Posted on 10/13/2022 6:08:05 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
It already has 2 million hits on YouTube. I suspect by tomorrow it will have made the band a cool million $ from all the release points.
I was at the same concert. The 80s were wild.
The first time I saw Queen in concert was in spring 1973, we heard this song “Killer Queen” on the radio a few days earlier for the first time, it was really something compared to the domestic raunchy rock out at the time. (Didn’t know they had two albums out before that)
There was a concert announced a couple months later and skipped last hour to get tickets at The Masonic Temple downtown Detroit. (long burned down)
Bet there was barely 300 people there, the place was empty so to speak and had only about 3000 seats. Hardly any lights or anything, they looked like a warm-up band for a college concert.
We held our Bic lighters up after the third set....SUDDENLY Freddie rose from the middle of the stage with a single white light behind him...
Heard Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time, A Night At The Opera hadn’t been released yet so nobody had heard it. It still gives me goosebumps almost 50 years later.
Today’s “music” is pap and pablum, computer generated chords with guys singing faosetto crap (I do not count street poetry cRap as music) or girls just vamping out of tune.
OMG! You referenced Mississippi John Hurt. Of Avalon fame.
One of my faves.
Not typical of Queen as I remember them, but very well done. The lyrics teach something the world appreciates, or idolizes, namely self.
bkmk
One of my favorite memories: I always sang along to the car radio, when I was a kid. One time, Bohemian Rhapsody came on, when my dad was driving. I think I had just sung, “Bismillah,” when my dad asked, “How do you know that song?” My dad loved classical, and he thought I was singing an opera.
I’ve read a lot about Brian May’s “Red Special” guitar that he and his father built from scratch. Apparently that was the main guitar and the guitar he used every song they recorded. There were reissued in the 80’s and Guild even made a version back then. Hard to believe he didn’t have a few other guitars to rotate when playing on tour. How did it stay in tune during a 2 hour set back in the 70s? He wasn’t running in between songs was he? Did he even have a guitar tech off stage in case he broke strings of that was his only guitar?
Apparently the “Red Special” replica didn’t sound the same as Brian’s homemade one and in 1982 he threw it out of frustration and damaged it rendering it unplayable.
A friend of his that worked for Fender guitars offered to try to fix it in his spare time and 20 something years later he returned it to Brian in much the same condition he gave it to him in.
Brian later had the damaged John Birch replica restored, but not to a playable condition but to remain as a historic piece to be displayed.
That is a very cool memory.
Haven’t been to a lot of concerts in my life, but I would have loved to see Queen live.
👍
Queen jumped the shark with that insipid “Don’t Stop Me Now” song, they play ad nauseum in those commercials.
But their first few albums rocked.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.