Did Freddie ever sing the correct lyrics to Black Queen, live?

BETA215 wrote:

Elektra wrote: I have heard him stuff up the words from 'Father to Son' dont ask me what bootleg its from though

If you're talking about the Golders Green Hippodrome concert in '73, they're playing the demo live. He didn't stuffed up the words of the song, the thing is that it wasn't even finished.

Quite right. For all shows in 1973, and some Queen II shows too, Freddie sang 'Every now and again, time after time I keep calling you, warning you on your way', rather than the final album lyric. He wasn't botching it, that was Brian's lyric for it at the time, which he changed by the time it was recorded for Queen II.

Gotta say, I much prefer 'And the voice is so clear...' Just much nicer lyricism and imagery, and the line 'Calling you, calling you on' reaches a much more natural sounding end than 'Warning you on your way'; to me, the latter drags the phrase on for too long and ends it on a fairly awkward note.

tomchristie22 wrote:

BETA215 wrote:

Elektra wrote: I have heard him stuff up the words from 'Father to Son' dont ask me what bootleg its from though

If you're talking about the Golders Green Hippodrome concert in '73, they're playing the demo live. He didn't stuffed up the words of the song, the thing is that it wasn't even finished.

Quite right. For all shows in 1973, and some Queen II shows too, Freddie sang 'Every now and again, time after time I keep calling you, warning you on your way', rather than the final album lyric. He wasn't botching it, that was Brian's lyric for it at the time, which he changed by the time it was recorded for Queen II.

Gotta say, I much prefer 'And the voice is so clear...' Just much nicer lyricism and imagery, and the line 'Calling you, calling you on' reaches a much more natural sounding end than 'Warning you on your way'; to me, the latter drags the phrase on for too long and ends it on a fairly awkward note.

They had already recorded Queen II before they started touring with Mott the Hoople in 1973.

To answer OP's question: Yes, Freddie did sing the correct lyric every now and again.

sorry, but to the best of my knowledge Freddie never did sing Stephen Stills' "Black Queen".

Actually if you sing that March of the black queen yourself it is actually really hard to get your mouth around the right lyrics so I can see why he did sing that line cause it is really tempting to sing rule both times rather than reign. A bit of a tongue twister.