| 12yrslouetta 24.01.2009 09:20 |
Listening to this song, i was wondering if there has or had been any quotes or references from the band at all concerning this song at all. Its so distinctive but ive never read anything by the band regarding it. Anyone else?Anyone got anything they can share?? |
| Sebastian 24.01.2009 11:08 |
Dr May mentioned it some time ago in his Soapbox. Don't remember the date though... |
| Serry... 24.01.2009 12:29 |
"This language was part of Freddie's heritage in his family, and he had a special affinity with it. The track was a great fun thing to do .. incorporating unusual flavours, and encouraging us to play in Eastern styles !! I'm sure the lyrics are in the original album sleeve. But I cannot tell you what they mean !" "I'm not absolutely sure Freddie wanted to be understood here !!" BHM |
| Saif 25.01.2009 05:53 |
Serry... wrote: "This language was part of Freddie's heritage in his family, and he had a special affinity with it. The track was a great fun thing to do .. incorporating unusual flavours, and encouraging us to play in Eastern styles !! I'm sure the lyrics are in the original album sleeve. But I cannot tell you what they mean !" "I'm not absolutely sure Freddie wanted to be understood here !!" BHMBrian Hussein May is a deceptive Muslim, we shouldn't trust him. But jokes aside, the way he wrote it seems so tongue-in-cheek. I'm pretty sure it means nothing as Freddie wasn't supposed to know Arabic... |
| Crisstti 25.01.2009 10:33 |
But he must have spoken another language apart from English, right?. What language was spoken in Zanzibar?. |
| Saif 25.01.2009 10:36 |
Crisstti wrote: But he must have spoken another language apart from English, right?. What language was spoken in Zanzibar?. Zanzibar was under British rule at the time...while I doubt he learnt anything other than English there, it definitely wasn't Arabic. Probably an African language prevalent there. In India he probably learnt Hindi and/or Gujarati. |
| pittrek 25.01.2009 10:37 |
Kiswahili, English and Arabic |
| Nummer2 25.01.2009 13:14 |
A few years ago I found this on the internet: link |
| Crisstti 25.01.2009 14:57 |
Interesting, though it seems no one knows what the lyrics mean! :). |
| dragon-fly 27.01.2009 10:00 |
It doesn't matter. It's the same kind of Freddie's fantasy as many others. And exept a name Mustafa there's no connection with Arabs. But Brian mentioned this song in his interwiev for "Guitarist", if I'm right it was november's number |
| Joma 27.01.2009 13:40 |
Serry... wrote: "This language was part of Freddie's heritage in his family, and he had a special affinity with it. The track was a great fun thing to do .. incorporating unusual flavours, and encouraging us to play in Eastern styles !! I'm sure the lyrics are in the original album sleeve. But I cannot tell you what they mean !" "I'm not absolutely sure Freddie wanted to be understood here !!" BHM No lyrics in the original album sleeve. Our Dr. May gets confused these days. Pictures form 1985 he is dating to 1986 and he sees lyrics where ther are no lyrics ;) |
| FriedChicken 27.01.2009 13:53 |
as if you can remember a specific detail of your job you did 30 years ago |
| knakenrudi 27.01.2009 14:33 |
FriedChicken wrote: as if you can remember a specific detail of your job you did 30 years ago |
| Crisstti 27.01.2009 14:34 |
Right. They don't spend so much time as we fans do on that kind of things. |
| thomasquinn 32989 28.01.2009 06:47 |
Saif wrote:Serry... wrote: "This language was part of Freddie's heritage in his family, and he had a special affinity with it. The track was a great fun thing to do .. incorporating unusual flavours, and encouraging us to play in Eastern styles !! I'm sure the lyrics are in the original album sleeve. But I cannot tell you what they mean !" "I'm not absolutely sure Freddie wanted to be understood here !!" BHMBrian Hussein May is a deceptive Muslim, we shouldn't trust him. But jokes aside, the way he wrote it seems so tongue-in-cheek. I'm pretty sure it means nothing as Freddie wasn't supposed to know Arabic... Been taking your cues from Ann Coulter or something? |
| Saif 28.01.2009 06:51 |
ThomasQuinn wrote:Saif wrote:Been taking your cues from Ann Coulter or something?Serry... wrote: "This language was part of Freddie's heritage in his family, and he had a special affinity with it. The track was a great fun thing to do .. incorporating unusual flavours, and encouraging us to play in Eastern styles !! I'm sure the lyrics are in the original album sleeve. But I cannot tell you what they mean !" "I'm not absolutely sure Freddie wanted to be understood here !!" BHMBrian Hussein May is a deceptive Muslim, we shouldn't trust him. But jokes aside, the way he wrote it seems so tongue-in-cheek. I'm pretty sure it means nothing as Freddie wasn't supposed to know Arabic... Did you read the part in bold? It was a joke. I know it's Brian Harold May but while I was writing the post I found funny the possibility of it being Brian Hussein May. I was simply alluding to the insecurity many Americans have with Obama being a crypto-Muslim(completely untrue, BTW). |
| thomasquinn 32989 28.01.2009 07:03 |
Yes, which is why I referred to Ann Coulter, who calls the newly installed president "B. Hussein Obama", because she is such a deranged racist. |
| Saif 28.01.2009 09:59 |
ThomasQuinn wrote: Yes, which is why I referred to Ann Coulter, who calls the newly installed president "B. Hussein Obama", because she is such a deranged racist.Yeah, I guess my comment was a bit insensitive. I'm sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings... |
| L-R-TIGER1994 28.01.2009 10:25 |
I asked a friend from Pakistan the meaning of the song some years ago and he said that it means nothing,he could not identify the words as Arabic. |
| Crisstti 29.01.2009 10:25 |
L-R-TIGER1994 wrote: I asked a friend from Pakistan the meaning of the song some years ago and he said that it means nothing,he could not identify the words as Arabic. Then youre friend couldn't really know if the lyrics mesn aomething, since he didn't understand what they say. |
| thomasquinn 32989 29.01.2009 11:08 |
Saif wrote:ThomasQuinn wrote: Yes, which is why I referred to Ann Coulter, who calls the newly installed president "B. Hussein Obama", because she is such a deranged racist.Yeah, I guess my comment was a bit insensitive. I'm sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings... It's not so much insensitive as in bad taste considering current opinions expressed by certain fanatics bear a striking resemblance to it. No hard feelings, mind you. |
| L-R-TIGER1994 29.01.2009 12:36 |
Crisstti wrote:L-R-TIGER1994 wrote: I asked a friend from Pakistan the meaning of the song some years ago and he said that it means nothing,he could not identify the words as Arabic.Then youre friend couldn't really know if the lyrics mesn aomething, since he didn't understand what they say. He said that these words had nothing to do with Arabic(excepting Allah and Salaam of course)which is a different thing. |
| tickapa 09.02.2009 12:41 |
Pittrek I think is right ... but whatever it is, the mustapha song is superb! |
| ParisNair 10.02.2009 10:54 |
A friend of mine heard WWRY at a party and liked it, so the next time she came visiting a decided to entertain her with some queen music. I played Mustapha for her (since she is a Muslim) because I thought she would be able to relate to it somehow. She said that some of the lyrics seemed to have been adapted from the standard Arabic prayer that is recited by muslims (not just Salaam Aleikum, but some more bits as well). Incidentally, she got offended by the song (she's very conservative in matters of religion you see). |