Queen (Official Thread)

[METALPRIEST]

It's great when you have the actual song to sing along with at a show..Makes everything sound amazing.

 

[METALPRIEST]

40 years ago now for the first album



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[EJD1984]

Graham Bonnet would have been a very interesting addition to the line-up!

I'm afraid that for me, though, Queen died with Freddie and when John Deacon decided to retire. I don't have much respect for May and Taylor for wringing every last drop out of the Queen legacy - the third "Greatest Hits" album was bad enough! As for Half-of-Queen and Paul Rodgers I refused to go and see them because they tried to trade off the Queen name. Had they gone out as Rodgers, May and Taylor then I would probably have been there like a shot. Since then they've gone down even further in my estimation - the Olympics closing ceremony nonsense did nothing to redeem them in my opinion. They should have done something alongside a Freddie video vocal - and why they trotted out "We Will Rock You" again, rather than the more appropriate "We Are The Champions" puzzled me.

I have to agree as well. What May and Taylor should have done was gone back to their original pre-Queen name, Smile, and hired a lead new vocalist. They could have still done a few Queen songs live, and no/little backlash on trying to replace Freddie.

I've read on various sites that there is still a lot of unreleased Queen songs and Freddie vocals. I really hope with the planned Mercury biopic that some will eventually see the light of day.

 

[METALPRIEST]

I'm sure there are LOTS of stuff in the vaults and they could be releasing Made In Heaven II, II, IV

 

[METALPRIEST]

Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson Demos Almost Ready for Release



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Three decades after they were originally recorded, songs that Michael Jackson wrote and demoed with Queen frontman Freddie Mercury are finally close to seeing the light of day.

The duo met up at Jackson’s California mansion in 1983, setting aside a six-hour session that produced three songs: ‘There Must Be More to Life Than This,’ ‘State of Shock’ and ‘Victory.’ All three songs eventually surfaced in other forms, but the Jackson/Mercury demos were never completed. It wasn’t until 2011, after both artists had passed away, that Jackson’s estate cleared the tracks for release. Now, Mercury’s surviving bandmates are in the studio with producer William Orbit, adding what the Daily Mail refers to as “new guitar solos from [Brian] May along with Queen-style vocal harmonies.”

May teased the new sessions in a blog post earlier this year, telling fans that “there are a few items in progress. We will have something for folks to hear in a couple of months’ time, hopefully.” He recently described further work on the songs as “exciting, challenging, emotionally taxing. But cool.”

“They were great songs, but the problem was time — as we were both very busy at that period,” Mercury recalled of the 1983 session. “We never seemed to be in the same country long enough to actually finish anything completely. Michael even called me to ask if I could complete ['State of Shock'], but I couldn’t because I had commitments with Queen. Mick Jagger took over instead. It was a shame, but ultimately a song is a song. As long as the friendship is there, that’s what matters.”

Unfortunately, Mercury and Jackson eventually stopped trying to reschedule. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Mercury subsequently fell out with Jackson because the U.S. star objected to Mercury taking too much cocaine in his living room.”
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[METALPRIEST]

Coming This September on DVD and Blu Ray

 

[gcczep]

Mercurial

 

[METALPRIEST]

35 Years Ago

JAZZ



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[SilkSpectre]

just found this on the web, and i like it:

headline: quality of music production
beyonce vs queen
6 songwriters vs 1
4 producers vs 1

.. and then extracts of the song texts

 

[Hydrazoic Acid]

Funny. 6 songwriters...