They were unique! This song still blows me away! So many genres rolled into one song...that takes you on a musical journey....that you'll never forget! 😍😁
Queen is a British rock band that was formed in 1970 and was comprised of: Freddie Mercury - Lead vocals and pianist Roger Taylor - Drummer and vocals Brian May - Lead guitar and vocals John Deacon - Bass guitar Queen is an unusual rock band. All four members had amazing musical talent and each of the four members was a successful composer. Queen is the only group in which all members of the band have songs inducted into the Music Hall of Fame. Each member of Queen was a strong and unique individual. They each had different musical tastes, which is probably why Queen's music catalog contains various genres. They wrote and recorded songs that are soft rock, hard rock, progressive rock, arena rock, thrash rock, glam rock, rockabilly, r&b, blues, pop, soul, funk, disco, dance music, jazz, gospel, folk, opera, show tunes, ragtime, etc. They would sometimes combine multiple genres in a single song. "Bohemian Rhapsody" released originally in 1975 is the creation of Freddie Mercury but he never told anyone what he was thinking when he wrote the lyrics. Freddie often wrote in metaphors so I would not suggest trying to take these lyrics literally. He wanted listeners to be able to apply to the song whatever meaning it had to them personally. Not what it meant to him. BTW - Freddie did admit that it was composed of three separate songs that he had been working on but could not seem to finish. So he decided to mash them together, adding some transitions and bridges, and created "Bohemian Rhapsody”. "Bohemian Rhapsody" can be broken down into 6 parts: Part I is the "Into". The video image shows the four members of Queen singing and harmonizing the lyrics of the "Intro" in acapella. In reality, it is only Freddie's voice you hear on the recording. Freddie laid down 5 separate tracks of himself singing and harmonizing with himself. (FYI - multi-tracking and overdubbing run rampant in Bohemian Rhapsody.) Next is the "Ballad" portion of the song ('Mama, just killed a man'). Freddie had worked on this song for years but it never had a name. The other members of Queen tentatively titled it "Freddie's Cowboy Song". The lyrist Tim Rice (he wrote the lyrics for "Jesus Christ, Superstar", "Evita", "Alladin", "The Lion King", ...) who was a close friend of Freddie's believes this portion of the song’s lyrics were about Freddie confessing to his fans that he was gay (a radical and scary thing to do in 1975). The third section is the guitar solo. This is the only part of Bohemian Rhapsody not written by Freddie. Freddie told Brian that he wanted a guitar solo in the song and where he wanted it to fit into the song but left it to Brian to create. Brian wanted to have his guitar effectively sing a verse that would inject a different melody. He heard something in his head. He said that he could hear this melody and had no idea where it came from. That melody isn’t anywhere else in the song, but it’s on a familiar chord sequence, so it dovetails in quite nicely. The guitar solo leads to the fourth section the "Operatic" section. Freddie not only loved Rock but he loved Opera. He was always fascinated with the idea of combining rock and opera. It took 3 weeks to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the "Operatic" section was much smaller when they began recording but Freddie kept adding to it. Various lyrics in the "Operatic" section seem to refer to the band: Freddie appears to cast himself as the character, Scaramouche, a stock clown of 16th-century Italian literature who dances around making a fool of himself but speaks the truth. Galileo who was an Italian astrometer, physicist, and engineer definitely refers to Brian (Queen's lead guitarist) who in real life is Dr. Brian May, a scholar with a Ph.D. in Astrophysics. Figaro refers to the Mozart opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" and it is a subtle way to reference Roger Taylor (Queen's drummer) who has a four-octave range vocal span (E2-E6) and was even frequently cited as hitting E5 in live performances while playing the drums. Freddie compared Roger's voice to a dog whistle. The final reference of Magnifico is Queen's bass guitarist, John Deacon, who has a degree in Electrical Engineering. John is the creator of the "Deacy Amp" which when connected to Brian May's homemade guitar (the Red Special) through a treble-booster could produce sounds reminiscent of various orchestral instruments, such as violin, cello, trombone, clarinet, or even vocals. Plus he used his knowledge to keep all of Queen's electronics working. It is hard to realize that it is only Freddie, Brian, and Roger singing in the "Operatic" section (John never sang on the records). This was 1975, well before digital recordings and autotune. Recordings were made using 24-track analog tape. The limits of tape made it necessary for the three vocalists to overdub themselves many times and "bounce" these down to successive sub-mixes. Some sections of Bohemian Rhapsody feature 180 separate overdubs! The fifth section is the "Hard Rock" portion. In this section, Freddie sings angry lyrics addressed to an unspecified "you", accusing them of betrayal and abuse and insisting "can't do this to me, baby", before the final lines conclude with him singing, "just gotta get right outta here”. FYI - the "Operatic" and the "Hard Rock" sections of BoRhap were featured in a scene in the 1992 film Wayne's World, in which the main character and his friends headbang in a car to the rock part. Because of the success of Wayne's World, Bohemian Rhapsody was re-released in the U.S. in 1992 and rose to Number 2 on the Billboard chart. In the sixth and final section, the "Outro" returns back to the "Ballad" to close the circle of the song and ends with the sound of a Chinese gong. Welcome to the world of Queen.
Freddie was writing three different songs and he had an idea, "what if i put all three into one"? And here we have it - a master piece that influenced the music industry.
This is considered the first ever music video made years before MTV.! Recorded on a 24 track tape and repeatedly overlaid the first sectioned looking like the whole band is singing is all the work of Freddie mercury and released in 1975!
This is a studio version but Queen do it in their concert and they are just as good, they are all great musicians, and they are famous for their live performances, they are the same or better than the studio versions, if for technical reasons they couldn't do it the same, they adapted them and they were amassing, if you want to see what they were capable of doing, I recommend that you do the studio version of Somebody to love and then react to the live version in Montreal 1981, it will blow your mind. Queen created more than 200 songs in different genres, surely you know many of them and you don't know that they are Queen, for example We will rock you, We are the champions, under pressure, etc. If you want to know them you can start by reacting to these songs and surely Queen's fans will guide you, we are millions of followers around the world, welcome to the world of Queen
Freddie Mercury, Lead Singer & piano wanted the band's name to be Queen because 'we will be "regal". And that's what happened. John Deacon, Bass, Brian May, Guitar & backing vocals, Roger Taylor, Drums & backing vocals all wrote hit songs . . . all finished higher education. They are legendary entertainers.
That guitar is called the red special. Brian couldn't afford a guitar at the time so he and his dad made this one out of an old table and a fireplace mantle. He still plays it today. He can get sounds out of it that you can't get from a regular guitar. This song was released in 1975. If you would like to know more about Queen you should watch Bohemian Rhapsody the movie. It is here free on youtube. If you did a video on that movie we would watch it too. Freddie Mercury, the lead singer is a legend for his voice and being the best front man ever. Queens live aid concert is still to this day said to be the best concert in history and was watched by billions of people live on tv. I would recommend watching his live aid concert. It is 20 minutes long but don't worry about making a long video all of us Queen fans will watch it and you will see what an amazing band they were. David Bowie had to follow Queen at that concert and he said, "How am I suppose to follow that?' I think you will find that by doing songs from the 70's by bands like Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, and the 100's of other great bands you will find that your subscribers rise faster than other channels that don't do those bands because that is the decade of the boomers and we are the largest group of people. We are retired or getting ready to retire and now have more time to watch young people discover our music. We love watching young people hear songs like this for the first time and seeing the looks on your faces when you find out what real talent is. 70's bands/singers didn't have auto tune and other fixes for their music so they had to be talented or they wouldn't make it with the fierce competition they had then so they were just as good if not better in live performances as they were on an album. Freddie is the best front man ever and when you see the live performances you will understand why he is so loved. He always had the audience eating out of his hand and they would do what ever he wanted them to do. Watch a song he sang called love of my life, his rock in rio concert in 1985. He was there for two days and that concert had over 1.5 million people in those 2 days. He was afraid that since it was not an English speaking country they didn't know what he was saying. Then they surprised him. You need to see it.
I never found the movie for free -. But I think that you should remember that it is a movie - not a documentary - the microphone did not break in that way - they invented Ray Foster - to make a cadeaux to Mike Myers - and the head banging - and they invented a role of a truck driver entering a toilet - looking with interest at Freddie - being gay - that was Adam Lambert who now performs as lead singer with Brian and Roger as 'Queen + Adam Lambert'. He can sing all the songs - not copying Freddie - no-one can do that - but making his own interpretation - and he is a master of performing. The movie got 4 Oscars - Rami Malek who played the role of Freddie got one of them. The other band members in the movie was extraordinary . And most important: Freddie had not AIDS - or it was not diagnosed till late 70'es .The band had many crises but they had just returned from a tour when they were approached about "Live Aid".
If you were only able to have heard it, felt it, and experienced it in the time it was written. For us it means so much more. I remember that moment I heard this song for the first time and it was so appropriate for that moment. I am 65 now and my friends and I will take it back and sing every lyric whenever we get the chance. Always get standing ovations! Miss those days dearly.
I am guessing that you have heard some of their music but just didn't know who did the songs. Another One Bites The Dust, We Are The Champions, We Will Rock You, Under Pressure are Queen anthems or songs. Your friend is right, this is an iconic band and this is an iconic song with about 1.6 billion views just on TH-cam. 50 years later, Queen still has a huge fan base that spans all ager groups. Queen has about 200 songs in their catalog and they are all excellent song, many are timeless. Queen really didn't have a genre, all four members wrote songs and they all had different tastes in music. Freddie Mercury (lead vocalist) chose the name Queen because it was regal, edgy and it got people talking about the band. Freddie had a degree in Design, Fashion and Advertising so he knew how to make an impact. Name, costumes, logo, etc. This is studio because of all the multi-tracking they had to do because they were still using 16 or 24 track tape back then. It is not possible to recreate the sound of a 100 voice choir with 3 singers, live but they have done portions of this song live. Queen is a band that is better live than studio so don't be shy about delving into their live stuff, it is outstanding. @Olgamariaverabarrioa6020 has made some excellent suggestions as a good place to start down the Queen rabbit hole. Guitar is Sir Brian May, my favorite rock guitar player. Thank you for a great reaction.
If you are going to continue on down the Queen rabbit hole, bear in mind that fans will always recommend that you do the live versions where possible - Wembley, Montreal, Rio, Milton Keynes etc, not forgetting Live Aid itself, of course. Freddie owned his audience, there's never been anyone like him. He died in November 1991 in case you didn't know.
Saw them live as a support group in the 70s and then as they started headlining. Caught them when they started playing this live and it completely blew the audience away. Great band and great reaction. thanks!
Genius level songwriting and talent - we were spoiled …. lots of real music live and no auto tune. 70’s-80’s… gems falling out of the sky every week.❤️🎶❤️
This was the Studeo Version that you saw but they did do it live all the time. probably every video and live performance you see of Queen and Freddie Mercury will blow your mind.
Welcome to the world of Queen! One of the greatest, most iconic bands of all time! Definitely check out Somebody To Love live in Montreal from 1981. It is fantastic! I’m a huge Queen fan so I’m here for your reactions ❤
It was obvious your emotions were on a journey, really nice reaction. Please check out White Queen at Odeon Hammersmith, piano & guitar are phenomenal and bass & drums tie it all in to make this performance jaw dropping.
There is on Bass guitare John Deacon, the Engineer, the lead Guitare Sir Dr. Brian May (he studiest Astrophysik), than on the Drumms Roger Taylor (studiet Dentist) and the Leadsinger Freddie Mercury (he studiet Art) and died Nov. 1986 on Pneumonia due to AIDS.
In southwestern Germany we have an annual charts of the greatest hits of all time on which the listeners of a radio station vote. This is one of two songs that always compete for place one. The other one is Stairway to Heaven by LED Zeppelin. Maybe you'd like to react to that one sometime in the furture?
Great reaction but when you listen to music after 1965 or so you really need headphones or earbuds. The innovations in studio work (mostly by The Beatles) started around then. Listen to the same song again and you'll hear what I mean.
This is not live - - it es multitracked - and it is only Freddie Mercury singing - harmonizing with himself - 16 tracks - - In the start - later they all harmonized . This was 1975 - autotune was not invented. This is 4 extremely skilled musicians singing/performing the most listened song - ever. check out how many have listened to it - - more than a billion have bought it.The guitarist is Brian May - who you never must interrupt - .He is among the 10 best guitarists in the world - some say THE best - - playing a guitar he built himself in his teens - with help from his father. He still plays it 90 percent of the time - He turns 76 in July and is still touring around the world with. drummer Roger Taylor and a keyboard player,, a bassist and a percussionist. They have Adam Lambert as the lead singer - so they call themselves Queen+Adam Lambert. Back to the original Queen: The lead singer, Freddie Mercury died in 1991 from AIDS and the bassist John Deaconon stopped playing and retired. The members have all written #1 hits and are all inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame .And that is just the beginning of their accomplishments Among others they have coproduced the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" about the group - especially. Freddie. Yes - you definitely must react to more of Queen - and you must listen to the end of this song as well - and use earphones. We were dressed like that in the 70'es - I was born in 1951 - and the boys all had long hair. You will never get an explanation as to the lyrics - even the band didn't know the lyrics - the listeners must have their own interpretation of Queen's songs.Btw. Queen was amazing live - - better, inventive - never repeated themselves - then the listeners could by the records! I recommend "Somebody to love" from Montreal 1981. - A masterpiece as well. Thank you for you reaction - you have a new subscriber - and if you go. on reacting to Queen you will get hundreds - if not thousands.
4 amazing artists with real talent. No autotune. These guys all wrote songs and played multiple instruments.
One of the greatest rock bands ever, & this song is, officially, the #3 greatest Classic Rock song of all time. Thanks for your reaction.
They were unique! This song still blows me away! So many genres rolled into one song...that takes you on a musical journey....that you'll never forget! 😍😁
Queen is a British rock band that was formed in 1970 and was comprised of:
Freddie Mercury - Lead vocals and pianist
Roger Taylor - Drummer and vocals
Brian May - Lead guitar and vocals
John Deacon - Bass guitar
Queen is an unusual rock band. All four members had amazing musical talent and each of the four members was a successful composer. Queen is the only group in which all members of the band have songs inducted into the Music Hall of Fame.
Each member of Queen was a strong and unique individual. They each had different musical tastes, which is probably why Queen's music catalog contains various genres. They wrote and recorded songs that are soft rock, hard rock, progressive rock, arena rock, thrash rock, glam rock, rockabilly, r&b, blues, pop, soul, funk, disco, dance music, jazz, gospel, folk, opera, show tunes, ragtime, etc. They would sometimes combine multiple genres in a single song.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" released originally in 1975 is the creation of Freddie Mercury but he never told anyone what he was thinking when he wrote the lyrics. Freddie often wrote in metaphors so I would not suggest trying to take these lyrics literally. He wanted listeners to be able to apply to the song whatever meaning it had to them personally. Not what it meant to him.
BTW - Freddie did admit that it was composed of three separate songs that he had been working on but could not seem to finish. So he decided to mash them together, adding some transitions and bridges, and created "Bohemian Rhapsody”.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" can be broken down into 6 parts:
Part I is the "Into". The video image shows the four members of Queen singing and harmonizing the lyrics of the "Intro" in acapella. In reality, it is only Freddie's voice you hear on the recording. Freddie laid down 5 separate tracks of himself singing and harmonizing with himself. (FYI - multi-tracking and overdubbing run rampant in Bohemian Rhapsody.)
Next is the "Ballad" portion of the song ('Mama, just killed a man'). Freddie had worked on this song for years but it never had a name. The other members of Queen tentatively titled it "Freddie's Cowboy Song". The lyrist Tim Rice (he wrote the lyrics for "Jesus Christ, Superstar", "Evita", "Alladin", "The Lion King", ...) who was a close friend of Freddie's believes this portion of the song’s lyrics were about Freddie confessing to his fans that he was gay (a radical and scary thing to do in 1975). The third section is the guitar solo.
This is the only part of Bohemian Rhapsody not written by Freddie. Freddie told Brian that he wanted a guitar solo in the song and where he wanted it to fit into the song but left it to Brian to create. Brian wanted to have his guitar effectively sing a verse that would inject a different melody. He heard something in his head. He said that he could hear this melody and had no idea where it came from. That melody isn’t anywhere else in the song, but it’s on a familiar chord sequence, so it dovetails in quite nicely. The guitar solo leads to the fourth section the "Operatic" section.
Freddie not only loved Rock but he loved Opera. He was always fascinated with the idea of combining rock and opera. It took 3 weeks to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the "Operatic" section was much smaller when they began recording but Freddie kept adding to it.
Various lyrics in the "Operatic" section seem to refer to the band:
Freddie appears to cast himself as the character, Scaramouche, a stock clown of 16th-century Italian literature who dances around making a fool of himself but speaks the truth.
Galileo who was an Italian astrometer, physicist, and engineer definitely refers to Brian (Queen's lead guitarist) who in real life is Dr. Brian May, a scholar with a Ph.D. in Astrophysics.
Figaro refers to the Mozart opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" and it is a subtle way to reference Roger Taylor (Queen's drummer) who has a four-octave range vocal span (E2-E6) and was even frequently cited as hitting E5 in live performances while playing the drums. Freddie compared Roger's voice to a dog whistle.
The final reference of Magnifico is Queen's bass guitarist, John Deacon, who has a degree in Electrical Engineering. John is the creator of the "Deacy Amp" which when connected to Brian May's homemade guitar (the Red Special) through a treble-booster could produce sounds reminiscent of various orchestral instruments, such as violin, cello, trombone, clarinet, or even vocals. Plus he used his knowledge to keep all of Queen's electronics working.
It is hard to realize that it is only Freddie, Brian, and Roger singing in the "Operatic" section (John never sang on the records). This was 1975, well before digital recordings and autotune. Recordings were made using 24-track analog tape. The limits of tape made it necessary for the three vocalists to overdub themselves many times and "bounce" these down to successive sub-mixes. Some sections of Bohemian Rhapsody feature 180 separate overdubs!
The fifth section is the "Hard Rock" portion. In this section, Freddie sings angry lyrics addressed to an unspecified "you", accusing them of betrayal and abuse and insisting "can't do this to me, baby", before the final lines conclude with him singing, "just gotta get right outta here”.
FYI - the "Operatic" and the "Hard Rock" sections of BoRhap were featured in a scene in the 1992 film Wayne's World, in which the main character and his friends headbang in a car to the rock part. Because of the success of Wayne's World, Bohemian Rhapsody was re-released in the U.S. in 1992 and rose to Number 2 on the Billboard chart.
In the sixth and final section, the "Outro" returns back to the "Ballad" to close the circle of the song and ends with the sound of a Chinese gong.
Welcome to the world of Queen.
Freddie was writing three different songs and he had an idea, "what if i put all three into one"? And here we have it - a master piece that influenced the music industry.
Thanks, definitely a masterpiece
This is considered the first ever music video made years before MTV.!
Recorded on a 24 track tape and repeatedly overlaid the first sectioned looking like the whole band is singing is all the work of Freddie mercury and released in 1975!
It is far from the first music video, but it is easily one of the most polished, produced, and essentially perfect examples.
It is Queen because when Freddie named the band he said it was outrageous. FREDDIE a unique man.
Not to mention a degree in Graphic Arts, A Brilliant singer and the best frontman to ever grace the stage! Did I mention that he's a legend!
@@deborahallen3318 right on every level a true legend
This is a studio version but Queen do it in their concert and they are just as good, they are all great musicians, and they are famous for their live performances, they are the same or better than the studio versions, if for technical reasons they couldn't do it the same, they adapted them and they were amassing, if you want to see what they were capable of doing, I recommend that you do the studio version of Somebody to love and then react to the live version in Montreal 1981, it will blow your mind. Queen created more than 200 songs in different genres, surely you know many of them and you don't know that they are Queen, for example We will rock you, We are the champions, under pressure, etc. If you want to know them you can start by reacting to these songs and surely Queen's fans will guide you, we are millions of followers around the world, welcome to the world of Queen
Wowwwwww, i know those songs 🤯
If you want to see how they are love you NEED to see Somebody To Love in Montreal.. there is no way to be prepared for what you’re going to see..
Freddie Mercury, Lead Singer & piano wanted the band's name to be Queen because 'we will be "regal". And that's what happened. John Deacon, Bass, Brian May, Guitar & backing vocals, Roger Taylor, Drums & backing vocals all wrote hit songs . . . all finished higher education. They are legendary entertainers.
That guitar is called the red special. Brian couldn't afford a guitar at the time so he and his dad made this one out of an old table and a fireplace mantle. He still plays it today. He can get sounds out of it that you can't get from a regular guitar. This song was released in 1975. If you would like to know more about Queen you should watch Bohemian Rhapsody the movie. It is here free on youtube. If you did a video on that movie we would watch it too. Freddie Mercury, the lead singer is a legend for his voice and being the best front man ever. Queens live aid concert is still to this day said to be the best concert in history and was watched by billions of people live on tv. I would recommend watching his live aid concert. It is 20 minutes long but don't worry about making a long video all of us Queen fans will watch it and you will see what an amazing band they were. David Bowie had to follow Queen at that concert and he said, "How am I suppose to follow that?' I think you will find that by doing songs from the 70's by bands like Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, and the 100's of other great bands you will find that your subscribers rise faster than other channels that don't do those bands because that is the decade of the boomers and we are the largest group of people. We are retired or getting ready to retire and now have more time to watch young people discover our music. We love watching young people hear songs like this for the first time and seeing the looks on your faces when you find out what real talent is. 70's bands/singers didn't have auto tune and other fixes for their music so they had to be talented or they wouldn't make it with the fierce competition they had then so they were just as good if not better in live performances as they were on an album. Freddie is the best front man ever and when you see the live performances you will understand why he is so loved. He always had the audience eating out of his hand and they would do what ever he wanted them to do. Watch a song he sang called love of my life, his rock in rio concert in 1985. He was there for two days and that concert had over 1.5 million people in those 2 days. He was afraid that since it was not an English speaking country they didn't know what he was saying. Then they surprised him. You need to see it.
I never found the movie for free -. But I think that you should remember that it is a movie - not a documentary - the microphone did not break in that way - they invented Ray Foster - to make a cadeaux to Mike Myers - and the head banging - and they invented a role of a truck driver entering a toilet - looking with interest at Freddie - being gay - that was Adam Lambert who now performs as lead singer with Brian and Roger as 'Queen + Adam Lambert'. He can sing all the songs - not copying Freddie - no-one can do that - but making his own interpretation - and he is a master of performing. The movie got 4 Oscars - Rami Malek who played the role of Freddie got one of them. The other band members in the movie was extraordinary . And most important: Freddie had not AIDS - or it was not diagnosed till late 70'es .The band had many crises but they had just returned from a tour when they were approached about "Live Aid".
Queen live 1981 Montreal “Somebody To Love”, and 1985 Live Aid performan.
If you were only able to have heard it, felt it, and experienced it in the time it was written. For us it means so much more. I remember that moment I heard this song for the first time and it was so appropriate for that moment. I am 65 now and my friends and I will take it back and sing every lyric whenever we get the chance. Always get standing ovations! Miss those days dearly.
I am guessing that you have heard some of their music but just didn't know who did the songs. Another One Bites The Dust, We Are The Champions, We Will Rock You, Under Pressure are Queen anthems or songs. Your friend is right, this is an iconic band and this is an iconic song with about 1.6 billion views just on TH-cam. 50 years later, Queen still has a huge fan base that spans all ager groups. Queen has about 200 songs in their catalog and they are all excellent song, many are timeless. Queen really didn't have a genre, all four members wrote songs and they all had different tastes in music. Freddie Mercury (lead vocalist) chose the name Queen because it was regal, edgy and it got people talking about the band. Freddie had a degree in Design, Fashion and Advertising so he knew how to make an impact. Name, costumes, logo, etc. This is studio because of all the multi-tracking they had to do because they were still using 16 or 24 track tape back then. It is not possible to recreate the sound of a 100 voice choir with 3 singers, live but they have done portions of this song live. Queen is a band that is better live than studio so don't be shy about delving into their live stuff, it is outstanding. @Olgamariaverabarrioa6020 has made some excellent suggestions as a good place to start down the Queen rabbit hole. Guitar is Sir Brian May, my favorite rock guitar player. Thank you for a great reaction.
Brian is my favorite rock guitar player also.
Great comment Sherry 👑
headphones would really change it up for you, and it's never good to pause during a guitar solo. Thanks for the reaction-love Queen.
If you are going to continue on down the Queen rabbit hole, bear in mind that fans will always recommend that you do the live versions where possible - Wembley, Montreal, Rio, Milton Keynes etc, not forgetting Live Aid itself, of course. Freddie owned his audience, there's never been anyone like him. He died in November 1991 in case you didn't know.
Saw them live as a support group in the 70s and then as they started headlining. Caught them when they started playing this live and it completely blew the audience away. Great band and great reaction. thanks!
Freddie is a masterpiece. Their live performances will blow your mind!!! enjoy the ride!!!👍👍👌👌✌✌😃😃
Genius level songwriting and talent - we were spoiled …. lots of real music live and no auto tune. 70’s-80’s… gems falling out of the sky every week.❤️🎶❤️
This was the Studeo Version that you saw but they did do it live all the time. probably every video and live performance you see of Queen and Freddie Mercury will blow your mind.
Love your reaction. This one hits deep everytime.
Best rabbit hole you'll ever go down, can't beat them live ❤❤❤❤
Welcome to the world of Queen! One of the greatest, most iconic bands of all time! Definitely check out Somebody To Love live in Montreal from 1981. It is fantastic! I’m a huge Queen fan so I’m here for your reactions ❤
Rip Freddie Mercury. The song is mostly about him facing the death penalty but is also a metaphor for other things.
That can’t be true, Queen, you’ve never heard of them? I bet you’ve heard their songs just didn’t know it was them.
It was obvious your emotions were on a journey, really nice reaction. Please check out White Queen at Odeon Hammersmith, piano & guitar are phenomenal and bass & drums tie it all in to make this performance jaw dropping.
Subbed for more Queen. They are the best.
There is on Bass guitare John Deacon, the Engineer, the lead Guitare Sir Dr. Brian May (he studiest Astrophysik), than on the Drumms Roger Taylor (studiet Dentist) and the Leadsinger Freddie Mercury (he studiet Art) and died Nov. 1986 on Pneumonia due to AIDS.
Freddie died November 1991.
On Guitar is Dr. Brian May. He has a doctorate in Astrophysics to fall back on just in case the rock and roll thing doesn't work out.
NOBODY compares to Freddie and Queen.
HEADPHONES … with QUEEN ✌🏼♥️
Freddie Mercury the lead singer named the Queen because it was majestic, royal and outrageous 😊
I'd suggest your next Queen tune, need somebody to love live
In southwestern Germany we have an annual charts of the greatest hits of all time on which the listeners of a radio station vote. This is one of two songs that always compete for place one. The other one is Stairway to Heaven by LED Zeppelin. Maybe you'd like to react to that one sometime in the furture?
Who wants to live forever? I don't. Life is hard enough as it is. Carry on.
4:39 on the guitar is Doctor Sir Brian May, Astrophysicist and Rock God.
Look up the movie Bohemian Rhapsody its a movie how they started the climb to stardom and how Freddie Mercury passed away from aids
Epic band.suprise.
There are two things you should never do:
1 Piss into the wind
2 Pause during a Brian May's solo
Was a fan from the age of ten.
This is unique ? …… Honey you ain’t heard nuthin’ yet 😂😂 It’s QUEEN !! The GOAT ( just wait )👑💛💫✨💥💛
The live part is live.
HEADPHONES!!
Watch live Aid 1985 @ Wembley stadium..
Great reaction but when you listen to music after 1965 or so you really need headphones or earbuds. The innovations in studio work (mostly by The Beatles) started around then. Listen to the same song again and you'll hear what I mean.
Watch queens live aid concert it’s the best
The constant stopping spoilt it. Just review at the end. 😊
Do more Queen
It was 1975... they were WAY AHEAD OF THIEIR TIME!
THE LEDENGLY FREDDIE MERCURY WROTE THIS SONG...
PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH...
This is not live - - it es multitracked - and it is only Freddie Mercury singing - harmonizing with himself - 16 tracks - - In the start - later they all harmonized . This was 1975 - autotune was not invented. This is 4 extremely skilled musicians singing/performing the most listened song - ever. check out how many have listened to it - - more than a billion have bought it.The guitarist is Brian May - who you never must interrupt - .He is among the 10 best guitarists in the world - some say THE best - - playing a guitar he built himself in his teens - with help from his father. He still plays it 90 percent of the time - He turns 76 in July and is still touring around the world with. drummer Roger Taylor and a keyboard player,, a bassist and a percussionist. They have Adam Lambert as the lead singer - so they call themselves Queen+Adam Lambert. Back to the original Queen: The lead singer, Freddie Mercury died in 1991 from AIDS and the bassist John Deaconon stopped playing and retired. The members have all written #1 hits and are all inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame .And that is just the beginning of their accomplishments Among others they have coproduced the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" about the group - especially. Freddie. Yes - you definitely must react to more of Queen - and you must listen to the end of this song as well - and use earphones. We were dressed like that in the 70'es - I was born in 1951 - and the boys all had long hair. You will never get an explanation as to the lyrics - even the band didn't know the lyrics - the listeners must have their own interpretation of Queen's songs.Btw. Queen was amazing live - - better, inventive - never repeated themselves - then the listeners could by the records! I recommend "Somebody to love" from Montreal 1981. - A masterpiece as well. Thank you for you reaction - you have a new subscriber - and if you go. on reacting to Queen you will get hundreds - if not thousands.
It’s an analogy. Don’t take the killing for realism
NEED Headphones..❤
Pausing the guitar solo? People get shot for that in some countries!! ;)
It is Queen, because Freddie thought it sounded Majestic. Please don't try to place your own cultural inferences on what was early 1970s London.
Also its a BAND not Freddie and 3 backing guys. They all had number one hits in the band.
Only asking questions, why so defensive towards someone who is new to queen?
Relax David. The young man is just trying to learn about one of the best bands of all time
1975
you stop the video way too many times
This is a gay man’s coming out song. Fyi
Great reaction