**Tue 20 May 08**
WE WILL ROCK YOU LONDON EXTENDS ANOTHER YEAR

Fans of the Queen's Musical, We Will Rock You, and West End, will be pleased to know that the booking period at the Dominion Theatre, London has now been extended through to 3 October 2009.

Tickets fo this period available at Ticketmaster.co.uk.

The show is now into its seventh year and as popular as ever.

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Queen kicks off as Track 1 on this latest NOW release, titled "NOW That's What I Classic Rock!" out in the USA 3 June, and will premiere on VH1 Classic, May 31 at 8:00 PM ET/PT.

Album available at Amazon.

Extracts from EMI Press Releases:
'NOW That's What I Call Classic Rock!' to Be Released June 3
Tue, 20 May 2008 14:03:24 GMT

NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 28' to be Released June 3 on CD & Digitally
Posted : Tue, 20 May 2008 14:05:49 GMT
Author : EMI Music/Sony BMG Music Entertainment/Universal Music Group/Zomba

In stores and online on June 3, NOW That's What I Call Classic Rock! is packed with huge genre-defining hits that steered rock music's evolution from the late '60s through the early '80s, including The Who's "My Generation," Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Fire," Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising," Boston's "More Than A Feeling," Foreigner's "Cold As Ice," Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band," Queen's "We Will Rock You," Heart's Barracuda," Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water," George Thorogood and The Destroyers' "Bad To The Bone" and several oher legendary smash hits.

The NOW That's What I Call Music! series is a compilation joint venture from EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and the Zomba Label Group. The series debuted in the United States in 1998 after the NOW brand had become an enormous, multi-platinum international success for nearly 20 years. To date, the NOW series has generated sales of over 200 million albums worldwide, and has sold over 67 million copies in the United States since its debut, remaining the only non-soundtrack, multi-artist series to reach #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

In conjunction with the new release, VH1 Classic will premiere "VH1 Classic Presents: NOW Classic Rock," a one-hour special hosted by Mark Goodman, on May 31 at 8:00 PM ET/PT. The special will feature videos for several songs from the NOW release, including Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," Kansas' "Carry On My Wayward Son," Boston's "More Than A Feeling," Heart's "Barracuda," George Thorogood and The Destroyers' "Bad To The Bone," David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel," Cheap Trick's "Surrender," Queen's "We Will Rock You," and Kiss' "Rock And Roll All Nite."

See also:
http://www.vh1classic.com
http://www.nowthatsmusic.com

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**Tue 20 May 08**
CHORAL SYMPHONIC CONCERT IN MEXICO

Here’s great news from México since both a wonderful and successful event will be held again in our country :

A Choral Symphonic Concert playing Queen music by:

*OFUNAM (Orquesta Filarmónica de la Universidad Autónoma de México)
*Coro Alpha Nova IPN http://www.alpha-nova.ipn.mx/v7/eventos/index.html
*Quinteto Britania (previously known as Aleph Liverpool)
*Director: Alfredo Ibarra

Date: May 22nd & 23rd , 2008
Time: 20:30 hrs.
Venue: Teatro Metropólitan, México City.

We are sure it will be a fantastic night for Queen fans.

Best wishes,
Francisco Arellano B
Queen Fan Club México

http://www.queenenmexico.com/
http://queenmexico.blogspot.com/
http://groups.msn.com/QUEENMEXICO/_whatsnew.msnw

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**Tue 20 May 08**
WWRY UK 6TH ANNIVERSARY UPDATE

WWRY proudly celebrates its 6th Anniversary at the Dominion Theatre tomorrow, on Wednesday 21 May, and likely that Brian May will be appearing (and play!) Ben Elton will be also present for the celebrations.

WWRY Gym
WWRY will be the first show in the West End to have its own gym. The producers and the theatre have come together to provide the facilities in a fully equipped gym for use by all its staff.

Wallace Will Rock You
In June WWRY will be tying up with the Wallace & Gromit foundation for National Wrong Trousers Day.

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**Mon 19 May 08**
QUEEN SONGS POPULAR WITH MARATHON RUNNERS

In a new poll of marathon runners, held by realbuzz.com, Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" was voted in as second choice of music to run to, and "We Are The Champions" placed at number ten. A Queen connection is No 3, Spencer Davis's "Keep On Running" - a favourite of Roger Taylor, which he has sung.

1 Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
2 Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
3 Keep On Running - Spencer Davis Group
4 Chariots of Fire - Vangeis
5 Stronger - Kayne West
6 Gonna Fly Now - Bill Conti
7 Proud - Heather Small
8 Mr Brightside - The Killers
9 Rockstar - Nickelback
10 We Are The Champions - Queen
25 We Will Rock You - Queen
38 Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen

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**Mon 19 May 08**
REGISTRATION OPEN - MONTREUX MEMORIAL DAY 2008

Dear everybody,

It's a great pleasure for us to announce that registration for the Freddie Mercury's Montreux Memorial Day September 5th and 6th is now open.

The program is quite smashing (Diana Moseley, Mike Moran, Greg Brooks, Peter Freestone, Jacky Smith, Rock4, Queenie, and a special and unique "Tribute to Freddie"). There is a limit to participants so we advise you not to wait too long to register.

See you soon.

Montreuxmusic.com team
www.montreuxmusic.com

Subscriptions : Here...
Montreux Memorial Day 2008 :
EUROS 100.- OR CHF 160.-

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