The Queen of Rock - FREDDIE MERCURY

I was going to write about the greatest Rock Bands.
But, I realise there's only one greatest, and it will be a MAJOR slight to share this post with any other.


So, I dedicate this post to QUEEN.

The GREATEST Rock band of all time.


Queen is the greatest rock Band of all time due to the versatility, magnetism and hypnotic charisma of FREDDIE MERCURY. 



The band has re-leased a total of:

• EIGHTEEN NUMBER ONE ALBUMS,
• EIGHTEEN NUMBER ONE SINGLES,
• TEN NUMBER ONE DVD's and 
• HAVE SOLD OVER ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY MILLION ALBUMS with some estimates in excess of THREE HUNDRED MILLION ALBUMS.

They have been honoured with SEVEN IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS and were inducted in-to the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME in 2001.

Holly-wood Walk of Fame

Queen was such a versatile group and all their songs had different characters and evoked different emotions in the listener of which the most consistent are usually Awe and Admiration. I'm not saying Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon didn't have their own amazing in-put as well. I mean, there would be no QUEEN with-out them, would there? I think one of the major reasons the four worked so well was due to the perfect synergy of their personalities and talent and also the lack of ego on their individual consciousness. They had GLADLY handed it over to FREDDIE MERCURY. And total and complete leader-ship over to him as well.


He had enough ego for the World and his wife. 


But, here's the thing, and a funny one it is: He wasn't arrogant. Fascinating paradox, you might say.....


Well, not such a paradox(albeit, still fascinating) when you realise that his ego was completely embedded in the Art, but not the Artist. The arrogance oozed out of every pore having being deeply in-grained in his Creative Fibre. And you could feel this potency when FREDDIE MERCURY was prancing around the stage and belting out lyrics in such a powerfully haughty voice that ensnared listeners in its musical web.


And the lyrics of all the songs produced by QUEEN are so in-depth and are all so..... powerful. 


Using "I want it all" for starters: I Want it All (Official video)

And here are the lyrics:

But.... beyond the lyrics, the mix of the instruments(vocals inclusive) is simply DIVINE. I wouldn't even talk about the guitar play by Brian May - simply Orgasmic.... Orgasmic, I tell you.


The entire song is simply amazingly powerful in it's ambiguity.


Even when FREDDIE MERCURY sang "Living on my Own", a song about loneliness and the dis-connect from Humanity, he still had the arrogance to insert "I don't have no time for no monkey business" right be-fore adding "I guess I'm lonely lonely lonely yea! Got to be some good times a-h-e-a-d". And the video was soooo apt and spot on in that it showed a defiant facade that was hiding a desolate spirit. It showed the desperation be-hind the Human need to connect with another. Living on My Own

And here are the lyrics:

Another song QUEEN sang that greatly affirmed their legendary status and validated the  deification of FREDDIE MERCURY was "We are the Champions". The lyrics make one ALMOST feel taller than Sagittarius when you try to spiritually connect with what force must have been coursing through their consciousness as they flung out such brazen lyrics with such impunity, confidence and arrogance. And even in the manner in which FREDDIE MERCURY strutted round the stage in the black and white pant-suit that left zilch to the imagination; how he sat in the beginning of the song addressing the crowd like a Creativity Sensei, clutching his microphone(his synthesis instrument) in his hand, twisting it back and forth between his rest-less hands like an abstract guitar. The way he kept gripping the head of the microphone, almost (like) in breath-less anticipation. And when the instruments all came together in an up-lifting crescendo, the way he jumped up like he had electric current coursing though his body. The way he strutted around the stage bare-foot. The sheer NERVE of it! He did not need shoes! 


He was FREDDIE MERCURY (and still is for-ever and ever, amen). 


HE was enough.


You can imagine the confidence and the assurance they all must have had in regards to their place in the history of this world. Wow, and to think they were NOT bragging, but making a very matter-of-fact statement.


It's soooo SURREAL.  

And here are the lyrics:

Now, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is one of the greatest songs of all time due to its versatility which is inclusive of, but not limited to: The fusion of different un-related genres, vocal gymnastics etc. They brought an IMPOSSIBLE blend of different genres of music and turned it in-to some-thing un-believably.... MAGICAL!


"Bohemian Rhapsody" in the first verse started like slow pop, then the second verse came in as a ballad. The third one began as a ballad as well and then slowly warmed up with the guitars and drums increment.


Now, the fourth verse also began as a ballad when suddenly the guitars and drums (amongst others) make a dramatic entrance in "Gotta to leave you all be-hind and face the t-r-u-t-h". Then our hearts lift as sudden as the waves of the ocean as the infusion of guitars and drums slam in-to our minds through the auditory high-way. 


The fifth verse.... hmmm...  this is where we now begin to under-stand the impossibly surrealistic outer-worldly AWESOMENESS of FREDDIE MERCURY.


It is an OPERATIC piece with an Islamic chant thrown in "Bisimilahi


Wow... and then this winds down in-to slow rock in the sixth verse and then winds down in the last verse in-to a ballad.


I mean...... Need I say more???

And here are the lyrics:

Now, let's talk about "Barcelona". One of the most iconic fusions EVER. 


Opera meets Rock. Or more like FREDDIE MERCURY meets Opera, and they were only too glad too have him! It was more of a case of FREDDIE MERCURY doing FREDDIE MERCURY in Opera. Montserrat Caballe must have been weeping butter-flies after the music was re-leased to the general public be-cause she knew she had secured her place in the history of the World for all time.

And here are the lyrics(I have to admit though, the back-drop is breath-taking... as well as the font):

But, it will be a complete tragedy(no pun intended) bordering-on-the-ridiculous if I do not mention the most iconic song due to it's significance in the history of Rock: "The Show Must Go On".


"The Show Must Go On" is the song FREDDIE MERCURY composed when he knew he was going to die. The lyrics literarily tear at one's heart-strings:

And here are the lyrics:

Who can for-get "Radio Gaga"??? 


There is soooo much more: "Innuendo", "Flash", "I Want To Break Free", "Fat Bottomed Girls", and so so so so so so so many massively iconic hits.


The greatest being of all time right up there with Michael Jack-son is FREDDIE MERCURY.


I do not think there is any-thing further to add at this time.


Though, knowing my-self and FREDDIE MERCURY, and my fixation with Queen; I'd probably be back to add some more to this......

I don't think this post is over yet....