We all know that The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix are obviously in this group, but are there any others we can think of? Here are a couple I've thought of lately, now that I've gotten into these two great bands:
Bad Company - listen to I Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, and then listen to Queen's Feelings.
Yes - compare the chord progression and style of I've Seen All Good People (Your Move) to Queen's Doing All Right. In the same vein as ISAGP, Doing All Right has a light part at the beginning, and a completely contrasting, heavier part later on. Queen played many shows with Yes in the early days, and it seems that Yes must have influenced Queen's early material, especially in terms of vocal harmonies.
Any thoughts or additions?
<B><font color=#ff7f00>Brenski</B> wrote: the middle-section of GET DOWN MAKE LOVE is definitely led zep's midddle to WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
I agree, whenever I hear Get Down Make Love it reminds me of Whole Lotta Love.
And In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited's fadeout seems reminiscent of Hey Jude by The Beatles.
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Gunpowder Gelatine wrote:
And In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited's fadeout seems reminiscent of Hey Jude by The Beatles.
I agree. ITLOTG Revisited always makes me think of Hey Jude with the "Wo wo la la la wo Wo wo la la"'s
that song is an anthem! its so good i read somewhere that cream were also an influence but hey i reckon most of the late 60s prog rock was a definate influence
Somehow, I always thought that Don't Stop Me Now was influenced by Elton John, akin to Saturday Night's Allright For Fighting.
Don't forget Aretha Franklin, please.
The Platters were a big influence on Freddie, and not because he decided to cover 'The Great Pretender'.
If you listen to songs from The Platters, you will notice that a lot of the background vocals are similar to Queen's. The only difference is that Queen gave those vocals and operatic edge.
I always thought that IT'S LATE sounds a bit like Free...
First album is full of references to The Who, Led Zeppelin...
So is the second one (especially in Brian's compositions- they are very influenced by Zeps III)... "You'Re My Best Friend sounds a bit like The Doobie Brothers, THE MILLIONAIRE WALTS always reminded me about ELO,
son And Daughter always sounded very Tony Iommi, Seven Seas Of Rhye and Now I'm Here- a bit like T.REX...
God- there's a lot!!!
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All I know is that Eric Clapton was one of Brian's big influences.
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The first Queen albums are basically Led Zeppellin + Cream ;
The Beach Boys
The Who
and that Joni Mitchell album: Court And Spark, that was a favourite of Freddie.
There are two bands that said Queen copied them things...like Sparks and Morgan.
There are similarities.
For sure, I would say Uriah Heep in the way they did chorus in the first albums...they transformed the beach boys chorus into something more near to Queen.
The only chorus exactly the same as the Beach Boys did is in Father to son in one part.
Roger has said in at least one interview "We wanted to be a sort of Yes meets Led Zeppelin", talking about the early days. (B.P. Fallon, RTE 2FM, 1986)
dysan wrote:
He was a pretty big 'No' fan when they asked him to carry on.
SPEAKING OF "CARRY ON"
I'm sure some of the guys are still alive (*and gals)
THEY SHOULD TOTALLY MAKE A "CARRY ON, QUEENIE" about a band past it's glory days and stuff hitting the road with a young gay blade
Anyone interested in writing the treatment then the script?
Can't be shared until repeat denials.
Small party of 3-4 embrat and Steve London sound great from here with a tech on details (* Sebastian) and an old bugger familiar with the tone of the 30+ film series
I'd try to perk up gags.
sequences would be run by Steve London 20.and then a consensus would be made after it gets passed around a bit.
Then we'd pitch it to one of those old actors (*assuming they're still alive) and see what happens.
May not stay QUEENIE but QUEEN is synonymous with gay male in the era so it'd likely pass without legal pressure. Just a film about aging Glam *rockers or so