Freddies Output in Queen over the years

It seems to me as if Freddie has created much more 'hits' in the period up to Greatest Hits I than in the
years after that.

Queen II: 7 seas of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack: Killer Queen
A Night at the Opera: Bohemian Rhapsody
A Day at the Races: Somebody to love
News of the World: We are the Champions
Jazz: don't stop me now
the Game: crazy little thing called love
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Hot space: Body Language (also he got credits for under Pressure)
Works: it's a hard life
Magic: Credits for one Vision and Friends will be Friends
Miracle: Aparently the Miracle has a big effort from Freddie
Innuendo: I'm going slightly mad + involved in Innuendo and probably the show must go on

I won't count made in Heaven

So after big hits from 1974 - 1980 his 'outcome' changed dramaticlly from 1982 - 1991.
Allthough he seems to did a lot of efforts with Radio GaGa and a Kind of Magic, these are not his songs.

Does anybody else has thought about this? Did Freddie lose his creativity? Were his songs not 'suitable'
to become Pop hits in the 80s? Did he lose the ambition? At the same time he stopped to play the Piano on
stage...any link to this?

Honestly ... absolutely EVERYTHING what Freddie wrote in the 80's SUCKS. He even ruined GaGa and Magic :-(

Don't forget that Freddie in the 70's was a respected artist, who spent a lot of time with writing songs and making them as perfect as possible. Freddie in the 80's was a regular cocaine user who spent most of his time in gay bars dancing, sniffing, drinking and fucking. After he was informed that he's HIV positive and he "started to live like a nun", his creativity boosted drastically - the stuff he wrote (or worked on) for Innuendo (and MIH) belongs to his finest works.

Just "my 2 cents" and as usually sorry for my English

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]

Honestly ... absolutely EVERYTHING what Freddie wrote in the 80's SUCKS. :-(
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i'm not sure about that when i listen to "it's a hard life"... but i see the point :-)

I have to disagree. Freddie always wrote great stuff. All of the tracks from Queen I to Made In Heaven written by him (and also his solo stuff) are as great as he himself was. But you all, of course, may punch me for saying it.

[QUOTE] [b]princetom wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]
Honestly ... absolutely EVERYTHING what Freddie wrote in the 80's SUCKS. :-(
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i'm not sure about that when i listen to "it's a hard life"... but i see the point :-)
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good as it is...you can almost hear the cocaine being inhaled in that song....
and one glance at the video is all you need to know it was probably some strange cocaine/lsd/heroin cocktail being taken by the bucketload

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]

Honestly ... absolutely EVERYTHING what Freddie wrote in the 80's SUCKS. He even ruined GaGa and Magic :-(

Don't forget that Freddie in the 70's was a respected artist, who spent a lot of time with writing songs and making them as perfect as possible. Freddie in the 80's was a regular cocaine user who spent most of his time in gay bars dancing, sniffing, drinking and fucking. After he was informed that he's HIV positive and he "started to live like a nun", his creativity boosted drastically - the stuff he wrote (or worked on) for Innuendo (and MIH) belongs to his finest works.

Just "my 2 cents" and as usually sorry for my English[/QUOTE]


Haha totally agree ! Nice abd funny way to explain it. We can all notice FM hadn't reallybig hits in the 80's ! I wonder if he was thinking fwbf would have been as big as watc was...

And his solo writing sucked big time as well making those pop oriented dance tracks. With exception of Barcelona of course.

the solo songs were great, the production is what sucked

Call me ignorant but I like It's A Hard Life and the video ..well, Freddie was an artist with a sense of humor and very entertaining. If nothing else, the looks on the others faces while doing the vid ...priceless eyerolling.

It's a Hard Life is Freddie back to form in the 80's. Great song, great solo. I love it.
Freddie started to believe his own "disposable pop" phrase and his music reflected it. Mr. Bad Guy had several good songs in it which are let down by the arrangement and the instrumentation.

I might be the only one who prefers The Freddie Mercury Album over Mr. Bad Guy and I don't care. For some reason when Freddie had a bunch of nobodys playing to his songs in '85 it was him "fulfilling his original vision without interference" while when a whole different group of nobodys updated the songs in '92 it's sacrilege. I'll put my Jim Beach hat on and say Freddie would have been the happiest person alive (if he had lived) to see Living on my own topping the charts and becoming a club hit.

[QUOTE] [b]FlorianS wrote:[/b]

It seems to me as if Freddie has created much more 'hits' in the period up to Greatest Hits I than in the
years after that.

Queen II: 7 seas of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack: Killer Queen
A Night at the Opera: Bohemian Rhapsody
A Day at the Races: Somebody to love
News of the World: We are the Champions
Jazz: don't stop me now
the Game: crazy little thing called love
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So after big hits from 1974 - 1980 his 'outcome' changed dramaticlly from 1982 - 1991.
Does anybody else has thought about this? [/QUOTE]

the stopping playing piano on stage was more about being the proper frontman for bigger arena audiences - you can't not have a frontman for those kind of gigs

as regards you initial point - you lost a load of emphasis by leaving out a stack of singles from that early era

jazz: bicycle race (actually the lead single)
the game: play the game
and two tracks off the EP - death on two legs and good old fashioned loverboy (which was the lead track off the EP)
love of my life (live single)

@Wiley, The FM Album is an excellent introduction to Freddie's solo-work, and I agree that most of the material on there is better than the original versions. Some have become kind of dated (Let's Turn It On, Living On My Own) but the remixes of In My Defence, Time, Your Kind of Lover and Mr Bad Guy are excellent and it took me a long time to get used to the Mr Bad Guy versions, as the FM album was one of the first cd's I got. Probably when I was 7 or 8, in 1992/1993. Mr Bad Guy came probably 4-5 years later.

[QUOTE] [b]Wiley wrote:[/b]

I might be the only one who prefers The Freddie Mercury Album over Mr. Bad Guy and I don't care. [/QUOTE]

me too

I did not want to comment on every single Freddie had written, but on the fact that he was capable of writing
big hits from 1974 - 1980 and then it stopped. I am aware of the fact that not EVERY single which has been written by Freddie in this period was a major hit.

1974 - 1980: 5 UK top 3 Hits written by Freddie

1981 - 1991: 2 UK top 3 Hits with credits for Freddie
(I won't count I want it all, as this seems
to be Brians song)

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]

Honestly ... absolutely EVERYTHING what Freddie wrote in the 80's SUCKS. He even ruined GaGa and Magic :-(

Don't forget that Freddie in the 70's was a respected artist, who spent a lot of time with writing songs and making them as perfect as possible. Freddie in the 80's was a regular cocaine user who spent most of his time in gay bars dancing, sniffing, drinking and fucking. After he was informed that he's HIV positive and he "started to live like a nun", his creativity boosted drastically - the stuff he wrote (or worked on) for Innuendo (and MIH) belongs to his finest works.

Just "my 2 cents" and as usually sorry for my English[/QUOTE]

Why does everyone always say Freddie ruined AKOM? Business wise, I would say that if Freddie hadn't made it more upbeat, it wouldn't have gotten up the charts as it did. I like the Highlander version, but I doubt it would have gotten to #3 as the Freddie tuned AKOM did...

I don't think we should start to discredit his creativity because he let loose in the 80s. It was the 80s! Goodness me, everyone was doing it. He was just going through different phases, he's even said it himself... If he gets bored of something, he tries something new. I don't think EVERYTHING he did in the 80s was a pile of crap and he was still an amazing individual, both in public and private (no doubt).

I don't feel it to be right to slander him, really. Because, whilst we think we know him... we may not.

Please don't yell at me for this. At the end of the day, this is a forum for people to express their views and, whilst I will listen to people's opinions and welcome them, I may not agree wholeheartedly.