'Just Spend This Night With Me' available on iTunes / Spotify.
Can't help thinking this is exactly the kind of melancholy gay-ish party pop that Freddie would be making now. It sounds dated, yet very NOW. I think it's great and really deserves our attention. A shame his team can't push this more but please, lets cherish this guy while we still have him.
I listened to it. I don't know what I think. It's not very now. It could have been released 30 years ago. Musically it's unadventurous, there's nothing particularly interesting about it.
Peter Straker's voice is excellent though, even now, and that makes it shine, but it sounds like something you'd hear on a TV show c.1988, just as people were getting twitchy about trying to do new things for the 1990s (maybe it's that, in 2018, getting twitchy about trying to do new things for the 2020s and sounding 35 years out of date?).
I expect Nina Miskow to walk on to set afterwards and thank him for his latest Freddie-produced single, as Mike Moran fades out the band's backing track. Perhaps Cilla Black will come on and duet with him before his appearance on Wogan before he goes on to the panel of New Faces....
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I listened to it. I don't know what I think. It's not very now. It could have been released 30 years ago. Musically it's unadventurous, there's nothing particularly interesting about it.
Peter Straker's voice is excellent though, even now, and that makes it shine, but it sounds like something you'd hear on a TV show c.1988, just as people were getting twitchy about trying to do new things for the 1990s (maybe it's that, in 2018, getting twitchy about trying to do new things for the 2020s and sounding 35 years out of date?).
I expect Nina Miskow to walk on to set afterwards and thank him for his latest Freddie-produced single, as Mike Moran fades out the band's backing track. Perhaps Cilla Black will come on and duet with him before his appearance on Wogan before he goes on to the panel of New Faces....
That's kind of what I mean. I can't help but think that Freddie would resort to 'type' and be making music like this... whether it be lack of his taste, lack of experimental ideas (I doubt he'd go full on Knife Party) and just a want to make stuff he personally likes. Look at RT and BM - they seem to be fixated on 80s MOR rock.
Additionally, I think now is probably the time for a label to stick out his loosely Queen related solo material.
If they managed to fit AL into the film, they should've found a slot for PS too.
I disagree. We don't know what would Freddie do if he had lived... Diving into the classical music world ? Creating something on his own, some music in the old-forms (like symphony, or smaller pieces) but totally adventurous and original ? Would he collaborate with the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber ?
If he would have been fit and alive today... why not pursuing the Innuendo success, touring and creating more material with Queen ?
If his second solo "covers" album was really planned, then it does not mean that he would abandon Queen...
Yes, and as I said in the movie thread, it is one of the best things about this movie, people going out of the cinema, getting emotional and discussing what would have happened if he had lived....
I don't want people to think that Freddie is the main bad character / the greatest factor that caused the "break up of Queen" which really is not the case here....
I do think Freddie would have produced a few of these kind of things over the last 27 years had he lived. I'm not sure there would have been many, but one every 5 years or so. I'm judging by some of the guff that didn't make "The Miracle" for instance, and some of the solo stuff that was unreleased. But there was something in the spirit of the time that a rockstar over 40 had to produce music that fits into a West End Show rather than an innovative album. As Queen moved into the 1990s that was thrown off and Innuendo was really much better than it might have been had other tracks been chosen or whatever.
I think had Freddie lived there would have been some kind of follow up to Barcelona. Perhaps he'd have teamed up with Andrea Bocelli and produced a single with him or written him a song. There may have been an original show with Tim Rice. There may have even been something like The Lion King. I think that the 1990s would have seen explorations into dance music, and by that time Freddie would be grown up enough to put his music through the clubs without partying in them too hard - although I've no doubt there'd be the odd private party.
The songs on Back To the Light, Another World, Electric Fire and Happiness would have actually been sung by Freddie for the albums post-Innuendo, and through the 21st Century - the early 2000s would have probably seen another Queen album and tour, and Queen would have appeared at Live 8 in 2005. There would have been a flurry of activity for Freddie's 60th (although EMI didn't really do anything to mark his 40th), and I've no doubt there would be some kind of special album or show. The 40th Anniversary documentary would have had interviews with Freddie saying things like "Yes, yes, I took a lot of drugs in the 1980s, and I tried to get Brian and Roger to produce other kinds of music other than rock, those were my interests at the time, but with Brian and Roger, trying something new was always going to be a slow process".