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Post by Russg on Dec 18, 2017 18:49:34 GMT
Oh man. Just back from Queen and Adam Lambert gig. Unbelievable. One of my Top 5 gigs ever I think. No Freddie = No Queen as far as I am concerned. They are just a tribute band nowadays to what was once an excellent band.
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Dec 18, 2017 21:33:51 GMT
Post by TonyR on Dec 18, 2017 21:33:51 GMT
Oh man. Just back from Queen and Adam Lambert gig. Unbelievable. One of my Top 5 gigs ever I think. No Freddie = No Queen as far as I am concerned. They are just a tribute band nowadays to what was once an excellent band. You're wrong. Plus 'No Freddie, No Queen' was a great Bob Marley song.
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Post by Snow White on Dec 19, 2017 2:56:57 GMT
^^Meh, you're not always funny, Tony. Russ is right.
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Post by Michaels Lover on Apr 29, 2018 4:50:59 GMT
I agree that it's not Queen without Freddie and John. I grew up with Queen's music (thanks mom, you're awesome), and to me, when Freddie died, Queen died. He was also the first celebrity death I mourned. I was just a kid, but I'll never forget it. My mom was so sad, and that made me sad as well Anyway, lets talk about Queen. What's your favorite albums? Favorite era? Favorite performances?
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Jun 20, 2019 8:14:01 GMT
Post by TonyR on Jun 20, 2019 8:14:01 GMT
Freddie Mercury: 'Lost' song Time Waits For No One
A previously unheard Freddie Mercury track has premiered on BBC Radio 2, after a decade-long search for a lost vocal performance.
Time Waits For No One was originally part of the soundtrack to the 1986 West End musical Time.
The version released at the time featured the Queen star accompanied by dozens of layers of backing vocals.
But an early piano rehearsal of the song, featuring a different vocal take, has now been unearthed.
The song was written by Dave Clark, of 1960s pop group the Dave Clark Five - who felt the demo had a quality that was missing from the finished version.
"When we first recorded it, I went to Abbey Road and we ran through with just Freddie and piano. It gave me goosebumps. It was magic," Clark told Radio 2's Zoe Ball.
"Then we got down to recording the track and we [added] 48 tracks of voices, which had never been done in Abbey Road before, then the whole backing.
"It was fabulous - but I still felt there was something about the original rehearsal."
After a decade-long search, Clark found the demo recording in 2017. After isolating Mercury's voice, he brought in original keyboardist Mike Moran to record a new piano track.
The result is a fresh, stripped-back take that turns a spotlight on the raw emotion of Mercury's vocal.
Clark described it as a "magic performance," adding he "tasted every word".
"It gave me the same goosebumps as when I first heard it."
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Jun 20, 2019 8:34:03 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Jun 20, 2019 8:34:03 GMT
The title reminded me of the Jacksons song with the same title (which is another precious hidden gem).
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Post by TonyR on Jun 20, 2019 17:25:26 GMT
The title reminded me of the Jacksons song with the same title (which is another precious hidden gem). Yeah, it confused me at first!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 12:27:55 GMT
The title reminded me of the Jacksons song with the same title (which is another precious hidden gem). Yeah, it confused me at first! And such SUCH an underdiscussed song by us. We disgust me, in fact.
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Post by TonyR on Jun 21, 2019 14:12:32 GMT
Yeah, it confused me at first! And such SUCH an underdiscussed song by us. We disgust me, in fact. I think we all know that 90% of Jackson's material is sub-par.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2019 14:15:21 GMT
And such SUCH an underdiscussed song by us. We disgust me, in fact. I think we all know that 90% of Jackson's material is sub-par. This is bollocks. Destiny and Triumph are both in themselves brilliant albums, and stand up to the solo stuff. Bollocks Queen anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 1:19:39 GMT
Oh man. Just back from Queen and Adam Lambert gig. Unbelievable. One of my Top 5 gigs ever I think. No Freddie = No Queen as far as I am concerned. They are just a tribute band nowadays to what was once an excellent band. They are coming here, this summer (Which is Christmas in this part of the world). So seeing them may be a possibility.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 20:00:59 GMT
Met Freddie in Montreux today. Montreux is amazing...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 13:20:38 GMT
Me messing with the multitrack to Made In Heaven at Mountain Studios in Montreux- Queens studio. MJ worked on BOTF here, so I had goosebumps knowing Queen, Bowie and MJ had all worked in this place! My aunt recorded it, didnt realise she was because I was in such awe of messing with the song here!
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Post by respect77 on Apr 12, 2020 16:35:39 GMT
I always find it amusing in retrospect when music critics get it so absolutely wrong. I just read the Wikipedia page of Queen's 1981 Greatest Hits album. Critics so hated them, my God! This is so funny considering how much of a classic that album is now.
These are British critics but I also remember from a documentary that the USA never quite accepted them either. Trolling Stone gave them negative reviews all the time which bothered Freddie.
I love it when time proves critics wrong.
Actually, my experience is that critics almost never get it right. Why do they even keep them? LOL.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2020 17:07:36 GMT
I always find it amusing in retrospect when music critics get it so absolutely wrong. I just read the Wikipedia page of Queen's 1981 Greatest Hits album. Critics so hated them, my God! This is so funny considering how much of a classic that album is now.
These are British critics but I also remember from a documentary that the USA never quite accepted them either. Trolling Stone gave them negative reviews all the time which bothered Freddie.
I love it when time proves critics wrong.
Actually, my experience is that critics almost never get it right. Why do they even keep them? LOL.
Queen were pretty much the uncoolest band on the planet at any given time in their career I think... And it's marvellous for all the reasons you gave above! I actually used buy the NME every week going back 15 years or so, but that is pretty much a parody of a magazine now. You need to be LGBT or have some sort of serious issue or point to prove to be considered a great act. I don't have any articles at hand, but I can only imagine the very same papers/music reviewers absolutely falling to their knees with the Freddie tributes in 91. Think the US pretty much gave up on them in 84. Ah well. I think Queen's status speaks for itself today!
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