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Growing up in late 80s it was the done thing to sneer at Queen but the Live Magic tape got me properly into music at 13, thought it was the greatest thing ever.
First five albums were absolutely great. Queen 2 is one of my favourite albums.
Same here.
Queen Live at the Rainbow '74 is pretty damn good for a live album. I'm not really a fan of live albums as they are not loud enough even after running them through dbpoweramp.
Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent
my trashy neighbour, every 'kin party she has (Most weekends in summer), always screaming at kids, anyway, her party piece is to go in the garden and sing bohemian rhapsody really 'kin loudly. It's really, really, really funny when she does it, even given that i've heard it 46 times already. She recently brought a hot tub.
my trashy neighbour, every 'kin party she has (Most weekends in summer), always screaming at kids, anyway, her party piece is to go in the garden and sing bohemian rhapsody really 'kin loudly. It's really, really, really funny when she does it, even given that i've heard it 46 times already. She recently brought a hot tub.
I have tried to be open-minded about Queen, but the best I can say about them is that I only actively dislike 95% of their stuff that I’ve heard, and the other 5% is sh it but not offensively so. I would genuinely rather eat the head of a scabby horse than go to see ‘We will rock you’ at the theatre. Sorry.
I have tried to be open-minded about Queen, but the best I can say about them is that I only actively dislike 95% of their stuff that I’ve heard, and the other 5% is sh it but not offensively so. I would genuinely rather eat the head of a scabby horse than go to see ‘We will rock you’ at the theatre. Sorry.
A portion of scabby horse head or Bohemian Rhapsody? Somebody get me a knife and fork.
They also had that rare gift of producing songs that were totally different to anything they’d done in the past. When you listen to Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, Youre My Best Friend, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, One Vision, Crazy Little Thing Called Love etc etc they are really different in their sound and structure but still great tunes. Oh and they stole the show at Live Aid...
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The whole Queen stole the show at Live Aid thing is revisionist rubbish. They turned in a decent performance but then so did Elton John, Paul Young, Sting, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Ultravox, U2 etc.
Somehow over the years, and definitely even more so since that Queen film, the mythology around that day has changed so now people believe that it was Queen's performance that somehow saved the day and got the donations rolling in. Poppycock.
The main thing that started the donations coming in faster was the footage set to Drive by The Cars that was broadcast in David Bowie's set. Bob Geldof has said this himself many times, including a very entertaining recent interview for the Rockonteurs podcast. https://www.rockonteurs.com
The whole Queen stole the show at Live Aid thing is revisionist rubbish. They turned in a decent performance but then so did Elton John, Paul Young, Sting, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Ultravox, U2 etc.
Somehow over the years, and definitely even more so since that Queen film, the mythology around that day has changed so now people believe that it was Queen's performance that somehow saved the day and got the donations rolling in. Poppycock.
The main thing that started the donations coming in faster was the footage set to Drive by The Cars that was broadcast in David Bowie's set. Bob Geldof has said this himself many times, including a very entertaining recent interview for the Rockonteurs podcast. https://www.rockonteurs.com
Great point, Peter.
I remember hearing a radio show many years ago about the great imagined events in people's lives. In the music category was that far, far more people 'remember' Queen being brilliant at Live Aid than were watching the telly at the time.
FWIW - I thought they put on a show. I just don't like their music.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
I remember hearing a radio show many years ago about the great imagined events in people's lives. In the music category was that far, far more people 'remember' Queen being brilliant at Live Aid than were watching the telly at the time.
FWIW - I thought they put on a show. I just don't like their music.
Y'know, if the number of people who said they were in The Blind Beggar one particular night was factual, he'd have never been able to extend his arm, let alone get a shot off.
The whole Queen stole the show at Live Aid thing is revisionist rubbish. They turned in a decent performance but then so did Elton John, Paul Young, Sting, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Ultravox, U2 etc.
Somehow over the years, and definitely even more so since that Queen film, the mythology around that day has changed so now people believe that it was Queen's performance that somehow saved the day and got the donations rolling in. Poppycock.
The main thing that started the donations coming in faster was the footage set to Drive by The Cars that was broadcast in David Bowie's set. Bob Geldof has said this himself many times, including a very entertaining recent interview for the Rockonteurs podcast. https://www.rockonteurs.com
my trashy neighbour, every 'kin party she has (Most weekends in summer), always screaming at kids, anyway, her party piece is to go in the garden and sing bohemian rhapsody really 'kin loudly. It's really, really, really funny when she does it, even given that i've heard it 46 times already. She recently brought a hot tub.
nah, there's a general injunction out on me preventing me from fil................... actually, forget that. I mean, I know what it looked like, but it was all completely innocent, army fatigues or not.
The whole Queen stole the show at Live Aid thing is revisionist rubbish. They turned in a decent performance but then so did Elton John, Paul Young, Sting, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Ultravox, U2 etc.
Somehow over the years, and definitely even more so since that Queen film, the mythology around that day has changed so now people believe that it was Queen's performance that somehow saved the day and got the donations rolling in. Poppycock.
The main thing that started the donations coming in faster was the footage set to Drive by The Cars that was broadcast in David Bowie's set. Bob Geldof has said this himself many times, including a very entertaining recent interview for the Rockonteurs podcast. https://www.rockonteurs.com
Agreed, but what you have to remember was that the people you've mentioned were all reckoned to be on the top of their game at the time whereas Queen were thought by most to be has-beens producing over-blown stadium rock suitable for yanks but not us cool Brits.
Then here comes a stadium gig and guess what? a stadium band turned out to be pretty damn good at it, 20-somethings started to remember the songs from their childhood affectionately instead of as just naff, it was one of those expectation things.
Plus whatever you think of them, they were all trained musicians who had been together for years with a honed stage act and a back-catalogue. Bowie is god to me and for me his Live Aid was blistering with a band thrown together from Thomas Dolby's band and session players, TBH I think that was more impressive but maybe not quite as slick (cried out for Earl Slick, for me)
my trashy neighbour, every 'kin party she has (Most weekends in summer), always screaming at kids, anyway, her party piece is to go in the garden and sing bohemian rhapsody really 'kin loudly. It's really, really, really funny when she does it, even given that i've heard it 46 times already. She recently brought a hot tub.
I've been with my wife for twenty eight years. About halfway through this relationship my mother in law said to me "you'd love we will rock you. It's written by Ben Elton and has all the Queen songs in it" I couldn't think of anything to say to her that wouldn't have caused a never to be mended family rift. They're Palace fans
For me, the best moment of Live Aid was Bowies Heroes. Spine tingling
Somewhere on YouTube is a video of his final live performance of that song at the Hurricane festival - for my money it is a better rendition of the song, more intense, less obviously a performance. Shortly after leaving the stage he had his heart attack and that was that for gigging.
I think you have the Queen issue there - Bo Rap is a remarkable work for a rock/pop single of its era, compared to Heroes it has more complex melodies and Mercury's voice has vastly greater range, but in the end it is all twiddly bits, showing off, and fantasy lyrics; Heroes is intense, concentrated wild romance, in its way just as epic/overblown but more meaningful. "We can be heroes, just for one day" is a philosophy for life, "Scaramouche, scaramouch will you do the fandango?" bloody isn't.
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