There is also some dodgy explanation on how the narrative during WWRY came about, but I suspect this was also dubbed.
The BBC regularly re-used tape back in the day, and Queen were recording on the same tape this narration of Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha. They simply chose to use a bit of it for their own amusement between the two versions of WWRY, and added the pitch-bending effect after the fact.
^ That was the explanation, yes. In other words the original recording on the tape was ''dubbed" back in, so why not add an audience why we are about it?
Barry Durex wrote: A CD you may want to seek out is Royal Rarities (CD 1)
It mentions the ''Alan Freeman sessions'' in the track listings below.
seen the order of the tracks (WWRY/It's Late/Melancholy/Wings) I have the feeling there are the audience overdubbed also in that cd
Yes they are, but as you said the radio station could have mixed it in. There is a slight chance it could still be from the Alan Freeman broadcast. The sound quality is really nice and that dubbing is to a very high standard.
I don't know how much help I can be except to say that I had a home recording of Alan Freeman's last Saturday afternoon Rock show on Radio One and he played this version of WWRY from the session. Sadly I've lost it but if I remember correctly (and I played it many times) there was no mention of quadrophonic and no audience sound. After he played it he said something like "Not 'arf. I thought that was rather good, as a matter of fact I thought it was" then Queen was dubbed in singing "Ooo-Ooo take my breath away"
Also, the King Biscuit version of WWRY I mentioned does not have any audience dubbed.
Looking through some old posts it looks like owenSmith has this version, so has probably had his contact check it for quad already.
I have the King Biscuit CD myself, WWRY has been checked and is not encoded.
I still say it might be worth checking Royal Rarities for quad.
Sounds like a decent transfer to me.
I agree these tracks are worth checking for Matrix H encoding. The issue now is where can I get hold of a copy. Is it anywhere on QueenZone? A lot of bootlegs have been ripped and uploaded.
