Tuesday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Hammer To Fall" by Queen, from 1984's The Works. 

Live Aid Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985.

What makes Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance so amazing? 

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Tie Your Mother Down" by Queen, from 1976's A Day at the Races. 

Comments at the video: 

@yarslf 6 years ago

This bass...

This voice...

This drums...

This guitar...

It's Queen...

@JohnvanCapel 5 years ago (edited)

Brian May: Astrophysicist, animal welfare activist, all around gentleman.

Also Brian May: Writes this and Fat Bottomed Girls.

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)" by Queen, from 1982's Hot Space. 

* Lyrics by Brian May. (I bet, like me, you're first guess was Freddie.)

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

NSFW (Lyrics)

 

This tune is incredible. 

"Death on Two Legs" by Queen, from 1975's A Night at the Opera.

Brian May and John Deacon redefine Guitar Greatness.

You have to listen closely, but Roger Taylor's drumming is almost non-stop the entire song.

Freddie's vocals never grittier or more brutal; lyrics spitting fire.

Wiki: "Death on Two Legs" is considered to be Mercury's hate letter to Queen's first manager, Norman Sheffield, who for some years was reputed to have mistreated the band and abused his role as their manager from 1972 to 1975. The lyrics refer to "blood-sucking leeches" and "decaying sewer rats".

Hit the Comments at the video:

"Only Freddie could record a song in which he is spitting venomous hatred toward someone, and still make it sound beautiful and uplifting. A perfect album opener for one of the most perfect albums ever made!"

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"Queen made disstracks before it was cool y’all." 👍

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"Boy freddie mercury sounds like hes legit pissed in this song."

"And rightfully so. That manager was sucking them dry."

"This ain’t just a diss track... this is a full on assault!" 👍

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"The complexity of this song, and it's brilliance.....is INSANE! Masterpiece!"

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"The way it transitions to the piano gets me every time."

More after the Pagebreak:

Friday Morning Music Video

Advisory: Video contains some (basically inoffensive) glimpses of (slight) nudity.

"Bicycle Race" by Queen, from 1978's Jazz.

Fun Fact: "Bicycle Race" is a complex composition by Mercury. It features several modulations, unusual chord functions, a meter change (4/4 to 6/8 and back), and a programmatic section (a race of guitars emulating the bicycle race).

Fun Fact #2: Filmed by Denis de Vallance, the promotional video featured 65 nude women, all professional models, bicycle racing at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, southwest London. The group rented the stadium and several dozen bicycles for one day for filming the scene; however, when the renting company became aware of the way their bikes were used, they requested that the group purchase all the bicycle seats. 🤣 

Thursday's Friday Morning Music Video

Depending how you want to count the number of preceding bands, in groupings or count each band individually, at Wembley it was ~19 individual solo bands had played their sets. ~25 solos bands had played at John F. Kennedy Stadium. Those attending were tired and sluggish. It was a great but long day, even if you only had Farm Aid on in the background for the music and acts you didn't want to miss. People watching it at home were yawning.

And then...Queen hit the stage like mainlining adrenaline into the heart, re-energizing everyone. 

"Radio Ga Ga" by Queen, from 1984's The Works. (Live Aid Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985).

 

Wednesday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Sheer Heart Attack" by Queen, from 1977's News of the World.

Wednesday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Sheer Heart Attack" by Queen, from 1977's News of the World.