{"id":154431,"date":"2026-03-05T20:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:05:06","slug":"queens-brian-may-announces-special-london-event-for-queen-ii-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154431\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Brian May announces special London event for \u2018Queen II\u2019 reissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cover of \u2018Queen II\u2019 (Hollywood Records)<\/p>\n<p>Queen guitarist Brian May is set to headline a special event in connection with the upcoming reissue of the band\u2019s sophomore album,\u00a0Queen II.<\/p>\n<p>Queen II \u2013 Queen\u2019s Masterstroke \u2013 More than Remastered!\u00a0is taking place March 26 in London, although an exact location wasn\u2019t revealed. Fans who <a href=\"https:\/\/queenonlinestore.com\/collections\/queen-ii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">preorder the album<\/a> will be in the running to win a chance to attend, and the\u00a0event will stream live on May\u2019s Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish it were big place so we could invite you all \u2026 but this is very intimate,\u201d May writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVgpl-NDChl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Instagram<\/a>, \u201cexcept it will hopefully connect all around the world through my live and lovely Instagram channel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queen II Collector\u2019s Edition, dropping March 27, is a five-CD and two-LP box set, featuring the 2026 mix of the album, along with a whole host of bonus material.<\/p>\n<p>Extras include previously unheard outtakes and demos, live tracks, radio sessions and what\u2019s described as \u201cintimate fly-on-the-wall audio of Queen in the recording studio.\u201d The set also features a 112-page book with previously unseen photos, handwritten lyrics and more.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Queen II Collector\u2019s Edition, the reissue will be released as a two-CD deluxe edition and on one-LP vinyl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cover of \u2018Queen II\u2019 (Hollywood Records) Queen guitarist Brian May is set to headline a special event in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-154431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}