#queen 1982

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July 1982, New York, USA - Queen backstage with Andy Warhol during 'Hot Space' North American Tour

📸 Photographer © Neal Preston

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♕Hot Space♕

♕Recorded: June 1981 – March 1982♕

♕Song list:

Staying Power (Mercury)

Dancer (May)

Back Chat (Deacon)

Body Language (Mercury)

Action This Day (Taylor)

Put Out The Fire (May)

Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) (Mercury)

Calling All Girls (Taylor)

Las Palabras De Amor (The Words of Love) (May)

Cool Cat (Deacon/Mercury)

Under Pressure (Bowie/Queen)

♕Release date: May 21st, 1982♕

♕Queen's tenth studio album, Hot Space, was after Queen released Queen's Greatest Hits. With a new era starting, Queen started a mixture of disco, funk, rhythm, blues, dance, and pop music as their new sound. The tone for Hot Space was set after the success of their single Under Pressure, which came out in November of 81 then later appeared on the album. This wasn't a great success, many fans were confused and disliked the new sounds. This album also was different recording-wise, The four members' lives were separate due to the offers Munich had. Brian May wasn't fond of how this album was created, since they weren't really working together and the amounts of drinking, clubbing, and drug usage the party was doing. The album cover was a mixture of The Beatles' Let It Be and Andy Warhol style coloring. Once Hot Space came out, it confused a lot of fans but it did reach No. 4 on UK charts but only achieves 'only' gold in both UK and US, it was a drop for Queen's usual platinum. Queen went on tour to promote Hot Space, after a tour of the album's sale still being discouraging, all four members took a break together to do solo work and to refresh the creativity of Queen.♕

♕Brian May: "Hot Space was a mistake if only timing-wise...We got heavily into funk and it was quite similar to what Michael Jackson did on Thriller. But the timing was wrong. Disco was a dirty word."♕

♕Author Dan Ross- "The fans hated it {Hot Space}, Roger Taylor and Brian May loathed it, even John Deacon and Freddie Mercury thought it was a mistake."♕

♕Today marks 39 years since Hot Space came out!♕

♕I want to add to this post from my perspective, what I had read about the Hot Space time period, this was a rough time for the boys due to the 'failure' of Hot Space, 1982 was named the "traumatic" year for Queen. I know there is controversy when it comes to Hot Space, and this post is just from stats and not my own opinion, this is the only part out of the whole post that is my own opinion, and personally, my feeling for Hot Space is mutual, it's not the best Queen album but it's not really the worse.♕

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♕1: Hot Space Cover

♕2: Queen at Hot Space photo session

♕3: Queen at Hot Space Promo

♕4&5: Queen in New York at a signing session

♕6: Someone showing Roger a picture of him from the 70s as he's gagging at the picture.

♕7: Scan from Treasure of Queen: An invitation to the Hot Space end of tour party

♕8: Scan from Treasure of Queen: Queen being photographed by Andy Warhol August '82

♕9: Scan from Treasure of Queen: EMI promotional cube for Hot Space.

♕10: Scan from Treasure of Queen: Queen closing a show in Europe in '82.

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Hot Space Let's Go! Today marks 38 years of Queens Hot Space. Though criticized for being one of their worst albums upon release due to the more club style of music with synths and track loops (Brian hated the album more than anybody else) I however think its underrated and some really interesting songs like Las Palabas de Amor are looked over in favor of Under Pressure the biggest single from the album. So please have a listen to Mark the occasion!

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Today, on September 15th, 1982 - Queen Story!

Inglewood, CA, USA, The Forum

'Hot Space World Tour'

📸 Photo credit © Jeffrey Mayer

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August 9th, 1982 - Queen Story!

Queen Live Performance!

Freddie Mercury performing on stage at East Rutherford, NJ, USA, Brendan Byrne Arena

'Hot Space' World Tour

➡️ After the show Queen attend Queen Party at Danceteria in New York City

📸 Photographer Ebet Roberts

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Today, on June 5th, 1982 - Queen Story!

Milton Keynes, UK, National Bowl

'Queen closed their UK ‘Hot Space European Tour’

📸 Photo by Pete Still

👉 Queen had filled the Milton Keynes Bowl with 65,000 of their own adoring fans as part of the 'Hot Space' tour

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Today, on May 21st, 1982 - Queen Story!

'Hot Space' released in UK and reached UK No 4

“New styles, and a whole new sense of values. You’ll love Hot Space ...eventually”

- Record Mirror

👉 "My first photo shoot with Queen in Germany they were recording for 'Hot Space' 1982. I was told I might get 10 minutes with them if I’m lucky. The session lasted 3 hours. Roger even got me put my camera down and do some percussion in the recording studio. To this day I like to think I’m some where on that Album

Thanks Roger"

- Simon Fowler, photographer

1982 - Queen 'Hot Space' photo session

📸 Photo by © Simon Fowler

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July 27th, 1982 - Queen Story!

Queen played at Madison Square Garden, New York, USA, during 'Hot Space World Tour'

👉 Before the gig, the group met fans to sign copies of the 'Hot Space' album at Crazy Eddie's record store

📸 Photo by Larry Marano