| bleeding heart show 19.11.2003 20:25 |
Ok we were all naive when we first got into Queen so this topic is for u to post those thoughts that u had on the band before u started knowing them more, buying thier albums.....etc. in my case : 1- I used to think that Roger was Freddie. 2- I thought that Freddie wrote BR before his death and after i knew that it was written 21 years before it I thought that he prophecised his death. 3- I also used to think that freddie got aids from having sex with bitches. "never imagined that he was gay" 4- I used to think that "Bohemian" was a word that freddie ivented!! I've got alot more but i can't remember them since that it's been so long ago ...... |
| Saffron Caribou 19.11.2003 20:35 |
I used to think that John's surname was Pecan. Then later on I learnt it was Deacon :-P We all have been thru the naive period ^.^ |
| RainMustFall 19.11.2003 21:06 |
I used to think Freddie was Roger too. Maybe Freddie just sounds like a blonde? And, I used to be confused on whether Bo Rhap was their last song or their first; and then when I saw the four-head pic, I was further confused, thinking that the song was on Queen II... oy. |
| CatGurl14 19.11.2003 21:49 |
I got all the members mixed up except for Freddie hehe and I didn't know they sang You're My Best Friend. There are a few others I'm sure but I can't recall them at the moment. |
| Saint Jiub 19.11.2003 22:06 |
My mom told me there was another meaning for Queen other than royalty. I thought Freddie being gay was a promotional act. He obviously could not possibly be gay with Mary at his side. I thought John wrote The Night Comes Down and Funny How Love Is because John had to write at least one song per album (8-tracks did not show writer's credits). |
| Matti 19.11.2003 23:18 |
I used to get them all mixed up also. |
| MexQueenFM 20.11.2003 00:27 |
I used to think it was john taylor, and i couldn't remember the other guy's name |
| Lester Burnham 20.11.2003 00:34 |
I used to think 'We Will Rock You' was SUNG by Brian May, and feeling disappointed and confused after seeing a broadcast on VH1 about Freddie dying (they showed the 'We Will Rock You' video). As "News Of The World" was the only cassette tape I owned at the time of Freddie's death, I thought the band would constantly end shows with 'My Melancholy Blues'. I asked my dad if Freddie died while performing the song on stage, but he sort of gave me a look and said no. And not really a misconception, but when I got "The Game" and I listened to 'Rock It (Prime Jive)', and then looked at the booklet at Roger's picture, I always thought he was smirking because he knew he wrote such a great song. |
| wstüssyb 20.11.2003 00:47 |
I used to think these are the days of our lives was written by freddie same as WWTLF and TSMGO |
| Maz 20.11.2003 00:49 |
I thought the guitarist sang the other part on Under Pressure. |
| Sonja 20.11.2003 02:58 |
My mum has always been a big Queen fan and told me a lot about them and that's how I got into them so I knew pretty much from the beginning. I was 9 or 10 and didn't really understand english. I think I posted this in my first post that I never understood the words correctly. I thought "It's A Hard Life" was "It's A Horse Life" and there were so many other songs I used to sing along but I sung the words the way I understood them - completely wrong. And I thought GH 1 and 2 were the only albums they had released cos they were the only ones that my mum gave me to listen to. (I didn't really get this "Greatest Hits" thing, and I didn't really care). When I finally found out that this was really just a compilation of their greatest hits I was upset and started to collect their albums. I read a lot about Freddie and aids shortly after he died and felt so sorry for his parents and wanted to write them a letter to say that I'm sorry. I probably wanted to write it German or Portuguese as these were the only languages I could speak back then. |
| Fenderek 20.11.2003 03:23 |
When I started buying records being 10-11, was really, really angry when after purchasing GH and GHII it turned out that there was nothing new there and that they repeated the songs on few albums. Didn't know what a compilation is... |
| Vim Fuego 20.11.2003 05:37 |
Growing up in the seventies, I practically grew up with Queen, so when I became a "fan" in 1980, I pretty much knew who was who....though it was about that time I started buying their albums finding out You're my best friend was their song.....I always liked the song, never realised it was Queen.... |
| Sonja 20.11.2003 05:52 |
Ah, another thing I remember. As I was only 9 or 10 and was starting to get interested in good looking boys and most important: singers and famous people had to be good looking!!! When I first saw a picture of Freddie I thought: God, he was damn ugly for a singer! |
| Robin 20.11.2003 07:06 |
When I got into Queen back in the early 70's, I was always afraid that Roger would quit because Freddie's "poofy" songs did not seem like something he would like to play. He always struck me as the bad boy rocker who would hate Good Old Fashion Loverboy. My bad. Hey, I was like 15! Little did I know how commited they all were! |
| ogre t raylot 20.11.2003 07:13 |
being a Queen fan in the seventies, I used to think the band had four members and all that schpiel about 'If one member left, that'd be the end.' |
| Penetration_Guru 20.11.2003 07:32 |
Nice one, ogre |
| *goodco* 20.11.2003 08:42 |
Being a naive teenager, I was disappointed that Queen II didn't match the kickass performance I saw in the spring of 74. Being even more naive, I wondered why John grew a beard for the SHA album cover pic;-) |
| Mr Coolest Cat 20.11.2003 08:48 |
When i first got into Queen in 1973, i thought they were the best band i'd ever heard, guess what?, i still think the same today. |
| Sebastian 20.11.2003 09:02 |
I also thought Brian sang We Will Rock You, until I saw it at Live Aid Many bands I knew before (Van Halen, U2, Extreme) had a characteristic: the (official) keyboardist was the guitarist. I assumed Brian was the pianist of Queen too and that Freddie didn't play anything. It all changed when I watched Bo Rhap's video Other than that I don't remember so many. Oh, I thought I Can't Live With You was John's, also because he had to have at least one song per album, and I always considered Don't Try So Hard to be either Freddie or Brian. |
| Sebastian 20.11.2003 09:10 |
now I remember some more: In a TV music channel 'Friends Will Be Friends' from Wembley was shown, and since the choruses are not so high and Roger was shown singing, I thought Roger was the "bass singer" of the band (hence he did those low notes in Bicycle, Somebody, etc). Then I watched Killer Queen from Kampuchea, and in "anytime" Brian was zoomed, hence I thought he was the high-singing-voice of the band. Talking about that I believed Bo Rhap had a choir in the opera section and the band members just played the instruments. By the way, before I started to make recordings myself I used to think that the songs of the albums of any rock band were just the band playing it once in the studio, I didn't know about overdubs. That lead me to many misconceptions: If John played piano in 'You're My Best Friend', then the bass should be Freddie. |
| slightly Fred 20.11.2003 10:41 |
The release of 'Live Killers' was my first contact with Queen and it was like "wtf, why didn't i experience that great rock band before?" After a looong wait (me being a fan already) came out their new album 'The Game' with everybody playing SYNTHS! [urgh] Followed by something called 'Flash Gordon'... |
| bleeding heart show 20.11.2003 11:17 |
aaah those were the days i still remember all the excitement and enthusiasm that i was in when i first got into Queen and how i would always let my imagination explain what those songs meant and what the band was going through ...... it was MAGIC :) |
| lovequeen 20.11.2003 15:32 |
My aunt introduced me to Queen's music after 1991, and the first albums that I listened were GH II and The FM Album. When I saw the picture of Roger (taken on the These are the days of our lives video shoot) on the GH II booklet, I was sure he was a she. I kept insisting so for a long time, until I read from somewhere that his name was Roger. Mind you, I was 8 at the time. I also used to translate their songs into Finnish with a dictionary, so you can imagine how silly some of the translations were, as I didn't understand the concept of the songs then, just the word to word translation.. |
| PD. 20.11.2003 15:38 |
I used to think that Brian plays his guitar harmonies (for example those in Dreamers Ball) simultaiously on just one guitar. I also used to think that there is no band else equaling Queen in terms of diversity... until I heard the Beatles albums. |
| Sir Archie 'Tiffany' Leach 20.11.2003 17:19 |
Used to get confused between who was Brian and Roger, Now I'm Here was sung by Brian, and at the tribute concert, as Freddie shouted 'this is what you wanted and this is what you're gonna get' that he was really alive and it was all a big joke. Okay that feeling may have only existed for a couple of seconds but hell I believed. |
| deleted user 20.11.2003 17:51 |
When I first listened to Queen I believed that the guys had a full choir (consisting of men and women)making the backing vocals for them!I was sure that I was listening female vocals!When my cousin told me that it was THEM making all the choirs I was astounded. |
| MamaQueen 21.11.2003 09:21 |
At the begining of the 80's when I first heard Queen, my friends told me that they were all gay. I said, no, that cannot be, especially Freddie. |
| Kevin Spacey 21.11.2003 17:53 |
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| Kevin Spacey 21.11.2003 18:01 |
Sorry for the previous post. In those old days (I mean the early nineties :)) there were only pirate cassettes in Poland and there was I'm Going Slightly Mad on my copy of Queen II. I thought this was the album prior to Innuendo :) but my most amusing misunderstanding about this song is connected with the Cure. first there was this "Lullaby" video by the Cure and a bit later I saw I'm going Slightly Mad video and I was perfectly sure it was the same guy who previously had been afraid of sleep because of spiders. I didn't like IGSM at first because Lullaby had horrified me :)) |
| iGSM 21.11.2003 20:14 |
I too mixed Roger and Brian up and when they appeared on a shit house talk show at the start of last year I thought 'Hang on! They've got the names mixed up! He's Brian and he's Roger. Twats!' Then of course I never got anything wrong ever again...ever. |
| Wilki Amieva 26.11.2003 11:43 |
I've first heard the song "The Miracle" on FM radio. The reception (in my TV!) was so bad ...as also was my English. For weeks I used to think that the song was called "It's America", and I've phoned the radios several times per day requesting the song by that name: "...and I want to hear "It's America" by QUEEN, pleeease". |
| Lia 26.11.2003 12:01 |
I used to wonder if Bulsara was an Italian name--thought Freddie might look Italian...did not learn about the fascinating India-Persia Parsee background until the 90's. |
| MexQueenFM 26.11.2003 12:02 |
me too Wilki! , i thought it was It's America lol |
| geeksandgeeks 26.11.2003 12:40 |
1) The first time I ever heard Queen on the radio, i thought the singer was a woman. 2) I thought that Brian looked scary. (Okay, folks, cut me some slack, I was a rather imaginative nine-year-old.) 3) That the costumes were extremely dorky-looking. (Wait...I still think that.) 4) That I was about the only person who liked this band (and living where I do, you can't blame me.) 5) That all the band members were dead. |
| Lia 26.11.2003 13:18 |
Before seeing the lyrics to Keep Yourself Alive in print, I thought "belladonic haze" was "a bed of donney kays"--thought those must be flowers that grew in the UK but not here in the US! |
| Brian_Mays_Wig 26.11.2003 13:33 |
My first album that I brought was GH1 when I was 9. I was shocked to learn that John was actually Roger, id got them mixed up and I was horrified to learn that the lead singer of Queen was Freddie Mercury......not Eddie Murphy! :D |
| Lester Burnham 26.11.2003 13:58 |
"1) The first time I ever heard Queen on the radio, i thought the singer was a woman." You must've mistaken Queen with Rush, my dear. "5) That all the band members were dead." Thought that too, at one point. When I was just getting into the band, I would tell my friends, and they'd be like, "Oh, is that the band that's dead?" The looks of confusion I gave them... Also, I believed that the way the songs were sequenced on an album was the way that they were recorded in the studio, and that they were recorded in only one take. I would get confused when I'd read interviews with Brian or Roger saying it took the band so many months to record the albums. I'd say to myself, "But it's only 42 minutes long...what the hell?!" |
| geeksandgeeks 26.11.2003 14:14 |
Funny, Lester, I thought the same thing for the longest time. Then I learned how long it takes to make a 30-second film. And LOL to B_M_W! |
| 7Innuendo7 26.11.2003 14:30 |
Early on I confused John and Brian, and also, I thought Queen were an American band. Then I got GHI and saw the British flag patch on John's jacket and the light began to dawn... |
| Whisperer 26.11.2003 15:11 |
1) I thought that Frederick Mercury was French. 2) I thought that Brian May and Howard Stern were the same people. 3) I thought that Freddie sang lead vocals on all songs. 4) I was sure that TSMGO and IWIA were written by Freddie. 5) I was sure that they used a choir on several songs such as Teo Torriate. 6) I was sure that Barcelona was recorded with a philharmonic orchestra, 7) I thought that all songs from Made In Heaven were new. 8) I still think that Freddie faked his death ;-) |
| geeksandgeeks 26.11.2003 16:17 |
"2) I thought that Brian May and Howard Stern were the same people." Apparently Brain gets that a lot. Being mistaken for Howard, that is ;P And I thought Teo Toriatte was recorded with a choir. |
| Liquid Scream 26.11.2003 22:48 |
In the beginning I thought that the videos were filmed while the band recorded the songs. That is why the song in the video was the exact same as the one on the album. I remember wondering what the videos for songs like Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon looked like thinking the filmed the recording of every song. |
| corki4.0 27.11.2003 00:06 |
The first time i heard queen, i didn't like them at all. My brother in law had the classic queen album. For some reason everytime i went over there i had to listen to queen. i have no idea but i was drawn to them. i thought they were quite femimine looking as well especially roger. haha. My sister told me they all used to simulate anal sex on stage or something like that and that threw me off a bit because it sounds so weird .. but i learned that that was all nonsense. I also thought that brian sang on under pressure too. i was a bit bugged by that one.. ha |
| Poop_First_Patchy 27.11.2003 02:41 |
I used to think '39 was sung by Freddie. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzeeeeeee! What was I thinking!!?? |
| Dances With Freddie 27.11.2003 06:33 |
I was listening to queen for quite a while before i knew their names. and one day i found a love song collection cd at home, with "too much love will kill you". in the inlay card it said that it was performed by Brian May and I was like "what the hell? who does HE think that he is?" when I realized it was a member of the band I felt kind of stupid. what an idiot! lol |
| *goodco* 27.11.2003 08:11 |
'The bed of donney kays' and 'It's America' are classic! As are the rest of the posts on this thread. Thanks for sharing. And to add another note of being naive: how many of us thought that Freddie Mercury was an incredible birth name. |
| Spisso 27.11.2003 08:17 |
:) LOL |
| Sebastian 27.11.2003 08:23 |
I also thought videos were filmed while they made the song, I had watched only 'Bo Rhap', 'Another One Bites' and 'We Are The Champions' at the time, and that led me to more mistakes: In 'Another One Bites' Roger mimes the choruses so I thought he did them, and the only harmony of the song is lower than the melody, so that supported my theory of Roger as the 'bass singer'. But the one in 'Champions' was even worse. After the first chorus ends the camera is on Roger, who turns to his left, bends a little and does a cymbal roll in the hi-hat I think. Well, back then what I thought is that there was a piano next to the drum-kit and that Roger played piano in the verses and switched to drums in the chorus, since Fred was standing up. That one was so funny :) Other than those I remember thinking John played keyboards in 'Innuendo' because I didn't note the bass and apparently all the band had to be performing. |
| geeksandgeeks 27.11.2003 08:51 |
"they all used to simulate anal sex on stage or something like that" Oh man - some thing are better left unsaid. |
| AJ 27.11.2003 23:17 |
I used to think that John Deacon sang some songs. |
| Saffron Caribou 27.11.2003 23:26 |
It would be a cold day in hell if John admits he has sang on Queen songs! LOL Dammit! If only he sang the Breakthru part during the BTS of Breathru at the end when they were running towards the camera! That was a golden opportunity! |
| Saffron Caribou 27.11.2003 23:29 |
Please don't laugh... When I was a wee lass, I used to think Freddie was Harry Belafonte. I'M NOT KIDDING. See, back in like 85 or so there was a sticker book of rock stars. I got this Harry Belafonte sticker and I pasted it under the name Freddie Mercury in the sticker book. Hope you all had a hearty laugh after reading this. PFFFFFT! :P |
| Lester Burnham 28.11.2003 00:12 |
When I looked at my dad's copy of the Innuendo album back a few years, I saw that all the band members played keyboards as well as their respective instruments. I was amazed that, say, Roger could play drums AND keyboards at the same time! I even asked my dad how they did this, and he replied, "They've gotta be pretty talented," obviously misunderstanding my question as how they can play both instruments, but not simultaneously. |
| Spisso 28.11.2003 10:19 |
LOL |
| RainMustFall 30.11.2003 10:10 |
I used to think that John played a co-lead guitar with Brian. Otherwise, how could they have gotten the two "bouncing" guitars in the middle of Bicycle Race? Or the the three alternating guitar "heralds" at the end of the hard rock in Bo Rhap? Then, of course, I realized that those were just stereo tricks and overdubs, yada yada yada... |
| the show is going on 30.11.2003 15:38 |
I use to think that Freddie was the composer and the singer of a song I've seen and heard on tv, something like "scatman's wolrd" I think.... |
| The Black Queen 30.11.2003 15:51 |
I use to think that Brian was Roger and Roger was John. And when I was about 7, I saw the Bo Rhap vid and thought that all of them were girls. Up until I was 8 I figured out Freddie was a man, understanding what the bulge in his pants was. |
| Acathla 30.11.2003 15:57 |
Hilarious topic. Keep it going! |
| Abby Mouser 30.11.2003 16:02 |
I didn't know who Queen was when i was 11 and i heard bo rhap. And when first saw a pic of the band i thought Brian was Freddie for the longest time, until i went to a website. And I had always known the song "no one but you" but only found out a year ago that it was Queen. I guess its all just a learning process |
| Mr.Jingles 30.11.2003 16:13 |
Growing up in the 80s, there were a couple of things that mislead me to believe that... - When I was 5 or 6 I used to believe that Freddie was Tom Selleck, as Magnum was a popular TV series in the 80s. - 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' were 80s songs. - Before becoming a fan I thought that Freddie was one of those arrogant rock stars (like Sting or Bono) who think that the whole world turns around them. - Up to the point where 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was re-released after Freddie's death, I never heard the song before. After watching the video I was surprised to find out that they once had long hair in the 70s. Which made me believe that they broke up at some point in the 70s, and they got back together after like 7 years in the 80s when they had short hair (except Brian of course). - The intro to 'The Show Must Go On' was made of cellos, and not a synthesizer. Which made me wonder what member of Queen could play the cello... I thought it could possibly be Freddie. - I also used to believe that all the songs on 'Made In Heaven' were new, and Freddie recorded all of them 1 year before dying of AIDS. |
| ~Silje~ 30.11.2003 17:08 |
I thought that they had a choir. I thought that Freddie sang on all songs. I thought it was amazing how he could change his voice as from fitting BohRap to Drowse, and from there to '39. I thought it was QueenS not Queen. "Mom, did you hear about Queens?" "You mean Queen?" "Yes, Queens" etc... It didn't last long, and now I can't stand people saying Queens instead of Queen. I thought BohRap's music video would be like a movie, and the storyline would follow the song. I thought Freddie was straight for a while (not long, though). |
| anillusion 02.12.2003 09:25 |
I thought the follow up LP to 'The Game' would be better, that 'One Vision' and 'I Want It All' were going to be part of absolute killer albums to come, because of their quality and the tracks got such great airplay on the radio and MTV I just knew they would get the Queen name back into the minds of the American public. Alas... |
| MamaQueen 02.12.2003 10:15 |
Don't hit me, but the first time I heard of Queen I thought it was an American group, not British. (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea gran culpa) |
| Matti 02.12.2003 11:30 |
My friend's sister told us that 2 of them were gay. We knew Freddie was and so my friend was trying to decide what other one was too. She was looking at pictures and stuff and she said: "The blonde one" Lol! "I thought it was QueenS not Queen. "Mom, did you hear about Queens?" "You mean Queen?" "Yes, Queens" etc" It's the same with me for Styx. Only my mom will say like THE Styx. Lol. anyways.... |
| Spisso 03.12.2003 05:48 |
--------> To MamaQueen Mea "MAXIMA" culpa... |
| Stalinesque 07.12.2003 10:47 |
I used to think they sung "If fuck could only reach you, If fuck could make you smile" when I heard Breakthru the first time |
| anillusion 07.12.2003 11:16 |
I was naive and respected most of Brian's opinions. And then came his comments in support of Michael Jackson..(Question: Brian, would you have let your son, at any time, sleep in the same bed with an adult male while you were in another room????) And 'death to all smokers'. They're vermin ....and now, there's this thing about 'parasites'. Parasites? Damn, how many different 45 sleeves of IWTBF are there? Then there's GH#3, The Platinum Collection, Rocks, WWRY and its 295 different versions, and on and on goes on and on and on and on...... |
| Simmer 07.12.2003 20:42 |
When I was getting into Queen I thought that Roger was John and John was Roger. |
| Pluto 07.12.2003 21:47 |
please dont laugh at me but when i first got into queen i got one of the greatest hits cds and saw a pic of freddie in it and i thought he was still alive (this was last year) i also heard from a friend that all of the members were gay except for roger so me and one of my friends stayed up all night trying to figure out whos who. |
| joep the rocker 07.12.2003 22:53 |
'I was naive and respected most of Brian's opinions. And then came his comments in support of Michael Jackson..(Question: Brian, would you have let your son, at any time, sleep in the same bed with an adult male while you were in another room????)' I was naive too and respected most of brians opinions, till ....and now, there's this thing about 'parasites'. I respect his comments in support of Michael. There is this saying, dunno...innocent till proven guilty! Yes thats it. One of the most important sentences in history of human law. It has nothing to do with letting your son sleep in the same room as michael or not. Brightshopwindow, i wouldnt let my son sleep in your room, but that doesnt mean you're guilty of anything. Grow up. Brian is just not one who is easily persuaded to go on a witch-hunt. You gotta respect that. |
| MissMercury 08.12.2003 09:50 |
i used to think that roger was a girl, because the first queen video i saw was the one for IWTBF, and i also used to think that they had a choir in Bo Rap. oh, and i thought that brian played drums because he look too calm to be a guitar player |
| Tommy 10.12.2003 17:09 |
When I heard a Queen song for the first time in my life (WATC) I though it was a girl singin, and that Roger was the girl singin' it. I had only seen one picture of them, a pic from Radio GA GA, where Roger actually looks a littlebit like a girl. And when I saw the IWTBF video I remember wondering how the hell can that woman have a mustache...LOL I was about six at this time.. |
| Matti 11.12.2003 00:10 |
"And when I saw the IWTBF video I remember wondering how the hell can that woman have a mustache...LOL LOL!!!!!!! "I was about six at this time.." six.....sure you were.... |
| siljeoen 11.12.2003 06:54 |
lol! |
| bleeding heart show 11.12.2003 10:52 |
LOL TOMMY. I used to think that the UP video in GVH3 was real!!!! |
| Sonja 11.12.2003 12:31 |
"I use to think that Freddie was the composer and the singer of a song I've seen and heard on tv, something like "scatman's wolrd" I think...." Holy shit!! That stutterer??? LMAO!!! That's class!! Most of the stories here are a good laugh! |