Another Lana Del Rey Demo Surfaces, Listen To 'Queen of Disaster' | Prefix
... such as "Young and Beautiful" for The Great Gatsby soundtrack, but she has a handful of these unreleased songs that keep being unearthed. So either as Lizzie Grant or Lana Del Rey, the artist who we now only seem to see as a beautiful chanteuse in music videos does it again with this track "
Queen of Disaster."And just like any other Lana Del Rey song, this number sounds vintage. Like the lead of a girl group, the soulful song has her crooning about love and bad boys.If you haven't gotten your fix, get some more below: [SPIN]Previous · Next Another Lana Del Rey Demo Surfaces, Listen To '
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[ read more ]New Lana Del Rey track 'Queen Of Disaster' leaks online - listenLana Del Rey Tickets
... A brand new Lana Del Rey track, '
Queen Of Disaster', has leaked online. Click above to hear the upbeat song, which follows Del Rey's contribution to the soundtrack for The Great Gatsby 'Young & Beautiful' and her duet with boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill of Scottish rockers Kassidy on Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's 1967 track and 'Summer Wine'. Del Rey has revealed that her forthcoming second album will be a more "spiritual" affair. The 'Video Games' singer, who now lives in the UK, has been writing songs for the follow-up to her 2012 debut album 'Born To Die' in Santa Monica, and has said she now knows what her new record will sound like - stripped down but still cinematic and dark, apparently. She told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat that her songwriting has "moved on to a more spiritual place lyrically". She said: "It's a little more stripped down but still cinematic and dark. I've been working on it really slowly but I love everything I've done. I've been writing in Santa Monica and I know what the record sounds like. Musically, I've worked with the same three guys. Now I just have to finish it." New Lana Del Rey track '
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[ read more ]Queen's News Of The World 35th Anniversary On In The Studio
... In The Studio host Redbeard this week is celebrating the 35th anniversary of
Queen's News Of The World album with a special edition of his show. He had this to say, "With the release of News Of The World,
Queen had succeeded as four real 'mates' on an international scale, which would continue only to increase for the next decade. "With four writers, the band had a surplus of strong songs, while
Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury possessed such an operatic voice that it's easy to forget that both Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor also sang lead on select songs. "What really impressed me then and now is how appreciative Brian May is of the fans, the countless deejays, and journalists for supporting
Queen's efforts over the years. "Brian would later suffer a broken marriage, separation of his kids, and the passing of both parents, but nothing short of the untimely death of Freddie Mercury in 1991 could silence the original band. And even that wasn't permanent." Check out the special here.
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Queen
(1971-1991)
Freddie Mercury (vocals)
Brian May (guitar)
John Deacon (bass)
Roger Taylor (drums)
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Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar, went to boarding school in India, and came to England with his parents in 1964. His birth name is Farookh Bulsara. Due to racial abuse he had suffered in his early teens, he legally changed his name to Freddy Mercury in 1972.
Mercury died of AIDS the day after announcing he had the disease. He died the morning of November 24, 1991 at age 45.
May is an accomplished scholar. He studied astronomy and physics at Imperial College in London.
All 4 members wrote at least one of their hits. Since they all wrote, it gave them very diverse sound.
Before forming Queen, May and Taylor were in a psychedelic band called Smile.
Brian May's guitar is called the Red Special, and was made with the help of his father, who was an engineer, while Brian was still in high school. The body was made from an old mantelpiece that a family friend had discarded while renovating his house and the whammy bar was made from parts of an old bicycle kick stand. It is the interesting mix of materials that make May's guitar tone impossible to duplicate and why he sounds so original. It has a unique tone, which has become his signature, and it allowed him to create various sound effects found on many of Queen's songs, such as "Get Down, Make Love." (thanks, Jonathon - Clermont, FL)
They first toured the US as the opening band for Mott The Hoople in 1974.
In 1981, they did the soundtrack for the movie Flash Gordon, which was a huge flop.
All of the members are very intelligent. In addition to May's degree in astronomy, they had degrees in biology (Taylor), illustration (Mercury), and electronics (Deacon).
They proudly declared that no synthesizers were used in their music until 1980.
When Mercury moved to England in 1959, he lived less than a football field distance from May, but the two never met until 1970.
There is a statue in honor of Mercury at the University of London. He is the first rock star to be honored in England with a statue.
Mercury's stamp collection was purchased by the British Postal Service for almost $5,000. It is currently on display at the National Postage Museum.
May and Taylor have continued to represent Queen and play together at various events. Taylor chose not to participate, but have them his blessing.
In 2004, in Japan, a very popular TV drama called Pride, featuring SMAP's Kimura Takuya and about an Ice Hockey player, featured a mainly Queen soundtrack. This brought the Queen Greatest Hits album to a record breaking #1. The show and music appealed to people of all ages - just like Wayne's World, this brought Queen to a whole new generation. (thanks, Robert - Kawaguchi, Japan)
In 2005 May and Taylor took Queen on the road again with Paul Rodgers, best known for his work with Bad Company and Free. (thanks, chris - Meriden, CT)
Although Freddie Mercury was the primary vocalist for the band, all the members of the group except Deacon sang lead vocals on different songs. Deacon did, however, provide backing vocals during live shows.
The Official International Queen Fan Club was set up in 1973 after the release of the band's first album. At its peak, membership exceeded 20,000. It is certified by Guiness World Records as the longest running Rock group fan club.
Queen is really famous. They were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2001. In 2003, they also became the first band to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. They were inducted into the UK Music Hall Of Fame in 2004, and have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Widely considered as one of the greatest vocalists in popular music history, Freddie Mercury possessed a very distinctive voice. Although his speaking voice naturally fell in the baritone range, his singing voice was that of a tenor. His recorded vocal range spanned nearly 4 octaves (falsetto included), with his lowest recorded note being the F below the bass clef and his highest recorded note being the D that lies nearly 4 octaves above. In addition to vocal range, Mercury often delivered technically difficult songs in a powerful manner. However, due to vocal nodules (for which he declined surgery), he would often lower the highest notes during many concerts. Mercury claimed that he never had any formal vocal training. (thanks, Jonathon - Clermont, FL, for above 4)
According to the official UK charts company, Queen have sold more albums than The Beatles from 1955-2005 in the UK. Queen's Greatest Hits (5,407,587) has sold a little over half a million more copies than The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (4,811,996), and almost 2 million more than Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (3,781,993). The results are based strictly on sales figures, not fan voting or expert analysis. This begs the question that if, as John Lennon once suggested, The Beatles were "More popular than Jesus," what does that make Queen?
In 1984, Queen performed in South Africa during the Apartheid era, which caused some controversy as most artists were boycotting the country because of the racist policy. Any ill-will was erased by their performance at Live Aid a year later, where their set was one of the highlights.
Freddie Mercury designed their "Queen Crest" logo. He had a degree in Art and Graphic Design from Ealing Art College in England.
Brian May was named Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University in 2007. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 4)
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Brandi Carlile
As a 5-year-old, Brandi was writing lyrics to instrumental versions lullabies. She still puts her heart into her songs, including the one Elton John sings on.
Don Felder
Don breaks down "Hotel California" and other songs he wrote as a member of the Eagles. Now we know where the "warm smell of colitas" came from.
Neal Smith - "I'm Eighteen"
With the band in danger of being dropped from their label, Alice Cooper drummer Neal Smith co-wrote the song that started their trek from horror show curiosity to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Marc Campbell - "88 Lines About 44 Women"
The Nails lead singer Marc Campbell talks about those 44 women he sings about over a stock Casio keyboard track. He's married to one of them now - you might be surprised which.
Their early stuff is amazing, especially their debut album, Queen. Queen is perhaps the most versatile band of all time, they've done rock, metal, hard rock, pop, glam rock, funk, soul, jazz, opera, vaudeville, progressive rock .... Gospel with 'Somebody to love', Metal with ' Stone Cold Crazy', by the way this is the first speed metal song of all time.
' mock-opera" with Bohemian Rhapsody. Arena Rock, a music genre apparently created by Queen themselves, " We Will Rock You" and " Radio Ga Ga"
Funk with 'Another one bites the dust', vaudeville with ' Seaside Rendezvous', prog rock with 'The March of the Black Queen' etc etc etc
Queen are also pioneers on music videos. Their videoclip for " Bohemian Rhapsody" is considered the first real videoclip of all time.
Queen are also the band that made concerts in football stadiums popular.
In 1981, they took on South America. They were the first band to tour South America, booking the biggest stadiums in the world and playing for more than 200 000 people in São Paulo, Brazil, where they had a magnigicent reception, the crowds knew evey word of their songs even though they were no english speakers.
In 1985, Queen conquered Live Aid. Their 17 minute performance is regarded as the best live performance of all time. Queen was the best live act of the day and was seen by more than 70.000 people at Wembley and more than 1500 million on TV.
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, which featured many famous artists and close friends of Freddie and Queen like Elton John, Guns n Roses, Extreme, Metallica, Paul Young etc. This concert was held at the Wembley Stadium and was seen by more than 1000 million people on TV worlwide.
After all this, who is the best? Queen is.
" And there´s nothing you can do about it at all"
The cover of the first queen album was an freddie's draw.
Freddie hated sliced bread, and his favorite color was black.
Every school sport, every professional sport...all in every single counrty (almost) play we will rock you and/or we are the champions.... and sometimes another one bites the dust...a few times even if it is just the beat to we will rock you etc. Just imagine the math. Thousands of games plus a day playing it and everyone of them bought the record at least once. If someone could ever figure the math out it would be very interesting to see. Not just saying this cause they have always been my favorite since I could walk either. just a thought. Not many songs played that much.
Besides, the sales show it all - Bohemian Rhapsody beat Imagine AND Hey Jude for the most popular single released in the UK, it's part of the Guinness Hall of Fame. Too bad if you don't like that, because the majority of everyone else do. So stop coming to the Queen page here to bitch about it, because nobody else really cares.
Oh, and 'obnoxious bad imitation of opera'? Believe that if you want, but the fact that it stayed in the top charts in the UK for 17 weeks and the top charts in the US for 24 weeks and its re-release in 1991 sent it back to #1 yet again says enough. Freddie went on to experiment more with opera with Monsterrat Caballe and performed beautifully with her. If you're one of those people who can't stand it when an artist expands their horizon by trying DIFFERENT things, then you need to leave this page.
Don't get me wrong, I think John Lennon is a beautiful singer, he's one of my favourites - but he did not have the diversity, strength, energy and theatrical element that Freddie had.
And in 1967 when The Beatles were recording Baby You're A Rich Man 2 of the engineers said they had always been fascinted with the sound of John's voice and they always wanted to hear him singing live. And they said they couldn't believe how great his voice sounded and they couldn't believe anyone could sing that well!
And about his performance and singing being over the top, that was the whole point! They were trying to be different, they wanted to stick out. Freddie always said that people didn't go to their concerts to listen to just listen to their music, they came for a show!
I mean, seriously, how could you watch Queen without just loving their melodrama and awesomeness?!
I think this is an excellent result for a "theatrical overblown bombastic rock schlock (?) that could only have happened in the 70's", isn't it? By the way, probably the 70's - til the advent of punk - was the only period in which, if you wanted to have some success, you HAD to be a good musician.
It's not a case that groups like Yes, King Crimson, ELP, whose members are all excellent musicians, reached their worldwide success just in those years. Remember, Beatles is not the only good group on earth.
Keep on listening "exciting" songs like Yellow Submarine instead of "boring" ones like We Are the Champions, if this fills your soul with joy. But please, stop breaking our "holy attributes" with selected citations, incomplete poll results and fake statistics. Thank you.
Paul McCartney also always had a great sounding strong singing voice and a great love song and great rock voice with a great range, Sometimes going from the love song voice to the rock voice in the very same song! The All Music Guide says in their excellent biography of The Beatles that,"So much has been said and written about The Beatles and their story is so mythic in it's sweep that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating cliche's that have already been digested by 10's of millions of rock fans,to state the obvious,they were The Greatest and most influential act of the rock era and introcuced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century. Moreover,they were among the few artists of *any* discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did." Quite a few Bob Dylan fans were saying this very thing about The Beatles on a Bob Dylan fan site Expectingrain.com The All Music Guide also says as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock!
The 1992 Rolling Stone Album Guide gives Queen a poor rating and review and only gave 5 of their albums 3 stars,all of their other albums they gave 2 stars and none 4 stars! They say Queen were theatrical overblown bombastic rock schlock that could only have happened in the 70's. THey also say that people should use caution when buying their albums because even their greatest hits sound dated!
In every major poll that has been done of over 1,000 people ages 18 and older The Beatles Are Voted # 1 Greatest Rock Band of All Time! In the Gallup Poll,The Zogby Poll,The Mister Poll which had The Beatles vs Queen,The Virgin Records Poll,The BBC POll,and The VH1 poll etc. On an extensive music review site called,Digital Dramdoor.com which has some musicians posting on there,The Beatles are # 1 Greatest Rock Band,# 1 Greatest Rock Artists,and John and Paul are tied at # 1 Greatest Rock Song Writers out of over 100! Ringo Starr is # 47 Greatest Rock Drummers but Charlie Watts is # 53!George Harrison is # 54 out of 200 Greatest Rock Guitarists. Paul McCartney is # 8 Greatest Rock Bass Player out over 100 Bill Wynman is # 95! John and Paul are also on the Greatest Rock Singers list,and Paul McCartney is also # 17 out of 50 Greatest Rock Pianists,Greatest Rock Act of the 70's and Greatest Rock Live Acts.
And on Rankopedia The Beatles are # 1 Best Rock Band,Best Innovative Band,Greatest Rock Artists,and John and Paul are tied once again at # 1 Greatest Rock Song Writers! Paul McCartney is # 5 Greatest Rock Bass Player,and George Harrison is # 22 out of 25 Best Rock Guitarists. 100's of people voted including from other countries. There is no sensible criticism to made of The Beatles either!
A guy who runs a Rolling Stones and John Lennon fan site also runs Keno's Classic Rock Web site and he has top 10 lists and then what fans voted for next to them. He and the fans voted John Lennon # 1 Greatest Male Rock Singer,and he voted Paul # 7 and the fans voted Paul # 8. He voted Paul McCartney # 2 Greatest Rock Bass Player and Bill Wynman # 3. And he voted John and Paul # 2 Greatest Rock Song Writers after Bob Dylan at # 1 and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger at # 2. He and the fans also voted John Lennon # 8 Greatest Rock Harmonica players.
This, I think, is excellent. Paul Rodgers is an excellent rocker but not only is he no Freddie Mercury, but Queen's style of music doesn't mesh well with Rodgers. Having May and Rodgers in studio, together, will likely produce music that is better for the two artists (probably heavier than the average Queen song, just speculation).
Now, if they tour again as "Queen + Paul Rodgers" and play their new material, I'll dislike Paul even more.
I hate their replacement vocalist.
And if Rock and Roll isn't the meaning of life, then, I'm living a wasted life along with thousands of others.
Let's face it. The guy liked loving, being loved, and making love. He didn't care with who, and that's how I rationalize it. He didn't care if it was a man or a woman - if he loved him/her and he/she loved him, no problem... maybe not true love, maybe just an intense sexual attraction, its no matter.
There are a few tracks that don't feature the talented work of May, but they're few and far between. Every song has brilliant guitar work - it always stands out, and its never sub-par. It's hard to ignore, and for that, I say May is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, despite his underrated status.
Freddie Mercury is easily one of the most amazing figures of Rock n' Roll and of Pop Culture of the 20th Century.
I always have trouble saying "God Bless his soul" - even if it was tounge in cheek, I'm sure Freddie'd love to be in hell - think of all the interesting people he'd meet - but a man that great...
Think about the awareness his death sparked for AIDS - think about the continued revenue his royaltees and his bandmates pour into AIDS/HIV research.
God Bless his soul.
I forgot about those interviews..but of course now i remember ;)
About Brian May playing with Dropped D tuning in 1976!... Jimmy Page was doing it way before... just listen to Moby Dick which came out in 1969!!!
4. Headlong
3. Tie Your Mother Down
2. Hammer To Fall
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
As Freddie said "Brian writes more songs, but I write more hits"... as in, Brian May might write a lot of songs, but Freddie's usually become hits. In the early days, Brian and Freddie wrote an equal amount. Didn't the album 'Queen' have more Freddie than Brian? And Freddie wrote the most on 'The Miracle' (Songs: Khashoggi's Ship, The Miracle, Rain Must Fall, Was It All Worth It, half or most of My Baby Does Me, some of Party, and a bit of Breakthru. On the 'Innuendo' albums, Freddie wrote most as well. (Songs: Innuendo, I'm Going Slightly Mad, Don't Try So Hard, All God's People, Delilah, The Hitman, lyrics and keyboards to Bijou, and bits of The Show Must Go On)
Cheers,
Dave
But Queen is deffinatly one of the best!!!
" My life was pointless. I did nothing of any use in my life. My friends only existed to take my money. I have acomplished nothing in my life"
I pray that God almighty bestoys his mercy on him. I wish he realized earlier that rock and roll is NOT the meaning to life.
alrightyroo. Freddie had other girl partners by the way, too. Why would a arecord company make up some whole thing so that people would think someone was Bi instead oif gay? is gay.... worse or something? what? anyway. He was bisexual.
That whole nonesense about his female partner was probably a result of some recoed company exec worried about homosexuality.
"All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary (Austin) but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't wnat anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in eachother, thats enough for me. I couldn't fall in love with a man the same way as I have with Mary." -Freddie Mercury
also, "I've had more lovers than Liz Taylor- both male and female- but my affairs never seem to last."
I promise that he was bi. I promise.
John Deacon the Queen bass player, has retired, and hasn't participated in anything Brian May and Roger Taylor have been doing since 1998, but he has been invited to the tour. Its very doubtful he will accept this rare invitation.