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Launching “Queen in 3-D” to the Press in Ireland, The Irish Times carries an interview with Brian May.

THE IRISH TIMES
As they play the 3Arena, Queen’s lead guitarist talks about his passion for 3-D photography and his book of band images
24 November 2017 by Ronan McGreevy

 

The cover image of Freddie in his prime was taken by my friend Neil Preston with my camera. You can se.e every vein and every bead of sweat. I just love that. It’s so real

Some people will find it unusual that Queen in 3-D is the first book penned by an original member of Queen.

BRIAN MAY:
Yes, it is true. I’m very proud of it. I never thought it would grow to what it has become. I love just holding it and playing with it and seeing the reaction that people have when they look at the pictures in 3D. It’s very rewarding.

The book is semi-autobiographical as the photographs seem to evoke memories of the past.
I wasn’t sure my memory was very good. If you ask me what I did in 1981, I probably can’t tell you. When I look at these stereo pictures, it evokes such strong feelings and emotions and memories. Every time I looked at a picture it brought out a story. That’s the genesis of the book.

Is there any photograph in the book in particular that brought back powerful memories?

Yes, particularly the one of Freddie doing his make-up. I had no idea that it was in my possession. It was on a roll of film which I had exposed and had processed.

In those days you had to send things away to be processed, but I had never mounted the film and put it in the cardboard mouse to view it in 3D.

My colleague and archivist had found it in a box which had been squirreled away in a drawer. I was shocked to see it. It is one of my favourite photographs of Freddie Mercury and one of the most unguarded. It was really a lost treasure.

I also love where Freddie is taking a picture of me while I’m taking a picture of him. I like the ones where we would check into an arena and I would give the camera to somebody local and explain how it works.

Sometimes I wouldn’t get very much, but, occasionally, in the hands of somebody who grasped the concept, I would get something great.

After a while I finally tweaked that it was best to get it to a professional. The cover image of Freddie in his prime was taken by my friend Neil Preston with my camera. You can see every vein and every bead of sweat. I just love that. It’s so real.

The book in its entirety would suggest that Queen was a great adventure. Was it a wonderful time for you and the band members?

It still is. We are playing shows that are bigger than we ever played and the reaction has been astounding. I feel fortunate we have this incredible adventure in our lives.

You write in the book about the difference between life in the studio and life on the road. There were a lot of tensions in the studio but not on the road. How difficult were some of those days in the studio for you?

Some of those days got pretty black. The studio was always a hard time. We were chiselling out a new direction. In each one of our minds that direction was different. It was hard. Every note was fought over in many cases. I can’t say it was all bad in the studio, but there were days.

On the road, generally, there was a feeling of joy. No matter what happened on the road, you did have to entertain people. No matter what ideas you had about yourself and your message, the idea is to go out and entertain people and help them forget about their sorrows for a couple of hours. It is a noble quest. I still enjoy it immensely.

A lot of people assume 3D is a new invention, but it has been around since the dawn of photography. How common was your interest in 3D photography in the 1970s and 1980s?

It still isn’t common actually. We’ve all seen Avatar now and How to Train Your Dragon so we know what 3D is, but I still find myself having to explain what stereo photography is which surprises me because it is such a beautiful, wonderful, evocative thing.

Ever since I was a kid and I first saw a 3D hippopotamus, I couldn’t understand why people don’t it all the time because it is thrilling to see things in 3D. I still get off on it. I still get absolutely thrilled looking around me and seeing things in 3D. If you look at my Instagram account, you’ll see lots of 3D pictures from yesterday and today. It is still alive and in me.

You designed the owl viewer which comes with the book. Can I assume your background in science (he has a PhD in astrophysics) and the fact that you make your own guitars helped in that regard?

Yes. I’ve always been somebody who would like to make things and invent things. I didn’t invent stereo photography, but I did design that particular viewer because there wasn’t a modern equivalent of the stereoscopic viewers that were around in Victorian times. It is exactly based on those principles. It is still the best form of 3D you can get and it doesn’t give you any eyestrain or headaches. It also insulates you in your private world which I love. It is one of those things that transports you.

You’re coming to Dublin on Saturday night. What can the fans expect?

This is the most ambitious show that we have ever tried. There are about nine months’ thought and action gone into it. We were a little laissez-faire in the past, but this time we have planned everything and there are some great ideas based around revisiting the album News of the World after 40 years ago so the robot we call Frank is making an appearance, but I won’t tell you any more than that, but there is a lot of fun in this show.

It is almost a filmic production, but the base of it is us playing our music. The music is, as ever, live and dangerous. It doesn’t have any backing tracks. You get the mistakes as well. You get everything unfolding in front of your eyes.

Queen in 3-D published by the London Stereoscopic Company is available priced €60. Queen and Adam Lambert play the 3Arena on Saturday night

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THE IRISH TIMES
24 November 2017

Adam Lambert and Brian May in action with Queen

Brian May’s Queen in 3-D is the first ever book from a member of the iconic British rockers

 

 

AS VETERAN rockers Queen return to Ireland this weekend for sold-out dates in Dublin and Belfast, those missing out on Brian May and Roger Taylor’s modern day version of the band fronted by Adam Lambert can now travel back in time to the Freddie Mercury days by pouring over Mr May’s excellent new book, Queen in 3-D.

Published today [in Ireland], this lavish coffee table tome is the first ever Queen book written by an actual band member. And, as the title suggests, it is jam-packed with eye-popping 3-D photography snapped by the legendary guitarist, who personally captured these previously unseen intimate moments from throughout the entire history of the band with his trusty stereo camera.

Every copy of Queen 3-D comes with its own special stereoscopic ‘OWL viewer’ (a patented Brian May invention, doncha know), which allows this extraordinary collection of images to leap off the page.

An essential Christmas gift for any Queen fan you like enough to spend £50 on

 

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SAGA Magazine
Danny Scott / 06 November 2017

At 70, Brian May shows no sign of slowing down. He’s on a world tour, has just published a 3-D book and fights for animal rights, says Danny Scott.

Brian May

Rock-star follies come in different shapes and sizes. Rod Stewart has his football pitch. Pete Waterman, the man behind Kylie Minogue, has a model railway. Sting’s got his Italian vineyard.

Brian May, guitarist with Queen, has orphaned badgers, foxes and hedgehogs, an organic vegetable garden and a forest of rhododendrons, some of them more than 20ft high. His wildlife charity, the Save Me Trust, is based at his 70-acre Surrey estate and includes a deer shed, fox and badger runs, plus its own ambulance and veterinary surgery.

Waiting for the interview to start, I look out over one of the massive gardens watching two wild roe deer munch the lawn. ‘Aren’t they lovely,’ whispers May, suddenly at my shoulder and filming the deer with his phone. The 70-year-old is tall – with that famous barnet adding at least four inches – dressed casually in loose-fitting combat trousers, badger T-shirt and a beige utility waistcoat. Hardly the kind of man you’d expect to play lead guitar in the most extravagant band in rock history.

In person, May is a sort of anti-rock star; quiet, considerate… and remarkably gentle, padding softly across to the kitchen to make me a coffee and then leading us into what can only be described as his ‘camera museum’. And this is the reason we’re here. May has recently published a 3-D picture book, filled with stereoscopic images (the technical term for 3-D) that he took while Queen were recording, touring, relaxing and larking about. The images are accompanied by May’s words, telling Queen’s story from the inside. He calls it the closest thing to an autobiography he’ll ever write.

‘My interest in 3-D images came via Weetabix,’ laughs May. ‘When I was a kid, I remember opening a packet and out popped an image of a hippopotamus. Well, it was two images, side by side and seemingly identical. Also in the box was an offer to buy something called a Vistascreen viewer for one and six.

‘When the viewer arrived, I placed the hippopotamus image inside and… it was like magic! Like seeing the animal there in front of you, with real depth and colour.’

That very Vistascreen viewer is sitting on the table next to May, just one of a huge collection of stereoscopic cameras and images that line the room. Some of the cameras seem amateurishly Heath-Robinson, but others are beautifully crafted works of mechanical art, bought from flea markets and antique shops during Queen’s world tours.

Queen in 3-D is May’s fifth stereoscopic book (to publish his books, May has relaunched the London Stereoscopic Company, which began life in 1854), but the first to deal with his own life story and Queen.

‘I’ve never been that keen on writing about myself because I’ve always got more interesting things to do,’ he explains. Alongside the publishing company and the wildlife trust, there’s his very vocal campaign to stop the badger cull, astronomy (May completed his astrophysics PhD aged 60), the forthcoming Freddie Mercury biopic and, of course, touring with Queen.

Although the current version of the band features Adam Lambert – a former American Idol contestant – on vocals, May knows that people will always want to talk about Freddie Mercury.

‘I first met him in the late ’60s,’ remembers May, ‘when he used to come and see Smile, the band I was in at the time. He was always telling us, “Don’t just sing the songs. You have to give the audience a show”. I used to think, “What the hell is he talking about?” but when Queen finally came together, I began to understand what he meant. Freddie wanted to make every gig an “event” and he was always the ringmaster.’

‘The strange thing is that, off stage, Freddie was nothing like that. He had a very sheltered upbringing, which made him quite shy and insecure. And I think you see that in some of the photos I took of him; he wasn’t always comfortable in front of the camera.

‘I’m sure that the stage persona was Freddie’s way of dealing with his insecurity. Being in a band allows you to reinvent yourself… and Freddie reinvented himself as a rock god. A pretty good one, too!’

 

“I’m 70 years old and I’m busier than I have been in a long, long time. And I still have the hunger… the desire to create and investigate. “

The 1975 hit Bohemian Rhapsody may have turned Queen into one of the world’s biggest bands, but some of the 1970s tour pictures look surprisingly ordinary.

‘Touring in the ’70s wasn’t quite as glamorous as it seemed,’ May says, leafing through the book. ‘You’d grab a couple of hours sleep, lying on the amps at the back of the tour bus, have a wash in the toilet of some American truck stop. When we were abroad, I was lucky if I rang home once a week – no mobiles in those days. To keep in touch with people, I used to send airmail letters and postcards. Hand-written!

‘But the best thing was no paparazzi. Although Queen were famous, no one was interested in us as people; we were just musicians. Sadly, all that changed in the late ’80s… all the stories about Freddie. After I got together with Anita I had my fair share, too. [May met EastEnders actress Anita Dobson in 1986, two years before his first marriage to Chrissie Mullen ended; he and Dobson married in 2000.] I remember being out in the garden with the kids and suddenly realising we were being photographed. It felt so nasty, like my privacy was being invaded.

‘And then when we lost Freddie… some of the stories were horrific.’

Wading through the 360 images in the book uncorked a lot of wonderful memories for May, but the pictures of Freddie were sometimes tinged with sadness.

‘There were tears,’ May admits. ‘Lots of tears. Seeing him in those images, so full of life. Being Freddie! I miss him every day, but I’m also aware of how much warmth and love there is for him. When people talk to me about him, they always smile. Even after all these years, he still makes people happy.’

After Mercury died in 1991, May fully expected to walk away from Queen, but there were absolutely no plans to ‘retire’.

‘I’m rubbish at doing nothing,’ insists May. ‘Even when we go on holiday, I find it difficult to relax. I spend the first couple of days by the pool, then I’m off. Exploring, meeting people, seeing animals, taking pictures, watching sunsets and swimming in the sea.

‘My good lady wife is very good at “enjoying the moment”. If we’re having dinner or on a plane or at a party, she’s there, enjoying the meal and the company, fully immersed in the moment. She’s always asking me why I can’t do that and maybe it’s because I live in my head, so I’m always thinking about something else. A telescope, a book I’m reading, a song by Little Richard, a stereoscopic image I found tucked away in a drawer.

‘I do try to listen to what Anita says and I am getting better at… being “here”. Whatever the moment is, it’s not around for long, so I might as well enjoy it. I sometimes look back at the amazing things I did and wonder if I really “enjoyed” them as much as I should have. Did I miss out on years’ worth of fun? Am I a bit of a miserable old bastard? Ha ha! I’ve given you your headline there, haven’t I!

‘Meditation is helping me. It’s helping to calm down my mind. And exercise. I was never into the drink and drugs side of rock ‘n’ roll, but I did neglect my body for many, many years.’

Some of the 1970s images in the book show him as worryingly stick-thin.

‘That was a stomach thing I had,’ says May. ‘It did get resolved, but I was still dealing with a poor diet, no sleep, stress, zero exercise. Eventually – I must have been about 60 – I realised I couldn’t carry on like that. These days, I watch what I eat [May is vegetarian] exercise for an hour every morning, hot and cold shower, and finish off with a bit of meditation. I’m finally paying attention to my body.’

Has it worked?

‘I’m 70 years old and I’m busier than I have been in a long, long time. And I still have the hunger… the desire to create and investigate. To get out there and experience beauty. The immense beauty that’s all around us.’

As if by magic – and this really did happen – a fox appears, trotting across the lawn. May nudges me and chuckles quietly. Under his breath, I can just hear him say, ‘Look at him. Gorgeous. Why would you want to hurt him?’ He stands up and walks over to the window.

‘I remember when I was at Sunday School and the teacher told us that we are better than animals because we have a soul and that means we can go to heaven. I thought about my pet cat at the time… she had skin, blood, ears, eyes, legs. Surely, she had a soul. I couldn’t understand that and I still can’t understand it today. What gives us the right to say we are better than animals? What gives us the right to kill an animal because it’s in the way of a road-building scheme or to protect an already ailing food industry? That’s what the badger cull is all about, y’know.

‘What we achieved with Queen means a lot to me, but the work I’m doing today is more important than all the number ones and sold out tours. This is about treating these creatures with respect and trying my best to be a decent human being. Isn’t that the stuff that really matters?’

Queen in 3-D is on sale now

BILLBOARD
10 November 2017 by Lyndsey Havens

Why Queen’s History Is Best Told With 3-D Glasses, According To Brian May

At the height of its power, Queen was always being documented — often by guitarist Brian May, with his stereo camera snapping photos on and off stage. In August, the 70-year-old released the band biography Queen in 3-D through his London Stereoscopic Company, a collection of 300 never-before-seen career-spanning photos that come to life through special viewing glasses.

Now, as Queen celebrates the 40th anniversary of 1977’s News of the World (which housed hits like “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions”), May breaks down favorite photos from that time, which he says “seems like yesterday.”

1. May, pictured onstage during Queen’s 1978 U.S. Jazz Tour, started lending his Stereo Realist camera for 3-D slides to professional photographers during Queen’s shows. “A 3-D picture feels like you can walk into it and touch the people in it,” says May. “If we enable [fans] to experience these in 3-D, they too will be able to feel that they’re back in those moments with us.”

2. When choosing a photo for the cover of the book, May says this image of Freddie Mercury leapt out at him. “This is such an iconic picture of [him]. It sums up so much of when he’s in his prime — you can see every vein in his arm and every bead of sweat. You can see the power of the man. To me, that summed up the book. People ask, ‘Why don’t you put the four of you on the front?’ From the very earliest times, we were conscious that Freddie was our icon. He was that symbol of what we are.”

3. “We were always into our toys,” says May of what they called “pizza oven” onstage lights. “What people have forgotten is you couldn’t change the colors in those days. So if you had red over here and green on the other side, that’s it. You only got on and off. We were conscious of that, and when we design our new shows, there’s a strong retro element.”

4. Roger Taylor’s bass drum had the robot from the News of the World album cover art emblazoned on it and was used only on the U.S. leg of the band’s world tour. “Roger takes credit for [the album artwork] because he found a 1950s copy of Astounding Science Fiction and Fact, and on the cover was this picture of the robot holding a soldier in his hand. We loved the look and feel of it.”

iDNES.cz
1 November 2017

GOOGLE TRANSLATE:

On Wednesday evening, thousands of fans will go to Queen’s concert at the Prague O2 arena. But before that, they can delight in the Queen 3D book, which has been prepared by the guitarist Brian May himself, and besides the text he has provided it with more than three hundred unpublished three-dimensional photos.

Queen in 1973, headed by frontman Freddie Mercury

It’s a tough whim, but it’s surprising that a plastic stereoprojector will drop out on the reader first, without which a note of the book would make no sense. He needs to fold, luckily by the instructions and quite simply, and then concentrate on content.

Because of the fate of the band here, using 3D photos.

“Coincidentally, I have always had a stereo camera in the whole journey that the Queen had gone through since the 1970s through the 1980s and 1990s – yes – to the present,”

explains Brian May, who has been interested in stereoscopy since childhood , and adds that camera bazaars were the first stop before almost every other concert.

Brian May shows how to handle the book: Czech subtitles:

The overwhelming majority of the photos that have been published here all the time in the guitar(ist’s) drawer, so the Queen story is so illustrated by not very familiar scenes.

Queen book envelope in 3D

May points out that the band’s history is a bit unsettled in the book, but the timeline is more or less suited. The first chapter deals with the first album in 1973 and is accompanied by a photo of the rehearsals in the pub, which no one remembers where she was. Other tours, touring around the world, concerts in the famous Madison Square Garden, Hawaiian holiday or 1986 tour, the first and last of the European stadiums, and the first to be profitable, which sounds incredible. “Of course, we did not know this tour was the last in the original set,” commented May.

Finally, there is a new tour, first with Paul Rodgers in 2005 and then with Adam Lambert, with whom Queen will also arrive in Prague.

“Over the years, so many words and pictures have been released about our band that they could be used to transport trucks. But this is the first story written by someone who was inside that faith. Was it all worth it? Well, flip through your book and make your own picture,” says May.

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GUARDIAN
28 October 2017 by Maev Kennedy

Guitarist’s latest volume of stereoscopic images shows the making and touring of News of the World 40 years ago

Even those who weren’t alive 40 years ago when Queen’s sixth studio album was released will feel something like nostalgia when they see images of Freddie Mercury drenched in golden light and Brian May linking arms with a slightly anxious-looking robot.

Released on 28 October 1977, News of the World became the band’s biggest studio album, selling more than 6m copies and going four times platinum in the US. The two most famous tracks, We Are the Champions and We Will Rock You, continue to be blasted out at sporting tournaments and wedding receptions. ?

Freddie Mercury from the the Queen in 3-D collection, taken on
Brian May’s Stereo Realist camera. Photograph: Brian May

Every aspect of making and touring the album was recorded by May, mostly in 3D photographs taken on stereoscopic cameras. His obsession with such photography had him diving into flea markets and camera shops while on tour, as other rock gods smashed up their hotel rooms. He created one of the greatest collections in the world of images stretching back into the 19th century.

The guitarist has published three volumes of the stereo photographs, and the latest is the most personal: instead of country cottages with roses around the door, there are sweaty rock stars in skintight costumes, or cigarette smoke hazed-backstage areas and recording studios.

He describes Queen in 3D as the closest he will ever come to writing an autobiography. His curator, Dennis Pellerin, ransacked May’s house to find the images, most never even processed until now.

“The 3D pictures are extraordinarily evocative for me,” May said. “The News of the World images were particularly pertinent at the time I was working on the book – and we were heading into the 40th anniversary year of the News of the World album.”

In many of the stage images, the band members are almost dissolving into the blinding light. The sweat was real: May recalls the gigantic lighting rigs they used, in the days before LEDs, as almost unbearably hot: “At the end of the night, every light pointed out towards the audience, so they got roasted as well.”

Mercury, regarded as one of the most extraordinary vocalists in rock history, died of an Aids-related lung condition in 1991, aged 45: the modest terraced suburban house in west London where he first met Brian May was marked with a blue plaque last year.

The robot that starred on the News of the World cover not only survives but has come out of retirement for the surviving band members’ latest tour.

“Revisiting our friendly robot (whom we call Frank after his creator, Frank Kelly Freas) was a trigger for me to introduce the idea of inviting Frank to perform on our current tour,” said May.

“He opens the show by smashing his way out of the stage enclosure, and reappears at various points, including a sequence where his giant hand lifts me into the heavens for the guitar solo.

Another picture of Mercury taken by May. Photograph: Brian May

“Am I giving too much away? Well, no … it’s all over the internet because we incorporated these ideas on our tour in the USA a couple of months ago. However, we will be changing things around a little for our upcoming European dates, and we still have a couple of surprises up our sleeves.”

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Legendary Guitarist Brian May Rocks you with a 3-D Look at Queen

In the backroom of the Walt Disney Commissary on the Burbank lot, people mingled about sipping wine, looking at vintage stereoscopy cameras that were set up on display and happily engaged with others. It was an enjoyable time, for those selectively invited, but that wasn’t the real party. We were all there eagerly waiting for Brian May to unveil never before seen photos of his band and take us on a journey into different eras of Queen in his new book Queen in 3-D. So when the iconic guitarist strolled into the event—early I might add–that’s when the excitement began.

May, who is also an animal activist and has a doctorate in astrophysics, walked around greeting people—even those he didn’t know—and patiently obliged anyone who wanted to talk, get a selfie or just say hello. He was charming, affable and knew how to work a room. Mtime was lucky enough to snag an exclusive with the 70-year-old rock star who was clad in black jeans and a denim buttoned down shirt.

Mtime: How did you choose the photo for the cover of the book?

Brian May: It’s just a real nice picture and it kind of sums Freddie up doesn’t it? He’s our emblem and he always was. And it’s 3-D—it’s proper 3-D.

Mtime: You’re always had a fascination with 3-D. When did that start?

Brian May: It just happened when I opened a cereal package. There was a little stereo card inside and two flat pictures. I thought, “What is this?” It said to send away for a viewer, which I did. So you put the card in the viewer and suddenly it’s not two flat pictures anymore. It’s like a window that you could almost walk through. There were pictures of animals and my first one was the hippopotamus and it’s in the book. It was like I could fall into his mouth, so I thought, “Why doesn’t everybody do this all the time? If you could have stereo pictures that are so real, why would people bother with flat pictures?” Ever since I’ve been a geek of stereo and other things.

Mtime: What are you hoping fans really love about this book?

Brian May: It’s a crossover thing and I’m hoping it will draw people over to stereoscopy and 3-D. But I hope they will see Queen and my life through the eyes of being inside it—through my eyes. The pictures were very evocative to me. You know you get your family’s snaps out and it’s nice that it brings back memories. Getting your family’s 3-D pictures out it’s so incredibly evocative. You find all of these thoughts going through you’re there, so there’s a lot of my perceptions of that time there, but there’s also a lot of my feelings in there. So I hope people will see the world through my eyes.

Mtime: We’re so excited about the upcoming Bohemian Rhapsody movie. What can you tell us about it?

Brian May: We’ve been eight years in development and I’ve seen probably 20 different directors along the way. Now we have a fantastic director Bryan Singer and now we have a cast. It’s more than exciting, it’s terrifying. Imagine seeing people play yourself on the screen. It takes a lot of trust and part of the reason that we took so long to come to this point was because we had to get the script right. It had to be authentic, it had to be entertaining, it had to be real, it had to be truthful. It had to be something to where when people come out of the theater they will feel different and I think this film will do that.

Afterwards we headed over to the Frank G. Wells Theater on the lot where we were shown several images from Queen in 3-D and May candidly told the backstory for each one.  So how do you get the 3-D look? Every hardcover book, which features photos from onstage, backstage, in the studio and shots of the guys just hanging out, comes with an Owl 3-D viewer, so you can experience the magic of feeling like you’re actually there with whoever is in the pic.

Queen 3-D is now available and May’s company, the London Stereoscopic Company, has already published three other books on stereo photography: Diableries, Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell (2013), The Poor Man’s Picture Gallery (2014), Crinoline, Fashion’s Most Magnificent Disaster (2016), which you will enjoy as well. Denis Pellerin has co-authored or been an active part of all of these books, and you can check them out at www.londonstereo.com.

 

 

 

PARADE online magazine

PARADE telling US folk to pick up a copy of DrBrianMay‘s “Queen in 3-D”  this week!

https://parade.com/605972/npond/the-parade-preview-what-to-watch-rent-or-buy-oct-23-oct-29-2017/ …

Here is a selection of recent German Press items:

 

BILD:
Zwei Rock-Legenden mit Bild-Bänden
Von: ANDREA ADELHARDT UND JÖRG ORTMANNveröffentlicht am 12.10.2017 – 21:10 Uhr

http://m.bild.de/regional/frankfurt/frankfurt-buchmesse/zwei-rock-legenden-mit-bild-baenden-53514054.bildMobile.html?wtmc=mw

ROLLINGSTONE:
„Queen in 3D“: So haben Sie Queen garantiert noch nie gesehen
https://www.rollingstone.de/queen-in-3d-so-haben-sie-queen-garantiert-noch-nie-gesehen-1354983/

Brian May im Interview: „Ich möchte, dass jedes Lebewesen auf diesem Planeten respektvoll behandelt wird“
17. Oktober 2017 von Ina Simone Mautz
https://www.rollingstone.de/brian-may-im-interview-ich-moechte-dass-jedes-lebewesen-auf-diesem-planeten-respektvoll-behandelt-wird-1376059/

SOUND AND BOOKS
Mit Brian May auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017
Verfasst am 16. Oktober 2017
https://www.soundsandbooks.com/2017/10/16/mit-brian-may-auf-der-frankfurter-buchmesse-2017/

ROCKET QUEEN PROMOTION
3-D-Buch erweckt Queen zum Leben
von Jan Kubon, MDR KULTUR-Musikredakteur
Die Pizza ist im Ofen +++ Rezension: Brian May – Queen in 3-D +++
Samstag, 7. Oktober 2017
https://rocketqueenpromotionsm.blogspot.de/2017/10/Die-Pizza-Ist-Im-Ofen-Queen-In-3DBrianMayRezension.html
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 14. Oktober 2017, 09:09 Uhr

MDR KULTUR
3-D-Buch erweckt Queen zum Leben
von Jan Kubon, MDR KULTUR-Musikredakteur
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 14. Oktober 2017, 09:09 Uhr
http://www.mdr.de/kultur/themen/queen-brian-may-drei-d-100.html

SUD TIROL NEWS
Brian May ist auch als 70-Jähriger viel beschäftigt
Neues Buch “Queen in 3-D” von Brian May
Freitag, 06. Oktober 2017 | 13:34 Uhr
https://www.suedtirolnews.it/unterhaltung/leute/neues-buch-queen-in-3-d-von-brian-may

STYLE UP YOUR LIFE
Neues Buch “Queen in 3-D” von Brian May
STARNEWS 6. Oktober 2017
http://www.styleupyourlife.at/adiweiss/neues-buch-queen-in-3-d-von-brian-may/

MUSIK WOCHE
Frankfurt/M., 13.10.2017, 15:57 MusikWoche | Events
Edel bringt 3-D Buch von Brian May auf den Markt
http://www.mediabiz.de/musik/news/edel-bringt-3-d-buch-von-brian-may-auf-den-markt/423032

FNP [FRANKFURTER NEUE PRESSE] BuchmesseThomas Anders, Brian May und Udo Lindenberg in Frankfurt
13.10.2017
http://www.fnp.de/lokales/frankfurt/Thomas-Anders-Brian-May-und-Udo-Lindenberg-in-Frankfurt;art675,2795521

FOCUS
Brian May findet Lieblingsfoto von Freddie Mercury
Donnerstag, 12.10.2017, 15:30
http://www.focus.de/kultur/musik/literatur-brian-may-findet-lieblingsfoto-von-freddie-mercury_id_7707314.html

Brian May stellt das Buch „Queen in 3-D“ auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse vor.

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The Book is  available to buy from https://www.hugendubel.de/de/buch/brian_may-queen_in_3d-28903001-produkt-details.html
See also: BUY THE BOOK page

Another Press article from Italy:

See here in ITALIAN – and ENGLISH

SKY LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE
La storia dei Queen attraverso gli scatti in 3 D di Brian May

19 ottobre 2017

QUEEN IN 3-D è pubblicato da Edel Italy e raccoglie più di 300 illustrazioni stereo inedite. Il libro si presenta in un cofanetto con foto lenticolare 3-D in copertina e con un esclusivo stereoscopio OWL 3-D brevettato da Brian May. E’ tradotto da Raffaella Rolla

Sono stati scritti numerosi libri sui Queen, ma questa è una novità assoluta – una visione intima dall’interno da un membro fondatore della band; ed è anche la prima storia di un qualsiasi gruppo rock mai realizzata in 3-D. Non solo Brian May ha scritto il libro (non c’è un ghost writer), ma le illustrazioni in 3-D sono state tutte scattate con le sue fotocamere stereoscopiche, per lo più da Brian stesso. Fin dagli esordi Brian era solito portare con sé una stereocamera (3-D), così durante i tour dei Queen o durante le registrazioni poteva catturare dei rari momenti dietro le quinte di una delle più grandi rock band mondiali. Ora, a distanza di decenni, queste immagini vengono condivise per la prima volta. Alcune foto sono state completamente processate solo durante la realizzazione del libro. Pensato inizialmente da Brian come un lavoro veloce, questo progetto si è trasformato per May e il suo team in una vera e propria passione che li ha travolti per più di tre anni. Ogni volta che il libro sembrava prossimo alla conclusione, ecco sbucare delle nuove foto in 3-D, dimenticate chissà dove, che suscitavano una nuova ondata di ricordi arricchendone la narrativa.

Il libro alla fine è diventato una raccolta avvincente di scatti della vita di Brian e dei Queen nell’arco di oltre 50 anni. Pubblicato come un elegante libro da comodino d’alta qualità dalla casa editrice di Brian London Stereoscopic Company, Queen in 3-D svela la band, vista attraverso gli occhi di May, nel corso della sua lunga storia. Il libro comprende circa 360 illustrazioni fotografiche, la maggior parte delle quali visibili nello loro splendore stereoscopico (essendo la stereoscopia madre legittima della Realtà Virtuale) utilizzando il visore OWL incluso. Oltre a catturare lui stesso delle iimmagini, occasionalmente Brian prestava la sua fotocamera ad amici o fotografi locali, in modo di essere immortalato anche lui in questo viaggio. Brian racconta la storia che si cela dietro a ogni immagine in una prosa vivace e coinvolgente. Spesso in modo leggero e colloquiale, ma a volte anche molto riflessivo e filosofico accompagnando il lettore verso un contatto più profondo con l’immagine, lo spazio e il tempo. La maggior parte di questi ricordi di Brian riguardanti se stesso e i suoi colleghi della band Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor e John Deacon sono qui condivisi per la prima volta. Alcune immagini sono state scattate sul palco; altre dietro le quinte, compresi alcuni scatti personali fatti in viaggio e durante il tempo libero, dando una visione ravvicinata della band mai vista prima. Freddie, un personaggio enigmatico, gelosamente protettivo della sua privacy, cercava di defilarsi una volta giù dal palco, evitando di essere fotografato. Ma interagiva in modo giocoso e inconsapevole con la fotocamera di Brian e qui vediamo dei rari scorci di questo fenomenale showman immortalati dal suo compagno di band e amico intimo. Gli attuali fan della band potranno inoltre apprezzare le sezioni contemporanee, comprendenti momenti sul palco e fuori con Adam Lambert.

Questo è un libro importante, non solo perché cattura l’essenza stessa di una delle più grandi band mondiali di tutti i tempi, ma esplora anche la cultura, la politica e l’atmosfera dei numerosi paesi in cui i Queen si sono esibiti. Brian ha creato un testo che racconta i cambiamenti avvenuti nell’industria musicale insieme ai grandi cambiamenti della storia mondiale.

COME VEDERE LE IMMAGINI IN 3-D

Per condividere la magia dell’originale stile 3-D vittoriano con il pubblico del 21° secolo, Brian ha progettato il suo esclusivo stereoscopio, detto OWL (il gufo), che è diventato uno standard nel mondo della stereoscopia. In ogni copia del libro è inserita una edizione speciale del visore OWL, di colore giallo Wembley (la leggendaria giacchetta gialla indossata da Freddie Mercury a Wembley), riposto con cura nel cofanetto del libro nella sua busta protettiva. Il tuo OWL è tutto ciò che serve per portarti nel mondo reale incredibilmente tridimensionale dei Queen racchiuso in questo libro.

 

AND IN ENGLISH:

GOOGLE TRANSLATE

The Queen’s story through the 3-D [photo] shoots of Brian May

QUEEN IN 3-D is published by Edel Italy and collects more than 300 unpublished stereo illustrations. The book comes in a 3-D lenticular photo cover on the cover and an exclusive 3-D OWL stereoscope patented by Brian May. It is translated by Raffaella Rolla,

Numerous books have been written about the Queen, but this is an absolute novelty – an intimate insight from within by a founding member of the band; and is also the first story of any rock group ever made in 3-D. Not only did Brian May write the book (there is no ghost writer), but the illustrations in 3-D have all been shot with his stereoscopic cameras, mostly by Brian himself. From the beginning Brian was usually wearing a stereocamera (3-D) so during the Queen’s tours or during recordings he could capture the rare moments behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest rock bands. Now, after decades, these images are shared for the first time. Some photos have been completely processed only during the book’s creation. Initially thought by Brian as a quick job, this project turned to May and his team in a real passion that has overwhelmed them for more than three years. Every time the book seemed close to the end, here’s emerging new photos in 3-D, forget who knows where.

The book eventually became a fascinating collection of shots of Brian and Queen’s lives over the past 50 years. Published as an elegant high quality bedside book by the publisher of Brian London Stereoscopic Company, Queen in 3-D unveils the band, seen through May’s eyes, throughout its long history. The book includes about 360 photographic illustrations, most of which are visible in their stereoscopic splendor (being the legitimate mother-of-pearl of Virtual Reality) using the OWL viewer included. In addition to himself capturing the imagery, Brian occasionally gave his camera to friends or local photographers, so he was immortalized on this journey as well. Brian tells the story that lies behind every image in a lively and engaging prose. Often in a light and colloquial manner, but sometimes also very thoughtful and philosophical, accompanying the reader towards a deeper contact with the image, space and time. Most of these memories of Brian regarding himself and his bandmates Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon are here shared for the first time. Some pictures were taken on the stage; others behind the scenes, including some personal shots on the go and during free time, giving a closer look to the band never seen before. Freddie, an enigmatic character, jealously protective of his privacy, tried to level himself down from the stage, avoiding being photographed. But he interacted in a playful and unconscious manner with Brian’s camera and here we see the rare glimpses of this phenomenal showman immortalized by his bandmate and intimate friend. Current fans of the band will also appreciate the contemporary sections, including moments on stage and out with Adam Lambert.

This is an important book, not only because it captures the very essence of one of the world’s greatest bands of all time, but also explores the culture, politics and atmosphere of the many countries where the Queen has performed. Brian has created a text that tells about changes in the music industry together with the great changes in world history.

HOW TO SEE IMAGES IN 3-D
To share the magic of the original Victorian 3-D style with the audience of the 21st century, Brian has designed his exclusive stereoscope called OWL (Owl), which has become a standard in stereoscopic world. In each copy of the book is a special edition of the OWL viewer, yellow Wembley (the legendary yellow jacket worn by Freddie Mercury at Wembley), placed carefully in the bookcase sleeve in its protective envelope. Your OWL is all you need to bring you into the incredibly three-dimensional reality of the Queen enclosed in this book.