 | 1977 - Began collecting Queen.
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| March 1981 - Saw Queen live for the first time at the
Morumbi Stadium.
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| 1984 - Founded Queenland as an unnoficial Fan Club with my friend
"Trinti".
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| July 26, 1984 - First Queenland event: Celebrating
Roger Taylor's birthday, a meeting called "Queen Live Story" was held at "Casa
do Politécnico", a subdivision of Universidade de São Paulo, where I was
studying at the time.I was interviewed by Manchete and 97 FM radio stations, and even
appeared on a TV program at Gazeta TV to promote the event (If you have
a copy of this on video please let me know, I would like to have a
copy!).About 150 brazilian Queen fans attended this event - not bad for a
thursday evening! Liane (soon to be my girfriend) saw the advert on the TV and
attended ;-)
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| December 15, 1984 - Second Queenland event: As the Rock
In Rio festival was approaching, we felt the need to do a "warm-up" meeting,
so we did Live Story II at a place called
Sesc Pompéia in collaboration with a fan club called "White Heron".Four hours
of rare Queen videos on a big screen - with free entrance - was not bad for
these days!
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| January 1985: Me and Liane attended both
Rock In Rio
concerts.The night after the first concert we saw
Roger briefly in front of
their Hotel. Together with various other fans, we wrote "QUEEN" with candles
on the beach, and to our surprise Brian saw the candles from the hotel and joined us
(!!!), as can be seen during the operatic section
of Bohemian Rhapsody on the "Live In Rio" video.I gave Brian copies
of the pictures from the previous years meetings... and got some autographs in
return ;-)
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| June 1985: Produced a 3 hour Queen special full of
rarities for 97 FM, repeated a week later - live - by popular demand.
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| 1988-1990 Queenland joined forces to Queen Flash Club
and became officially approved by the band (the address of the "Flash Club" joint venture
was even printed on the insert of the brazilian "The Miracle" LP).
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| September 25, 1988 - Me and Liane produced and
co-presented (with 89 FM presentor Everson) a 90 min Queen special on
89 FM, again full of rarities of
course.
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| July 8, 1989 - Me and Liane got married. Jacky wrote a
note on the Official Fan Club Magazine
(Autumn 1989 issue) about how we met thru Queen.
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| Early 1991 - Attended the very first rehearsals of the
brazilian Band "Queen Cover", then of course most of their concerts
since their very first gig.
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| November 9, 1992 - Me, Liane and William Nilsen
(founder of the first ever brazilian Queen fan club back in 1977) flew to Rio
to see Brian May in concert at the Imperator Hall.
My wife Liane, Brian May and myself at Brian's dressing
room at the Imperator Hall.
A variant version of this picture (taken by Queen´s manager Jim Beach) has been used on "Queen+ Greeatest Hits III"
bookletWe got backstage passes to that gig,
and have meet the whole Brian May band. including the late
Cozy Powell and Josh McCrae, which was working as drum technician for
Brian.Brian also came briefly to meet the fans and
retired shortly to his dressing room, probably a bit tired after the show.
I had with me a diskette
containing the lists which some four years later would be featured on this
website, and I asked Mr. Beach
to give it to Brian, but he was so impressed when I described our research that
invited us to enter Brian's dressing room to hand the
diskette to him personally!
Imagine my face - speechless!
In the end, we spent some 15-20 minutes there - only me, Liane, Jim Beach and
Brian - talking about my database and research, and of course getting some
autographs ;-)
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| March 26, 1993 - Me and Liane were interviewed on
Jovem Pan 2
FM to talk about the Rolling Stones (no, just kidding).
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| 1994 - Liane got a Queen Tattoo on her upper back!
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| November 27, 1994 - The
Keep Freddie Alive
convention.This one deserves its own page, please check it out.
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| 1995 - A local newspaper did a
report about our
collection.
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| 1995 - Rock historian and musician Ayrton Mugnaini Jr.
visited us to research material for his "Deixem-me
Entreter Vocês" book.
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| 1995 - Greg Brooks (now Queen's archivist) used our
concert collection list as part of his research on the "Queen Live - A Concert
Documentary" book.
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| April 1996 - Queenland website launched (on another
server/URL at the time).
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| April 13, 1997 - First row seats on "Le Presbitère n'a
rien perdu de son charme ni le jardin de de son éclat" at the Theatro
Municipal, São Paulo.
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| July 9, 1999 - Jacky kindly did a surprise to Liane
mentioning our 10th marriage anniversary on the Fan Club
website.
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| 1999 - Our picture with Brian (above) is selected by the
bandmembers themselves to be used on Queen+ Greatest Hits III
booklet.
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| 2002 - Queen archivist Greg Brooks invite me to
contribute on the research on the extras for the forthcoming "Live at Wembley
Stadium" and "Greatest Video
Hits II" DVDs.Our video list is being used by Queen
Productions as a chronological reference for the projects.
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| September 2002 - Queenland helped to promote the
brazilian concerts of Argentine tribute band
Opera Prima Rock.We have meet
their production team at the Tom Brasil hall in São Paulo on setptember 21.
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| June 2003 - My name is printed on the credits list of
the "Live At Wembley Stadium" DVD
booklet.
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| February/March 2004 - We gave an interview to
QueenBrazil.com.
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| April 2004 - A report about my Queen Collecting is
published on the newsletter of the company I work for.
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| June 2004 - A 30 minute video showing some
interesting items from my collection is
shown at a fair at the Shopping Paulista, São Paulo.
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| 2005 - My name is
published again as contributor on the updated version of "Queen Live - A
Concert Documentary by Greg Brooks" book.
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| January 31, 2006 - Me and Liane were interviewed on a
2-hour Queen Special on a program called "Todo
Seu" on TV Gazeta presented by Ronnie Von. They also recorded a
report at our appartment and we also took various items from our collection
to the TV studio to display. The program was aired on february 3.
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| March 27, 2006 - Me and Liane and the publisher of
the Freddie book, Elaine, were interviewed on on a program called "Pra
Você" on TV Gazeta presented by Ione Borges. Once again, we took various items from our collection
to the TV studio to display on this 32 minute interview.
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| May 2007 - I gave an interview to journalist Ricardo
Seelig for his "Collector's
Room" setion on the main brazilian rock website, Whiplash.
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Lately I've been extremely busy remastering my whole audio
collection using the latest tools provided by technology. Recently I also began
to transfer my VHSs to DVD in chronological order!
The lists on this website cover the following
aspects of my personal collection: interviews + reports (audio),
studio tapes (audio), live recordings
(audio), videos and memorabilia
swaps.
I hope you find the information contained on this website
useful.
Please feel free to contact me, specially if you are interested to
swap for
brazilian pressings.
Antônio Henrique Seligman
Queen Collector
