1975: “When I grow older I will be there at your side to remind you how I STILL LOVE YOU”

1991: “Those days are all gone now, but one thing's still true when I look and I find I STILL LOVE YOU”

I've always loved this connection-ish between the two songs and it still brings tears to my eyes.
What’s especially beautiful is that the two songs seem to express love in very different circumstances, and perhaps even to different people. Yet both share those same words “I STILL LOVE YOU.”

Brian is on record as being a devoted Hendrix fan, so I'm wondering if there's any songs where he vaguely imitates Hendrix's Strat sound and/or use a fuzz, wah or other 'psychedelic-sounding' pedals? I'm really no expert, but I'm guessing he tries to get a similar sound on his cover of One Rainy Wish, and I think I read somewhere that there's a wah on the solo in Great King Rat, to give an example.

But which ‘Magic Tour’ jacket do you prefer on Freddie - White (Budapest) or Yellow (Wembley)?

Personally, though they’re both iconic, I think I prefer the white on white Budapest look.

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I completely fell in love with a promotional sweater John used on the Sheer Heart Attack Japan Tour on 1975 , so I tried and finally make it :) .

I think for me, the re-releases of the same shows (Wembley, Budapest, Montreal, etc) definitely grinds my gears a little.

The odd hyper-focus on 1981-1986 Queen is a little puzzling, too.

As for Queen fans, some of them are very protective of Freddie to the point where it's parasocial.

I always found it odd that Queen had tons of quality live footage and music videos from 1973-1980 and none of them were used in the music video for "The Show Must Go On".

Has anyone involved ever spoken about why?

Bonus if he plays the piano.

I remember reading old Brian interviews regarding the making of Hot Space and his various thoughts. He talked about his disagreements with John Deacon; on the song "Back Chat", John wanted to lean more into funk and eliminate any rock elements. Whereas Brian felt that there needed to be some rock elements and fought for a guitar solo on the song.

In another interview, Brian talked about how he didn't like Motown and R&B's approach to guitar, even stating that his guitar-playing style evolved in response to it. He wanted guitar to be at the forefront making noise rather than being a supporting instrument.

This got me thinking about Funk Rock because it seems like it set a good precedent for what Brian wanted to accomplish on Hot Space and even earlier tracks like "Dragon Attack". Jimi Hendrix's music incorporated a lot of funk influences across his albums, especially on the live album with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles which was released in 1970 near the end of Jimi's life. The album foreshadowed a lot of the funk rock developments which would emerge in the 70s. Brian, like most guitarists, is a huge Hendrix fan so I wondered if he would take inspiration.

Then you have Funkadelic's funk rock approach which is something of a successor to what Hendrix was doing. I wonder what Brian would have thought of Eddie Hazel's guitar solo on "Maggot Brain" for instance.*

Part of me wonders why the band didn't really discuss funk rock influences. Most of the narratives around Hot Space center around the schism in the band between rock vs "disco" (with R&B, soul, and funk also thrown in.), or even white music

Maybe John wouldn't have agreed if he was set on eliminating all rock influences. But it would at least be a good compromise between the various musical interests of the band.

*=To highlight another Queen/P-Funk connection, Roger covered the Parliaments "I Wanna Testify" on his first solo venture.

One of my favorite Jimi Hendrix songs is “Remember”, but it wasn’t one of his bigger hits, and he never played it live. The closest I was able to find was the studio outtakes.
However, the other day I came across a YouTube video of a recording Brian made in one of his old bands (1984). Tim Staffell is singing, and they are playing Remember, with Brian on guitar! I just thought it was such a great crossover.

Here is the recording from 1967!

For me, it's Roger. very angelic !

All dead, all dead is already one of my top Queen songs. I love it when Brian May takes lead vocals. However, I discovered an audio of Freddie doing lead vocals for the song and oh my GOD is it haunting!!! The lyrics were a bit different on his version too, and honestly I think I prefer the first verse to that than the original. “Memories, memories….how long can you stay to haunt my days…”

What do you think?

https://youtu.be/m6zctgmBwWA?is=B7N-RuKZwAsIkzSh

Recently, there was an outdoor photo exhibition in a town nearby. One of the exhibited artists was our Sir Brian May with his Diablaries.

What I didn't know, was that they also placed a Red Special there... the boxes around contained each an Owl Lite and one of the Diablary 3D pictures.

Edit: it was in Baden, 25km South of Wien/Vienna. The exhibition has ended already, I only found out 2 days before the end of it...

Roger Taylor

See https://youtu.be/3Mb8fMHEJ7E?t=138 I've never caught what he said?

I've re-watched the "The Great Pretender"-Documentary recently which includes some clips of an interview by Roger in the 2010s (I suppose). I also remember a clip from the same interview, where he speaks about John being "thirsty" and telling about the cocktail bar behind the amp. I only have another clip of this interview, does somebody know where I can find the whole thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57JR8gb_lmY

I’ve read somewhere that he does and I’ve been thinking of sending him some pictures to sign is it true? If so how? I’m new to fanmail