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Queen renew alliance with Universal

By | Published on Tuesday 3 December 2013

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Queen have signed a new deal with Universal Music that will result in “exciting projects” which is, you know, exciting. Well, it’s a thing.

Universal’s Island Records signed up Queen three years ago after the rockers ended their career-long alliance with EMI. Under the new deal, announced yesterday at the launch of a major new Queen exhibition in Montreux where Brian May and Roger Taylor were on hand to shout “go”, the major will continue to work with the duo on various Queen-related ventures everywhere outside North America.

Confirming the renewed alliance, Universal Music Group International top man Max Hole told CMU: “We have loved working with Queen over the last three years. Queen remains one of the biggest, boldest and most influential bands in the world. The band and Universal Music have lots of ambitious plans for the future”.

Meanwhile May and Taylor, in unison, while the former pulled some riffs and the latter tapped a bongo, added: “We have also enjoyed working with Universal. In spite of being the biggest music company in the world they succeed in retaining a very hands-on personal relationship with their artists, something we much appreciate”.



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