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there were plans to base the musical on the story of the band
Queen, but guitarist Brian May has said that would have
been "embarrassing" for all the figures involved. |
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Theatreland paid
tribute to the late Freddie Mercury and the songs of Queen
with Tuesday's world premiere of the musical We Will Rock You.
The futuristic
£7.5m production, six years in the making, is based on Queen's extensive
back catalogue and best-known hits - Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio
Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free.
See BBC London's full report here
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It has been written
by comedian and author Ben Elton and is being produced by
Hollywood legend Robert De Niro.
The plot portrays
a world where musical instruments have been banned and programmed
music dominates. But a young hero, Galileo, leads a group of rebels
in a quest to find mythical electric guitars which were set in stone
many years earlier.
Actor Nigel
Planer, who starred in The Young Ones and the Comic Strip, is
one of the show's stars.
Among those at
the opening at London's Dominion Theatre were Robert De Niro,
Brian May, Roger Taylor, Ben Elton, Ulrika
Jonsson, Claire Sweeney, Steven Berkoff, Roger
Daltrey, Johnny Vegas, Mel Smith and Gary Kemp.
 Queen
were one of the biggest bands in the world in the late 1970s and
1980s but lost their main creative force and lead singer Freddie
Mercury, when he died in 1991.
Last week the band's
Bohemian Rhapsody was voted the UK's best single of all time in
a poll of music fans. The pop epic beat John Lennon's Imagine and
Hey Jude by The Beatles in the survey by the Guinness Book of British
Hit Singles.
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