Timothy Clayton » Painting presented to rock royalty…Queen

Painting presented to rock royalty…Queen

Timothy presents a tribute painting… titled: “The Fat Bottomed Girls Bicycle Race”… to one of his favourite bands…Queen in Vancouver, B.C.

(check out Timothy’s wild blue one-of-a-kind John Fluevog boots)

On April 13, 2006… the last stop for the Queen & Paul Rodgers world tour…Timothy presented Queen’s drummer…Roger Taylor…backstage with an original painting. The ” Fat Bottomed Girls Bicycle Race” is now at Roger’s home in England. The inspiration for this art piece came to Timothy when he was thinking of a sequal to his other crazy painting: “A Crack In The Road”… naturally when Clayton thought of bicycles, his mind jumped to Queen’s Jazz Lp with “Bicycle Race” along with the band’s other monster hit: “Fat Bottomed Girls”… joining the two songs visually just made sense (if you are “Stone Cold Crazy” as it were).

The best part of this experience was the fact that Roger Taylor was so warm and appreciative of the painting.

Roger was very genteel and thankful. His assistant, Justine, was fabulous…very professional… this made the experience all the richer.

Rock Trivia…Did you know that all of those super high falsetto opera voices on Queen hits like “Bohemian Rhapsody” are actually done by Queen’s drummer, Roger Taylor?

Timothy and his wife, Gina Chiarelli, talking with Roger in his dressing room about seeing Queen during the Freddie years three times before… the first time Timothy saw Queen live was in 1977… at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto with Thin Lizzy as the opening act.

The other very cool part of this experience was that we were given such great treatment… front row seats…amazing show…backstage passes…talk about a once-in-a-lifetime experience… It’s A Kind of Magic!

In case you missed the show…here are some pics from the front row! Of special note is how masterfully our WhiteRock native, Paul Rodgers, has done with the new lead vocals for Queen. They did not change any of the original keys to the songs! They also did excellent renditions of Bad Company hits and of course Free’s, “Alright Now”. Guitarist, Brian May, was…as always…brilliant. We especially loved the old photo shots on the big screen of Queen and Free.

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