Queen: Days of Our Lives Page #2

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do that and the audience would stand up.

# I have sinned, dear Father

# Father, I have sinned

# Try and help me, Father

# Won't you let me in?

# Liar!

# Oh, nobody... #

It was the first moment when I thought, "Something's

happening here and people know what we're about. "

When they came along, there had been

a denim rock movement,

if you like, with Status Quo,

Uriah Heep.

I think Queen were an incredible

breath of fresh air in rock music.

They had brilliant songs.

Freddie Mercury was

an absolutely charismatic front man.

# Liar... #

Brian May was just this brilliant guitarist

and Roger Taylor was a phenomenal drummer.

And you had that guy

that played bass.

We spent a couple of years looking for a bass

player. It was very hard to find the right guy.

Then we found John.

Deacon John on bass.

APPLAUSE:

I came along

as a bit of an outsider at first.

It did take me quite a few years

to grow more into the group

and find myself at home, really.

Before we signed to a record label, we

actually signed to Trident Productions,

a management company run by the Sheffield

brothers who had a studio in the middle of Soho.

Recording our first album, we were

all students finishing off our degrees.

We had to do it

in what time was available

because the studio was being

booked up all the time.

We had to go in sometimes

at two in the morning

and sometimes finishing at six in the morning,

all those weird times that nobody wanted.

You know, you could see the working girls

at night through their lace curtains,

so while we were mixing,

we'd have a little bit of diversion.

The album came out and sort of resoundingly

crashed. It really didn't do much.

When you make your first album, you go into the record

shops and think, "We're in the record stores now!"

You go in and say, "Have you got the new Queen

album then?" They go, "What?" It's a long haul.

With Queen II, I couldn't believe

how much work we put into that.

I think We felt we were evolving

our own sound.

We were pioneering

this sort of multi-tracking thing.

It gave you a tremendous palette.

You could get massive choral effects

with just three of us singing.

# Voice from behind... #

We really got into production

and went completely over the top.

There's a track called

March Of The Black Queen.

# I'll be a bad boy,

I'll be your bad boy

# I'll do the march

of the Black Queen... #

It's very long. It's in about 11 different

sections and the complexity of it is staggering.

I mean, the tape was

literally transparent.

The 16-track, two-inch tape, the

oxide was almost completely worn away.

We'd gone over it so many times.

It literally was transparent.

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