Unseen Queen

PETER HINCE, Queen’s roadie and photographer during their glory days, talks RC through some of the classic photos in his archive. Interview by Tim Jones.

Peter Hince’s Queen: The Unseen Archive photo exhibition is at the Proud Central Gallery on London’s John Adam Street from 30 July to 13 September. “It’ll be about 50-55 photos, 20 colour and 35 black and white. 90% of them are unpublished and unseen, says Peter. “I’ve had offers for my memoirs , but it’s got to be the right offer. It’d be nice to publish it, but it’s not a kissand- tell or a book of facts and figures. It’s a story of what it’s like to live that life, with all the observations and humour of that parallel world. I’ve read so-called ‘memoirs’, but I wanted to do something different”.

Do you still have much memorabilia? If I still had all of it I could retire. But I sold a lot of my stuff to collectors, when I needed a new fridge and stuff like that! I’ve still got a blue Bohemian Rhapsody No. 195 that Freddie gave me, picture discs, and I’ve got bits and bobs of cassettes, different versions. And I also used to have tapes of the band arguing in the studio and that, but that’s sadly gone.

Brian’s got his own book on the go. Yeah, he’s been trying to do it for a long time, but it has to be right, and then more right, ’cos he’s a …

by Tim Jones
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