THIS SHALL BE MY LAST POST ON QUEEN. I FEEL ADAM IS GOING TO LOSE MOMENTUM ON HIS OWN ALBUM MAKING MONEY FOR BRIAN TAYLOR. I FIND THE BAND QUEEN POLITICALLY GROTESQUE. I FIND THEIR MUSIC STADIUM DUMB. BUT AT THEIR HEIGHT OF ‘FAME’ I WAS A PUNK, SO OF COURSE I LOATHED THEIR VACOUS, EMPTY BRAND OF MUSIC. SO I AM JUST GOING TO IGNORE THEIR SHOWS IN RUSSIA. UNLESS THEY ACTUALLY DO SUPPORT PROTECTION FOR RUSSIAN GAY PEOPLE. LIKE THAT WOULD HAPPEN.

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But that has never happened. And in Taylors own words……….

Queen played a run of shows at Sun City, the entertainment complex located in Bophutswana, one of 10 South African Bantustans: tracts of low-quality land supposedly enshrined as independent black homelands that were in fact one of the struts of the apartheid regime. They amounted to parched rural ghettoes; the fact that the Sun City complex – a casino-and-golf resort, akin to an Afrikaner’s Las Vegas – was located in one of them only underlined their cynically conceived place in the apartheid scheme.

“We’ve thought a lot about the morals of it a lot,” claimed Brian May at the time, long alleged to be one of the cleverest men in rock, “and it is something we’ve decided to do. The band is not political – we play to anybody who wants to come and listen.”

“Throughout our career we’ve been a very non-political group,” said bassist John Deacon (aka The Other One). “We enjoy going to new places. We’ve toured America and Europe so many times that it’s nice to go somewhere different … I know there can be a bit of fuss, but apparently we’re very popular down there … Basically, we want to play wherever fans want to see us.”