, lending their support to X Japan leader Yoshiki on his performance of X Japan anthem Endless Rain.
Yoshiki’s band X Japan pioneered the visual kei movement – a flamboyant clash of music, art and fashion, with its roots in punk, glam rock, anime and noh theatre – in their homeland and are considered as significant to the development of rock in Asia as The Beatles, having sold over 30 million albums. Consequently, Yoshiki has been invited to perform on Japan’s biggest TV show, NHK’s annual, long-running New Year’s Eve spectacular Kohaku Uta Gassen, no fewer than 11 times, both as a solo artist and with X Japan. This 2020 performance was the singer/drummer/pianist’s sixth consecutive appearance on the hugely popular entertainment show, and featured a guest appearance from kawaii metal superstars Babymetal, as well as Queen’s guitarist and drummer.
Yoshiki, Taylor and May have been friends since the early ’90s, with Taylor co-writing a track called Foreign Sand with the X Japan man in 1994. Back in 2015, to celebrate the announcement that the 2016 Classic Rock Awards were to be held in Tokyo, Yoshiki performed Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody for an audience which included Brian May.
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QUEEN Tour 82 (1982 UK 9½" x 13" 20-page colour tour programme, packed with glossy photographs & biographical text. This copy shows a little shelfwear, especially to edges but all pages are intact, no tears or rips - now a great collectable)
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QUEEN Body Language (1982 German EMI Electrola label 2-track 12" single, also includes 'Life Is Real', housed in a thin paper full colour 'bodies' picture sleeve with 'Maxi Single Super Sound Version' logo on the front. The delicate sleeve hasa little light general wear and, aside from a small pressing bump (a fault from manufacture), the vinyl looks barely played 1CK052-64788)
- Queen - It's A Hard Life - EX - UK - 12" vinyl - £25.00, $32.50, €29.75 (New Item) (arrived 13-Mar-2025 17:00)on March 14, 2025 at 12:13 am
QUEEN It's A Hard Life (1984 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single including the Extended Mix and Is This The World We Created. This single was never issued in a picture sleeve, so comes within a plain black die-cut card sleeve. There are just a coupleof light scuff marks on the vinyl, and remains excellent. A nice copy at an advantageous price 12QUEEN3)
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