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QUEEN Virgin Radio Queen Day Set (Very rare and complete set of
all seven Virgin Radio Queen Day 12" singles comprising individual
records for Heaven For Everyone, A Winter's Tale, Mother Love, Let
Me Live, You Don't Fool Me, It's A Beautiful Dayand I Was Born To
Love You. This set remains in superb MINT condition, having not seen
light of day for over a decade. See 'more info' for the full story of this
extremely rare and highly prized 'Made In Heaven' collectable...).
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| Tracklisting / Additional Info: |
What were you doing on November 25th, 1996 ? If you weren't speed-dialling London's Virgin Radio station chances are you won't have one of these, let alone all seven. Following the release of their highly anticipated 'Made In Heaven' album the remaining members of Queen, along with Parlophone and Virgin Radio executives, together created a very special series of prizes to chase away any Monday blues and tempt you with some red-hot Queen booty. Throughout the day Virgin Radio played a selection of tracks from the album and determined callers lucky enough to get through and successfully answer a Queen-related question were able to choose one from seven of the Made In Heaven album tracks as a special edition 12" single, housed in a custom Queen Crest logo sleeve.
There were only 12 complete sets manufactured and after an aborted attempt with the first disc - VIRGIN1 - production recommenced utilising the unique catalogue number sequence VIRGIN2 to VIRGIN8. Incidentally, all the 12" singles are one-sided. Rumour has it that one copy of VIRGIN1 was incorrectly pressed as a two-sided disc and when the error was discovered that sole record was destroyed. We've never seen one, but if you have evidence of its existence we'd love to hear about it. Consequently 'Heaven For Everyone' (VIRGIN2) became the first disc in the sequence, which follows thus:-
VIRGIN2 - Heaven For Everyone
VIRGIN3 - A Winter's Tale
VIRGIN4 - Mother Love
VIRGIN5 - Let Me Live
VIRGIN6 - You Don't Fool Me
VIRGIN7 - It's A Beautiful Day
VIRGIN8 - I Was Born To Love You
By the end of the day there had been 14 competition winners. Each of them received their one chosen record and as an added bonus that one record was AUTOGRAPHED by Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon. We've only seen two of the actual prize-winners records for sale, and we bought them both.
Prizes on the day account for 14 of the 84 records (12 sets of 7 = 84, or it did when I was at school). So, what about the rest? Well, some complete sets were given as a 'thank you' to the radio executives although none of those were autographed. As there really are only 14 individual records that have signatures collating an entire set of all seven with original autographs is as close to impossible as makes no difference!
Luckily for the rest of us non-competition winners, the past decade has seen a few complete non-autographed sets make their way to the collectables market, which makes the task of trying to piece together a complete set from individual purchases a lot easier. The 7 discs we have on offer here is one of those 'executive thank you' sets. We have seen some individual records sell via eBay and for every individual disc that sells it makes the task of putting together the whole set that much more difficult, so this is your chance to scoop the lot in one go!
Queen remain one of the most important bands of the past 3 decades and, as interest in their We Will Rock You show and live dates with Paul Rodgers has shown, they remain at the top of their game. Their first 'blue-chip' collectable was the appropriately coloured blue vinyl Bohemian Rhapsody single. This wonderful set continues that legacy very well.
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| Availability: |
Last copy in stock. Order now for shipping on Monday 23rd November
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| Artist: |
Queen (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Virgin Radio Queen Day - The Magnificent Seven (click here for more of the same title) |
| Price: |
£ 5,995.00, USD 10,011.65, € 6,714.40
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| Postage/Shipping: |
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| Format: |
12" RECORD/MAXI SINGLE |
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| Record Label: |
Parlophone |
| Catalogue No: |
VIRGIN2-VIRGIN8 |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Additional info: |
Promo
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| Condition : |
All items are at least excellent condition unless we state otherwise so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to source items as close to Mint condition as possible, many will indeed be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Others may be 'used', however, all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. |
| EIL.COM Ref No |
QUE12VI162017 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Related Artists: |
Anita Dobson, Bad News, Billy Squier, Brian May, Carmine Appice, Catherine Porter, Claire Sweeney, D-ROK, Darkness [Dance], Eddie Howell, Freddie Mercury, Heavy Pettin, Ibex, John Deacon, Larry Lurex, Minako Honda, MONTSERRAT CABALLE, Peter Straker, Pinocchio (soundtrack), Roger Taylor, SAS Band, Smile, The Cross, The Immortals, Wire Daisies |
| Complete Stock List: |
Queen |
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sales@eil.com to contact our sales team. |
| Alternative Names: |
None |
| To order by phone: |
Call 011-44-1474-815010 quoting EIL.COM reference number QUE12VI162017 |
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