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The Beatles Song Aesthetics [1/?]: Penny Lane

“Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit, and meanwhile back Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes There beneath the blue suburban skies Penny Lane!”

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Queen Song Aesthetics [3/?]: The March of the Black Queen

“I reign with my left hand I rule with my right I'm Lord of all darkness I'm queen of the night But I've got the power Now do the march of the black queen”

"... that song took me ages to complete. I wanted to give it everything, to be self-indulgent or whatever."

-Freddie Mercury

"The tape went transparent, genuinely... It was 16-track... The tape had gone over the (recording) head so many times, overdubbing, that the oxide had worn off." 

-Roger Taylor

"You've got to bear in mind that we'd already made 'My Fairy King' on the first album and we'd done 'The March of the Black Queen' on the second album, so we were well in tune with Freddie's excursions into strange areas, and that was something that we really enjoyed." 

-Brian May

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FanFic Recommendations [1/?]: Session Man by @tangerine-page Rowena is a talented, young session guitarist with quick wits and a passion for the Blues of the Mississippi delta. Working and living in a man’s world, she’s fighting for her place in the early 60s session musicians’ world and living from day to day. On the one hand happy with her profession allowing her to follow her passion for music, she’s dreaming bigger on the other hand striving for a career greater than only being a hired hand. When meeting James Pages and his fellow Yardbirds, she’s fascinated by the silent and profound guitarist. Instantly connected with one another both tumble in a sweet romance.

Session Man is a Jimmy Page fanfic by the talented@tangerine-page

Check it out here

All credit to the wonderful author All credit for the pictures to the original owners

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Guns ‘n Roses Song Aesthetics [1/?]: Welcome to the jungle

“Welcome to the jungle, we take it day by day If you want it you're gonna bleed but it's the price to pay And you're a very sexy girl, very hard to please You can taste the bright lights, but you won't get there for free In the jungle, welcome to the jungle Feel my, my, my serpentine Uh, I, I want to hear you scream”

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Queen Song Aesthetics [2/?]: Tenement Funster

“I like the good things in life But most of the best things ain't free It's the same situation just cuts like a knife When you're young and you're poor and you're crazy Young and you're crazy...“

“A dark song by Roger,which is quite difficult to explain as it doesn't seem fit properly into any stereotype or genre. However, this makes it even better as the fact that it sounds so unique is a good example for Queen's sense of variety and Roger's song-writing-skills. It is a well written piece, full of good ideas and with a great atmosphere.”

-www.queensongs.info

“Roger’s lyrics are perfect for the days you feel rebel bold, mean and completely Teenagerage”

-unknown

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Various record covers of Queen’s single “Your my Best Friend/ 39“

left to right

No.1: Italy No.2: Taiwan No.3: Belgium No.4: Japan No.5: US No.6: The Netherlands No.7: Yugoslavia No.8: UK No.9: Germany

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Queen Song Aesthetics [1/?]: Killer Queen

“She's a Killer Queen Gunpowder, gelatine Dynamite with a laser beam Guaranteed to blow your mind Anytime”

“It's about a high class call girl. I'm trying to say that classy people can be whores as well. That's what the song is about, though I'd prefer people to put their interpretation upon it”

-Freddie Mercury (in an interview 1974)

"Queen's track 'Killer Queen' made me discover music and helped me come into my own at the age of 15. The way Freddie Mercury delivered his lyrics just made me feel like a confident woman."

-Katy Perry (in an interview 2013)

“Killer Queen' was the turning point. It was the song that best summed up our kind of music”

-Brian May (in Somebody to Love: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Freddie Mercury)

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Moodboard “run to paradise”

A hard boiled story about Lola Gone’s rise and fall on the Strip. When sixteen years old runaway Kate Fields meets Frank Feranna jr., an unstoppable spiral of sex, drugs and alcohol abuse kicks in, leading for both to the highest highs and the lowest lows. Joined at the hip with Nikki, Lola experiences the rise of the infamous Mötley Crüe while making a name for herself as their manager, roadie, personal assistant and long term groupie. A relentless story about life on the strip, told by the wonderful and talented @angrylizardjacket

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All credit to the wonderful author All credit for the pictures to the original owners