Queen Songs Ranked 185–161
This initial selection — from 185 to the dizzy heights of 161 — contains mainly b-sides, plus incidental and dialogue-heavy pieces from the Flash Gordon soundtrack. There are also a number of songs from the Miracle sessions. Two singles (both minor hits) also feature…
Bohemian Rhapsody Film Review
I wrote this blog in the week that the Bohemian Rhapsody film was released. I was not expecting it to be the box-office phenomenon it became and, as is clear from the second paragraph, I certainly did not think it was going to be…
Queen Live Killers: Forty-ish Years On
Essential listening in its day … Live Killers is flawed but brilliant nonetheless … Queen’s catalogue of restored and remastered live recordings currently contains a gaping pizza oven-shaped hole … The quality of the Rainbow ’74 box set, recorded five years earlier than Live…
Teenage Tales of Queen via Ten Objects
Memories, my memoriesHow long can you stayTo haunt my days All Dead, All Dead (Brian May, 1977) These reminiscences are neither comprehensive nor authoritative; still less do they amount to any kind of a history of Queen, ‘personal’ or otherwise. Rather, like the scrapbooks…
‘Queen in 3–D’ Review
The viewer can almost feel the heat generated by the ‘pizza oven’ lighting rig (page 135) or reach out to touch the various drums and cymbals that surround Roger on stage (page 151, for example). Diogenes Queen in 3–D by Brian May Brian May…