Ah, thank you, Roger. For abandoning the entire dance motif in favor or….New Wave? How out of touch has this band become? A mechanical call to arms, “Action this Day” is another case of Freddie singing lead on a Roger song and almost pulling it off. But Roger is a Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Body Language
This was it. The long awaited next single from the Number One band of 1980. I got the single before I’d heard it. And I looked at that cover….of those bodies….with the painted arrows….and I thought…. Wtf is this? And when I put it on I was transfixed… On just Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Back Chat
And now let’s hear from the king of Rock Disco, the author of their number one hit, the bass driven “Another One Bites the Dust”. “Back Chat” is the unworthy nephew to that song. There is nothing in it that would catch fire BUT it does smack of everything I Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Dancer
You just get the feeling on Hot Space that Brian May isn’t into it. Freddie (and John) are driving the band into a more dance club sound and that doesn’t really jibe with the hard rockin’ May and his Red Special. But, Brian got to steer the band on the Continue Reading
Queen – Staying Power
I bugged the record store guy at the Union Market every weekend for 2 months about when the new Queen album was coming.I couldn’t wait.And it didn’t get it first. My friend, Randy, did. And we blew off lunch to sneak into the choir room and play it on the Continue Reading