{"id":4002,"date":"2014-01-29T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/queen-sign-new-deal-with-universal-music-group\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T06:00:51","slug":"queen-sign-new-deal-with-universal-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/01\/29\/queen-sign-new-deal-with-universal-music-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Sign New Deal With Universal Music Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e3\/2005_Queen_%2B_Paul_Rodgers.jpg\/794px-2005_Queen_%2B_Paul_Rodgers.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><br \/>Queen and Universal Music Group have renewed their  partnership with a new, long term deal that will herald a range of  exciting projects from the band including a raft of rare and unreleased  material and a film. The agreement was announced at today&#8217;s launch of Queen: The Studio  Experience, a major new Queen exhibition in Montreux, Switzerland. Brian  May and Roger Taylor were in Montreux  to officiate the opening.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> The exhibition provides a unique behind the scenes glimpse into the  band&#8217;s recording life during the years spent working at the Swiss town&#8217;s  Mountain Studios where, between 1979 and 1995, Queen created six  albums, including Jazz and the seminal Made In Heaven. The exhibition  will raise awareness and funds for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the AIDS  charity set up by Queen and their manager Jim Beach immediately after  front man Freddie Mercury&#8217;s tragic death from AIDS in 1991.<\/p>\n<p> The new Universal deal, which covers the world outside North America,  comes three years after Queen first signed with Universal Music. That  move saw the band release music through Island Records for the first  time in its history and signalled the start of a major re-mastering and  repackaging programme, providing live tracks, alternative takes and  other additional content for Queen&#8217;s 15 studio albums. <\/p>\n<p> In 2011 the band and label also celebrated Queen&#8217;s 40th anniversary with  a major marketing campaign and a series of high profile events,  including the Stormtroopers in Stilettos exhibition staged in London in  February 2011 and a major BBC TV documentary on the band.<\/p>\n<p> Max Hole, Chairman and Chief Executive of Universal Music Group  International said: &#8220;We have loved working with Queen over last three  years. Queen remains one of the biggest, boldest and most influential  bands in the world. The band and Universal Music have lots of ambitious  plans for the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> Queen&#8217;s Brian May and Roger Taylor said: &#8221;We have also enjoyed working  with Universal. In spite of being the biggest music company in the world  they succeed in retaining a very hands-on personal relationship with  their artists, something we much appreciate&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normal\">Source: Universal Music<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen and Universal Music Group have renewed their partnership with a new, long term deal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}