Mysterious groan in WWRY revealed

finally! After 26 years we know what the 'ahh' groan is at the start of We Will Rock You.

Brian: "Ok - it's the tail end of me counting the stamps and claps in, that fateful day so long ago in Wessex Studios in North London. I don't know if I've described it before but I got into applying loads of different delays, not multiples of each other - prime numbers. A lot of these got applied to the original count, plus the final long delay was from one "boom boom crack" to the next. So you hear "four" delayed into the track in a kind of multiple echo"

Thank Niek. Now I can get on with my life now that the mystery has been revealed.

oh , sarcasm , how i love it

What groan... *clueless*

At the very beginning, it's:

*bump bump* "Awww--"*clap*

I noticed it the first few times I really listened to the song, and just assumed it was... actually, I was sort of perplexed about it until I just ignored it. But now, FC has again shed the immaculate light upon us...

There can be a lot of interpretations about that "Awww" in which I will only reserve them in my dirty lil mind :D
Carry on...

I always think "awwww" not this song again! :)

I prefer the theory about somebody groaning because they were pissed off about the millionth take of the song.
But as usual this new version is so much more boring and therefore is probably true. So goes the way of things.

"I prefer the theory about somebody groaning because they were pissed off about the millionth take of the song."

I always thought that aswell :)

I'll be able to sleep now!!!

Note that Brian also confirmed soul brother to be Frederick's.

Umm, I don't hear an "awww"?

I hear it now. I'd never notice it if I wasn't told it's there, though.

That's funny!

Not only is soul brother Freddie's (with hindsight it had to be), it's a song we also know the subject of...now that's unusual...