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Today - December 13th, 1974 - Queen Story!
Barcelona, Spain, Palacio de los Deportes de Barcelona
'Sheer Heart Attack Tour'
- Last show of the European Tour
🔸December 13th, 1974, Barcelona, Spain - Queen chatting with ‘Rock'n'Roll Popular 1’ Spanish magazine redactor Bertha M. Yebra, who also is combing Freddie’s hair in the first picture, for a photoshot session with Martín Frías (known as Martin J. Louis)
Bertha M. Yebra (editora de la revista musical 'Popular1', amiga)
“El vaig conèixer cap a l’any 1974 perquè a la revista vam dedicar a Queen una de les fotonovel·les que fèiem. Crec que va ser el primer cop que visitaven Espanya. Amb Mercury va sorgir de seguida una connexió especial, ens vam caure molt bé. Teníem aficions comunes, li agradava que el pentinés, que li pintés les ungles i que intercanviéssim braçalets i joies. Era un home fantàstic, amb una gran sensibilitat, i un talent descomunal per a la música, capaç de compondre temes tan extraordinaris com 'Bohemian rhapsody'. Des de llavors vam ser sempre amics i quan ens retrobàvem era molt afectuós i atent amb mi, com si fóssim amics de tota la vida i ens acabéssim de veure el dia abans. Vam coincidir sis o set vegades més, l’última dos anys abans de morir, quan va celebrar el seu aniversari a l’hotel Tony Pikes d’Eivissa i em va convidar. La malaltia encara no se li havia desenvolupat gaire i estava radiant, contentíssim de trobar-se amb els amics”.
(➡️ source: https://www.ara.cat/…/Freddie-Mercury-perfil_0_1604839652.h…)
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freddie-mercury-rising · 11 months
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Queen a Day
Day 28: Stone Cold Crazy from Sheer Heart Attack
This song has been called “thrash metal before the term was invented” (by Q magazine). If you have friends who don’t know many Queen songs, and you let them listen to this one, they’ll be floored! It’s fast-paced, almost frenetic, and hard core. I happen to love it. 
For your information, I listen to the Live at the Rainbow 1974 version of this song most of all, because who in their right mind can resist Freddie wailing and spitting lyrics in that tight-black outfit, flicking his glorious hair around and bending and twisting all over the stage? But for this review, I’ll be talking about the studio album version. 
The album version of this song starts heavy. It's guitar moaning and wailing, and scratching. It's frantic drumbeats.
Then, Freddie comes on, with this sort of hard, gritty voice that really does not sound like his usual tone. He's fast. It's almost like he's rapping those lyrics.
"Crazy...stone cold crazy you know!"
BRIAN must be going absolutely ape-shit on the guitar on this. Really, I wonder what he was thinking. Besides just loving doing something so completely different than their usual prog-rock.
Freddie's voice is so unique and let me tell you, I wish I was a fly on the wall during this recording while he tried to sing all those lyrics, at such breakneck speed. SEXY as hell, seriously.
Imagine, the same man sang "Good Old Fashioned Loverboy" and "Killer Queen" also sang this piece of metal.
Get you a guy who can do both.
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mermaidinthecity · 2 years
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Killer Queen by Queen
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gauthierwill · 3 months
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ffart2022uwu · 7 months
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-Queen albums as dresses-
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homelesslesbian · 27 days
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Queen, Sheer Heart Attack
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I'm back to posting(school is killing me)
The first Queen album to hit the charts was Killer Queen from the Album Sheer Heart Attack from '75 also happens to by my favorite Queen album.
It still had a harder sound from the albums before, but a new classic rock feeling.
The best songs from the album have to be Brighton rock(written by Brian May) and Flick of the wrist(written By Freddie Mercury), i'd like to add that Flick of the wrist sounds amazing live.
Overral if you haven't listened to it highly recommend
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realboutfatalfury · 2 years
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SHEER HEART ATTACK
here's a version without the text and effects
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whitequeen-ofrohan · 1 year
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Happy birthday Sheer Heart Attack ❤️
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48 years old and it still looks (and sounds) as fresh as a brand new album 🤍
My favourite one (with Queen II, of course).
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retromusicart · 7 months
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She's a killer...queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
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Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (EMI UK/Elektra US, 1974) - Art direction and photography by Mick Rock, concept by Queen
There's actually an outtake of this photo lingering around.
Image courtesy of Discogs.
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solradguy · 1 year
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no wonder you kin sol "modeled after freddy mercury" badguy. you listen to Queen even more than him! 🤣
Listen...... they're a good band, ok......
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spoipage · 1 year
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bought a Queen II record today and man. the songs on the black side all blend together so well. despite my player's shitty speakers it sounds much better this way. maybe they blend together digitally, too, but its never something i noticed until now. hearing them seamlessly change from one to another makes me appreciate the album itself a bit more, though its not like i needed that to like the album. Queen II is probably one of my favorites regardless
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Today, on 10th February, 1978 - Queen Story!
'Spread Your Wings' / 'Sheer Heart Attack' released in the UK
- Side A: 'Spread Your Wings' written by John Deacon
- Side B: 'Sheer Heart Attack' written by Roger Taylor
(from on their sixth studio album 'News of the World',1977)
"We came up with the title for the 'Sheer Heart Attack' album, and it was a song that I had an idea for, but I hadn't actually finished the song, yet. By the time I had finished the song, we were two albums later, so it just struggled out on the 'News Of The World' album. It's quite interesting, because we were making an album next-door to a punk band, the Sex Pistols, and it really fit into that punk explosion that was happening at the time, which was happening right then. It was actually better that it happened that it came out on the News Of The World album."
- Roger Taylor interview - Rockline, 04/02/1991
📸 Pic from Promo Video 'Spread Your Wings' February 1978
👉 February 1978 - The promo video for this song was recorded in the grounds of Roger's newly bought Surrey home, which was still housing it's previous owners at the time
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Day 25: Lily of the Valley from Sheer Heart Attack
This song concludes the 3 part medley that began with Tenement Funster. As I said, the transition from Flick of the Wrist is epic and beautiful.
Then, Freddie’s piano takes over in the most lovely way. 
“I am forever searching high and low” – okay, if anyone ever doubts Freddie Mercury’s voice, they are dead to me. Because this man’s voice! No words.
“But why does everybody tell me no”  – hot damn those notes he hits! His voice has such a range and this song shows it off. 
“Neptune of the seas…an answer for me please / The lily of the valley doesn’t grow.” These lyrics feel very autobiographical in a kind of a sad way. I also love how Freddie is doing his own vocal backing/harmonizing. I love nothing more than Freddie Mercury with a side of Freddie Mercury.
“But each time I grow old…”–This is where the song breaks through and gains this powerful momentum. You can feel the emotion in every single bit of this line. It starts soft and lilting and then it cranks through these different notes and (non-musician here trying to explain musical terms) just sounds effortless, even though that seems like a pretty bad-ass thing to do with one’s voice.
“Serpent of the Nile, relieve me for a while.” I sense his desperation in this, and it makes me want to weep. 
Brian May says of this song: “Lily of the Valley was utterly heartfelt. It's about looking at his girlfriend and realising that his body needed to be somewhere else. It's a great piece of art, but it's the last song that would ever be a hit.” 
In this line about asking the serpent to cast him from his spell, I feel Freddie’s inner turmoil about his sexuality. To me, he is alluding to the so-called sin of lust and desire, a spell he claims he is under that he wishes to shake off. While a lily is a symbol of purity and goodness, the spell Freddie says he is under (his desire for men) feels separate from that. It makes me want to give Freddie a huge hug! . “Messenger from Seven Seas has flown/ To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne” - Here we have a throwback to the mythical land of Rhye again. Very interesting symbology there too, if you ask me. What I love about Freddie is that he can be so poignant with so much of this, but then he’d probably just wave it off and say “Oh, darling, it was about fairies and ogres!” 
“Wars will never cease, is there time enough for peace? / But the lily of the valley doesn't know”  - The end of this seems so full of calm regret. 
Brian’s guitar sounds almost like a violin at times in this. It’s beautiful. In lieu of a guitar solo, he does this kind of prophetic send off. 
Overall, what a gorgeous song that speaks of love and loss and regret and melancholy. It’s one of my favorites.
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kentoangel · 1 year
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do you guys listen to queen
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happey brofjaay jazz
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naemth · 2 years
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The transition between flick of the wrist and lily of the valley <3
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