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Mother Love - Autographed Virgin Radio 12"

QUEEN Mother Love - Autographed Virgin Radio 12" (Legendary 1996 UK 1-sided white label 12" test pressing - one of only 12 signed as an exclusive competition prize for winners on Virgin Radio's Queen Day during November 25th, 1996. Housed in a unique custom printed Queen crest logo sleeve. The sleeve is titled and numbered by hand in a dedicated space on the back of the sleeve. The sleeve has been autographed in gold pen by Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon. Roger - known for his humour and his tendancy to sign other people's names has signed his name 'Eartha Kitt'! This is one of the original competition prizes and is accompanied by a letter from the radio station on headed paper, apologising for the delay blaming it on the fact that they were awaiting the band's signatures. Also included is the original custom stickered mailing envelope. See 'more info' for further details on this unique radio competition prize.)

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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1996 - 28 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 12" vinyl single (12 inch record / Maxi-single)
Record Label Parlophone/EMI
Complete Stock List Go to Queen or visit our Queen collectors store
Product Catalogue No VIRGIN4
Music Genre Rock
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

The 25th November 1996, the UK radio station, Virgin Radio held a Queen Day to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the death of Freddie Mercury.

All day the station featured a Queen heavy playlist, however the highlight of the day was the competition that ran from 7am to 7pm. Every hour Virgin radio gave away a specially commissioned 12" to a lucky competition winner.

These 12" were pressed by Parlophone/EMI at Virgin's request. Each 12" was one-sided (leaving one side blank) and featured a track from the 1995 Made In Heaven album, the tracks were as follows

Heaven For Everyone (VIRGIN2)
A Winter's Tale (VIRGIN3)
Mother Love (VIRGIN4)
Let Me Live (VIRGIN5)
You Don't Fool Me (VIRGIN6)
It's A Beautiful Day (VIRGIN7)
IWas Born To Love You (VIRGIN8)

All copies of VIRGIN1 (Heaven For Everyone) were destroyed as they were inadvertantly mispressed with the track on both sides.

It is unconfirmed how many of these sets exist, some sources claim as low as 7 complete sets were pressed, other sources claim 15 sets, however all agree on one thing - these things are RARE. Depending on which source you believe there are between 49 and 105 of these 12" in total, making these more scarce than the blue vinyl Bohemian Rhapsody.

The finished 12" were placed in a unique custom black sleeve with white Queen crest on the front. Each one was hand numbered with a blank space on the back for the title to be written.

The competition started at 7.00am and ended at 7.00pm. The winner each hour chose one of the seven singles and Roger Taylor, Brian May and John Deacon signed them. Seven winners chose Heaven For Eveyone, the other 5 winners chose different songs.

After the competition, all the remaining copies was returned to EMI and officially used for distribution among high ranking Virgin and EMI personnal - these were unsigned.

As previously stated this copy is accompanied by a letter on headed paper from Virgin Radio and the original mailing envelope.

Likely to be the only signed copy of this title in the world!


12" RECORD/MAXI SINGLE  
Recording Artist Queen
Product Title Mother Love - Autographed Virgin Radio 12"
Product Information Queen Mother Love - Autographed Virgin Radio 12" UK 12" vinyl single (12 inch record / Maxi-single) Promo.
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Promo - A promotional copy of this item that was issued before it was available for general sale.
Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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