Queen - Borrowings/ rip off`s on Classic Music ?

Hi, actually I`am looking for a good website or informations that point out Queen`s borrowings on Classic Music. It is a well known fact that their music had borrowings on Mozart and others. The "Under Pressure" bassline is a Gerorg Friedrich Händel "rip off" for example. Of course you can also contribute informations and your opinions right here
Thanks in advance.

maybe not classic, but just the same - there's Noel coward styling going on on opera and races.
and again not classic - but any fool must be able to hear Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out" on "Keep Passing the Open Windows"
freddie liked Rachmaninoff, so there's probably some influences on his two solo albums, and maybe even the mid-80s queen stuff he wrote.

The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.

(from wikipedia)

The cello flourish in the intro / outro of ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY is from a classical piece.

The riff of WAS IT ALL WORTH IT comes from an orchestral movie soundtrack (not technically classical, I know)

[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]

The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.[/QUOTE]
Yup!

http://youtu.be/Z0PMq4XGtZ4?t=1m58s

It's rather blatant.

[QUOTE] [b]IanR wrote:[/b]
The riff of WAS IT ALL WORTH IT comes from an orchestral movie soundtrack (not technically classical, I know)[/QUOTE]
That riff always reminded me of the Simple Gifts melody.

Not classical but orchestral I suppose, the guitar at the start of Death on Two Legs is based on Bernard Herrmann's score for the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's film Pyscho. Norman Bates/Shefield etc.

Thanks folks...now that`s something I can start working on. Borrowings on traditionals and orchestrals are also welcome of course.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL6uJzQQ8Xo

Ahem....

The disco/funk group "Chic" were not very amused when they heard John Deacon's "Another one bites the dust"
and yes Joe Jackson's "Steppin Out" was nicked for "Keep on passing the open windows"
Also on "The Game" album Queen ripped "The Police" off with "Don't try suicide"
with the guitar pieces that made the police well known.

you mean the guitar parts that The Police more or less lifted wholesale from almost every Reggae/Ska song that preceded them?

yeah lol

@Ian R The intro/outro from It's a beautiful day is a borrowed theme from Frederick Delius "La calinda".
Love of my life has in it a theme from Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat major.

[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]

The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.

(from wikipedia)[/QUOTE]

It is close,this part with Pavarotti but its all nothing,Ithink despite Freddie of being a fan of Luciano didnt take that element for his hit "Its A Hard Life"..

^

...what?

Actually, it was John's idea if I remember correctly so he's behind the intro to It's a Hard Life.