As we close the side one of the debut album we are privy to the first real taste of the Queen Sound. Multi-layered baking vox, histrionic vocals, triumphant falsetto, balladeering mid-section and some fiery ferocious piano playing (the first we’ve gotten to hear from Freddie) all result in a splendid suggestion as to what would lay in store. This song (and others on the album) are the real roots for the next album’s theatrical style, and it shows Freddie in all his glory.
He would decide, from the lyric in this song “Oh Mother Mercury, see what they’ve done to me”, to change his last name and become Freddie Mercury, no longer Farookh Bulsara.
And a star is born.
Grade: A-
