Yellow Main Sequence - Magic Car

Advantages: It's spectacular
Disadvantages: There won't be any more like it

...On a day like today, with All Hallow's Eve just around the corner, when there's magic in the air, it seems kind of fitting for me to write about Queen. Released in 1986, many of the songs on Queen's A Kind of Magic album appeared in the film Highlander. Part of the reason I love this album so much is that I'm rather a fan of Highlander, both the film franchise (although the first and last were the only ones worth watching) and the television series (due mainly to a gorgeous long-haired martial artist bloke). Funnily enough, though, part of the reason I loved Highlander so much is the Queen music, so it's all a bit chicken and egg really! Another reason I love this album is that it is the one Queen were promoting when I was honoured enough to interview Freddie Mercury as a rather green, 21 year old music journalist. From... Read review

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Advantages: Great music, wonderful value, excellent lyrics
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...I’m currently in the process of collecting all my favourite vinyl albums on CD and finding some real bargains in the process. My latest acquisition at a mere £4.99 from Our Price is Elton John’s classic double album ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’. I can vividly remember buying the original version on a day trip to London, just before Christmas in 1973. I went with some of my friends on the train, no mean feat in those days from the Shropshire backwaters and bought it from what I believe to be Virgin’s first music shop in Oxford Street. Nearly thirty years ago – doesn’t time fly! And yet the music and the memories are as fresh as ever. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road was the peak of Elton's fabulous ride through the 70s. The album is as enchanting and nostalgic as ‘The Wizard of Oz’ from... Read review

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Advantages: Will Invoke A Passionate Excitement Within You
Disadvantages: None.

...played live. §~§~§~§~§~§~§~§ The Song ~~~~~~ For anyone that has never heard this song by either group, I'll try to give the Santana version it's own flavour, followed in the comparison by a little of Fleetwood Macs.. It begins with a keyboard sequence with a jingling, bongo drumming, tambourine / high hat percussion that gradually draws in the distinctive guitar of Carlos Santana. His fingers nimbly bending the strings on the fret board of his electric guitar. The music soon turns the atmosphere to a slightly dark Latin American beat. The percussion beating away in the background with intense bongo drum sounds. Leading guitar is foremost throughout the song, broken away only whilst the lyrics are simply let loose. The interwoven guitar work with the whole Latin American beat, gives a warm magical feeling inside my stomach, sending... Read review

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