The photo was taken during the Jazz Tour of the USA in 1978. The Jazz Tour was Queen’s sixth headlining concert tour, supporting their album “Jazz.” The tour kicked off in Dallas, Texas, on October 28, 1978 and continued across various cities in the USA. Notable venues include Madison Square Garden in New York City and The Forum in Inglewood, California.
The band created quite a spectacle during this tour. For instance, their Halloween concert in New Orleans featured snake charmers, strippers, crossdressers, and even a naked fat lady who smoked cigarettes in her crotch! The average setlist for their performance in Oakland on December 16, included hits like “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody to Love,” “Killer Queen,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and more.
Queen's Jazz Tour remains a legendary chapter in their concert history, showcasing their musical prowess and theatrical flair.
[Sources: Wikipedia and Concert Archives.org]
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“An almost unheard-of percentage of the owners of the Marmon 8 are women. The reasons are quite obvious. Here is a car that comes out of the garage without one’s twisting and pulling at the wheel. It is a car that makes traffic driving actually pleasant because of its brilliancy of acceleration and its effortless handling. It parks easily and in the smaller spaces. All in all, it is the ideal women’s car . . .” [From the ad copy]
Founded by Howard Carpenter Marmon, the Marmon Motor Car Company produced luxury automobiles from 1902 to 1933. Marmon cars were known for their sound engineering, durability, and high price, competing with brands like Cadillac, Packard, and Lincoln. The “Little Marmon” series was introduced in 1927, which featured the company’s first straight-eight engine. Sales tripled to over 10,000. The Marmon 8 offered a combination of elegance, comfort, and performance. Its reliability made it suitable for daily use and its engineering excellence earned it the moniker of a “Mechanical Masterpiece” in early advertising. [Sources: Wikipedia, Hemmings, and Hagerty.com]
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"The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified talc contaminated with asbestos as carcinogenic to humans. Studies have shown that asbestos-contaminated talcum powder can cause such cancers as ovarian, lung and mesothelioma. The IARC has not confirmed asbestos-free talc to be carcinogenic to humans.” [Source: Drugwatch.com]
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“Breath -Taking Jungle Adventures in the Weird Depths of the African Devil Bush as Kwa Faces New Foes.” [Prologue]
Perley Poore Sheehan, writing under the pen name Paul Regard, wrote the Kwa of the Jungle series for the pulp magazine “Thrilling Adventures.” Kwa was a Tarzan clone who appeared in six stories for the magazine from 1932 to 1933: “Kwa of the Jungle,” “Kwa and the Ape People,” “Kwa and the Beast Men,” “Kwa, King of Ophir,” “Kwa and the Swamp Demon,” and “Kwa and the Walking Moon.” In 2019, Fiction House Press reprinted the stories in the book, “Kwa of the Jungle – the Complete Series.”
Perley Poore Sheehan (1875-1943) was a US screenwriter, journalist and author responsible for much magazine fiction. He was initially best known for a play, “A Play in One Act” (August 1917), in which a German mad scientist transforms a fatally wounded soldier into the first unmistakably modern physically “improved” Cyborg in science fiction, in order better to wage World War One against civilization. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]
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“Breath -Taking Jungle Adventures in the Weird Depths of the African Devil Bush as Kwa Faces New Foes.” [Prologue]
Perley Poore Sheehan, writing under the pen name Paul Regard, wrote the Kwa of the Jungle series for the pulp magazine “Thrilling Adventures.” Kwa was a Tarzan clone who appeared in six stories for the magazine from 1932 to 1933: “Kwa of the Jungle,” “Kwa and the Ape People,” “Kwa and the Beast Men,” “Kwa, King of Ophir,” “Kwa and the Swamp Demon,” and “Kwa and the Walking Moon.” In 2019, Fiction House Press reprinted the stories in the book, “Kwa of the Jungle – the Complete Series.”
Perley Poore Sheehan (1875-1943) was a US screenwriter, journalist and author responsible for much magazine fiction. He was initially best known for a play, “A Play in One Act” (August 1917), in which a German mad scientist transforms a fatally wounded soldier into the first unmistakably modern physically “improved” Cyborg in science fiction, in order better to wage World War One against civilization. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]
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