Found this print from April 1996 "Guitar school" ( native english/ US) -QUEEN-" A royal tribute to Brian May"
"Crazy little things called love"
The guys put down the backing track for that one when I was out doing something in Munich,where we were working:
Freddie said he wrote the song in his bathtub at the Munich Hilton. I came back and thought, "Oh my god, it's almost finished.
Let me put some guitar on it before they stick it out." Fred plays the rhythm acoustic guitar. All I really did was add a kind of ersatz rock and roll solo and
some backing harmonies and it was done.
"Another One bites the dust"
John Deacon, being totally in his own world, came up with this thing, wich was nothing like what we were doing. We were going for
the big drum sound:you know, quite pompous in our usual way. And Deakey says, " No, I want this to be totally different: it's going to be a very tight drum sound."
It was originally done to a drum loop -- this was before the days of drum machines. Roger did a loop, kind of under protest, because he didn't like the sound
of the drums recorded that way. And then Deakey put this groove down.
Immediately Freddie became violently enthusiastic and said, " This is big ! This is important ! I'm going to spend a lot of time on this."
It was the beginning of something quite big for us, because it was the first time that one of our records crossed over to the black community. We had no control over that;
it just happened. Suddenly we were forced to put out this single because so many stations in New York were playing it. It changed that album from being a million-seller
to being a three-million seller in a matter of three weeks or so.
Interesting - I think - It seems like Brian gave all the credits to the guys. Thoughts ?
^Brain/mind check OK ! Yes, "the king of queen" was the articles name.
Edit: his statements were added to the article( lots of Laura Jackson) not being a direct part of it.
There was a Queen community in 1996 on the internet
"Another One Bytes the Dust"
alt.music.queen
Oh man, alt.music.queen. What fun days those were! That's where I first encountered W. K. Mahler... Ahhh.
And the article was meant to push Laura Jackson's Brian May: The Definitive Biography, which was essentially a "rewrite" of As It Began, except with a few more Brian facts.
Lord Gaga wrote:
Oh man, alt.music.queen. What fun days those were! That's where I first encountered W. K. Mahler... Ahhh.
And the article was meant to push Laura Jackson's Brian May: The Definitive Biography, which was essentially a "rewrite" of As It Began, except with a few more Brian facts.
How in the world was that legal !? Or was everything paraphrased well enough?