Queen: Days of Our Lives Page #4

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And we all went, "OK."

It didn't seem like that big a deal.

Freddie said, "I wrote the words and

it was my idea, so it's my song. "

The sort of unwritten law was the person who brought

the song in would get the credit for writing that song

and the money for writing that song.

Much, much later in Queen history,

we recognised this fact.

# Here I stand

Here I stand

# Look around, around

# Around, around, around... #

We were very lucky in that we hooked up with

Mott The Hoople and we were their warm-up act.

# Now I'm here

Now I'm here... #

We went all around the UK with them

and it worked out just perfectly.

# Now I'm there

Now I'm there... #

Then the guys from Mott said, "Would you

like to do the same thing in America?"

# Just a new man

# Yes, you made me live again... #

After a few gigs,

I started to feel weird.

Something was happening. I didn't know if it was

my head or my body, but I started to feel odd.

Then I woke up one morning in Boston which

was going to be the climax of the tour...

I woke up and I was yellow. The doctor came and

said, "You've got hepatitis. You have to go home. "

I still was amazed we managed to shepherd him

through the immigration queue at JFK in New York.

The poor fellow could hardly stand.

I was taken on the plane

shoulder to shoulder.

We were devastated the tour had been cut

short. It was our first trip to America.

But we just ploughed on

in the studio without him.

It was a bit of a long haul

back to health.

I was getting over all this stuff and I saw

Freddie battering out all these things, thinking,

"I've not got my sh*t together," and

really starting to worry about it.

# She keeps her Moet et Chandon

# In her pretty cabinet

# "Let them eat cake" she says

just like Marie Antoinette... #

Queen I and Queen II were full-on rock albums

and I suppose it was only a question of time

before they put some clever melody into it and

Sheer Heart Attack was that break-out album.

And Killer Queen where Mercury's

vocals have probably never been better.

# She's a killer queen

Gunpowder, gelatine

# Dynamite with a laser beam

# Guaranteed to blow your mind

Any time... #

I do remember having a slight

reservation about Killer Queen.

I thought, "Are we selling ourselves as

something which has become very light?"

But every slice through that record

is a perfect vision. There's lots of little things

which visit once only like that bell of the cymbal.

RINGING SOUND # In conversation

she spoke just like a baroness

# Met a man from China

Went down to Geisha Minah

# Then again incidentally

if you're that way inclined... #

Killer Queen always felt a bit special. It

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