As a big Queen fan, who never had the chance to see QUEEN live on stage, I was so happy when I heard of the tour announcement of QUEEN+Paul Rodgers in
December 2004. My long time dreams should become reality…!
In the following months and years I “converted” to these so called “hardcore fans”, visiting many concerts of the same tour and band and following the band from city to city, attending 22 concert all in all…crazy, you think? Totally normal for a QUEEN fan! It was real fun and these experiences belong to the best things in my life so far.
Being a passionate photographer since I was a child, I of course took a camera to the concerts (it was only possible to take in a small digital compact camera). I made thousands of pictures and I was so happy with the results that I made some private photobooks of the 3 tours. I gave copies of these books to Brian May, Paul Rodgers and Roger Taylor. They were all hugely impressed…and thanked me personally for it.
At one point Brian asked me if I intend to publish these books and that I definitely should.
Many things happened since that day, but now the work is completed. The result is ROCKMOS!, a fanbook with hundreds of great concert shots plus nice stories and photos of our everyday lifes as QUEEN Fans on tour from 2005-2008.
ROCKMOS! has it’s approval by QUEEN and Paul Rodgers AND it has forewords of the three musicians inside.
As a special extra ROCKMOS! includes an annex with all the dates and facts about each of the 109 QUEEN and Paul Rodgers live appearances from 2005-2008. ROCKMOS! has 342 pages, 800 photos and many stories around those 22 QPR gigs. The price is 34.90 EUR plus shipping and orders can be made from
http://www.rockmos.de/.
The book is not available in bookstores so far.
ROCKMOS! was available in a Special edition, limited to 111 copies, which was sold out in a minute...`
Brian, Paul and Roger are real fans of ROCKMOS! They are so happy and impressed by ROCKMOS!
Some comments on ROCKMOS!:
Brian: "You did it!"
Roger: "This is a better diary or record of the tours than I have!"
Peter Freestone: "I have just finished reading it now. I thought it is the best photographic diary I have ever seen. It is SO much more than just words and pictures. You feel involved. It really is a must for any QUEEN + PR fan!"
Thilo Rahn