Advantages: An album full of originality and variety Disadvantages: It finishes!
How can an album that contains both Don't Stop Me Now and Fat Bottomed Girls fail to impress? Quite simply, it cannot.
Out of all the Queen albums I can't think of one that has such variety on it. From the arabic musings in Mustapha, the frantic Don't Stop me Now, Dead on Time & If You Can't Beat Them, the beautiful Jealousy and In only Seven Days, the raw Fun It and More of that Jazz, the poppy Bicycle Race, the jazzy Dreamers Ball and the stadium ...
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Advantages: A fantastic album which has not diminished with time! Disadvantages: None!
This album seems to be one that gets 'left out' when people refer to Queen. It has to be remembered that only a couple of years after this album Queen produced their Greatest Hits album, a feat not acheieved by many bands. So why buy this album? It has the old favourites 'Fat Bottomed Girls' and 'Bicycle Race', but there is so much more to the album, and virtually every type of music is portrayed in the way only Freddie Mercury could do - the culmination ...
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JAZZ
Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano); Brian May (guitar, background vocals); John Deacon
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(bass); Roger Taylor (drums, background vocals).Recorded in Montreux, Switzerland and Nice, France between July and October, 1978.In 1978, all eyes were on Queen...