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“A few words about the forthcoming ‘Queen in 3-D’ book …
… Bri”

“Hi Folks

Brian here. Just wanted to say a few words about the forthoming “Queen in 3-D” book. This has been completely a labour of love for me and it’s taken about three years, and I was only able to do it because I’ve been obsessed with stereo photography most of my life. So all through those classic, golden days of Queen, I had a stereo camera with me, so this is a collection of all the pictures that I amassed over the years, most of which I took, well, a lot of which I took, and some of which were taken of taken of us by people to whom I entrusted the stereo camera for a little while.

Front of the book has a lenticular of Freddie, on, which announces the 3-D nature of the book, and you don’t need a viewer to see this in 3-D. This is one way of processing 3-D, but the real stuff is inside the book, which is side by side 3-D in the classic Victorian style, and for that you need a viewer. Luckily in the package is a free OWL, my patent, London Stereoscopic Company OWL, which is made in Sunbury-on-Thames, and is about to be made in China as well.

For the first time we’ve made it in unforgettable “1986 Freddie Mercury Jacket Yellow “, in honour of Freddie and it’s very very much a Queen colour. It’s the first time you’ve seen OWLS in this country, so there’s… this colour, sorry, in this country, and so this is a special for the “Queen in 3-D” book.

Once you get your book, I only have a dummy here, and it’s just bound up with these rings as you can see. Once you have your book, a lot of the pictures will be just full page like that, so you don’t need a viewer to look at them, but the real meat of the book is the 3-D pages, and for each one of these pages you will need the OWL.

Just so you know, those of you who are not familiar with the OWL, you have to position it squarely over the picture like this and hold it by the back as I’m doing here – hope you can see this – and then the focus, as always with the OWL, is done with the thumbs. There’s two little thumb holes here and you focus it like this, so once it’s on the page, focus it like this, with your eyes looking through.

What I should mention is that the crucial thing with all these pieces of apparatus is to get enough light on it, so position yourself near a window or a bright light and then you’ll get the full majesty of the 3-D. So once you’re on there, squared up like that, look through and suddenly you’re there.

This book has particularly high quality printing, much higher than even a normal art book, so under the magnification of these lenses, it still looks pretty decent. That’s very important.

So I’m looking at Freddie here and Freddie’s looking at me, taking a picture of me with his beloved Polaroid camera and I’ve captured the moment in 3-D and I think if you look through this viewer you’ll feel like you’re there with me. It’s an amazingly powerful medium – traditional Victorian stereoscopy, and I believe that this is the first time it’s ever been done and I don’t think there’s every been a book before which chronicled the life of a rock band in 3-D over the years, so this goes back all the way to 1970 when we started, and the book actually goes back a little further than that to my childhood, when I first discovered the principles of 3-D and stereoscopy.

So its been a great journey for me and I hope it is for you when you get your “Queen in 3-D” book. I hope you have many many happy hours going through it and tracing our history. It’s only glimpses, you know. It’s not really a biography, but some very telling glimpses, I think, and all the way up to the present day. You’ll notice we have a couple of pages on Paul Rodgers and a few pages on the wonderful Adam Lambert, and I think Adam Lambert fans will enjoy that, as will Queen fans, because Adam is really a member of the family now.

So we’ll be seeing you out on tour pretty soon. We’ll be touring the States in June, probably Europe in October, probably the UK in December – but shh…
But that’s kind of the plan, and hopefully we’ll have “Queen in 3-D” books with us.<
God bless you all. Thank you for your support.
Bri”
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News / 29 Mar 2017 / by Scott Munro

Brian May will launch Queen In 3D later this year – watch teaser video

Brian May has announced that his book Queen In 3D will launch later this year.

It’s the first book ever to be published about Queen by one of the band members and features “a unique collection of original, highly personal snapshots of Queen in three dimensions – from its inception in the early 70s right up to the present day, accompanied by the exclusive recollections of founding member and lead guitarist, Brian May.”

The book includes more than 300 photographs, the majority of which were taken by May. Most of them are in 3D and will be able to be viewed with May’s OWL viewer which comes bundled with the book.

May says: “There is no ghost writer for this book. It’s just me. And we have deliberately kept the text in my voice, rather than translate it into literary prose.

“In these pages I’m speaking directly to you across time, as I recall those days, and sometimes actually in the words I wrote down at the time – but also through a collection of 3D images which will take you back there, to see it with your own eyes.”

May previously published 3D images in Crinoline: Fashion’s Most Magnificent Disaster – written in conjunction with Denis Pellerin and the London Stereoscopic Company.

Queen In 3D is out on May 25 and is currently available for pre-order.

May and Kerry Ellis will release their new album Golden Days on April 7 via Sony Music. It features new compositions and cover versions, including a take on Gary Moore classic Parisienne Walkways.

As reported 14 March, Brian attended The London Book Fair for the Day and met with foreign book distributors.

We are happy to confirm that his forthcoming title: “Queen in 3-D” will be published in Italian and German.

Here he is pictured below with a happy Jos Bendinelli Negrone who has just secured German and Italian language publishing rights for Queen In 3-D.

 

The book will be published on 25th May 2017, priced £50.

It will also be published in territories across the globe.

14th April 2015

BRIAN MAY’S LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY WILL HAVE A GREAT PRESENCE AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR THIS YEAR

London Book Fair 14-16 April 2015

A new fine-art publishing company with a mission to share the wonders of the world’s greatest 3-D images, from Victorian times to the present day. This is the first year that The London Stereoscopic Company (LSC) will have a stand at the book fair. (Located at B4 at 6E10 – with the Independent Publishers Guild)

Following the London Stereoscopic Company’s successs with Diableries – Stereoscopic adventures in Hell, and The Poor Man’s Picture Gallery, published with Tate Britain, further exciting plans will be announced at the book fair.

Brian May will attend on the afternoon of 15th April and will present, to publishers and literary media, forthcoming publications including the highly anticipated – QUEEN in 3-D

This book offers a stunning portrait of the legendary rock band seen through the personal stereoscopic lenses of Brian May (and friends !) – complete with patent OWL 3-D viewer. This is the first time Queen’s history has ever been documented in 3-D, from the early days with Freddie Mercury in the 1970s, right through to the present day. The vast majority of these shots have never been seen before, and provide a uniquely intimate view of the World’s greatest Rock band.

The London Stereoscopic Company Imprint A new fine-art publishing company with a mission to share the world’s greatest 3-D images, from Victorian times to the present day. Many more books are currently being planned for 2015 and beyond.

Imprint:

“It was my dream to bring the London Stereoscopic Company (LSC) back to life in the present day. Through our stereoscopic publications, a whole new audience can enjoy the magic of immersive 3-D in their own homes, just as our ancestors did in Victorian times. We’re restoring and reissuing stereoscopic masterpieces from the 1850s, along with new 3-D wonders of the modern world.” – Brian May