Queen are reportedly launching their very own wine.
Queen ‘are launching their very own wine’
The Bohemian Rhapsody rock icons are following within the footsteps of the likes of Kylie Minogue and Take That is Gary Barlow by releasing their very own movie star vino.
An insider advised The Solar newspaper’s Weird column: “Queen are becoming a member of the wine recreation.
“Booze has proved to be a really profitable market and so they’re throwing their hats into the ring.
“It’s all very early days however the plan is to get the trademark authorized after which get shifting on manufacturing.”
Queen members Sir Brian Might and Roger Taylor – who based the band with John Deacon and late frontman Freddie Mercury – are mentioned to be trademarking the group’s legendary brand for a variety of products, together with wine.
It isn’t the primary time the We Will Rock You hitmakers have tried their hand at booze.
Again in 2014, the band launched their very own vodka model in reminiscence of late singer Freddie, who died aged 45 in November 1991.
The Killer Queen vodka – which was 40 p.c ABV – was launched to have fun the fortieth anniversary of their 1974 track of the identical identify.
On the time, guitarist Brian defined: “Freddie liked vodka and used to hold a dry ice cooler stuffed with vodka with him on tour.
“Killer Queen vodka is the right tribute to Freddie and utilizing Killer Queen because the model identify was the right alternative for us. We all know Freddie would have authorized.”
Experiences of the Queen wine comes after Freddie’s alleged secret daughter has claimed he would have been “appalled” by the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which starred Rami Malek.
The lady – whose existence was solely revealed publicly earlier this yr by biographer Lesley-Ann Jones – is quoted by The Solar newspaper as saying: “Freddie would have been appalled by the film. It could have made his hair stand on finish. This movie presents a model of him to this point faraway from the reality.”
The unnamed lady has even claimed that Freddie – who died aged 45 from AIDs issues – would have blocked the film about Queen until he was capable of have some artistic enter.
The lovechild – who claims to be a product of an affair between Freddie and an in depth buddy’s associate in 1976 – has even advised that she solely got here ahead to right “a film that is filled with fabrication”.
The alleged ‘secret daughter’ additionally hit out at “the Queen machine” for exploiting the music legend following his passing.
Freddie’s shut buddy Mary Austin advised earlier final month that it will be “astonishing” if the star had fathered a secret daughter with out her understanding.
She advised The Sunday Instances newspaper: “Freddie had a wonderful openness, and I can’t think about he would have wished to, or been capable of, maintain such a joyful occasion a secret, both from me or different folks closest to him…
“The reality is that I’m merely not the guardian of such a secret. I’ve by no means identified of any little one, or of any diaries. If Freddie had certainly had a baby with out me understanding something about it, that may be astonishing to me.”
