Where do you think it'll start in the bands history? How do you think the story line will go?
I'm betting on it'll focus quite heavily on the Hot Space / The Works era, and "losing america" (like the rest of the world gave a shit).
Sometimes it bugs me a little, because in the UK (and the rest of the world outside north america), it was business as usual as far as I can tell. Radio Gaga did exceptionally well, and The Works did good too.
But it seems like that's always made out to be the low point for the band - as if they'd become almost non-existent, and everyone thought of them as dinosaurs.
Sure, there was infighting in the band, but it always seems weird to me - especially in recent years - that it's made out that they were seen as past it by that point. There might be some truth to it (I was really young back then), but it didn't reflect in their chart positions outside north america.
they werent past it at all they were popular everywhere except America , it happened to a lot of English Bands . America was slow and set in their ways, they dont like change
If they want to be a bit imaginative then the film should start like this;
Opening shot in black & white. Three long haired figures walk off stage a stage in a nondescript collage hall somewhere in Southen England. Assorted friends, hangers on etc congratulate them on a great gig.
A dark haired well dressed friend of the band stands up and says “yes it was very good but maybe you should use more lights and put more of a show on that’s what I would be doing if I was your singer...”
As the last few words are spoken the familiar intro to Keep Yourself Alive would be years leading into the films titles.
Pretty confident that it will focus heavily on leading up to the writing recording and promoting of Bo Rhap... then go on to cover the rest up to Live Aid
You kinda had to have lived in that period to truly understand it, the Charts were everything back then, we all sat round the radio every week listening to the chart rundown and there were programmes like 'round table' (on the radio) that analysed new tracks being released.
When Hot Space came out frankly it seemed at odds with other albums and it really did lose a lot of hardcore rock fans, then in the US having Queen dress as women from a UK TV programme that had NO airtime in the US didn't make sense. put that together with the fact we were in the middle of 'Hair metal' in the states, bands like Bon Jovi and Aerosmith with big hair singing power rock ballads were the polar opposite of what Queen were doing. So it was impossible to book a tour that would seel out... Fred refused to tour there until they'd sell out, and that was the nail in the coffin.
Even in the UK Queen's audience changed from hardrock fans to pop, so it was suddenly less popular to say you loved Queen
Day dop.Believe you me , the works and the 1984 period saw Queen with possibly their highest profile ever . All this rubbish about them being finished is just that , rubbish . It makes a good story when telling of their Live Aid success though don't it?
I'll forgive our north American friends here, for perpetrating this myth because of the apparent dip there, but all in all it is one of the biggest misnomers ever. Queen were everywhere in '84
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I've heard about DLR getting tired of "the same old thing" and joining the parade on both sides as well.
FILM:
Opening dialogue: Roger on a yacht, "I'm sorry dear, I can't get it up....but i remember a time we really DID get it up" (cut to LIVE AID)
scene 2: Brian, (attempting to erect a star viewer with grand child)
"I just can't get it up" ... "but LIVE AID was a time when we ALL got it up. ....it was the VERY FIRST TIME we played Bohemian Rhapsody for a human audience" (cut to malek pouting)
Scene 3: (strip bar)...John meeting Beach.
"U know, there used to be a time I'd actually get up for this sorta crap" (referring to check stubs from QPL) but when you've done so well, where ...just where else can you go???"
(On tv, talking head discuss new book with guitarist Brian May of Queen)
Jim to bartender "put it up well, now will you? " (volume)
[BRIAN on tv w badger] introduces guest with him: Adam Lambert.
John: "Like i told you, i used to get up for these things"
Cut to credits [credit title music: Curtis Mayfield: Freddie's Dead]
Cut to Rami @ LIVE AID waving
The end.
I didn't want to spoil anything. But I've seen the script already. Sorry. If you didn't want to know, you shouldn't have read
felix ibex wrote:
they werent past it at all they were popular everywhere except America , it happened to a lot of English Bands . America was slow and set in their ways, they dont like change
Boy does that statement carry more weight in today's current climate here in the US that ever before!