How did Freddie Mercury / Queen influence or change the music?

In November 1986, EMI Records released the entire Queen catalogue of albums on the Compact Disc format - the first time any band's complete collection had been made available simultaneously.

At the start of 1980, the band were working hard on their new album, "The Game" - it was the first album to use the electronic wizardry of synthesizers.

In February 1981, after another Far East tour, the band flew to Rio de Janeiro for the start of their first tour of South America. Queen were the first rock band to undertake a stadium tour of South America, paving the way for many more bands to follow. The band's equipment had to be flown in a privately hired 'Flying Tiger' 747 cargo plane from Tokyo - the flight between Tokyo and Buenos Aires is the longest air route between capital cities in the world.

ALL THE HISTORIC QUEEN FIRSTS ARE HERE

http://www.queenpedia.com/index.php?title=Band_History

Loads of those are wrong.

[QUOTE] [b]jones904 wrote:[/b]

At the start of 1980, the band were working hard on their new album, "The Game" - it was the first album to use the electronic wizardry of synthesizers. [/QUOTE]
Was it, now? Fascinating!

[QUOTE] [b]jones904 wrote:[/b]

At the start of 1980, the band were working hard on their new album, "The Game" - it was the first album to use the electronic wizardry of synthesizers. [/QUOTE]

pink floyd, yes, emerson lake and palmer, rush, genesis, and dozens more besides...all thru the previous decade...not to mention that german elecronic rock band kraftwerk

you really are an imbecile of the first f*cking order

As much as I love Fred and Queen it's hard to think of them as genuine innovators, either live or in the studio. Almost everything they did had been done before. For example, the acoustic section of their live show was almost certainly influenced by Led Zep. On stage they weren't any more theatrical than The Who, Bowie and many more. BoRap is as close to a genuine one-off, new performance as anything they did in the studio, but it hardly led to a host of imitators. And ELO had been bringing operatic and classical rock "to the masses" before Fred. So for genuine innovation I would have to point to Brian's muli-layered harmonies and in particular Good Company: I've never heard anything before or since that's so wonderfully composed and performed. Brian's multi-layered sound has often been emulated but never equalled.

[QUOTE] [b]jones904 wrote:[/b]

At the start of 1980, the band were working hard on their new album, "The Game" - it was the first album to use the electronic wizardry of synthesizers. [/QUOTE]

*THEIR first album to feature synthesizers... Jesus... You ARE crazy.

Well maybe only NAÏVE on this post... But horribly crazy everywhere else.


As for Brenski... Wasn't Judas Priest's first epic SAD WINGS OF DESTINY. Recorded at Trident as well?

Probably their greatest "art rock" album

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]jones904 wrote:[/b]

At the start of 1980, the band were working hard on their new album, "The Game" - it was the first album to use the electronic wizardry of synthesizers. [/QUOTE]

*THEIR first album to feature synthesizers... Jesus... You ARE crazy.

Well maybe only NAÏVE on this post... But horribly crazy everywhere else.


As for Brenski... Wasn't Judas Priest's first epic SAD WINGS OF DESTINY. Recorded at Trident as well?

Probably their greatest "art rock" album [/QUOTE]

Not me, blame Queenpedia, that's how they wrote it. And i know anyway.
and you are not magic at all, which is dissapointing as seeing your so scared.

[QUOTE] [b]jones904 wrote:[/b]

Not me, blame Queenpedia, that's how they wrote it. And i know anyway.
[/QUOTE]

No, people definitely will blame you because you're the one who linked to it without adding any commentary on how some of the information is wrong.

You didn't know.

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]

As for Brenski... Wasn't Judas Priest's first epic SAD WINGS OF DESTINY. Recorded at Trident as well?

Probably their greatest "art rock" album [/QUOTE]

Matt. sorry, don't understand your point. my point was that Queen were not (as quoted in the list) the first major rock act to sign to an independent record company. which i think is technically correct - as Zep signed just before/as Atlantic was being taken over

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]jones904 wrote:[/b]

Not me, blame Queenpedia, that's how they wrote it. And i know anyway.
[/QUOTE]

No, people definitely will blame you because you're the one who linked to it without adding any commentary on how some of the information is wrong.

You didn't know.
[/QUOTE]

sthu FOOL
And I KNOW everything
LOSER!

A few people on here are heralding The Game as groundbreaking, but that was the first album in Queen history to use synthesisers, not in all music history. As far as synthesiser wizardry goes, I think the first album to really push things to a groundbreaking level was 'Nova Solis' by Morgan in 1973. But here's the weird thing - as every research boffin knows, ex-Smile member Tim Staffell was a pioneering member of Morgan. So at least one Smile member had an impact in the electronic regard!

There's a list of artists/bands Queen/Freddie influenced on their wiki page.