Do you think its possible?

for either Roger, Brian or John to write something that's as big a hit as "radio ga ga", "we will rock you", or "another one bites the dust" was????

Nope. Not in the slightest.

Is it a rhetorical question?

Sure! God knows there's never enough of THOSE. ;D

To be honest, I has thought about that too. You have a point. For example Radio Ga Ga and A Knd Of Magic were written by Roger, but Freddie changed them a lot.

Something I have never been able to understand is how The Show Must Go On can be written by Brian.

Just look at Brian and Roger's last solo albums. I think they have it in them. But at the end of the day, it's up to the radio/public/press. And these days, it's all very unforgiving. It's all about the young folk, even if their stuff is usually all crap.

So, I guess it wouldn't happen. But they could definitely write something near enough. No-One But You is an excellent song.

Peace,
Adam.

Of course they still can write a great song.
Sadly enough, it can't be sung by Freddie Mercury.

So the effect wouldn't be the same I guess...

I think they're quite capable of writing something brilliant- it's just that they haven't got the same platforms to launch their stuff from that they used to, not to mention not having Freddie to sing them! When Freddie was still alive Queen were so famous and respected that pretty much anything they wrote sounded great! These days they're seen as a bit "out of it."

I think that the answer is just in front of us: Freddie's death.

Whisperer wrote:

Something I have never been able to understand is how The Show Must Go On can be written by Brian.

I read that Brian wrote it having Freddie's illness on his mind, obviously, but wasn't quite sure whether Freddie would want to sing them or not but when he showed the lyrics to Freddie he said "Yes sure, I'll sing anything you want me to sing"

So he just tried to put himself into Freddie's position while writing it.

I read something along those lines before as well.

I seriously doubt it.

Most buyers today don't tend to cater to pushing-sixty-year-old men.

Exception: Mick Jagger.

Young people still like Paul McCartney and he'll be 62 on Friday.

And Tom Jones. That hip, young, Welsh cat.

rmtfictionqueen wrote:

Young people still like Paul McCartney and he'll be 62 on Friday.

Oh yes, I love him! Most of the musicians I like are either dead or old but I shouldn't speak only for myself so in general I agree. It would be hard.