Queen | Six early posters, 1970s

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September 13, 09:08 AM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

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Queen


Six early posters, 1970s


Poster for the release of Queen (75.5 x 50.5cm), 1973, cockling, light soiling (qty 3)


Poster for the release of Queen II (75.6 x 51.0,cm), 1974, small tear to lower margin, light creasing


Poster 'Mel Bush presents Queen Nuts' (74.5 50.9cm), Sunday 12 March [1974], Rainbow Theatre, London, marginal paper loss and creasing to upper left corner


Poster, Queen tour, Japan, Nippon Budokan Arena, 22nd March | 21 March | 1 April 1976, (64.8 x 51.6cm), creasing, small marginal tears


The Queen poster uses a shot from the early Douglas Puttifoot photoshoot, see lot 112 in On Stage. The Queen II poster uses the shots by Mick Rock for the B-side of the album, see lot 128 in On Stage. Queen played three sold-out shows at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park in 1974, the first in March, for the Queen II tour, and the latter two in November. The band followed up their March performance with the Live At The Rainbow LP. Queen's Japanese tour for A Night at the Opera took place in March 1976, for photos from this tour see lot 1042.


SPECIAL NOTICE

This lot is being sold for private use only. No right to reproduce or otherwise commercially exploit the copyright or other intellectual property in the lots is included with the sale of lot. Queen Productions Limited and Queen Music Limited and other rights holders reserve all their rights.