"Happiness?" Structure

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[QUOTE] [b]scollins wrote:[/b]

roger is a schizophrenic, no he isn't yes he bloody well is AH fuck off no you feck off, stuff this if offski, come back you plonker[/QUOTE]

does anybody understand this ? kind of reminds me on john lennon:

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(...) That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right, that is I think it's not too bad. (...)
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I understood both quotes, yes. There's a couple of typos in there and lazy grammar (sorry Stu!), but it's quite easy to follow....as is the Lennon lyric.

Never thought about it but Touch the Sky would have worked as an opener.
I once wrote an upbeat rock song and wanted to add a synth/string slow paced intro so it built up into the rockier part. Inadvertedly, I ended up plagiarizing Touch the sky, hahaha :). Not really, but after a while I started thinking "I've heard this before". I was puzzled for a couple of days until I listened to the Happiness album again and though "THAT'S what I was thinking about!".
Great song (Roger's, not mine. That was crap.)

Actually, I think one of Roger's best solo releases was the Foreign Sand CD single with the title track, Touch the sky and Final Destination.

Well to me the both Yeah, around 2:09 and around 3:10 doesn't shoud like Freddie at all. At least no to my ears, I could be wrong though....

Tom

[QUOTE] [b]TomP63 wrote:[/b]

Well to me the both Yeah, around 2:09 and around 3:10 doesn't shoud like Freddie at all. At least no to my ears, I could be wrong though....

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I concur.

I think that some of the guitar work on "Touch The Sky" sounds like that on "We Believe" from "Cosmos Rocks". I always thought that was a very Roger sounding album, despite what most people have said about the Paul Rogers heavy influence.

Maybe some people though it was heavily influenced by Paul Rodgers because it didn't sound a lot like the original Queen. Well, guess what? Roger's solo output didn't sound that much like Queen either.
Roger was a big influence on The Cosmos Rocks. Wasn't he the main writer for 6 tracks? That's 6 out of 14 tracks (or 5 out of 13 if you don't count Small's reprise). Brian contributed with 3, Paul with 5.

To this day, I've never actually checked the songwriting credits to CR, but just knew it was heavy on Roger output. Some very similar tones in there to the Happiness? LP.

[QUOTE] [b]tero! 48531 wrote:[/b]

4) Foreign Sand
Back to light ballad again. One of Roger's all-time greatest songs, and different enough to tell us that Yoshiki had a pretty big part in the writing. A slow fade-out that deserves to finish the A-side of the album.
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Looking at the harmonies, I don't think Yoshiki was all that involved in the writing - it's really fairly typical for Roger, no really complex chords, a simple modulation, most of the song in G, I really think it looks like a Roger-song. I mostly think she might have had a strong influence on the arrangement.

Wasn't Yoshiki a guy?

About Cosmos, Roger was the main writer on Cosmos Rockin', Small, Say it's not true, Surf's up School's Out, Small (reprise) and C-lebrity.

Some album editions credit all songs to Queen and Paul Rodgers but others list the three names separately and in different order for each track. The ones listed above have Roger listed as the first name. I guess the only surprise is Small, which most people assumed it was Paul's. Similar case with us thinking Brian was behind the whole Cosmos thing but Roger wrote that one. Of course, maybe Roger wrote it originally as The Whole House Rockin' and then changed it to tie in with the album's title.

Can't wait for "The Lot"! Not expecting any unreleased stuff. Just Roger's complete works, including B-sides, remixes, a DVD with all promo videos. Any live stuff would be great but I'm not holding my breath for it.

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

Wasn't Yoshiki a guy?

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Yes. But he looks incredibly like a girl - I had to double-check it at first all of those years ago. He is very, very effeminate.

Ah. Well, news to me. Change "she" to "he" in my post.