Another widespread erroneuous piece of information: Elton John being the gorilla in the I'm Going Slightly Mad video. As far as I know, that's complete rubbish but people tend to believe it for some strange reason.
[QUOTE] [b]rhyeking wrote:[/b]
Re: BoRhap Video
I'm not sure where the original attributtion of "first promo video" came from, but I always understood the meaning to be that it was one of the first of what we would understand as a 'modern video,' as in it wasn't just film of the band performing, it featured specific footage designed to be more abstract and artistic. Certainly bands like The Beatles were issuing promo films years before, but they weren't big production numbers (despite the relatively cheap cost of BR) the way Queen did it. [/QUOTE]
Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane broke the 'performance video' mold in 1967 - any claim of Bo Rhap or Thriller being truly the first of any sort of music video is pretty baseless, despite how widespread those claims are. Certainly, those videos were significant milestones, but they didn't originate anything.
EDIT: Although Thriller may have been one of the first music videos, if not the first, to be a short film with extensive non-musical sequences.
[QUOTE] [b]YourValentine wrote:[/b]
Here is one wrong assumption: The spoken words on WWRY BBC sessions are NOT from Hermann Hesse's novel Siddharta. I had my doubts about that from the beginning and I compared each and every line of the novel with those words - they are not from Siddharta.[/QUOTE]
The female voice heard discussing Brahmanism is taken from a BBC Radio documentary "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." -Aristotle
The inspiration for bicycle race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6fRDZfYFw
[quote]I'm curious as to when the older songs were decided on? [\quote]
It's been pointed out in the past that The Great Pretender \ The Freddie Mercury Album miss out the two Freddie tracks which end up on Made in Heaven.
So the idea to use those may have been a very very early one.
The tour de france did pass montreux the 19th of july 1978. Gerrie Knetemann won that day in Lausanne.
