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uneasylisteningradio · 2 years

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The Kids Just Don’t Understand August 17, 2022

Herman and Terry of Cheap ‘n Nasty, photo by Annelies Braker

Fill in for our fearless leader Mike Lupica

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The Rezillos - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight The Undertones - Wednesday Week

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Cheap 'n Nasty - No More Violence (on TV) Flash - Nazkauta Nitxiok Machine - World The Freeze - Bloodlights FREAK GENES - Strange Charm Mo-Dettes - Foolish Girl

Big Joanie - In My Arms Rodd Keith - Ecstacy To Frenzy The Contortions - Twice Removed The Ex - Curtains East-West - Can't Face the Night (club mix)

Norma Tanega - Nothing Much Is Happening Today East River Pipe - Metal Detector Lene Lovich - Supernature CB Radio Gorgeous - Asking for a Friend The Nixe - Searching Michi Sarmiento y Su Combo - Corazón de Araña Negra

Rose Melberg - Mystery Malaria! - Leidenschaft - Passion Alain Kan - La Vie En Mars Irreal - Era Electrónica Magazine - Because You're Frightened (live)

Poison Idea - Drain Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Lawn Dart Ty Segall - Looking at You Roky Erickson - Mine Mine Mind

Mano Negra - King Kong Five Adaptors - Trust in Technology La Peste - Don't Wanna Die In My Sleep Tonite Onyon - Klick The Last Poets - It's a Trip Hamsa Khalafe & Ali Atia - Ballali Madju Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Part Time Man

Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Snowblind Deutscher Kaiser - Halli Galli Tanzt Für Sie Smarts - Real Estate Agent Antisect - Heresy The Features - Party

The Monkees - Angel Band The Eastern Dark - Over Now His Hero Is Gone - Surrender

Neu! - Hero

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dehavilland · 4 years

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The complete roadie collection from the Official Queen Fan Club magazine:

Crystal and Disco Dennis (Spring, 1980) Ratty and Gerry (Summer, 1980) Jobby and Phoebe (Autumn, 1980) Trip and Wally (Spring, 1981)

#Queen #Queen Roadies #Crystal Taylor #Ratty Hince #Jobby Zellis #Trip Khalaf #Phoebe Freestone #I've seen a couple of these floating around in the past but not all of them so here they are all together #what's crossed out in Wally's?#something filthy of course

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readyfreddie · 5 years

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#freddie mercury #trip khalaf

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quirkysubject · 3 years

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Queen's Roadies: Johnathan (John) Harris

(Image credit: x; Brian May, Q3D)

He was our first roadie, and very involved with everything at the beginning of our careers - we used to call him the fifth member. We owe him a lot, actually. (Brian May, October 2009 x)

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John Harris is introduced to Brian and Roger in the summer of 1969. He becomes Smile's "road manager, electronics wizard, sound engineer and ‘fifth member’." (ITTRL)

When Smile becomes Queen, John stays with them:

He was our first roadie, and very involved with everything at the beginning of our careers - we used to call him the fifth member. We owe him a lot, actually. He was devoted to sound, and to cars - he used to drive a white Triumph TR 3 (I think) and was the inspiration for Roger's song "I'm in love with my car" (I think!) He drove our Transit van, when we first began doing gigs as Queen, and also set up all the gear, and also mixed the sound. Of course the gear in those days was rudimentary, but John Harris mixed the first few gigs on a tiny mixing board into a hundred watts or so of PA. John stayed with us for many years thereafter, and all the first Queen tours were mixed out front by JH. (Brian May, October 2009 x)

While at the soundboard, he records many of the earliest Queen gigs (though they're mostly locked away at the Queen vaults). (Jim Jenkins, QiC)

Since they regard him as an integral part of the band, when Queen sign with Trident they demand that Johnathan be paid a weekly wage as well (John Anthony, ITTRL).

In turn, he goes all in for Queen: In December '72, Queen play a gig at Pheasantry Club. It's an important gig, since a lot of executives from record companies have been invited, but the PA system isn't ready. John Deacon and John Harris spend the hour before the show frantically wiring everything up - successfully! (QAIB)

When Queen rehearse for their first tour with Mott the Hoople at a repurposed cinema, he does his bit to contribute to the aesthetic:

We may have all been shivering with cold that November in Manticore, but Queen rehearsed wearing their full stage costumes of lightweight silk, lace and flowing satin. Even John Harris, Queen’s original sound engineer, wore a black velvet suit and fancy gloves to do the mixing! (Peter "Ratty" Hince, QU)

He wasn't just a Roadie, but also a friend and sometime-flatmate:

John was studying at Imperial. I think he was studying maths and flunked out after a year or two. We all used to go to a disco in the common room of Queen Elizabeth College up by Kensington library. [...] [He] used to knock up leather wrist bands by the dozen back at Barnes, and they became quite a feature; the wrist accoutrements. He did it as something to do to fill in time. He’d always gone in for belts and leather fringes. (Denise Craddock, QiC)

in February 1970, John Harris, Denise Craddock and Roger Taylor holiday at "[Roger's] Auntie's chalet at Porthtowan" (Denise Craddock, QiC).

a bit later in 1970, he shares a flat with Roger, Jo, Freddie and some others for a while (Pat McConnell, QiC)

when Freddie auditions for Sour Milk Sea, he brings along Roger and John Harris as 'roadies' and makes a stunning impression on the band (QCW): "Once he’d disembarked from the van, Fred strode purposefully into the youth club, Harris a few steps behind, carrying his master’s microphone in a wooden box." (ITTRL)

According to Roger, he was the one who 'found' Ridge Farm for the band x

I'm In Love With My Car is dedicated to JH in the A Night At The Opera liner notes: Dedicated to Johnson Harris, boy racer to the end x

He is so important to the band that he got a financial deal that involved him receiving a percentage of the band’s live shows. (ITTRL)

However, John falls seriously ill in late 1977, and Trip Khalaf takes his place at the sound board (ITTRL). He returns for the European Jazz and Crazy tours in 1979, but ill-health forces him to quit again at the end of the year. He is offered the chance to run Mountain Studios, but declined. (ITTRL, x)

John drove himself very hard, and did not take much care of himself, especially with regard to eating. He succumbed to a mysterious illness, which all but immobilised him, and put an end to his touring days. However he fought back over a long period and I believe he is now doing well. I wish we were still in touch. Perhaps we will be. (BM, October 2009 x)

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John Harris was an enigma. He really was a perfectionist, and an extremist I suppose. He used to mix the sound for us in the beginning as well. He would drive the Transit van, look after and set up all the on-stage-gear, and then mix the live sound in the show. He was almost a fifth member of the band, when the band was young. He was incredibly dedicated. (Brian May, Q3D)

'He was a lovely guy who drove this long-wheeled transit van and really looked after us,’ says Mitchell. ‘He was always there in rehearsals and he was great at stepping in and saying, “Oh, for fuck’s sake! All this over four bars. Get it together!”' (early Queen bassist Barry Mitchell, ITTRL)

Harris loved Queen. He absolutely loved them. And he knew they were going to be big. He would take a lead from the mixing desk to make the recordings. (Jim Jenkins, QiC)

In the end we parted company, and I guess I still have some regrets. I feel like we didn't take care of him as well as we could have done. But, of course the manner in which we toured changed radically so we no longer had a driver like that, and we no longer had a sound man who would set up the gear. It all became much bigger so, in a sense, we employed specialists to do each job. It was sad to lose John, but he did a great job in the beginning, without a doubt, and deserves praise, respect and... thanks! (BM, Q3D)

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Update: Additional story by Crystal under the cut!

Thanks to @plainxte for the quotes and pics from Queen in 3D!

Crystal's memories aren't quite as fond:

At the time [1976] John Harris was crew boss, and if I was to say he was a moody bastard that would be a compliment to him, and we all thought he was a bit of a nutter and he was renamed the Prophet because in the 'Prophet song’ there’s that line that says “Listen to the mad man.” John and I were never the best of mates cause he didn’t like the fact I stayed up all night having a good time, and he was also a mean bastard.

Between America and Japan we had a week off, so all the crew went to Hawaii for a rest and the Prophet would sit by the pool from sunrise to sunset squeezing lemon juice on his hair, he was blonde and I had dark hair. When I inquired why he was doing this he said, “Because it’ll make my hair blonder so when we get to Japan all the girls will fancy me.” I came back with “Just before we go to Sweden I’m gonna sit in the rain with a bowl of prunes on my head to make my hair darker then all the girls will fancy me.” I thought that was funny, he didn’t and he never spoke to me again for our entire vacation. When we got to Japan a girl said to him “Are you Chris Taylor, Roger Taylors brother?” He barked “No I’m not, and I’m a natural blonde.” What a prat.

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Sources:

ITTRL: Mark Blake, Is This The Real Life

Q3D: Brian May, Queen in 3D

QAIB: Gunn & Jenkins, Queen As It Began

QCW: Georg Purvis, Queen Complete Works

QiC: Rupert White, Queen in Cornwall

QU: Peter Hince, Queen Unseen

#queen crew #long post #johnathan harris

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natromanxoff · 2 years

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Only very few changes compared to the European concerts in 2005, in fact the setlist has become very predictable, a bit shorter and above all a bit boring! I think nobody missed A Kind Of Magic or I Want To Break Free. But dropping the excellent I Want It All was a sin! Also we can only guess why Brian stopped playing '39 on this tour. Some people think it was due to his injured back, some say it was because of the poor audience participation.

The Eminem intro wasn't played at the first two gigs but then returned back. Two "new" songs were performed - Take Love (written recently by Paul for the Q+PR project) and Dragon Attack which sounded great.

Brian had bad luck - once he slipped and fell down during Tie Your Mother Down and once he fell into the pit where the piano was coming up with Paul for Bad Company.

Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, FL, USA - March 3, 2006

Photos supplied by: Doniphan

Fan Stories

“So, I was there, with my Dad, some days before the show, asking for my ticket in one of the American Airlines Arena box offices, taking photos of the builiding and imagining how would be the show. Then, the day of truth, we were having a good time in Miami Beach, then we managed (because it was Friday noon) to go home for lunch and a change of clothes, we returned to the AA arena at 6, my dad left me in one gate, because he couldn't get a ticket for himself (all the tickets were sold within a fortnight or so), and suddenly I was alone with tons of Queen fans, a huge number of people for me, (maybe is that I'd never seen more that 200 people gathered together to see anything related to Queen before)and I sat in one step of a staircase, after that a lady came and we began to talk about Queen, she told that she saw them three times, onxe in Beacon Theatre (didn't remeber the date), the other in Miami 78, and the other in Washington 82. We entered to the arena and bought some souvenirs; then each of us went to their seats. I still can remeber, that the first song that came through th P.A. was Hell's Bells from AC/DC, it was so loud that the people there tought it was the beggining of the concert, evryone stood up and began to cheer up and clapping. It was just a song to light up everyone there. After 3 or 4 more songs, the concert started. It amazed me the way how they play, just a little mistake in FBG (I was confused because I believe that this time they were about to play White Man). The way how the images in the big screens appeared, to show us all the Queen/Paul carreer over the years, was so shocking and unforgettable; the same for the Freddie singing that night. When I heard Dragon Attack, I thought that they were going to play a different setlist, but I think it was OK, as the U.S. didn't see them for a while. Evryone sang Love of My Life, FBG, Bohemian Rhapsody, the "ready Freddie" part in CLTCL, We Will Rock You, the claps in GAGA, WATC, it was all as I expected. I wanted to take pictures of them, near the catwalk, in the finale, but a big fat lady of security didn't allow me. I also wanted to take pictures of Trip Khalaf, but 3 security guys told me to go outside, in the end I took a lot of pictures but without any posing. It was a pity, and somehow moths later I looked some pics in the internet from some Peruvians, including a famous humorous actor of ours, taking pictures with Danny, Jamie and Spike. Overall, I would be one of the best experiences in my life, if not the best, although it would hard to choose from many family trips, and some other solo/friends trips.” - Marcio De La Cruz G�mez

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#queen #queen band #roger taylor #brian may #paul rodgers #queen concerts #queen + paul rodgers concerts

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debdarkpetal · 3 years

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Roger Taylor with Trip Khalaf (sound engineer), Mar del Plata, Argentina, March 1981. Photo by Neal Preston.

#roger taylor #queen #queen band #roger meddows taylor #rog #argentina #1981 #80s #neal preston #my stuff

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queen-for-life · 4 years

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“What was Freddie’s preparation for a concert like? It was basically life as usual. [...] As for show days, he would probably talk a little less than normal and once he was at the venue he would be quite calm. He always had his hot lemon and honey drink on hand. About one hour before the show Trip Khalaf [the sound engineer], would come to the dressing room. Freddie would try out his voice and if he had no trouble with the higher register Trip knew to keep Freddie’s voice up in the mix for the top notes. If there was a problem then Trip knew to put up Roger’s high voice in the mix and Freddie would sing down an octave. After he had put on his makeup and costumes, Freddie would slowly start to pump up his body and warm the voice as you see in some of the video footage of before the shows.” - Peter Freestone

#farrokh bulsara #freddie mercury

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kokomercury · 4 years

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Freddie Mercury and James "Trip" Khalaf (sound engineer)

#freddie mercury #Queen #roger taylor #brian may #john deacon #bassist #bohemian rapsody movie #rock music #queen band #live aid #drum and bass #classic rock #alternative rock #rocknroll #bohemian rhapsody

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thewildbelladonna · 2 years

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Collection of Richard Dashut (24/?)

Tusk tour, 1979-1980.

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onegoldenglance · 4 years

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Queen crew appreciation post

Chris 'Crystal' Taylor - Peter 'Ratty' Hince - James 'Trip' Khalaf - Gerry Stickells - Joe Trovato - Peter ‘Feebie’ Freestone

#queen #I'm so sorry that I don't know the last one #is it John Harris?#i don't think so #but he was talking quite a lot in that bts doc #and I love the gif #my stuff

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radio-nano · 5 years

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Queen concerts were also successful beause of those guys!

Scroll if you want to learn who these guys are and what they did. You will also read about a Lord, a henna user, who had best haircut and Queen’s favorite food. (I wrote in bold letters the parts about Queen members and some funny facts.)

1. a"rigger". They assemble the stage (all 6000 square feet of it). Sometimes this can take two days, so there are two stages on this European tour. While one is being taken down at one venue, the other is being assembled at the next.

2 another "rigger".

3 John "Tumbridge" Wells, one of the security men responsible for looking after the members of Queen. "Tumbridge" looks after Brian May, escorts him wherever he goes and keeps the fans from getting too close.

4 Wally Gore group security, he looks after John Deacon

5 Alex Alexandrou, carpenter. There's two of us, and we put up all the stage scenery. I put up the walkways around the back and sides of the stage wich Freddie runs along. He likes to run on carpet, so I have to lay that down everywhere.

6. Chris "Crystal" Taylor, group coordinator. He organises all of the personal Queen crew, roadies, the security men. He makes sure they all know what they have to do and when they have to do it.

7. Jim Deveney, monitor engineer. "I sit out of sight on stage. I have to make things sound good so that the band can hear what they're doing. The sound comes through these speakers called "monitors" wich face onto the stage. The worst act I ever worked for was Rod Stewart. He was really miserable.

8. Joe Fanelli, Freddie's main personal assistant, who cooks for him at his London Home. "He likes anything really exotic, North African food, curries, good French cooking. He hates veal and doesn't eat carrots. Lambs is a bit iffy too. Brian's vegetarian but he eats fish. John likes very simple food, pie and mash and Roger likes anything but lamb.

9. Tony Williams, in charge of Queen's wardrobe. "I have to look after all of the band's stage clothes. That includes lots of details like making sure all the changes of clothes they need are backstage (Freddie changes about three times each performance), labelling the band's stage shoes (because they all wear the same stripey Adidas), and looking after Freddie's special moustache scissors. Also I have to wash all of their clothes in my hotel bedroom. My bath is always full. And Brian May has been using all this red henna do dye his hair and it comes out all over his shirts. It's very hectic".

10. Brandan Hyland, group security

11. One of the 15 "truckers" who each drive a massive 40 feet lorry loaded up with sound and lighting equipment. (For extra money they also operate the spotlights wich "follow" the group around stage).

12. Brian "Jobby" Zellis. one of Queen's personal road crew.

13 Brian May, Queen's guitarist.

14 John "Moxy" Glover, Roger Taylor's personnal roadie. "Basically I have to look after his drum kit and set it up on stage. I have to keep him supllied with drum sticks. He has sticks made with his own name on and he uses about ten sets a show. I got a bit drunk with Status Quo's roadies in Paris earlier this tour, and started throwing all his sticks in the audience.

15. Terry Giddings, group security.

16. Dieter Breit, physiotherapist for the group and crew. He has to look after any sprains and injuries that anybody might suffer, e.g. a sprained guitar-playing finger which needs massaging on Brian May's valuable hand.

17. A lighting assistant.

18. A "rigger"

19. Peter "Ratty" Hince, one of Queen's personal road crew. "I have to look after John Deacon's bass guitars and Freddie's guitar and special radio microphones (the one that don't have a fead) and keyboard instruments. I have to make sure that everything is exactly where it should be on stage, otherwise Freddie particularly will glare and let me know if anything's wrong. He's very particular about things being just right. Personally I don't enjoy these tour as much as the old ones. Nowadays ther's too much equipment, too many hangers-on, and everybody's trying to be important."

20. John "Collie" Collins, one of Queen's personnal road crew. "I'm the spare man, really. I work with Ratty and the piano tuner, help to see that everything is where it should be at the right time. Do you know I got married yesterday! I celebrated the wedding with the band and crew. It had to be squeezed in during the tour.

21. Roger Taylor, Those "shades"! That turned up collar! Must be Queen's drummer.

22. A trucker

23. Another trucker.

24. A rigger.

25. Another rigger

26 John Deacon, youn know , Queen's bass player, the one with the good haircut.

27 Tom "Midget" Foehlinger, sound monitor

28 An unknown person who sneaked in

29 Mickey Conafray, trucker

30 Mick Riddle, caterer

31 A lighting assistant

32 Albert Sutton, truck driver. "I carry the sound system, or some of it. We don't see the band or the road crew most of the time, because we travel ahead of everyone else. We have to get to the site before they do, and although we help with the setting up, we're off for two days while the rest of them are working on the concert. There are 15 "truckers" on this tour, plus the bus wich takes the road crew and sometimes the band. The worst thing about this job is being away from home for a long time when you're on tour. And the best thing is...erm maybe that should be a secret".

33. A caterer

34 Dave Lewis, another Caterer

35 A sound monitor.

36 Stave Benjamins, one of Queen's personal road crew, or "roadies" as they hate to be called. They look after all the instruments, microphones and amplifiers which Queen use on stage, setting them up, tuning them, and keep them clean.

37. another trucker"

38. Dave Thomas, caterer. I've been catering for Queen since 1975, every tour. The band eat the same food as everyone else, but they do have certain favorite foods. After a show they usually like an omelette or sometimes beans on toast or occasionally a steak au poivre. They're also pretty fond of Indonesian cooking".

39. Rex Ray, second sound engineer. He mixes the sound for all the support groups.

40. Spike Edney, keybordist and second guitar player: " My biggest fear is that it might get too damp, which makes the synthesisers cut out. I just pray that I'm out of clouting range of Freddie if that happens. He might not realise why I'm not playing and he'd be very upset if he thought I was daydreaming of something. But Queen on the whole are great to work with and they get drunk a lot too. Champagne every night, it's great!

41. Simon tutchener, lighting director. "I operate the main lighting console during the concert. It took three weeks to rehearse. I have a crew who set all the lights up, and 14 spotlights operators who I control through an intercom system and one man on a "Ver-lite", plus a man on the colour changer computer, plus a man on a computer which controls the up and down movement of the whole lighting rig, and then there are a few bits on stage, including Brian May special spaceship thing which comes down during his solo spot with all the flashing lights and..." (that's quite enought about lighting. Ed)

42 Stage rigger, who helps to set up the 6000 square feet of stage (all carpetted)

43 Sylvia Reed, assistant to the tour manager, Gerry Stickells. She is really a personal secretary.

44. James "Trip" Khalaf, chief sound enginer: "I mix the live sound for Queen, and I'm in overall charge for the half a million watts of PA (ie sound system. pa means Public adress) that we're carting around.

45. Lord Frederick Lucan of Mercury. You know him. Freddie.

46. "Phoebe", one of Freddie's personal assistants. These people help to arrange Sir Frederick's day, making sure he gets to appointments on time, and taking care of all those little details, which keep him happy.

47. A rigger

48. Lyndsey Beckingham, caterer. One of a team of five who feed the crew and the group. The caterers have their own van to transport all the food, cookers and fridges necessary to feed up to 60 people three times a day.

49 Bill Louthe, sound monitor. One of the assistants to the chief sound engineer, who sets up the massive sound system making sure it works perfectly, and run around while Queen are on stage, putting things right ( like tangled wiring) and making sure that there are no problems which could cause any deterioration of the sound quality.

50. Dave Mills, head of backstage and front of stage security. "My job is to stop any skirmishes or fights by pulling people out, people who faint, and putting in the hands of the first aid people. Earlier on this tour, in Dublin, I pulled out a young man whose ear was barely hanging on by a thread, probably because some idiot threw a glass."

51 Gerry Stickells, tout manager. The most important poeple on the tour. He looks after the road crew, from the lighting team to caterers; hiring them, making sure that they're paid and that everyone's alright. (he even remembers every crew member's birthday, making a fuss of them so they get too miserable). The other important thing he does is to go out months before the tour to look at the planned concert sites and to make all the thousands of arrangements that need to be made in advance. He's been working with acts like Rod Steward and Elton John and has organised Queen's road tour for 11 years. "They have to be highly-strung crazy people, they have to in order to ware themselves up to perform. So I admire them, yes. But I wouldn't want to socialise with them. Soon as this tour is over I'll go home and watch television."

52 Mike Weisman, production and stage manager. "I'm in charge of seeing that the stage and scenery is all but together properly. We work all day to get everything right. I have to coordinate all the work of the riggers and carpenters."

#brian may #freddie mercury #queen #queen band #bohemian rhapsody #roger taylor #rogerina #freddie #john deacon #disco deacy #john deacy #deaky #disco deaky

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berniesrevolution · 6 years

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In November 2004, Britain’s foreign secretary Jack Straw laid a wreath at the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. How might this have been framed with the current Labour leader? Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon saw Arafat as a “Jew murderer”. According to the Israeli minister of parliamentary affairs at the time, Danny Naveh, Arafat was “personally involved in the planning and execution of terror attacks”. Given that the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games was carried out by an offshoot of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, which Arafat led, the Israelis would have seen him as complicit in the murder of 11 Israeli athletes.

But there was no outrage, no scandal at Straw paying his respects at Arafat’s grave, and it would have been strange if there had been. The PLO had, after all, been recognised as the “representative of the Palestinian people” by the UN general assembly in 1974, and by Israel itself two decades later.

Which brings me to the current furore over Jeremy Corbyn’s trip to Tunis in 2014. Let’s stick to the facts. Corbyn was attending a conference as a backbencher at the invitation of Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki, a respected human rights campaigner who had been a prominent dissident under the western-backed dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The aim of the conference was to build unity between the divided Palestinian factions, and it culminated in the laying of a wreath at a memorial for the dozens of people killed, civilians among them, when the Israelis bombed the PLO’s headquarters in 1985. Back then, Margaret Thatcher herself contested Israeli claims that the attack “was justified in international law”, and reportedly said she had “recoiled from Israel’s attack on Tunis with the killing of many civilians”.

This week’s controversy has focused on the graves of two other senior PLO figures, Salah Khalaf and Atef Bseiso: Corbyn was pictured a few metres away from both, and a photograph shows a wreath laid by Khalaf’s tomb. Khalaf was assassinated in 1991, allegedly by an extreme terrorist group after passing information about them to Western intelligence services and was accused of founding Black September; while Bseiso, who was killed a year later, was accused of involvement in the Munich atrocity, which he denied. Khalaf was Arafat’s second in command and was influential in the PLO’s eventual decision to abandon armed struggle in the 1990s in favour of negotiation.

Corbyn denies commemorating Khalaf. But is the idea of doing so any different to Straw laying a wreath on the grave of Arafat, for whom Khalaf and Bseiso served as junior officials? Are the PLO and Fatah now once again to be understood as simply terrorist organisations?

Sometimes there is a need for plain speaking, and this is one such moment. Labour has bungled its response to the antisemitic fringe on the left of the party, needlessly haemorrhaging goodwill with Britain’s Jewish communities. But that is a separate issue from the stigmatising of legitimate expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people. For those of us who believe that challenging antisemitism and supporting Palestinian solidarity are not mutually exclusive, they spring from the same desire for justice and equality.

To take a side in the Israel-Palestinian conflict is to inescapably associate with those who have committed acts of violence. The conflict is an unequal one, between occupied people and an occupier; between refugees and a military regional superpower armed and backed by the west. According to Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, Israeli security forces have killed 9,456 Palestinians since 2000, compared to the 1,237 Israeli security personnel and civilians killed by Palestinians. Any civilian death is inexcusable: the Munich atrocity was an atrocity.

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#politics #the left #the guardian #jeremy corbyn #labour party #uk politics #anti-imperialism #foreign policy #Israeli Occupation #freepalestine

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naderkhan · 5 years

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En route to Madinah we stopped at the site of the Battle Of Badr, where an epic struggle took place 1,438 years ago on the 17th of Ramadan. The Madinans were a ragtag ill-equipped group of just over 300, with total submission to God, and with love for His beloved (ﷺ). They were up against a 1,000 strong army of warriors armed to their teeth, with an arrogant confidence in themselves. It was a rout. A unbelievable victory was granted to the Madinan army, and the pagan warriors of Makkah ran helter skelter. A large plaque near the battle site lists the names of the Madinan martyrs. Their cemetery is a short walk away. Shaykh AbdulKarim shared a few reminders with us there, and the lessons from it for our lives today. We prayed for the slain heros and for ourselves. On our way back to the bus, someone pointed out to us where the Makkan pagans lay buried, including a couple of their foremost leaders: Amr ibn Hisham aka Abu Jahl, one of the most arrogant leaders of the Makkan elite and the most zealous enemy of The Prophet (ﷺ), and Umayyah ibn Khalaf, another tyrant from the Makkan elite with deep hatred for The Prophet (ﷺ) and His message. Abu Jahl was slain by Abdullah ibn Mas’ud - a short, thin, dark skinned man from an “insignificant” tribe, and Umayyah was slain by Bilal ibn Rabah - the Abyssinian slave whom he had so mercilessly tortured to renounce his faith. Both Sayyidna Bilal and Sayyidna ibnMas’ud rose to towering heights of nobility. All nobility lies in loving The Prophet (ﷺ) and serving him. All debasement lies in hating The Prophet (ﷺ) and opposing him. We boarded the bus and continued towards Madinah. There was so much to take in at this stop. .__________________ . This past #RabīAlAwwal, @VirtuesTour invited me and the rest of the #VirtuesTour team to the first ever #VirtuesUmrah trip. I hadn’t had the chance to visit the holy sanctuaries in #Makkah and #Madinah for #hajj or #umrah in over 25 years, so this was an intense trip for me. The company of @AmirSulaiman, Shaykh AbdulKarim Yahya, and all the attendees made it even more special. . #VirtuesUmrah1440 #VirtuesTour1440 (at Badr Battle Field) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsme2YNg9QE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1orsy5e2unlut

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