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Good .Made some classic tunes. Had a sound and vibe and made good pop music that still gets played today. 40 years later.. Lets see if todays music will be around that long. Id take Queen, U2, Tears for Fears, Aha etc etc over any of the shite thats in the charts now.
Good .Made some classic tunes. Had a sound and vibe and made good pop music that still gets played today. 40 years later.. Lets see if todays music will be around that long. Id take Queen, U2, Tears for Fears, Aha etc etc over any of the shite thats in the charts now.
Good .Made some classic tunes. Had a sound and vibe and made good pop music that still gets played today. 40 years later.. Lets see if todays music will be around that long. Id take Queen, U2, Tears for Fears, Aha etc etc over any of the shite thats in the charts now.
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...
Like many famous bands, some good tunes interspersed with dross. Too much of it overblown.
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Apart from the just about tolerable Under Pressure and Another One Bites The Dust, the only thing I like about Queen is that almost no one in the 70s and 80s seemed to notice that Freddie Mercury was absolutely screaming and Indian to boot.
Apart from the just about tolerable Under Pressure and Another One Bites The Dust, the only thing I like about Queen is that almost no one in the 70s and 80s seemed to notice that Freddie Mercury was absolutely screaming and Indian to boot.
To be fair, the race and gender industry didn't get its act together until the end of the 1980's.
I stewarded the Wembley concert. It was a spectacle in that 70K of people clapping along to a song can be - ultimately though it felt a little like a pop video and actually felt pretty dull and sterile as a neutral. I was a bit disappointed to be honest.
The band that really caught the ear where an up and coming Australian band called INXS. They weren't well known in the UK at that point and hadn't released Kick. Remember going out and starting to pick up their back catalogue after the concert as they were doing something very different and clearly going to be very big.
I worked in a record shop for a short while and I was always sticking on soul and reggae records on the shop system, many from my own collection, imports not even released in the UK, used to drive him mad as he would be asked for the disc and of course no stock in the shop or he could order from the suppliers.
Bohemian Rhapsody was released while I was there, the owner of the shop insisted we play it non stop for days on end to attract more customers and sell more of the record, to my chagrin it bloody worked and I have despised them ever since. !
When I first heard that Rhapsody thing as a young un of around 14/15 years of age I do recall and remember thinking, I’m going to keep hearing this drivel the rest of my life.
When I first heard that Rhapsody thing as a young un of around 14/15 years of age I do recall and remember thinking, I’m going to keep hearing this drivel the rest of my life.
A visionary I know.
Just watched Fleetwood Mac live from Boston 2004, BRILLIANT!! First gig for me, ELO Wembley 78, biggest Led Zepplin at Knebworth 79.
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