The real reason Queen is touring with Lambert.

[QUOTE] [b]RS_Protos wrote:[/b]

why not release more old material, that's what I don't understand, is it BM controlling this or record companies......[/QUOTE]

It's a case by case basis, but typically it's the record companies who call the shots.

if they can be as big and successful without Freddie then why are they still playing Freddie's songs?

They can't be as successful without Freddie. But that doesn't stop Brian trying to create the perception that they can. Also if they didn't play Freddie's sings it would be positively weird, wouldn't it?

Plus Brian also wants to create the perception that his input was significant, even on Freddie's songs. Remember that cringeworthy moment in the movie when they are recording bohemian rhapsody and Freddie says about Brian's solo "play it like you wrote it", to which Brian responds " I did, I wrote that part", as if to pound it into people that he co-composed one of the greatest hits of al time. In reality the song was entirely composed by Freddie and Brian did a few guitar overdubs here and there and a guitar solo. And even that was probably dome with a lot of input from Freddie.

[QUOTE] [b]Enigma wrote:[/b]

Surely "One Vision" was written by all members?
John had "Your My Best Friend" & "Another One Bites The Dust" and Freddie wrote a bundle of massive songs :

Killer Queen
Seven Seas Of Rhye
Bohemian Rhapsody
Somebody To Love
We Are The Champions
Bicycle Race
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Play The Game
Its A Hard Life

Freddie's song writing out did other members in Queen easily and he was without doubt the bands hit maker.[/QUOTE]

No. One Vision was Roger's song - that others (Freddie with lyrics) helped with. Go back and listen to Magic Years - Roger even says (jokingly) "that rotter Freddie, change my lyrics"
Freddie wrote lots of early UK (and european/japan) hits, but not worldwide. Even his epic Bo Rhap was not a US no1 first time around.
Like I said, Roger probably wrote as many worldwide hits as Freddie.

Radio Ga Ga / AKOM / One Vision / Innuendo / These Are The Days / Heaven For Everyone - huge worldwide 80/90s hits.

no matter who you choose to "remember it" Roger did the heavy lifting in the 80s, with John helping out. Brian wrote a bit too, Freddie was more or less disinterested in creating music - until he found out he was dying...then he decided to leave some more stuff to be remembered by.

I wouldn't be surprised if Freddie changed lyrics and compositions on a lot of songs that were originally conceived as concepts by the other three.

For example Freddie says somewhere that Roger came up with the ideas for AKOM and then pissed off somewhere and it was Freddie who arranged it into that poppy radio friendly tune, which actually ended up very different from the way Roger had initially conceived it.

[QUOTE] [b]Freddie Jupiter wrote:[/b]I wouldn't be surprised if Freddie changed lyrics and compositions on a lot of songs that were originally conceived as concepts by the other three.

For example Freddie says somewhere that Roger came up with the ideas for AKOM and then pissed off somewhere and it was Freddie who arranged it into that poppy radio friendly tune, which actually ended up very different from the way Roger had initially conceived it. [/QUOTE]

and no one changed any of his songs? ridiculous. it was a four-man team with equal say on everything. but it doesn't remove the fact of who actually wrote which songs and whose ideas they were. Freddie of most of the 80s - was suffering a self-induced writer's block...mainly brought on by drinking, coke abuse and spending all his energy on shagging everything that moved.
yep, Freddie's masterpieces of that period? KPTOW, MOTP and a solos LP - almost half of which is utterly forgettable.

poor argument. because on that basis, Brian should have a co-write for Bo Rhap and KQ. After all, he did compose those incredible guitar solos.

If Queen were doing this for the money then how come they didn't tour with someone else immediately after John's retirement and before their involvement with Paul Rodgers - they did plenty of WWRY performances and sang with other singers. They obviously didn't want to tour even though they could've. Also, Q+PR ended when it was still successful in Europe - they could've done more tours with PR but they chose not to. If they were really doing it for the money then they would've put aside their differences and continue playing.

Queen didn't do a prope full-length tour with Adam Lambert until 2014 - five years after their first performance together at American Idol. If they really wanted money then they would've got AL to do a tour with them sooner but they let him do his solo stuff first.

Brian is often telling the truth with his input, some here just don't like the idea of the idea of the other members of Queen getting any glory. At the end of the day, Queen were a group and it seems that supposedly fans of Queen (some on here seem to purely be Freddie fans) hate the idea of all four members helping each other on their songs. Freddie would've
left Queen if he didn't like his band mates suggesting and helping him write songs. Also, in some interviews Brian has said he wrote the guitar solo for Boehmian Rhapsody while in others Brian has said they Freddie wrote the guitar solo on Killer Queen.

It just seems that some fans find a point and then reshare it without a context which often has a different conclusion than what the original said.

[QUOTE] [b]Freddie Jupiter wrote:[/b]

I wouldn't be surprised if Freddie changed lyrics and compositions on a lot of songs that were originally conceived as concepts by the other three.

For example Freddie says somewhere that Roger came up with the ideas for AKOM and then pissed off somewhere and it was Freddie who arranged it into that poppy radio friendly tune, which actually ended up very different from the way Roger had initially conceived it. [/QUOTE]

The original version of AKOM was already recorded before Freddie did his "magic". His effort was essentially a remix so with songwriting credits he didn't create or write the song. They are plenty of remixes of songs by other people but the remixer rarely ever gets a credit especially if the original was already recorded and released.

It was already recorded? With vocals by whom? The vocals and the feel of the sing is the magic.

[QUOTE] [b]Freddie Jupiter wrote:[/b]

It was already recorded? With vocals by whom? [/QUOTE]

Have you been a Queen fan for long?
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASw32qKppMw[/url]

This is a link to a finished version of the song with vocals by Freddie. I said the vocals and the feel of the song is the magic, as the lyrics are pretty mediocre, and you link me to a version of the song with vocals by Freddie WTF?

[QUOTE] [b]Freddie Jupiter wrote:[/b]

This is a link to a finished version of the song with vocals by Freddie. I said the vocals and the feel of the song is the magic, as the lyrics are pretty mediocre, and you link me to a version of the song with vocals by Freddie WTF? [/QUOTE]

So you didn't know of the Highlander version of the song i.e. the original? WTF indeed.

How the fact did you come to the conclusion that I didn't know about the highlander version of AKOM? It's on the bonus disc of the 2011 remaster which, I own. I responded to the claim that the song was already recorded and Freddie came in and effectively remixed it, which is demonstrably not true.

I honestly feel like I'm trapped in some strange alternate reality where the corona virus is making everybody even stupider than before.

You asked: "It was already recorded? With vocals by whom?"
I answered because you clearly didn't know the the Highlander version was the first recording. Vocals are by Fred btw, in case you don't know that either.

ps it's a pretty stupid thing to say that corona virus makes people stupider. Stupid must be a pre-existing condition for you.

Robert Plant knocks out album after album, Roger Daltrey did a great album with Wilko Johnson, Bryan Ferry has released 6 or 7 albums in the last 30 years.

There isn’t a Led Zeppelin biopic or musical. Or Roxy Music. Or Pink Floyd.

Without doubt the output of classic bands decreases from their peak. But how can anyone say Brian’s output has not been disappointing. Rogers has been ok. He always did stuff knowing it wouldn’t sell big. Brian gave it a go in the 90s then completely gave up as a creative artist.

Ian Hunter has done loads of albums. But all the forum establishment did was attack Gerry for not knowing Mott the Hoople. Everyone sidestepped the fact that Hunter has said the film “ wasn’t Fred”.

The fact is on this forum people argue against the person not the post.

Nobody has ever said Brian doesn’t have a right to choose but they have expressed a disappointment in what he has chosen.