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  1. Brian loses his sh*t in Brisbane :-(

    To me this is a no brainer. Scummy corporate news just doing their best to get a story. Most sensible Australians know that Channel 7 is the pits.

  2. Hypothetical Live Aid Question

    I'm not sure it's fair to say the Beatles sucked as a live band. The technology they had access to was far inferior, and their setlists were under-ambitious as a result of their lack of investment. But they still recr...

  3. Hypothetical Live Aid Question

    [Double]

  4. Brians height

    People naturally shrink as they age. Brian's very active for his age, but he is a 72 year old man nonetheless. He was probably 6'2" at his tallest - a fair bit taller than average, but not a giant by any means.

  5. 'You're My Best Friend' commentary

    Always a pleasure reading these. More substantive discussion about the music is what this board needs. On a songwriting level, it seems like John liked to differentiate the second verse in some way. Verse 2 in Spread...

  6. Thoughts on Mother Love?

    I think it's overrated, owing to the sentimentality of it being one of Freddie's last recordings. I think it's a good song, but not among their greatest. Brian had the tendency to write some overly dreary songs - I'd...

  7. Machines (Or Back To Humans)

    How odd that they've added this to the setlist recently. They dropped It's Late and Spread Your Wings very promptly in 2017 - I presumed because those are songs of lesser popularity. Now they add Machines, which is pr...

  8. Bohemian Rhapsody effect on Queen fanbase

    I teach music to children for a living, and I can say with certainty that kids of wide-ranging ages now LOVE Queen. I can only assume it's largely the movie that's brought about that new level of interest. When I was...

  9. Fat Bottomed Girls in Bo Rhap film

    Simple answer that most seem to miss - they wanted to put a time skip between 1976 and 1980, but they didn’t want to leave out FBG and WWRY, so they shifted them earlier and later respectively.

  10. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

    I was wholly expecting that pre-credits montage to end on a reference to how they're now touring with Adam Lambert. Someone obviously had the good judgement not to do that (and it probably wasn't Brian).

  11. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

    matt z wrote: Same goes for DSMN. Had it been shot on magnetic tape? Maybe I'm deceived by the grit in the face forward shots of Freddie that it was shot on film. It was shot on film, yeah. You can tell cos it runs at...

  12. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

    Yeah, the Live Aid scene definitely felt smaller than it should've. All the other concert scenes were very good though, I thought.

  13. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

    Something felt wrong to me about the depiction of Live Aid and I've just figured it out - nobody was sweaty in the film version. Look at the audience shots in the real footage - everyone is soaked in sweat. Freddie ha...

  14. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

    Brian May did indeed get the most sympathetic representation. Having seen the film, I truly think it's not as much a case of Brian and Roger meddling, as it is that they needed to simplify the three bandmates into car...

  15. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

    Finally saw it, honestly wasn't as bad as I expected. I'm not that fussed on the chronological reworks - they make sense when you consider that they wanted to put a timeskip between 1975 and 1980, but still wanted to...

  16. Could we make our own Queen cover?

    If nobody else volunteers I can do lead guitar. I can do a reasonable approximation of Brian's tone, but it won't sound like a Red Special.

  17. Deacon Article

    Crazy how easily people forget that not feeding the troll is the solution in situations like this.

  18. Deacon Article

    AlexRocks wrote: I haven't read all eight pages but for God's sake I think Roger meant to say John was "anti-social" not a "sociopath"! Lol! Jesus! Oh, my god! Ha, ha! Crazy! Yeah, I've a feeling (hoping) that he was...

  19. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

    I've never seen any hint of resentment from Roger, who was seemingly good friends with Freddie. Brian has definitely shown insecurity though. I can understand it, to be honest - throughout their history he was at leas...

  20. Director of Bohemian Rhapsody (Video) feels 'ripped off' by Queen.

    Nah, the train station one is the one they used at the time, and is much better. Here’s the one directed by the Bo Rhap guy: https://youtu.be/KVqKgID07Fk