Well, it's log past time I posted one of these chapters, so here it is!
The attached document is all the chapters published so far, now including Flash Gordon. So throw away all your old versions, this is the most up to date and contains any corrections made since last time.
I hope you all enjoy. As always ay corrections/additions are welcome, and I promise it won't be such a long wait until Hot Space!
There are a few good pieces on it.
Football Fight, The Kiss, Vultan's Theme, Battle Theme, Wedding March, The Hero..
All great stuff. And the piano/bass/drums demos heard on the 2011 remasters are pretty essential listening.
Thanks for the PDF file! I waited long time, since I started here in QueenZone, to see a new Queen Fanthology PDF.
Football Fight is an iconical song of Flash Gordon.
The Kiss is beautiful, with those Freddie's lyrics.
The Hero is a great song, like Flash's Theme.
And like The Real Wizard said, the demos heard on the 2011 remasters all excellent and pretty essential listening.
Also I'm waiting the reupload of your demo collection, and since that I'm creating my own demo collection but I don't have all the files you have. I have new demos but not all the older demos like You And I, high quality Cool Cat demo, etc.
Sorry if this has been asked already, but what is "Magic Is Loose," referenced on page 187 in the Rumour Mill section?
It says:
The following tracks began life (or are rumoured to have begun life) around this time. It’s possible a version of these
tracks were recorded for these sessions:
• It’s A Beautiful Day: For full details please see the Made In Heaven chapter.
• Magic Is Loose
Thanks in advance.
"Magic Is Loose" is a Roger Taylor song that ended up on his first solo album "Fun In Space." Would make sense if this might have been demoed during the Game / FG sessions, some of that album's songs sound like they originated from those sessions or were at least inspired by them.
The Real Wizard wrote:
There are a few good pieces on it.
Football Fight, The Kiss, Vultan's Theme, Battle Theme, Wedding March, The Hero..
All great stuff. And the piano/bass/drums demos heard on the 2011 remasters are pretty essential listening.
I could not agree any more..............my personal opinion, tho, Vultans Theme and Battle Theme is one of my favorite instances of 2 or 3 Queen songs that kinda segue into one another.............(not that theres a whole lot of instances of that anyway......lol).......when Battle Theme kicks in with that drum fill...........oh yeah...........
by the way, JamMonkey................that's utterly awesome................if that was a book on sale at a store, I'd pay like $25 for it...............
Samples of Howard Blake's orchestral score can be streamed on his site: link
A number of the tracks "Contain themes from 'Flash Gordon' by Queen." Tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, and 18 are notated as such on the promo CD.
I didn't get this album until 1998, having been a Queen fan for 6 years having had all other studio albums by now. Didn't think much of it at the time.
With the excuse of having bought the 2011 Deluxe Edition I listened to it once again and I enjoyed it a lot. It is a Soundtrack, after all, but it is certainly a better soundtrack than A Kind of Magic is a proper album. They got it right the first time.
You have recurrent themes and motifs. After a few listens, the themes stick in your head. I found myself humming melodies that I didn't even know which track they came from. Is it Ming's Theme, The Kiss, the Love Theme, Battle Theme, Vulcan, etc. Songs kinda blend together but, once you pay attention, the different themes and motifs are there and they are almost like movie characters in a way.
inu-liger wrote:
"Magic Is Loose" is a Roger Taylor song that ended up on his first solo album "Fun In Space." Would make sense if this might have been demoed during the Game / FG sessions, some of that album's songs sound like they originated from those sessions or were at least inspired by them.
Indeed. We can be pretty certain that plenty of Roger solo songs were Queen rejects.
This is pretty common, really. Roger Daltrey refused to sing Rough Boys, so it ended up being a Pete Townshend solo song.
The Real Wizard wrote:
"Magic Is Loose" is a Roger Taylor song that ended up on his first solo album "Fun In Space." Would make sense if this might have been demoed during the Game / FG sessions, some of that album's songs sound like they originated from those sessions
This is pretty common, really. Roger Daltrey refused to sing Rough Boys, so it ended up being a Pete Townshend solo song.
And ironically Daltrey ended up singing Rough Boys live with The Who!!
If you listen to Roger's recent podcast interviews on the Queen Podcast series he states that none of the Fun In Space tracks were originally slated for Queen, and they were all specifically penned and recorded solely for his debut solo album.
You can either believe that, or take the view that his memory may not be quite 100%.....