Promo video for Season 1, 2019 :) (x)
Jon: Who is better at keeping secrets under wraps? I'm gonna go with Neil.
Michael: Oh no, not Neil! Neil's terrible [at keeping secrets], he tells everyone everything! We're trying to keep this show under wraps and Neil's like, 'Come and watch it! Come and watch it!'
David: I think I'm pretty good [at keeping secrets]. I've been doing secrets for a number of years now.
Michael: David keeps his cards very close to his sylphlike chest.
Remember when Neil was (said to be) bad at keeping secrets? :)
The video for this song parodies a popular British television soap, Coronation Street. The opening sequence features all the band members in drag (Mercury as a housewife, Deacon as grandmother, Taylor as a schoolgirl, and May as a housewife). This confused many people who didn't catch the reference. Brian May was asked in an interview with Q magazine March 2011 whether each band member's character in the video was an accurate reflection of their personalities? He replied: "Of Course! Everybody thinks that was Freddie's idea because it looks like something that he would love to do but it actually came from Roger's girlfriend at the time, strangely enough. It was her idea to pastiche the Coronation Street women."
Location Docklands Limehouse Studio
Directed by David Mallet, with hundreds of fan club members dressed as miners as film extras
Freddie Mercury was all set to shave off his trademark mustache, but director David Mallet put a stop to it: "I said, 'No, the one thing you musn't do, the funny thing is that your mustache is there and you're in drag!' To this day, when he comes around the corner with that hoover I laugh." In this video Mercury is surrounded by the Royal Ballet in a nod to the French ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune and its clean-shaven Russian star Vaslav Nijinsky.
This song became an anthem for the ANC in South Africa in the late '80s when Nelson Mandela was still in jail and the white government's apartheid policies were still in place.
Back in 1980, legendary actor Vincent Price recorded several 30-second television announcements in a bid by the Albuquerque Museum to gain more visitors and members. In an interview with the Albuquerque Journal at the time, Price said, “I am crazy about New Mexico. If I had lots of money, I would like to have a house like Georgia O'Keeffe's here.” Price served on the Arts and Crafts Board of the Interior Department and had a doctorate from the California College of Arts and Crafts.
Digging through our archives, we uncovered this fabulous promo video promoting the Albuquerque Museum Foundation—a non-profit that raises funds for the Albuquerque Museum. You can learn more about us, and as the King of Horror suggests, support us!
Queen shoots promo video for "A Kind Of Magic" (from 'A Kind Of Magic' album)
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Filming Location: Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross, London, UK
Filmed in the disused Playhouse Theatre in London's Northumberland Avenue at Charing Cross, the video was Queen's first to include animation since Save Me, with computer graphics bringing the characters from the cover of the new album to dazzling life as, among other things, the band's backing singers.
The theatre was once used by the BBC to record programming for radio, and this was the inspiration for the video itself - Freddie is the magician who returns to the abandoned theatre where he was once a star and turns three down-and-out squatters (Brian, Roger and John) into his band. The shoot itself was somewhat less magical - the theatre lacked central heating and was very cold, much to the discomfort of the band and the crew.
(➡️ source: queenpedia.com website)
📸 Pic: 1986 - Quee with Russell Mulcahy (director)