Queen- A Night at the Opera @50- Brian May, Roger Taylor
In November 1975 Queen sent out invitations for “A Night at the Opera” and the whole rock world RSVP’d. With Brian May and Roger Taylor here In the Studio.
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In November 1975 Queen sent out invitations for “A Night at the Opera” and the whole rock world RSVP’d. With Brian May and Roger Taylor here In the Studio.
The regal rock of Queen came of age on the stage by this time in 1975 as is evidenced by this stunning performance at London’s Odeon Theater with a medley of songs “Black Queen” from Queen II, “Killer Queen” from their first solid album, 1974’s Sheer Heart Attack , and their breakthrough “Bohemian Rhapsody” from Queen’s fourth effort, A Night at the Opera.
For the golden anniversary of Queen’s “A Night at the Opera”, Brian May and Roger Taylor issue your formal invitation to join them In the Studio for truth behind “You’re My Best Friend”, “I’m in Love with My Car”, the progressive rock epic “The Prophet’s Song”, Brian May’s skiffle change of pace ” ’39”, and the indescribable “Bohemian Rhapsody” the week of November 3.
Queensryche co-founder/ composer/guitarist Chris DeGarmo and former singer/ songwriter Geoff Tate may be gone now ( the former pilots corporate jets, the latter heads the band Operation Mindcrime ), but they tell the story of the blockbuster four million-seller “Empire” and the amazing songs “Best I Can”, “Jet City Woman”,”Della Brown”,” Resistance”,”Hand on Heart”, even a live performance from London’s Hammersmith Odeon just weeks after “Empire” ’s 1990 release.
In November 1990 Queensryche planted the flag of smartly conceived and played all-American rock in the heart of the British Empire, London’s venerable Hammersmith Odeon theater. This live performance of “Best I Can” is completely live, no overdubs.
It was “The Game” that crowned Queen #1 worldwide forty-five years ago, precisely because of the balance of hits “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, “Play the Game” with the blistering “Dragon Attack”, “Rock It”, and “Sail Away Sweet Sister”. Brian May and Roger Taylor are suited up to play “The Game” here In the Studio.
Queen always was one of those top-tier bands who could really sing and play their highly arranged material live, and here is ample proof of that fact in a rare live-in-studio performance of “Spread Your Wings” from Autumn 1977, broadcast on BBC Radio from London’s Maida Vale Studio.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” is only the first volume of the five decade Queen saga whose final chapter is being writ large in real time across North America this summer…
In his poignant acceptance speech for the Oscar for Best Actor five years ago, Rami Malek pointed out that he himself was a first-generation immigrant who portrayed a gay immigrant in the role of Queen’s Freddie Mercury. But I think that “Bohemian Rhapsody”‘s greatest accomplishment of all is it once again focused the world on Freddie Mercury’s remarkable life, rather than the circumstances of his death.
By the time the credits roll concluding the four-time Oscar winning Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody”, a casual music fan might assume that the royal rockers’ career must have peaked with that July 1985 Live Aid London benefit concert performance which climaxes the film. In fact, the story portrayed in “Bohemian Rhapsody” is only the first volume of the five decade Queen saga whose final chapter is being writ large in real time even today with Queen + Adam Lambert North American Tour. Brian May & Roger Taylor return In the Studio for part 2 of the band’s Golden Jubilee.
