Killer Queen
First broadcast on 1st June 2002 on
Channel 4 as part of 'Queen Night'.
Running Time 92 mins approx
Director / Producer : Nick Cory-Wright
Narrator : Arabella Weir
This is a new documentary on Queen, and features new
interviews with Brian and Roger, footage from the 'We Will Rock
You' musical, and other unseen footage, including excerpts from
rare Solo promo videos. Any new or rare footage is shown in red.
The content is as follows:
Introduction
- Introduction - excerpt of 'We Will
Rock You', with clips of many celebrities
- Footage from Cheers, and
interviews with celebrities including Status Quo, Brian
Blessed, Ben Elton and Mel Smith, and footage of the fast
live version of 'We Will Rock You'.
- Interview with Brian and footage
of 'We Are The Champions' (promo video)
- Footage from The Simpsons,
interviews with Freddie and Brian, footage of Arsenal
winning the domestic football double in 2002, and
interviews with Roger and someone who works for US army
radio
- Footage of tribute band Kween, 'We
Are The Champions' by Liza Minelli and 'We Are The Champions' with Robbie Williams
- Footage from the 'We Will Rock
You' musical press conference, rehearsals footage, and
interview with Ben Elton
Queen On Video
- Footage from 'Radio Ga Ga' promo
video and interview with Brian
- 'Top Of The Pops' introduction,
footage of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' promo video, and
interviews Bruce Gowers (director), Bruce Dickinson (Iron
Maiden), Roger and Brian
- 'Making of' footage for 'Spread
Your Wings', excerpts of 'Play The Game', 'Breakthru',
'Calling All Girls' and 'The Miracle', and interview with
Brian
- Footage of 'Radio Ga Ga', footage
of Roger and John in a TV interview, interview with David
Mallet and footage of 'I Was Born To Love You' rehearsal
- Footage of 'Body Language' and 'I
Want To Break Free' promo videos, and interviews with
Roger, David Mallet and Status Quo
- Footage of before/during the
'Bicycle Race', interview with Halford's marketing
manager, one of the racers, Status Quo and Brian
(First advertisement break)
Stadium Queen
- Footage of 'Another One Bites The
Dust' (South
America, 1981) and clips of 'We Will Rock You' (Europe,
1986), and interviews with Gerry Stickells, Roger,
Freddie, Brian and Status Quo
- Excerpt of 'Son and Daughter' with
footage of Queen in and around Japan, 1974, and interview
with Peter Hince (roadie)
- Excerpt of 'Stone Cold Crazy' with
footage of backstage preparations, and interviews with
Brian and Peter Hince
- Interview with Edwin Shirley
(logistics manager), and footage of 'I Want To Break
Free' from 1984 or 1985.
- Footage of Queen live in the
1970's, and footage of 'Under Pressure' (Rio, 1985)
- Footage of Queen arriving in South
Africa, news reports, various comments, and interview
with Roger
- Introduction and 'Bohemian
Rhapsody' and Freddie Singalong from Live Aid, with
various interviews including Status Quo, Roger, Mel
Smith, Freddie
- Footage of 'Radio Ga Ga' from
Knebworth, and Freddie with crown
Queen At Play
- Footage of 'Don't Stop Me Now'
promo video, party footage, interviews with Mick Rock,
footage of the 'Living On My Own' video, and interviews
with Peter Freestone, Gerry Stickells, excerpt of A Kind
Of Magic video, and interview with Brian
Queen In Love
- Footage of 'Somebody To Love'
promo video, and 'I'm In Love With My Car' from 1981, interview with Mel Smith,
and footage of Debbie Lang (Roger's partner), in the
Flake advert
- Footage of Brian in Freddie's
'Living On My Own' video, interview with Anita Dobson,
and footage of Brian's Guitar Solo from 1986
- Footage of 'Good Old Fashioned
Loverboy' (Top Of The Pops), and interviews with
Freddie's former friends, Mick Rock, Freddie, and Peter
Freestone
- Footage of John in Budapest
(Second advertisement break)
- Footage of the 'Flash' promo video
and interviews with Roger, Brian and Brian Blessed
West End Queen
- Interview with Ben Elton and
footage of the 'We Will Rock You' premiere and auditions
- Interviews with Brian, Roger, and
Ben Elton, further rehearsal footage, and interviews with
Chris Renshaw (musical director), Nigel Planer
- Footage of 'Fat Bottomed Girls' from the dress rehearsal
Queen Covered
- Footage of Queen and Five
performing 'We Will Rock You' at the Brit Awards, and various other
covers including 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love', 'One
Vision', Bad News 'Bohemian Rhapsody', impersonations
from Harry Hill, Kween, 'We Are Not Queen', an
Argentinian band, and interviews with Roger and Brian
Solo Queen
- Footage of 'Tie Your Mother Down'
promo video
- Interviews with Roger, Peter
Hince, Gerry Stickells and Brian and footage of Brian's
Guitar Solo and playing the ukulele
- Interview with Brian and his
father about making the Red Special guitar
- Footage of Brian's 'Resurrection' promo video and interview with Roger
- Footage of Brian on the Richard
Digance show performing 'Last Horizon', and footage of the 'Driven By You'
promo video
- Footage of Brian's 'Starfleet' promo video and interview with Brian,
Brian on 'The Sky At Night' and interview with Anita
Dobson
- Footage of Roger drumming on a TV
programme with Kenny Everett, and footage of Roger's 'Strange Frontier' and 'Nazis 1994' promo videos and interviews with Roger
- Interview with Roger about his
appearance on the 'Mercury's Magic' stamp
- Excerpt of 'No Turning Back' and
pictures of the Biggles video sleeve
(Third advertisement break)
- Footage of 'Killer Queen' (Queen miming to the studio version;
unknown location)
- Excerpt of 'Innuendo', footage of
Freddie's former flat, and interviews with Roger,
Freddie's friends, Tim Staffell, Brian, Freddie and
footage of Smile at the Royal Albert Hall
- Interviews with Roger, Brian and
Freddie, and footage of the 'Keep Yourself Alive' (promo
performance)
- Footage of Bob Harris, audio
excerpt of 'Seven Seas Of Rhye', interviews with Roger
and Brian, and footage of 'Killer Queen' ('Top Of The
Pops')
Queen Style
- Footage of 'Now I'm Here'
(Rainbow, 1974), various footage of Queen's outfits,
interview with Mick Rock and early photographs
- Interview with Brian and footage
of Queen's live outfits
- Excerpt of 'White Queen',
interview with Zandra Rhodes, and interview with Status
Quo
- Interview with Roger and footage
of Freddie over the years (with excerpt of 'In The Lap Of
The Gods...Revisited')
- Interviews with Freddie and
interviews with Peter Freestone, Mick Rock, Roger, Bruce
Dickinson
- Footage of the 'Save Me' promo
video, interviews with Ben Elton, Mel Smith, Anita
Dobson, Status Quo, excerpt of 'It's A Hard Life', and
interview with Nigel Planer
Various people's comments about Brian's hair and clogs
Creative Queen
- Footage of 'One Vision' (live in
1986), interviews with Peter Freestone and Brian, footage
of Queen in the studio, interviews with Roger, Brian and
Peter Hince
- Further studio footage of 'One
Vision', and interviews with Brian, Roger and Anita
Dobson
- Interviews with Ben Elton and
Brian about the 'Fried Chicken' at the end of 'One
Vision', plus 'One Vision' (Just For Fun)
- Footage of 'One Vision' from the 'We Will Rock You' musical
(Fourth advertisement break)
Freddie
- Footage of the 'Crazy Little Thing
Called Love' promo video, and interview with Roger
- Footage of 'Crazy Little Thing
Called Love' from Saturday Night Live, and Wembley 1986, and interviews with
various people.
- Footage from the 'Living On My
Own' promo video, interviews with Bruce Dickinson, Peter
Freestone, Roger, Mel Smith, Wayne Sleep, and Wayne
Ealing, backstage footage from 1977, and footage of
Freddie with the Royal Ballet
- Footage of the 'I Was Born To Love
You' and 'Barcelona' promo videos
- Interview with Peter Freestone,
and footage of the 'Headlong' promo video
- Footage of the 'These Are The Days
Of Our Lives' promo video and interviews with Roger,
Anita Dobson and Freddie
Bohemian Rhapsody
- Footage from 'Wayne's World' and
interviews with Status Quo and Bruce Dickinson
- Footage of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
from various concerts (including Earl's Court 1977, 1986 and Hammersmith 1975), footage from the promo video, and
interviews with Brian, Roger, Mel Smith and Ben Elton
- Further footage from 'Wayne's
World', live at Wembley 1986, and interviews with Brian
and Roger
- End Credits (end of 'Bohemian
Rhapsody' from 1986)