Queen: Days of Our Lives Page #3

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# Walking true to style

# She's vulgar abuse and vile Fi-fo the

Black Queen tattoos all her pies... #

It was really only with Queen II

and Seven Seas Of Rhye

that we had the breakthrough.

We realised that the easiest way of

getting a hit album is to have a hit single

that has some musical validity.

The key to that was the stroke that was

pulled in getting them on Top Of The Pops

when Bowie dropped out

and it absolutely broke that single.

It was a very underwhelming

experience the very first time

because there was a strike on

at the BBC.

# Fear me,

you lords and lady preachers... #

So it was shot

in the weather studio.

# I command your very souls,

you unbelievers

# Bring before me what is mine

The seven seas of Rhye... #

It was great fun to be at Top Of The

Pops because it was all happening.

You felt like you were in a sense

becoming part of public consciousness.

# I will destroy any man

who dares abuse my trust... #

Top Of The Pops

was incredibly uncool.

It was rubbish because

nobody was actually playing.

There was about 75 teenagers

who were herded about the studio

and a bunch of ageing disc jockeys

presenting you.

Pan's People were there, these very

glamorous girls dancing. It was a lot of fun.

The BBC had a set of plastic cymbals that went "duh"

when you hit them, so they didn't make any noise.

I think that sort of says it all,

really.

We had slightly mixed feelings about Top

Of The Pops because it wasn't very cool,

but it was the great vehicle for

selling records, so what can you say?

It had a big impact. Our record

went straight into the top ten.

So obviously, the impact was huge.

# Storm the master marathon

I'll fly through

# By flash and thunder fire and I'll

survive I'll survive, I'll survive

# Then I'll defy the laws of nature and

come out ali-i-ive Then I'll get you... #

We had this song called Seven Seas Of Rhye, but

it's a universal truth that more groups break up

because of songwriting arguments than anything

else in the world. Your songs are your babies.

The person who has written the song tends to be the

one person who sees that one song all the way through

from the idea they have in their head at first,

the final production, the sounds and the mix...

Most of the time, I have

a clear picture of what I want.

I sort of have a lot of...

say, Roger's parts

and what Brian should do and

things... There are rows, of course.

I've probably never spoken about this before,

but The Seven Seas Of Rhye was Freddie's idea.

He had this lovely little riff idea on the piano

and all the middle eight is stuff that I did,

so we worked on it together, but when it came to

the album coming out, Freddie went, "I wrote that. "

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