Queen Diary - day by day - this week
••• 14 May
1977 : Queen live on A Day At The Races Tour at Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. [35 years]
1983 : Roger was captain of a team on the BBC's quiz show Pop Quiz. [29 years]
1985 : Brian visited Aoyama Recording School in Japan to talk to pupils about guitar playing. [27 years]
1985 : Freddie received silver award for Mr. Bad Guy sales in the UK. [27 years]
1996 : Brian and Roger attended the Cannes Film Festival where the BFI Made In Heaven films were publicly premiered. [16 years] 
1997 : Roger joined Ian Hunter at Shepherds Bush Empire Theatres, London, UK, in All The Young Dudes (they performed this song together at FM Tribute Concert at Wembley 1992 also with Mick Ronson and David Bowie). [15 years]
2002 : The We Will Rock You musical had its premiere at Dominion Theatre, London, UK. Written by Ben Elton and co-financed by Robert De Niro company Tribeca Productions. The original London production was scheduled to close on 7th October 2006 at the Dominion Theatre. Due to public demand the show has now been extended indefinitely as it enters its fifth year. After the premiere a party was organised introducing SAS Band, Kerry Ellis, Eric Singer and Gary Booker in Tie Your Mother Down, Guitar Man, Hammer To Fall slow/fast, Tutti Frutti, A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Rock And Roll, With A Little Help From My Friends and All The Way From Memphis. [10 years] 
2003 : Roger live at annual ARK Charity concert at Old Billingsgate Market, London, UK. He was joined by Chris Thompson, Ron Wood, Bob Geldof, Spike Edney and also Brian. I Want To Break Free, A Kind Of Magic, Radio Ga Ga, We Will Rock You and Tie Your Mother Down were performed. [9 years]
2005 : Queen+PR live on Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour at The Point, Dublin, Ireland. [7 years]
2007 : Brian and Roger appeared on stage of We Will Rock You musical at the Dominion Theatre, London, UK, celebrating 5th year of the production of the show. At the end they also received an award. The show became the logest running show to occupate the Dominion and reached the 3 mil. sold tickets mark. [5 years]
••• 15 May
1960 : Roger joined the choir at Truro Cathedral. [52 years]
1982 : Queen live on Hot Space tour at Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany. [30 years]
1985 : Queen live performing last show in Japan at Castle Hall, Osaka. [27 years]
1986 : Queen invited around 800 of their fan club members to take part in the filming of the Friends Will Be Friends video directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hanness Rossacher in JVC Studios at Wembley. [26 years]
2003 : According to the press Roger was selling his Surrey estate for a 6.5 million Pounds. [9 years]
••• 16 May
1977 : Queen live on A Day At The Races Tour at Phillipshalle, Düsseldorf, Germany. [35 years]
1982 : Queen live on Hot Space tour at Ernst-Merck-Halle, Hamburg, Germany. [30 years]
••• 17 May
1977 : Queen live on A Day At The Races Tour at Ahoy Hall, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Tickets sold out for this show within one hour of going on sale! After the show the band was presented with 38 various awards. [35 years]
1991 : Queen's Headlong entered UK charts at 28th place (later climbed up at no 14). [21 years]
••• 18 May
1975 : All members of Queen went to see Led Zeppelin at Earls Court, London, UK. [37 years]
1976 : Queen released 6th single in the UK You're My Best Friend from A Night At The Opera and reached no. 7 in charts. [36 years]
1982 : Queen Live at Eissporthalle, Kassel, Germany. [30 years]
2001 : Alice Cooper invited Brian (and Tony Blair) on his concert on Brutal Planet Tour to Wembley Arena, London, UK. Only Brian joined the show with instrumental version of We Will Rock You and School's Out. [11 years]
2002 : Brian and Roger appeared live on BBC 1 with the We Will Rock You musical cast, while Michael Parkinson was interviewing Ben Elton. They did Somebody To Love (with Hannah Jane Fox), Hammer To Fall (only instrumental), We Will Rock You (with Tony Vincent) and We Are The Champions (with Tony Vincent). [10 years]
••• 19 May (Today)
1977 : Queen live on A Day At The Races Tour at Sporthalle, Basel, Switzerland. [35 years]
1998 : Brian appeared on stage at Wembley Arena, London, UK with Joe Satriani during his G3 tour, where he played The Thrill Is Gone and Voodoo Chile. [14 years]
••• 20 May
1974 : Queen released Seven Seas Of Rhye single in USA. It didn't chart. [38 years]
1977 : Queen released first EP with songs from previous albums - Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Death On Two Legs, Tenement Funster (edited) and White Queen. It reached number 17 in charts. [35 years]
1985 : Queen's VHS Live In Rio was at number one in the UK video charts. [27 years]
1985 : Queen received 3x platinum award for Greatest Hits I sales in the UK. [27 years]
1989 : When the band were in Switzerland recording Innuendo, Freddie took everyone for dinner at a restaurant called Giradets. Freddie Giradet is reputedly one of the worlds greatest chefs, and his restaurant one of the worlds greatest restaurants. Freddie Giradet even signed Freddie Mercury's menu. [23 years]