I have a plane graveyard on google earth but can’t find these planes. Am I in the right place? Where are they?

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No, thats Davis Monthan storage facility, they ain’t going to leave Buchons rotting outside with B-52’s are they, they’re inside a hangar with engine parts stored outside, try the search facility on here, they were featured not too long ago.

Oh, I assure you I was being deadly serious.

I’m not a particular fan of ‘Mr Careless Wispa’ but, from a purely musical point of view, his voice has the versatility, range and power to cope with the Queen repertoire and – more importantly – the actual timbre of his voice is far closer to the original than Robbie William’s voice, which would help to preserve the ‘colour’ and ‘feel’ of the songs.

Have a listen to ‘Somebody To Love‘ from the concert you mentioned, and you’ll probably see what I mean.

Having said that, I do agree with most of your other comments. A sad waste of a potentially-great talent, IMHO.

Having watched that, agreed, had forgotten, too much singing back at the band though, and not enough typical Freddy audience wind up, makes you realise what a waste of a brilliant talent it has been though.
Having said all that, I’ve just watched Freddies performance of ‘We will rock you’ on Youtube and would suggest that they all retire gracefully.

You know, I’d agree with this 100% if you’d said ‘George Michael’. 😎

I’m not sure how to take that GA, do you really mean it. Quite frankly, like him or not, George Michael is another great talent destroyed by his own neurosese, a sad waste, reduced to appearing on a naff US talent show in order to promote himself, and doing it rather badly at that, if anyone wants a good kick up the backside, it’s him ( though he might perversely enjoy it ).
GM hasn’t got the Freddie audience manipulation and on stage arrogance that Williams has, it just wouldn’t work, and if you are trying to say that GM might be tempted to perform a toned down, manipulated version of Freddie, forget it, his self opinions are too strong, he doesn’t/does know what he wants, and thats that, the poor bloke is without direction at the moment, whether it will come back and he will produce a work of genius, who knows, he’s a silly ******.

It’s quite interesting, somewhere in my collection of memorabilia, I have an original copy of Melody Maker from 1970, it’s the copy produced on the death of Jimi Hendrix which had a profound affect on me at the time and somehow I kept it.
What is interesting is some of the other stuff published in there. Apart from the large amount of concert dates for Free ( including Paul Rogers to the unitiated) there some interesting stuff about Tom Jones.
There is an article imploring him to use his voice to good effect with the contemporary rock bands of the day, interesting how he didn’t do this with good effect until 30 years on, bolstered his career too, perhaps that was the reason for it, not that he needed the money.
Perhaps Will Young singing with Mettallica might be the way forward, after all, Leona Lewis has just performed with Jimmy Page on the world stage, who could have imagined that in the 1970 edition of MM.

Yesterday afternoon I saw the Cat flying low and trying to avoid the storms on it’s way back to DX.
Just now was something else, 5 spits in loose formation over the house, obviously heading for DX, the sight and sound of them was unbelievable, not something you see very often is it, I haven’t seen anything like it since the making of ‘Piece of Cake’. Wow, words fail me.

Excuse me, but why is this thread entitled Roger Taylor then harps on about Paul Rodgers replacing our Fred, I don’t understand, Taylors got nothing to do with it, apart from being in Queen.
Do you actually know who Paul Rodgers is, are you aware of his great rock and roll past, have you heard his vocals with Free and Bad Company, if not, sound them out.
Nobody will ever replace Freddy Mercury, there’s no argument about that, the old band and Paul are quite aware of it and aren’t attempting a true replacement. Quite frankly, when there was a Freddy tribute concert a few years ago, several singers sang with the original band and in my personal opinion, and I hate to say this, the only singer that came close to reproducing Freddies charisma on stage was Robbie Williams, I’m certainly no fan, and he was no soundalike, but to me, his, camp, strutting attitude, relationship with the audience and massive ego did it for me. Yes it was all about Robbie, but then originally, it was all about Freddy as well. Where is Williams now, a waste of a talent, like him or not, there’s something there, it could have been a good combination if he was harnessed properly. Unfortunately, I’m sure that the old band realised that Queen plus Williams would inevitably turn into the Robbie show, Brian May having to play ‘Angel’ for the adoring fans would be a disaster, it would never work, or would it, it may have turned out to be good fun, which is what Queen was all about.

Matt, I know that you’re a very enthusiastic, young keen type, willing to please and get involved, we admire you for that, but please think about what you are posting, please note the joyous replies to your Mountain Bike thread. Many of us on here are a bunch of old cynics anyway, just sit back for a minute and read some old threads and judge the mood, many people on here know so much, fools aren’t tolerated, including me.
Pete.

In 2 weeks time it’s the fabulous Chappel Beer Festival, held every year at the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne between Halstead and Colchester, if you are in the area, GO, look it up on the net it’s not hard to find, and, no, I’m not advertising on their behalf, it’s a good day out, lots of other things to see and do, the museum, folk music, morris dancing, free camping, late night trains and for your £2 admission you get your own special commemorative pint glass too.
Last year they had 400 beers of which the following had aeronautical connections.
Blindmans:- Icarus
Brysons:- Hurricane Bitter
Dent:- Aviator Ale
Leadmill:- B-52

They haven’t yet published this years list so there could be more.
One of the nice things about it is that the Nazis of the brewing industry, Greene King, are banned from the premises, so you won’t be conned by any of the rubbish they market under the brand names of famous old breweries that they have mercilessly closed down, but still sell to the public, Ruddles was originally made in a small country brewery in Rutland, not a synthetics factory in Bury St Edmunds.

Kevin, I agree with everything you say, all my last generation of family obviously suffered in some way as a consequence of the actions of the Nazis, not just in action but on the home front too, it wasn’t something any of them wanted to be involved in, it disrupted their lives through no fault of their own.
But we were lucky, by a miracle, no Truman, Brown or even my ex in-laws ever recieved a scratch in combat, and we’re talking such an incredible range of battles here, on land, sea and air, Alamein to Arnhem, air attacks on Channel ports and Berlin, escorting convoys to Murmansk, suffering Kamikaze attacks in the Pacific.
Here is the conundrum though.
Strangely enough, non of them seemed to have had the slightest hatred of the German people. For those involved against the Japanese, it was a different matter, they loathed them till the day they died.
My ex father in law fought some ferocious battles against the Afrika Korps, but even at the time he thought that they were a fine body of men and had the greatest of respect for them, only doing their duty, he told me, ( he hated the Italians though).
The same with my father, though it wasn’t always the case, I have a photo he took somewhere of a German soldiers temporary post battle grave, complete with helmet on the top, on the back of which he has written, ‘The best Jerry of all, a dead un’.
When we went to the 50th D-Day Anniversary, he was incensed that the Germans weren’t invited, made a point of visiting the German areas of the cemeteries and made a beeline for anybody with a Kubelwagon or who looked vaguely German.
Perhaps it would have been a different story if members of the family at home or on active duty had suffered in any way. As far as I know, no-one in our large network of relatives on the Home Front, mainly working class/lower middle class with no particular privilages, living in industrial cities, although having a few close shaves, particularly my mother, got away unscathed.
On the other hand, they still had to go stumbling through the blackout, live on rations, work long hours making parachutes and fire watch during air raids, all the while wondering whether they would see their loved ones again.
Talk to my mother now though and she thinks of them as happy times!!

Sorry to go on, but I’m just trying in my own way to support your feelings.

I was aware of the German Cemetery at Cannock, I didn’t realise it was established as recently as 1964, no doubt as the result of post war Anglo-German reconciliation, there’s nothing wrong with that, its just that on one web site refering to it, it mentions that German civilians who died in internment on the Isle of Man were reburied at Cannock with the exception of 2 Jewish internees who were left behind. Perhaps it was the wishes of their families, assuming they had any that survived the tender mercies of the Nazis, who knows, perhaps we shouldn’t read into it that much.
I also read that it’s a place of pilgrimage for German relatives during the summer, which begs the question, why take all the trouble to create this place, I know the land was donated, but the cost in creating it and moving the bodies, wouldn’t it have been only a little more to take them back to Germany where they came from and where their relatives live.
I suppose you could raise the same argument for British dead abroad, though most of those are in Allied countries anyway, that we were fighting to liberate.
I would be interested to know whether any families who lost loved ones on bombing raids in the connurbations around Cannock objected to this place being created at the time. A hallowed place to the individual members of their enemies, while many of their innocent victims, particularly in Coventry, were buried in mass graves.