Freddie is, arguably, the greatest "Front Man" in the history of rock and roll (IMO he is the GOAT). Queens catalog of hits is extensive and most people have heard several Queen songs even if they do not realize it. Queen is certainly one of the most cultural impactful rock bands of all time, right up there with the Beatles, Elvis and the Stones
Love Freddie and the entire band. But not seeing any love for Brian May, in the top 5 greatest guitarists of all time, pioneer of guitar equipment and technology and literally a rocket scientist.
If you’re not familiar with queen, you’re just unaware that you’re familiar with queen. “Somebody to love”, “we will rock you/we are the champions”, “bohemian rhapsody” and “under pressure” are all songs that 99% of people would still recognize without knowing it was queen that did them.
“Another One Bites the Dust” took the world by storm. The song became a hit in 17 countries, but nowhere larger than in the United States, where it became the biggest-selling Queen record ever, topping both the Pop and Disco charts, as well as reaching #2 on the Soul chart. Composed by bassist John Deacon, the song features an instantly recognizable funk bass riff, and high energy, bordering on manic, vocals by Freddie Mercury.
Don't know if you know that Queen wasn't going to release Another One Bites the Dust as a single. Michael Jackson heard the song and told them they had to release it.
John Deacon, the bass player, wrote this. He was Queens secret weapon for writing hits. It was Michael Jackson who suggested to Queen to release it as a single.
You should react to Queens full 20 minute set from Live Aid 1985. Freddie had a crowd of 72,000 people completely in the palm of his hand. Back in the early 2000s, there was an industry poll- a bunch of journalists and other musicians- that voted Queen's set as the best live action performance in the history of rock music. It beat out Hendrix at Woodstock.
There were so many legendary bands and performers during Live Aid, but Queen was the performance that everyone remembered. Queen and especially Freddie had everyone in the palm of their hands.
If you liked this live performance from queen, you should check out queen live from Montreal 1981 "find me somebody to love ". Maybe the greatest live preformed song ever. Maybe?
YEEES! This is another one that's been "ruined" for me by Weird Al. I can ONLY hear another one rides the bus in my head. I LOVE Queen but Weird Al has his own space, rent free in my mind for ETERNITY
If you're not familiar with Queen, I'd suggest listening to Somebody to Love from this same Montreal concert. "Somebody to love, Queen Rocks Montreal". It's often regarded as one of the best live performances ever.
I know Freddie steals the headlines with Queen - then again he does have one of the best voices of all time. But each member of Queen were among the best at their specific craft. Heck, if it wasn't for Freddie, the drummer would likely be the lead vocalist.
Freddie Mercury is my all time favorite!!! When I adopted my cat a few years ago, I named him Freddie, in memory of Freddie Mercury's love of cats! My cat is just the sweetest boy ever 💕
The Montreal concert was shot on 35mm film, it has been restored and upscaled to HD, like a lot of classic movies of that era before being put on blu-ray. The result looks amazing. It sounds amazing too, as Freddy was young, healthy, and in full control of his voice, unlike on the Live Aid concert. The only downside is the terrible sleepy audience.
It's possible due to it being physical media, had it been digital media then the process would be impossible, they could've upscaled it to 4K 8K 16K or whatever digital resolution people would want.
One reason for the "sleepy audience" was that the director of the film told them to be silent. A thing which pissed Freddie off. And to piss off the director he used different clothes - those extremely short shorts on second night :)
35mm film already has higher resolution than HD. 3 to 12 million "pixels" vs HD at 2 million. Digitizing it to blu-ray degrades the quality but you don't have a film projector so its convenient on a disc.
Freddy was a generational talent. Mans was incredible. The whole group was insane. I’d recommend watching the movie that came out a couple years ago. So good. Rami Malek did such an awesome job playing him
@@meialuakampinas I had a hard time understanding what you meant, but what I am saying is that it just made up some things. I only have a problem with this when it becomes substitute for known fact.
@@reginafromtexas2314 When I was in school in the early 90's this was still THE song that you played to pump people up. I wish I had been old enough to see them in concert. That would have been awesome. I am honesty jealous of you.
The concert was shot on 35mm film ,which doesn't really have a resolution limit persay, the grain in the film is the limitation. This concert was released in 2007 on Bluray after it was scanned in 1080p and restored. The original audio tape was maintained and complete, but parts of the film were damaged while in storage so certain scenes are inserted random shots or slow motion to fill in missing footage.
Technically it was shot over 2 nights and some of the footage is from one night and some from the other. There is a Brian and Roger commentary out there covering this whole concert and they tell the story.
This concert was filmed (35 mm) to release as a movie and was a "one off" concert, not part of an extended tour so Freddie's voice was in wonderful condition! What a blessing we have this film! Oh, and, "Another One Bites the Dust" was Queen's highest ranked song of any of their songs in the US.
I don't think you're incredibly late to the party. You had a different up bringing than this type of music. But this man. Freddie mercury has just as much energy as Michael Jackson on stage. He's a flawless human being. Listen to bohemian rhapsody live. He's beyond what humans are capable of. Also one of the most iconic bass lines of all time too
Freddie had so many talents, not just in his singing, he was going to designer school when he joined the band, he had a great sense of fashion, he could actually sing opera, he was taken way to soon but at least his music lives on
Queen were just incredible....so innovative, doing stuff no one had thought of doing before. Covered a wide range of styles. Freddie was possibly the greatest rock front man ever. The guy could really interact with an audience .....you might like to check out their Live Aid performance....Freddie was on fire there... I don't think they got a single Grammy....goodness knows why.....maybe they were just too unique....
Your thumbnail says “he can’t be human” Freddy had quite an extreme overbite. He was bullied for it growing up, but he refused to have it fixed. There are a lot of acoustic experts and anatomy experts that believe that Freddy had a vocal range so vast _because_ of that overbite. His face literally grew into the perfect shape to sing. What some people would regard as a deformation, created one of the most powerful voices _ever!_
Re: hearing this sample in a hip hop song, you might be thinking of Rappers' Delight (by the Sugar Hill Gang), which sampled the bass line from Good Times (by Chic). I believe Good Times also inspired this song.
Freddie was a once in a century front man. He was just born to do what he did and he embraced it in every way. He died way too early. The best always die way before their time. R.I.P.
From the 80s on, I can't remember a time I went to a roller skating rink where this song wasn't played. Love this song and band. Loved when it was played daily on the radio. Thank you for the reaction!
The backbeat of this song and the backbeat for Stay'in Alive by the BeeGees is the exact beats per minute you are supposed to use when doing compressions for CPR. You can also use Weird Al's Another one Rides the Bus.
Don't be shy with the Queen videos... Bohemian Rhapsody is arguably the best recorded song ever. The "Queen Live Aid - Love of my life" was one of the most beautiful moments in live music. And Freddy was in a class of his own and was a big icon in the idea of being proud to be unique and different which was not as prevalent as it is today... Perhaps thanks to people like him.
This one of the songs made famous by Queen, that has been used in many sports venues as background music, "Another One Bites Dust", "We are the Champions", "We will rock you"
QUEEN THE GREATEST!! Big mega hit for Queen written by bassist John Deacon! Michael Jackson was a fan of Queen but a bigger fan of Freddie! He loved this song so much that he encouraged Queen to release it as a single!! Freddie & MJ did a couple demos together called THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS & STATE OF SHOCK!! 👑 🤴🏻
Queen does have a lot of amazing songs. Let's see there's Somebody to Love, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Who Wants to Live Forever, Stone Cold Crazy, Under Pressure with David Bowie (the version with the Eurythmics singer is also good), and well, of course, Bohemian Rhapsody. Just to name a few
Ohhh, dont forget 39', We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Hammer To Fall, I Want It All, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Breakthru, Cool Cat, Good Old Fashion Lover Boy, Now I'm here, These Are The Days Of Our Lives and of course The Show Must Go On
Love "Queen". Miss Freddie ❤ We were going to play this song at my dad's funeral, cos he would have loved that. He had a great sense of humour. But the day after my dad died, his best friends wife passed also. We knew that his best friend would be attending dad's funeral, and we thought that it might be in bad taste so we didn't do it. ❤🎶😀🎤
I loved your reaction! This song was written by Queen’s bassist, John Deacon. Michael Jackson was a Queen fan, especially Freddie Mercury, and saw Queen live when they played the L.A. venues. Queen played this track to Michael and he told them they needed to release it as a single. The members were not really sure about this song but went ahead and released it. Well it turned out to be a HUGE hit in America topping the charts in multiple genres. Now that you have done the 1981 live version you should now check out the 1986 live performance at Wembley. Trust me, Queen always switched up their songs when performing live. They prided themselves as being true musicians who wanted their audiences to get a true show rather than straight studio versions of their songs. The 1986 Wembley performance is VERY different from the 1981 Montreal version.
YAAAAY, THANK YOU FOR REACTING TO MY ALL-TIME FAV LIVE VERSION OF THIS SONG! (...and because you had reversed the video image, it was FUN to watch Brian May & John Deacon both "play left-handed guitars"!) ;D
If you've ever been to a sports event you probably heard this song with the meaning of the other team falling on their face. Also their "We are the Champions" is another often used at sporting events. For an earlier song and a ballad. White Queen ( live hammersmith odeon 1975)
Queen-live aid is a must Love of my life-rock in Rio And vanilla ice, “ice ice baby” was the artist getting sued, from the queen song “under pressure 🤙
This was the biggest selling single of Queen's history as it was listen to by different people with different tastes in music. This was written by the bass player John Deacon. The whole band were multi talented with all of them being able to play other instruments. Other than Bohemian Rhapsody, my next favourite would be It's a Hard Life but if you watch it, be ready for a shock for the costumes the band were wearing. One Vision is also a good one and there is a short documentary of how the song was developed from beginning to end. Good luck as there are so many Queen favourites to find.
Freddie as the FrontMan of Queen is legendary, but his solo sets are what truly showcases his full range and talent and takes him to another level entirely. His duet with legendary Opera singer Montserrat Caballe in the song Barcelona is still one of the most spine chilling vocals I have ever heard. Give it a listen and I promise you will not be disappointed.
Now that you've heard this one, you're ready for one of Weird Al's foundational hits: Another One Rides the Bus. His performance of the song live on the Dr. Demento show on 14 Sept 1980 was the start of his collaboration with his drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz. Jon had been at the radio station for another band and heard Al practicing Another One Rides the Bus outside the broadcast booth and suggested he needed some percussion to go with the accordion. Al asked if he had his drums, and while Jon didn't he offered to bang on Al's accordion case. They've now been making music together for over four decades.
Yes 🙌🏻 🔥 More Queen live please. I suggest 70’s Queen Stone Cold Crazy live at the Rainbow. Or some later stuff like One Vision live at Wembley. Much bless and love to you!!
This entire group is unique, not just the frontman. All have degrees- the lead guitarist, Brian May, has a doctorate in astrophysics; his paper is a quoted resource in other papers. Freddie Mercury was a mutant; he had more than the normal number of teeth, which affected the shape of his mouth and the sounds, though it doesn't explain his writing talent. The drummer was also a singer, prominent in several songs including "Bohemian Rhapsody". The bassist, while not at the vocal level of the others, was good enough he could have been a lead singer in any other band. This band was a perfect storm of things coming together.
i have the dvd of this concert and it is MAJESTIC to see it in this high of a quality - makes me wish theyd filmed all of their concerts on 35mm film!! its really really hard to believe this is from 1981 haha
This is a man, if you never saw him live you missed something incredible. His studio voice was fantastic, but live is where Freddy Mercury shined soooo brightly. A truly inspiring person, that this world will miss.
Freddie is the G.O.A.T, and Queen is the greatest rock band of all time. They were so far ahead of their time its ridiculous. No other band has ever commanded the crowd in the way Queen did
At the time, many stations who did not know who Queen was were sure that this was a black group. I remember the confusion! They got a lot of airtime on many traditionally black stations. 2nd favorite group of all time. Got to see them twice, in ‘83 and in ‘84. No other performer has been able to equal the frontman status of Freddy since, for me. He literally controlled the crowd like a cult leader...that was his onstage charisma! Such a great voice both times. Love your reactions!
Since this was first recorded it has been played at many sport events, in particular, football at the end of the game when the home team won. Played either by the team's band or the instrumental version by the stadium. I remember hearing it at many football games I attended. High school, college and professional. So the losing team bit the dust.
Queen is the best band of all time and has been to me for 40 years. You should listen to Weird al Yankovic's first hit "Another one rides the bus" which is a parody of this song.
Who Wants to Live Forever...........LIVE AT WEMBLEY This will show his talent and also LI VE FROM MONTREAL...........SOMEBODY TO LOVE.........15 YEARS EARLIER............
With regards to Queen it’s how vocally impressive Freddie was and how well they worked as a group. There is more impressive music from them, their early work from the first three albums is definitely worth looking at such as father to son, son and daughter and of course the Seven Seas of Rye! Awesome to see someone looking into their work!!
Cant imagine this song being played in high schools now. Was a theme song for all our high school sports teams back when. Was a great pep song for energy.
This song reminds me of maybe the best ad I've ever seen. There used to be a stereo company called Aiwa. I had one, it was an amazing stereo for a 10 year old. Anyway, this ad opens up and there's two guys in suits riding in a car. The young guy throws a CD in the stereo and this song starts playing. The old guy appears to very unamused, the young guy is having fun. The camera zooms out, they're driving a funeral hearse, leading a procession.
I absolutely love to hear you speak. I am from the bootheel of Missouri right on the Arkansas border so I have a very southern accent. You speak beautifully
The hook to this song has been played during so many sporting events along with Queens songs We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions. Freddie Mercury was and is the GOAT.
Freddie is, arguably, the greatest "Front Man" in the history of rock and roll (IMO he is the GOAT). Queens catalog of hits is extensive and most people have heard several Queen songs even if they do not realize it. Queen is certainly one of the most cultural impactful rock bands of all time, right up there with the Beatles, Elvis and the Stones
I totally agree. Not only vocally but he entertained too.
Love Freddie and the entire band. But not seeing any love for Brian May, in the top 5 greatest guitarists of all time, pioneer of guitar equipment and technology and literally a rocket scientist.
I'll say he's on par with GG Alin
He was great but, not Mike Patton great.
@@d-pod_L lol
Freddie will always be number 1
If you’re not familiar with queen, you’re just unaware that you’re familiar with queen. “Somebody to love”, “we will rock you/we are the champions”, “bohemian rhapsody” and “under pressure” are all songs that 99% of people would still recognize without knowing it was queen that did them.
Freddie Mercury...GOAT
“Another One Bites the Dust” took the world by storm. The song became a hit in 17 countries, but nowhere larger than in the United States, where it became the biggest-selling Queen record ever, topping both the Pop and Disco charts, as well as reaching #2 on the Soul chart.
Composed by bassist John Deacon, the song features an instantly recognizable funk bass riff, and high energy, bordering on manic, vocals by Freddie Mercury.
Good job copy pasting a Google search.
@@BrandonWestfall I NEVER search using Google!
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It also made it into at least one anime Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in the form of a villains power
Don't know if you know that Queen wasn't going to release Another One Bites the Dust as a single. Michael Jackson heard the song and told them they had to release it.
This is the perfect performance of the perfect rock song.
John Deacon, the bass player, wrote this. He was Queens secret weapon for writing hits. It was Michael Jackson who suggested to Queen to release it as a single.
You should react to Queens full 20 minute set from Live Aid 1985. Freddie had a crowd of 72,000 people completely in the palm of his hand. Back in the early 2000s, there was an industry poll- a bunch of journalists and other musicians- that voted Queen's set as the best live action performance in the history of rock music. It beat out Hendrix at Woodstock.
1.6 billion people actually. Granted not all at Wembley but all over the world.
There were so many legendary bands and performers during Live Aid, but Queen was the performance that everyone remembered. Queen and especially Freddie had everyone in the palm of their hands.
An amazing performance!!! Too bad it's only 20 minutes!!!
If you liked this live performance from queen, you should check out queen live from Montreal 1981 "find me somebody to love ". Maybe the greatest live preformed song ever. Maybe?
I go back and forth between this performance and Etta James in Montreux singing I'd Rather Be Blind as the best live performance of all time.
Excellent. Also excellent live performance was Hammer To Fall. Budapest, 1986. If you can watch on a large TV with surround sound....even better.
Potentially
Absolutely!
Yes - Adam, not just that song, but the entire performance! :)
Weird Al - Another one rides the bus. is a amazing cover of this
Hey, he's gonna sit by you, another one rides the bus.
YEEES! This is another one that's been "ruined" for me by Weird Al.
I can ONLY hear another one rides the bus in my head.
I LOVE Queen but Weird Al has his own space, rent free in my mind for ETERNITY
@Julie Berry I'm pretty sure I learned all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody by listening to Weird Al's Bohemian Polka.
@@BufordT same thing for me and Like a Surgeon 😂. Pretty sure I heard Weird Al first
Freddy Mercury and Queen were so ahead of their time, God's of Rock
Defo
More queen!!!!!!!!!!!! Freddie was the greatest front man ever and omg his voice was just incredible!!!
If you're not familiar with Queen, I'd suggest listening to Somebody to Love from this same Montreal concert. "Somebody to love, Queen Rocks Montreal". It's often regarded as one of the best live performances ever.
Bro hes pretending to not have heard these songs
I know Freddie steals the headlines with Queen - then again he does have one of the best voices of all time. But each member of Queen were among the best at their specific craft. Heck, if it wasn't for Freddie, the drummer would likely be the lead vocalist.
Freddie Mercury is my all time favorite!!! When I adopted my cat a few years ago, I named him Freddie, in memory of Freddie Mercury's love of cats! My cat is just the sweetest boy ever 💕
Bohemian rhapsody is a must listen probably the most varied and unique song ever produced when it was released.
Bat out of hell.
To this day, I would still call it the most varied and unique song.
The Montreal concert was shot on 35mm film, it has been restored and upscaled to HD, like a lot of classic movies of that era before being put on blu-ray. The result looks amazing. It sounds amazing too, as Freddy was young, healthy, and in full control of his voice, unlike on the Live Aid concert. The only downside is the terrible sleepy audience.
It's possible due to it being physical media, had it been digital media then the process would be impossible, they could've upscaled it to 4K 8K 16K or whatever digital resolution people would want.
One reason for the "sleepy audience" was that the director of the film told them to be silent. A thing which pissed Freddie off. And to piss off the director he used different clothes - those extremely short shorts on second night :)
As other have said some of the best recording but the backstage stuff means it doesnt get the hype the Live Aid concert does.
@@suetepeS Nice ! Classic Freddie xD
35mm film already has higher resolution than HD. 3 to 12 million "pixels" vs HD at 2 million. Digitizing it to blu-ray degrades the quality but you don't have a film projector so its convenient on a disc.
WE WILL ROCK YOU
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
You'll never find a band where react channels say "Where have I heard this before" more than Queen, their impact on music was profound and lasting.
Freddy was a generational talent. Mans was incredible. The whole group was insane. I’d recommend watching the movie that came out a couple years ago. So good. Rami Malek did such an awesome job playing him
Problem with that movie though is that it makes a lot of stuff up.
@@grayven123 just like most biopics
@@grayven123 Story is written by the living, why you think only Freddie had bad parts in the movie? all the others act like they were saints. LOL
@@meialuakampinas I had a hard time understanding what you meant, but what I am saying is that it just made up some things. I only have a problem with this when it becomes substitute for known fact.
Definitely!
I love Queen they are my favorite band ever!!, I play there music everyday so happy you are reacting to them.
No one puts on a show like QUEEN
Oh this journey is gonna be epic! Can't wait for more Queen.
oh facts! i realllyyyy hope he goes down this rabbit hole (live vids)
Right??
So many songs to love!
The band that spawned a thousand high school cheer songs. "We are the Champions" is another iconic song for schools as well.
"We are the Champions" was our senior class song in 1979! Queen was my first rock concert in '77.
@@reginafromtexas2314 When I was in school in the early 90's this was still THE song that you played to pump people up. I wish I had been old enough to see them in concert. That would have been awesome. I am honesty jealous of you.
My high school blasted We Are the Champions during breaks during basketball games. In '74 .
Agree completely
The concert was shot on 35mm film ,which doesn't really have a resolution limit persay, the grain in the film is the limitation. This concert was released in 2007 on Bluray after it was scanned in 1080p and restored. The original audio tape was maintained and complete, but parts of the film were damaged while in storage so certain scenes are inserted random shots or slow motion to fill in missing footage.
Technically it was shot over 2 nights and some of the footage is from one night and some from the other. There is a Brian and Roger commentary out there covering this whole concert and they tell the story.
Queen were so damn good that time bent and the universe bowed to their will :)
Freddie remains one of the baddest dudes to have ever walked this earth. A true legend.
This concert was filmed (35 mm) to release as a movie and was a "one off" concert, not part of an extended tour so Freddie's voice was in wonderful condition! What a blessing we have this film! Oh, and, "Another One Bites the Dust" was Queen's highest ranked song of any of their songs in the US.
I don't think you're incredibly late to the party. You had a different up bringing than this type of music. But this man. Freddie mercury has just as much energy as Michael Jackson on stage. He's a flawless human being. Listen to bohemian rhapsody live. He's beyond what humans are capable of. Also one of the most iconic bass lines of all time too
Freddie had so many talents, not just in his singing, he was going to designer school when he joined the band, he had a great sense of fashion, he could actually sing opera, he was taken way to soon but at least his music lives on
To see the pure brilliance of Queen you should watch the full Live Aid performance. It’s 20 minutes of pure magic 😃
Queen are absolutely milestones of music
Queen were just incredible....so innovative, doing stuff no one had thought of doing before. Covered a wide range of styles. Freddie was possibly the greatest rock front man ever. The guy could really interact with an audience .....you might like to check out their Live Aid performance....Freddie was on fire there...
I don't think they got a single Grammy....goodness knows why.....maybe they were just too unique....
Your thumbnail says “he can’t be human”
Freddy had quite an extreme overbite. He was bullied for it growing up, but he refused to have it fixed. There are a lot of acoustic experts and anatomy experts that believe that Freddy had a vocal range so vast _because_ of that overbite. His face literally grew into the perfect shape to sing. What some people would regard as a deformation, created one of the most powerful voices _ever!_
Re: hearing this sample in a hip hop song, you might be thinking of Rappers' Delight (by the Sugar Hill Gang), which sampled the bass line from Good Times (by Chic). I believe Good Times also inspired this song.
Was just going to say the same thing. Well played sir, well played indeed.
And in turn basically inspired Vulfpeck to make 3 on E
It's also directly sampled in The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel, with John Deacon in the writing credits. :)
Wycleff released it in 98 th-cam.com/video/r9msVekBv8s/w-d-xo.html
Or maybe he's just think about the version of this song with Pras & Free
Freddie was a once in a century front man. He was just born to do what he did and he embraced it in every way. He died way too early. The best always die way before their time. R.I.P.
From the 80s on, I can't remember a time I went to a roller skating rink where this song wasn't played. Love this song and band. Loved when it was played daily on the radio. Thank you for the reaction!
The backbeat of this song and the backbeat for Stay'in Alive by the BeeGees is the exact beats per minute you are supposed to use when doing compressions for CPR. You can also use Weird Al's Another one Rides the Bus.
Don't be shy with the Queen videos... Bohemian Rhapsody is arguably the best recorded song ever. The "Queen Live Aid - Love of my life" was one of the most beautiful moments in live music. And Freddy was in a class of his own and was a big icon in the idea of being proud to be unique and different which was not as prevalent as it is today... Perhaps thanks to people like him.
The never performed love of my life in live aid
This one of the songs made famous by Queen, that has been used in many sports venues as background music, "Another One Bites Dust", "We are the Champions", "We will rock you"
Dude, Queen is EPIC! My first concert ever! Freddie is the best front man ever!
QUEEN THE GREATEST!! Big mega hit for Queen written by bassist John Deacon!
Michael Jackson was a fan of Queen but a bigger fan of Freddie! He loved this song so much that he encouraged Queen to release it as a single!! Freddie & MJ did a couple demos together called THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS & STATE OF SHOCK!! 👑 🤴🏻
They’re top 200 but naw
Queen does have a lot of amazing songs. Let's see there's Somebody to Love, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Who Wants to Live Forever, Stone Cold Crazy, Under Pressure with David Bowie (the version with the Eurythmics singer is also good), and well, of course, Bohemian Rhapsody. Just to name a few
Ohhh, dont forget 39', We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Hammer To Fall, I Want It All, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Breakthru, Cool Cat, Good Old Fashion Lover Boy, Now I'm here, These Are The Days Of Our Lives and of course The Show Must Go On
And don't forget one 9f Mt pe4sonal favorites, 'I want to break free' the video has a lot of significance to the time it was made.
@@Datfroboi456 And don't forget Time, Bicycle Race, Fat-Bottomed Girls, Love Of My Life, You're My Best Friend and I'm In Love With My Car.
Love "Queen". Miss Freddie ❤
We were going to play this song at my dad's funeral, cos he would have loved that. He had a great sense of humour. But the day after my dad died, his best friends wife passed also. We knew that his best friend would be attending dad's funeral, and we thought that it might be in bad taste so we didn't do it. ❤🎶😀🎤
I loved your reaction! This song was written by Queen’s bassist, John Deacon. Michael Jackson was a Queen fan, especially Freddie Mercury, and saw Queen live when they played the L.A. venues. Queen played this track to Michael and he told them they needed to release it as a single. The members were not really sure about this song but went ahead and released it. Well it turned out to be a HUGE hit in America topping the charts in multiple genres. Now that you have done the 1981 live version you should now check out the 1986 live performance at Wembley. Trust me, Queen always switched up their songs when performing live. They prided themselves as being true musicians who wanted their audiences to get a true show rather than straight studio versions of their songs. The 1986 Wembley performance is VERY different from the 1981 Montreal version.
Bassist John Deacon wrote this song
The whole concert from Montreal was remastered. Please react to Somebody To Love live from Montreal(the same concert as this one)
YAAAAY, THANK YOU FOR REACTING TO MY ALL-TIME FAV LIVE VERSION OF THIS SONG!
(...and because you had reversed the video image, it was FUN to watch Brian May & John Deacon both "play left-handed guitars"!) ;D
Weird Al Yankovec did a version of this, called "Another one Rides the Bus"... You might like that one, and the lyrics might be a tad clearer...
Serendipity that you reacted to Freddie and to Adam Lambert as Adam is the permanent guest vocalist of Queen now, since 2011.
If you've ever been to a sports event you probably heard this song with the meaning of the other team falling on their face. Also their "We are the Champions" is another often used at sporting events.
For an earlier song and a ballad. White Queen ( live hammersmith odeon 1975)
Freddie eternal ❤❤ the most beautiful voice I've heard... the King Mercury...
Played at many sports games... even high school bands for the football game! Still amazed when you say you haven't heard a song that's so iconic.
How have you never heard this iconic song from queen, it's your first time hearing this song, I find it hard to believe you
Queen-live aid is a must
Love of my life-rock in Rio
And vanilla ice, “ice ice baby” was the artist getting sued, from the queen song “under pressure 🤙
This was the biggest selling single of Queen's history as it was listen to by different people with different tastes in music. This was written by the bass player John Deacon. The whole band were multi talented with all of them being able to play other instruments. Other than Bohemian Rhapsody, my next favourite would be It's a Hard Life but if you watch it, be ready for a shock for the costumes the band were wearing. One Vision is also a good one and there is a short documentary of how the song was developed from beginning to end. Good luck as there are so many Queen favourites to find.
Freddie as the FrontMan of Queen is legendary, but his solo sets are what truly showcases his full range and talent and takes him to another level entirely. His duet with legendary Opera singer Montserrat Caballe in the song Barcelona is still one of the most spine chilling vocals I have ever heard. Give it a listen and I promise you will not be disappointed.
Now that you've heard this one, you're ready for one of Weird Al's foundational hits: Another One Rides the Bus. His performance of the song live on the Dr. Demento show on 14 Sept 1980 was the start of his collaboration with his drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz. Jon had been at the radio station for another band and heard Al practicing Another One Rides the Bus outside the broadcast booth and suggested he needed some percussion to go with the accordion. Al asked if he had his drums, and while Jon didn't he offered to bang on Al's accordion case. They've now been making music together for over four decades.
"Shoot out!" is what he's saying.
I love queen 💯💯
Bohemian rhapsody by queen must be one of the songs ever
Yes 🙌🏻 🔥 More Queen live please. I suggest 70’s Queen Stone Cold Crazy live at the Rainbow. Or some later stuff like One Vision live at Wembley. Much bless and love to you!!
This entire group is unique, not just the frontman. All have degrees- the lead guitarist, Brian May, has a doctorate in astrophysics; his paper is a quoted resource in other papers. Freddie Mercury was a mutant; he had more than the normal number of teeth, which affected the shape of his mouth and the sounds, though it doesn't explain his writing talent. The drummer was also a singer, prominent in several songs including "Bohemian Rhapsody". The bassist, while not at the vocal level of the others, was good enough he could have been a lead singer in any other band. This band was a perfect storm of things coming together.
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i have the dvd of this concert and it is MAJESTIC to see it in this high of a quality - makes me wish theyd filmed all of their concerts on 35mm film!! its really really hard to believe this is from 1981 haha
It’s always fun to watch Freddie and Queen in concert but I have always liked the sound of the official video of this song.
This video is from a concert that was shot on film which is why the quality is so absolutely incredible for the time.
"We will rock you." "We are the champions" Everyone knows these two songs by Queen. (Please react to them)
This is a man, if you never saw him live you missed something incredible. His studio voice was fantastic, but live is where Freddy Mercury shined soooo brightly. A truly inspiring person, that this world will miss.
Freddie is the G.O.A.T, and Queen is the greatest rock band of all time. They were so far ahead of their time its ridiculous. No other band has ever commanded the crowd in the way Queen did
At the time, many stations who did not know who Queen was were sure that this was a black group. I remember the confusion! They got a lot of airtime on many traditionally black stations.
2nd favorite group of all time. Got to see them twice, in ‘83 and in ‘84. No other performer has been able to equal the frontman status of Freddy since, for me. He literally controlled the crowd like a cult leader...that was his onstage charisma! Such a great voice both times.
Love your reactions!
Queen is my favorite rock band, largely due to the variety of their music, its all rock but all complete different
We used this song when playing for our high school fb games. Flipping awesome.
Greatest lead vocals of all time The GOAT
Queen is iconic.
Since this was first recorded it has been played at many sport events, in particular, football at the end of the game when the home team won. Played either by the team's band or the instrumental version by the stadium. I remember hearing it at many football games I attended. High school, college and professional. So the losing team bit the dust.
Queen is the best band of all time and has been to me for 40 years. You should listen to Weird al Yankovic's first hit "Another one rides the bus" which is a parody of this song.
"Another hip-hop artist stole from Queen"
Who Wants to Live Forever...........LIVE AT WEMBLEY This will show his talent and also LI VE FROM MONTREAL...........SOMEBODY TO LOVE.........15 YEARS EARLIER............
Amazing Freddy and AMAZING musicians made this a legendary band which had legendary performances
Back when this came out every radio station would play this song followed immediately by "we are the champions".
RIP Freddie Mercury he was one of the greatest. Gone too young at the age of 45. He will be forever missed. You should listen to more of Queen's music
"Another one rides the buss" by Weird Al next, great follow up to this one
Freddie Mercury was a once in a generation talent and a genius. You can't go wrong with anything by Queen
I have to say you have the loviest voice to listen too glad you like queen one of the greatest groups
With regards to Queen it’s how vocally impressive Freddie was and how well they worked as a group. There is more impressive music from them, their early work from the first three albums is definitely worth looking at such as father to son, son and daughter and of course the Seven Seas of Rye! Awesome to see someone looking into their work!!
Queen, along with Freddie as it's front man, changed music & rock n roll. It's 1 of their most well known & still played all the time hits, even now.
Brian May on guitar is a highly respected astronomer these days.
Astrophysicist
This is the song they played when learning CPR 20 years ago in nursing school. The beat was for how fast to do chest compressions.
And the lyrics were for getting it wrong.
Cant imagine this song being played in high schools now. Was a theme song for all our high school sports teams back when.
Was a great pep song for energy.
You gotta see Queen's Live Aid performance. Considered by many to be the greatest 20 minute set in rock and roll history.
This is incredibly famous, clips of someone falling/losing etc has this song in it. It's almost impossible that you haven't heard this song
Wyclef Jean used this hook in one of his song. Freddie is one of GOAT's of all music period. All there songs are outstanding.
This song reminds me of maybe the best ad I've ever seen. There used to be a stereo company called Aiwa. I had one, it was an amazing stereo for a 10 year old. Anyway, this ad opens up and there's two guys in suits riding in a car. The young guy throws a CD in the stereo and this song starts playing. The old guy appears to very unamused, the young guy is having fun. The camera zooms out, they're driving a funeral hearse, leading a procession.
ANYTHING you watch of queen make sure it's live! amazing and better than studio (IMO)
Would love to see you react to the live performance of Bohemian Rhapsody. Incredible.
One of my all time favorites!!
I absolutely love to hear you speak. I am from the bootheel of Missouri right on the Arkansas border so I have a very southern accent. You speak beautifully
The hook to this song has been played during so many sporting events along with Queens songs We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions.
Freddie Mercury was and is the GOAT.
Probably the most talented rock band.
This was my favorite song to roller skate to.
As far as I know.... Queen is the only band to have all it's members in the songwriters HOF.