Queen's back catalogue value...

Kittyfrisk

Seems to be around $1 Billion dollars... eek!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy00e8lgynpo

Philly_Q

Excellent, the sale of the catalogue will make for a rousing finale to the Bohemian Rhapsody 2 movie. 

Then Bohemian Rhapsody 3 can be all about what they did with the money, including an exciting montage in which they consult independent financial advisors.

barnstorm

Would love to know how granular they get when figuring out the price in these deals. Be fascinating to see what percentage of that sum is just Bohemian Rhapsody, what a song like Fat Bottomed Girls is deemed to be worth etc.

Revolutions

BillDL

barnstorm said:

Be fascinating to see ..... what a song like Fat Bottomed Girls is deemed to be worth ......

Plenty of booty I would have thought

Emp_Fab

Philly_Q said:

Excellent, the sale of the catalogue will make for a rousing finale to the Bohemian Rhapsody 2 movie. 

Then Bohemian Rhapsody 3 can be all about what they did with the money, including an exciting montage in which they consult independent financial advisors.

...and decide to whore out Freddie's songs to any TV ad agency for tuppence whilst doing tours as "Queen" with only two of them in it.  

darthed1981

Philly_Q said:

Excellent, the sale of the catalogue will make for a rousing finale to the Bohemian Rhapsody 2 movie. 

Then Bohemian Rhapsody 3 can be all about what they did with the money, including an exciting montage in which they consult independent financial advisors.

I want to see a song and dance routine in Bo Rhap 3 with Brian May and some blinged up badgers dancing to another one bites the dust.

darthed1981

Emp_Fab said:

Philly_Q said:

Excellent, the sale of the catalogue will make for a rousing finale to the Bohemian Rhapsody 2 movie. 

Then Bohemian Rhapsody 3 can be all about what they did with the money, including an exciting montage in which they consult independent financial advisors.

...and decide to whore out Freddie's songs to any TV ad agency for tuppence whilst doing tours as "Queen" with only two of them in it.  

To be 100% fair, I've heard they put on a pretty good show.

World has changed, you can pay a fortune to see ABBA with zero original members and some holograms, and people love it.

Wait for my new show to launch, it's called "feel young again, but this time, with money..." 

prowla

Emp_Fab said:

Philly_Q said:

Excellent, the sale of the catalogue will make for a rousing finale to the Bohemian Rhapsody 2 movie. 

Then Bohemian Rhapsody 3 can be all about what they did with the money, including an exciting montage in which they consult independent financial advisors.

...and decide to whore out Freddie's songs to any TV ad agency for tuppence whilst doing tours as "Queen" with only two of them in it.  

How many original members are in lots of bands?

Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Bay City Rollers, etc.

thecolourbox

I don't watch much tv to be fair, but the only Queen song I can think of on an advert was written by Brian May I think

Philly_Q

prowla said:

How many original members are in lots of bands?

Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Bay City Rollers, etc.

Rolling Stones - 2
Deep Purple - 1
Black Sabbath - somewhere between 1 and 4, or not applicable... I really don't know.
Uriah Heep - 1
Bay City Rollers - 0, I think?  Maybe Woody's version are still touring, but I'm not absolutely sure if he was an original member.

idiotwindow

Philly_Q said:

prowla said:

How many original members are in lots of bands?

Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Bay City Rollers, etc.

Rolling Stones - 2
Deep Purple - 1

I think you are being a bit pedantic about Deep Purple. As far as I know, there are still 3 members of the classic line-up (the one everyone thinks of as DP) in the current touring band. Also, Ronnie Wood might not be an original Stone but he has been in the band far longer than Brian Jones ever was.

Kittyfrisk

idiotwindow said:

Philly_Q said:

prowla said:

How many original members are in lots of bands?

Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Bay City Rollers, etc.

Rolling Stones - 2
Deep Purple - 1

I think you are being a bit pedantic about Deep Purple. As far as I know, there are still 3 members of the classic line-up (the one everyone thinks of as DP) in the current touring band. Also, Ronnie Wood might not be an original Stone but he has been in the band far longer than Brian Jones ever was.

The clue is in the word 'original' surely? A founding member, not one that came later & stayed longer 

Philly_Q

idiotwindow said:

Philly_Q said:

prowla said:

How many original members are in lots of bands?

Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Bay City Rollers, etc.

Rolling Stones - 2
Deep Purple - 1

I think you are being a bit pedantic about Deep Purple. As far as I know, there are still 3 members of the classic line-up (the one everyone thinks of as DP) in the current touring band. Also, Ronnie Wood might not be an original Stone but he has been in the band far longer than Brian Jones ever was.

I don't think I'm being pedantic.  For this purpose I wouldn't really count Dave Evans as an original member of AC/DC or Al Atkins as an original member of Judas Priest, because they'd gone before the respective first albums.  But Rod Evans and Nick Simper recorded three whole albums with Deep Purple before they were sacked.  That's as many as Coverdale and Hughes.

If you want to go with long tenure, fair enough... Bernie Shaw and Phil Lanzon have been in Uriah Heep decades longer than their predecessors, so they'd have to be included too.  But they didn't play on the classic albums... and neither did Ronnie Wood in the Stones, arguably.

Philly_Q

Kittyfrisk said:

The clue is in the word 'original' surely? A founding member, not one that came later & stayed longer 

So much more succinct than my waffling.

idiotwindow

Kittyfrisk said:

idiotwindow said:

Philly_Q said:

prowla said:

How many original members are in lots of bands?

Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Bay City Rollers, etc.

Rolling Stones - 2
Deep Purple - 1

I think you are being a bit pedantic about Deep Purple. As far as I know, there are still 3 members of the classic line-up (the one everyone thinks of as DP) in the current touring band. Also, Ronnie Wood might not be an original Stone but he has been in the band far longer than Brian Jones ever was.

The clue is in the word 'original' surely? A founding member, not one that came later & stayed longer 

Yes, I noted the word 'original' in my comment. I still think @Kittyfrisk ; is being pedantic. In the context of a band that has been around 40-50 years, "original" members doesn't necessarily have to mean founding members but can equally be ones that have been around from near the beginning or from when the band got into its stride. Ronnie Wood is of course a bit of a stretch (as I acknowledged) but Ian Gillan and Roger Glover are, to all intents and purposes, original members of Deep Purple. I quite like the first couple of albums with Rod Evans et al but they are hardly classic Purple.

Kittyfrisk

For your 'pedantic', I'd prefer accurate. Words have specific meanings for just such reasons.
Vague is another one :-D

Philly_Q

Come on guys, if we keep on pedantically arguing about pedantry we should be able to stretch this out to a few mare pages.

Sporky

Philly_Q said:

Come on guys, if we keep on pedantically arguing about pedantry we should be able to stretch this out to a few mare pages.

I for one admire the use of "mare" to hint at a horse being flogged well after death. 

Philly_Q

Sporky said:

Philly_Q said:

Come on guys, if we keep on pedantically arguing about pedantry we should be able to stretch this out to a few mare pages.

I for one admire the use of "mare" to hint at a horse being flogged well after death. 

Sadly @Sporky I'm not that clever.  It must have been some kind of Freudian slip though, there's no auto-correct on this computer and "o" is nowhere near "a" on the keyboard.

Kittyfrisk

>:)