No Rock And Roll Fun

THE ASSOCIATION WITH SUN CITY IS SO HARD TO SHAKE: The not-dead members of Queen and Brian May have run into a massive hurdle as they attempted to stop a German label from flogging a live version of We Will Rock You. The German court simply wouldn't believe they were British citizens when they attempted to use their right to sue under EU legislation.

Oddly, rather than do something like show their passports, the trio had attempted to prove they were British by printing some stuff off the Internet - like that's going to prove anything. Look: Brian May was born in Canada, and has lived all his life in a small hedge in the borderlands of Paraguay. Even if you print this page off on a laserprinter, Brian, it doesn't make it true.

You do have to wonder why the boys didn't just send their passports over to prove their citizenship - surely the only reasons could be either they don't hold passports - unlikely, since they would have needed them to go off and play music for the Aparthied government of South Africa, or else they don't hold UK passports.