r/queen

Many of you probably know that Queen idolized Beatles and that Freddie Mercury considered John Lennon to be his greatest mentor. And also that Queen even dedicated a song to John Lennon (Life is Real).

However, Queen also influenced John Lennon. Especially "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". In 1980, after a 5 year hiatus, John decided to come back to music and mentioned explicitly this song as his inspiration. He declared in an interview that "I started noticing what was happening when Queen did the Elvis-sounding tune... I thought: 'This is my period again."

In one of his final and most famous interviews (conducted by David Sheff for Playboy in September 1980), Lennon addressed Beatles fans who were stuck in the past. He urged them to look at what was happening in the current music scene: "Listen to the Beatles records, but dig Queen or Clash or whatever is going on now." John acknowledged Queen as his continuators, which meant a lot for Queen, as Roger Taylor later declared.

However, Lennon first talked about Queen in 1975. He said that his son, Julian, liked them:

"Julian likes Queen... I've heard of them. I've seen the guy... the one who looks like Hitler playing a piano? No? Julian says, 'Have you seen Queen?' and I say, 'What's Queen?' and then he tells me. His age group is hipper to music."

Also, I think it is funny that John's first description of Freddie was "the guy who looks like Hitler playing a piano". (he was talking about Sparks, my mistake).

Not sure if there are any audiophiles or tech nerds in this subreddit, but I just ordered the 2002 Queen Greatest Hits DVD from eBay for about £3. I heard you can extract the audio from the DVD and get some sort of surround sound from it? Wondering if I can split the audio into stems. Does anyone know how high quality this sounds? Apparently it was remastered back then for 5.1?

Edit: what I’m trying to say is, could I use this to make rough “official” stems of instrumentals / primary/backing vocals?

I have loved Queen since I was 11 years old (1981). I saw them live at Knebworth when I was 16 and they spoilt other acts for me, they could never be beaten. I own every album, single and multiple rare vinyls and box sets, and they will forever be my favourite band.

However, and I am curious if anyone agrees, lyrically they are not as world beating as they are in every other area. I'm not expecting Leonard Cohen levels of lyrical genius from any band, and indeed the Beatles were not great lyrically either, but if there is one area in that I would say Queen are not ahead of the rest it is the lyrics.

ADATR>ANATO. Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody To Love, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Drowse, The Millionaire Waltz. And my two favourites Teo Torriatie and Long Away

There's a difference between being actually great versus being great and overplayed. Half ANATOs songs are good but are overplayed and talked about hugely ( exept The Prophet's song ) and the rest of the songs are bad. That album is largely dominated by four songs Borhap, DOTL, YMBF and LOML. And don't get me wrong ADATR is not perfect but overall it is more consistent. The songs just aren't as famous

My fan remix & remaster of Queens's 1975 breakthrough album "A Night at the Opera", made for my own enjoyment, but sharing in case someone else might enjoy it.

I know this album already sounds pretty great, but since Brian & Roger have decided to officially remix the band's first 2 albums, I wanted to give this one a try myself just for fun. This may be controversial, but I think their self-produced albums like 'A Day at the Races' and 'News of the World' sound better than those made with producer Roy Thomas Baker. I just wanted to see if I could make this one sound a bit closer to that.

As usual, I tried to improve on clarity, instrument separation and punch, without straying too far away and staying respectful to the original version.

Obviously, I don't own the music featured here. If you like the music, support the artists. Buy their records!

HI, I invite you to my podcast about Queen. In Polish with English subtitles. I hope You will be like topics. Thanks for likes, comments and subs.😊