Songs not featuring all four

The recent sidetracked discussion on http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1423204/freddies-last-vocal-yet-again-.aspx and whether John plays on 'Who Wants to Live Forever' or not (I was wrong, he does) has inspired me to compile the full list. I just love statistics.

For the moment I won't count B-Sides, demos or unreleased material, only album tracks.

Songs not featuring John Richard Deacon as performer:

* Procession
* Dear Friends
* God Save the Queen
* Sheer Heart Attack
* Fight from the Inside
* More of That Jazz
* Ming's Theme
* The Ring
* The Kiss
* Escape from the Swamp
* The Wedding March
* Dancer
* Body Language
* Action This Day
* Is This the World We Created
* Bijou
* Track No 13

Total: 17 tracks.

Not featuring Brian Harold May:

* Seaside Rendezvous
* My Melancholy Blues
* In the Space Capsule
* Ming's Theme
* The Ring
* In the Death Cell
* Execution of Flash
* The Kiss
* Arboria
* Escape from the Swamp
* Vultan's Theme
* Action This Day
* Cool Cat
* One Year of Love (the demo does feature him, though)

That's 14.

Recordings not featuring Frederick Mercury:

* Procession
* The Loser in the End
* She Makes Me
* Good Company
* God Save the Queen
* Drowse
* Fight from the Inside
* Sleeping on the Sidewalk
* Leaving Home Ain't Easy
* More of That Jazz
* In the Space Capsule
* In the Death Cell
* Execution of Flash
* Arboria
* Escape from the Swamp
* Battle Theme
* The Wedding March

17 tracks, 11 of which (64.71%) were in the 70's, when it was likely for Brian and Roger to sing both lead and harmonies on a track or two per album.

Songs without Roger Meddows Taylor:

* Dear Friends (I'm 99% sure harmonies are all Brian).
* Execution of Flash
* The Kiss
* Arboria
* Staying Power
* Body Language
* Is This the World We Created
* One Year of Love
* Pain Is So Close to Pleasure
* My Baby Does Me
* Delilah
* Bijou

Just 12, and I'm not entirely sure about some of those cases: what if he did sing harmonies on 'Dear Friends' and/or if he (co-)programmed drum machines on those 80's tracks and/or combined them with his actual (either electric or acoustic) playing?

Great topic. Thank you!

I think that Brian actually plays on SHA. "Rhythm guitar and bass were played by Taylor, apart from some guitar "screams" by May during the instrumental section." I guess that would be the so called solo. Also Queenpedia credits Brian playing in the song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_%28album%29

Queenpedia has several mistakes, some of which were submitted by me.

Again, the album liner notes mention both Brian and Roger on 'Fight from the Inside,' but just Roger on 'Sheer Heart Attack.' I suppose people merely assumed those feedback noises 'had to be' Brian and the legend stems from there.

thx a lot!

You are a genius, Seb. Nice topic!

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]


Songs not featuring John Richard Deacon as performer:


* God Save the Queen

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Wow, there is definitely electric bass on GSTQ, but it is a little more distorted than John's usual clean tone

Does this mean that it is Brian playing the bass then?
My mind is blown haha

No mention of Mother Love? (I always got the impression this was solely Brian and Freddie, but I must be wrong).

According to the tracksheet on 'God Save the Queen', there's no bass. I suppose the bass-line is played by a detuned or varisped guitar.

'Mother Love' stems prove there's bass, and possibly some drum overdubs as well (besides the main beat, which is obviously programmed).

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

According to the tracksheet on 'God Save the Queen', there's no bass. I suppose the bass-line is played by a detuned or varisped guitar.

'Mother Love' stems prove there's bass, and possibly some drum overdubs as well (besides the main beat, which is obviously programmed).[/QUOTE]

Must be varisped, that would make sense.
There is definitely bass on mother love, the little line at 0;30 to about 0;37 is easy to hear.
Also, there is cymbals being hit by mallets all over the song.

Although yes, bass and some percussive work, on Mother Love, I was just wondering if it was actually performed by John and Roger (apologies if it's obvious from the stems, which I've not heard)

Brian and Freddie were the sole 'authors' of the song, but not the sole 'performers.'

I'm pretty sure that Freddie does sing harmonies on Leaving Home Ain't Easy. unless I'm hearing things!!!

I love the fact that "(statistically) Freddie was the least 'necessary' band member when it came to recording", when at the surface common audience would assume that Freddie is the most important one. It shows how versatile and unconventional Queen is. It also shows that statistics could be shit sometimes :D


I also love the fact that Sebastian loves statistics. I have been enjoying 99,917% of his facts and numbers so far.

You know, of course, that 43.8% of statistics are made up on the spot...........lol

Interesting topic tho........I forgot about Action This Day having no Brian.......(would have been soooooo much better if it did, IMO!)