#queen 80s

[cityoftheangelllls]

Wooowww, I haven't made any Queen-related fanart for a long hot minute, huh?

I whipped up something informal and silly using my new-ish "tiny" art style :3

[iloveakindofmagic]

Freddie Mercury ❤️✨✨

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[painandpleasure86]

The Miracle's Collectors Edition: "new" songs

I'll give a little review of the inedits songs that were released today. I want to make a proper review of the whole Collectors Edition but that would take me some time, I promise to post it soon.

Dog with a Bone

A song that starts with some chat between three of the members while John and Brian are playing their instruments a little. Freddie says "let's start from the top pleeeease!" softly and the music starts. We can listen a duo here, Freddie-Roger. A beautiful dynamic that they didn't do a lot. The music is clearly rock, typical Queen style but with the 80s touch. It has some reminisces with Tear it Up. Of course, we have a guitar solo, so Bri style.

We knew this song previously, but not this version with the duo, plus this version seems more polished than the one we knew before.

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You Know You Belong To Me

This song is acoustic, we could listen some hints of other instruments (synths and bass) but are mainly subtle touches. Brian sings here. It has a calm atmosphere that made me feel comfy, Bri's sweetness and softness when he sings helps a lot to build this atmosphere. This song is completely inedit.

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I Guess We're All Falling Out

The song starts with the piano playing, and the other instruments playing a bit. Freddie says something like "I'll make sure this is right", playing his piano and starting to sing the song. We can listen in some parts that Freddie is saying "nananananana" or similar, we can notice that the song wasn't finished (this song is a demo indeed). Around 2:16 music switches from a ballad to a proto version of Hang on in There, but Freddie is still singing the chorus of the song. It ends a bit abruptly, when Freddie says "stop!" and Bri and Roger were talking too.

We already had a rough version around YouTube of this song, but this version is new.

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Water

A song with just some synths and Brian's voice at the start. When it's a kind of chorus, we can hear drums too and it's the only other company to Bri's voice until the song ends. We can hear him saying "dadadada" or similar in parts. The songs ends abruptly. Brian's singing voice here is melancholic and it's like he was crying with his voice, mostly in the part of the "chorus".

This song is inedit.

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I hope you like this lil post I made on a rush but eager to share with all of you some of my opinions...

[johnstoast19]

Forest Tale

This one is dedicated to all my little students who are always thinking in magical stories. I'm a teacher, by the way.

Summary: Freddie helps Michael Deacon with his preschool homework.

They are in London again with another record to realize and challenges to rise. Freddie is ready for his new album and cannot wait for all the things he would be doing with the band. But today will be different, if he can say it like that.

“Fred, this is a lot of responsibility. Are you convinced? I don’t wanna come back here because you called me crying and stressed.” John said, hiding a little smile.

He knows the consequences of these experiments, Freddie is good for a million things, he could sing a high note without disheveling, but caring for a little child and helping him with his homework is another thing.

“Oh, shut up, Deaky! I’m an expert on this. Just look at me! Do you believe all that shit about my shameful behavior?” Freddie replied, taking a sip of his wine. “I’m an angelic soul, the kids love me.”

John rolled his eyes, knowing the result of this discussion. “Okay, you got it. I’ll be back in three hours. Please, don’t bring him any sweets if he doesn’t finish his homework.” He warns him with his finger, showing Michael's notebook. “Ah yes… don’t make jokes about sexual topics when he is with you, Michael is a talking parrot in his classroom.”

Freddie smiled mischievously. “Like uncle, like nephew.” He laughed loudly, forgetting all John’s signals. “Okay, I’ll be a good uncle, It’s a promise.”

“Thank you, that’s all I want to hear of you.”

Five minutes later, Michael came into the living room, looking forward to a great moment with his uncle Freddie. The child was excited, he always wanted to share with the singer out of all those recording sessions and backstage. This afternoon they'll be a powerful couple… or maybe not.

When they were finally alone, Michael started to play with the cats, following them through the whole room and screaming like a devil. Freddie was scared, he never saw himself as a nanny, but this job couldn’t be so difficult, there exist limits and he’s going to apply them now.

“Let's see… Your daddy told me about your homework. It’s time to do it, little monkey.” He caught the boy and carried him by the hand to the kitchen table.

“Please, uncle Freddie. I wanna play out with your cats.” Michael cried.

“Believe me, boy. This is not the cutest and funniest thing in the world, but you need to finish your homework if you want to play and kill all my babies. Did you grab it?”

Michael looks at him, embarrassed. “Okay.”

“Well, here are the instructions.” Freddie read the topic. “You got to draw four forest animals and tell a story about them tomorrow in class.” He smiled with satisfaction, it's an easy job.

"Do you know how to draw all of this? Really?"

"Of course, I'm an expert in drawing, I graduated in design."

"Wow, that's awesome!" Michael said, clapping with pride.

"Okay boy, let's do this." Freddie took the pencil and sheet of paper, while Michael sat close to him. "In the forest we can find different animals like rabbits, owls, wolves… What do you want in your story?"

"A lion!"

"Oh no! The lions don't live in the forest. Pay attention to me." Freddie snorted.

The child nodded, he couldn't deny his happiness.

Freddie had a good idea. "Listen, I know a beautiful story with all those animals." He clarified his voice. "Once upon a time, in the middle of the deep forest, lived four animals with stronger powers: an intelligent owl that could say all about the universe, but be careful, you need to say the magical words to shut him up… like your uncle Bri."

"Really? That's funny!" Michael couldn't stop laughing, and Freddie couldn't blame him. "What are the others?"

"The old owl is a big friend of a meddlesome raccoon, who is always doing strange things in the middle of the night. He is waiting for something, no matter what, he'll always be there to break your patience."

"And who is the raccoon, uncle Freddie?"

Fred smiled mischievously. "Uncle Roger… of course."

Michael held his abdomen because of laughter. "It's my daddy's turn!" He screamed.

"Sure! He's a… fox."

"Is he a powerful fox?"

"Don't expect a lot of information because he's an intelligent and mysterious fox, who is hiding into the night looking for…

"Food?" Michael asked..

"Oh no… something more… just foxes things." He said, embarrassed. "But he's one of the most brilliant animals that you can meet as well."

"Yes! Daddy is a superpower fox!"

Freddie pinched his cheek fondly, he cannot deny the love that he feels for this child.

"I wanna know who are you, uncle Freddie! Please."

The singer sat on the edge of the chair, looking like a peacock. "Okay, boy… your magnificent uncle is a gorgeous, elegant and stunning deer." He responded, feeling like a big star of Broadway.

"Wow! Like Bambi!"

"What? No, a much better deer, I have magic."

"In yours horns?"

Freddie raised an eyebrow. "Of course! And the other animals have respect for me, but we're good friends."

"Oh, I can understand it, for that reason the band is called Queen. All of those animals are the forest rulers." The child reasoned and then smiled, feeling satisfied with his intervention.

"Great! You're so smart, little monkey."

"I would like to read this story in my class! Thank you." The child gave his uncle a big hug.

"It's a pleasure, honey."

The next day, Michael got an "A" for his peculiar story, but Roger wasn't satisfied with his character.

"Why the hell am I a fucking raccoon?" He claimed.

His bandmates could hide their laughs, and Freddie pinched his cheek, enjoying the scene.

"It's not personal, dear. It's just a preschool story."

[queenfullofhystericalqueens]

♕Hot Space♕

♕Recorded: June 1981 – March 1982♕

♕Song list:

Staying Power (Mercury)

Dancer (May)

Back Chat (Deacon)

Body Language (Mercury)

Action This Day (Taylor)

Put Out The Fire (May)

Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) (Mercury)

Calling All Girls (Taylor)

Las Palabras De Amor (The Words of Love) (May)

Cool Cat (Deacon/Mercury)

Under Pressure (Bowie/Queen)

♕Release date: May 21st, 1982♕

♕Queen's tenth studio album, Hot Space, was after Queen released Queen's Greatest Hits. With a new era starting, Queen started a mixture of disco, funk, rhythm, blues, dance, and pop music as their new sound. The tone for Hot Space was set after the success of their single Under Pressure, which came out in November of 81 then later appeared on the album. This wasn't a great success, many fans were confused and disliked the new sounds. This album also was different recording-wise, The four members' lives were separate due to the offers Munich had. Brian May wasn't fond of how this album was created, since they weren't really working together and the amounts of drinking, clubbing, and drug usage the party was doing. The album cover was a mixture of The Beatles' Let It Be and Andy Warhol style coloring. Once Hot Space came out, it confused a lot of fans but it did reach No. 4 on UK charts but only achieves 'only' gold in both UK and US, it was a drop for Queen's usual platinum. Queen went on tour to promote Hot Space, after a tour of the album's sale still being discouraging, all four members took a break together to do solo work and to refresh the creativity of Queen.♕

♕Brian May: "Hot Space was a mistake if only timing-wise...We got heavily into funk and it was quite similar to what Michael Jackson did on Thriller. But the timing was wrong. Disco was a dirty word."♕

♕Author Dan Ross- "The fans hated it {Hot Space}, Roger Taylor and Brian May loathed it, even John Deacon and Freddie Mercury thought it was a mistake."♕

♕Today marks 39 years since Hot Space came out!♕

♕I want to add to this post from my perspective, what I had read about the Hot Space time period, this was a rough time for the boys due to the 'failure' of Hot Space, 1982 was named the "traumatic" year for Queen. I know there is controversy when it comes to Hot Space, and this post is just from stats and not my own opinion, this is the only part out of the whole post that is my own opinion, and personally, my feeling for Hot Space is mutual, it's not the best Queen album but it's not really the worse.♕

📸:

♕1: Hot Space Cover

♕2: Queen at Hot Space photo session

♕3: Queen at Hot Space Promo

♕4&5: Queen in New York at a signing session

♕6: Someone showing Roger a picture of him from the 70s as he's gagging at the picture.

♕7: Scan from Treasure of Queen: An invitation to the Hot Space end of tour party

♕8: Scan from Treasure of Queen: Queen being photographed by Andy Warhol August '82

♕9: Scan from Treasure of Queen: EMI promotional cube for Hot Space.

♕10: Scan from Treasure of Queen: Queen closing a show in Europe in '82.

[catboymccartney]

happy bday brimi!

[nrthernsong]

Hot Space Let's Go! Today marks 38 years of Queens Hot Space. Though criticized for being one of their worst albums upon release due to the more club style of music with synths and track loops (Brian hated the album more than anybody else) I however think its underrated and some really interesting songs like Las Palabas de Amor are looked over in favor of Under Pressure the biggest single from the album. So please have a listen to Mark the occasion!

[queensdivas]

HAPPY INVISIBLE MAN DAY EVERYONE!!!!

The video where Roger Taylor has nothing to do and looks awkward.