That specific picture was uploaded to my site by a french collector who told me that this version it's like a butchered version of the original where the "opera" section has been cut off. I really can't understand why pressing a sort of promo like this.
bigV · Member since
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ferdy wrote: [/QUOTENAME]That specific picture was uploaded to my site by a french collector who told me that this version it's like a butchered version of the original where the "opera" section has been cut off. I really can't understand why pressing a sort of promo like this. [/QUOTE]
I know what it is, but I'd very much like to hear it.
And don't worry. No one understands the French :-D
V.
AaronReturn2004 · Member since
Sorry to butt in here, but the collector who mentioned it felt like "a edit without the opera section" might've been referring to the ballad section. If the QueenVault manager heard it from this guy, it might be telling something (the fake edit was just a boring "ballad section" cut, there's a similar differently-tagged version on YouTube too).
i vaguely remember this old discussion. the one thing i'd always wanted to know was: why?
back in 1975 - when Bo Rhap was a new single release, you could understand an EDIT being released: it'd make it fit into radio playlists a lot easier.
in the same way that TV shows of the time, (kind of) edited the video down during its run at the top of the charts.
however, no edited/jukebox-type version was made. so why do so in 1978?
GoodTimesAreNow · Member since
Since it wasn’t a commercial release, but a French (radio) promo, there might have been a demand from French radio-DJ’s for a shorter version. Maybe EMI replied to the wish of only one person. Maybe the French stations had a rule at that time saying that (English) songs weren’t allowed to be played longer than 3’30’’? (The actual length was 3’41’’). Was this version actually played on the radio, at the time?
How many copy’s would there be made? 1000? 100? Maybe less?
brENsKi · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]GoodTimesAreNow wrote:[/b] Maybe the French stations had a rule at that time saying that (English) songs weren’t allowed to be played longer than 3’30’’? [/QUOTE]
I'd agree with some of your points, but not this one.
If this were the case then there'd be a plethora of "small batch French Radio Pressings" of the longer-play 70s hits
I'm Not In Love
Band On The Run
Don't Fear The Reaper
Hotel California
Boys Are Back In Town
My Sharona
More Than A Feeling
Blinded By The Light...to name just a few
GoodTimesAreNow · Member since
Good examples! Maybe they had French edits as well?
But isn’t there still a French law saying that at least 66% (???) of the time a French song should be played?
Maybe dj’s of classic rock-stations wanted to have an option: playing two short songs or one long song?
GoodTimesAreNow · Member since
Maybe it was just an ‘EMI-thing’; a clever record guy who thought it could be helpfull.
