hey every1
just wondering, if anybody knows the meaning to some of queens songs. except, please, bo rap, we could go on all day. what i mean is, the songs were pretty subtle. im particularly interested in Hammer to fall, and Under pressure, which i think i already kno the meaning to...
the songs were so great, dont tell me that they were just for fun* or a joke*....
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It's such a pity you don't want to discuss the meaning of Bo Rhap... I'm happy of having found my personal solution from my personal experiences. But it's a sweet secret :)...
Hammer To Fall is an anti-nuclear war song.
Put Out the Fire is about gun control (or lack of it)
Fairy Feller is about a painting
A Kind of Magic is about Pen and Teller
Fat Bottomed Girls is about Bella Emberg
...btw - i made a couple up
Fairy Feller is about a painting
A Kind of Magic is about Pen and Teller
Fat Bottomed Girls is about Bella Emberg
...btw - i made a couple up
i was always wondering why pepople say We Are The Champions has messages about homosexuality in it till we were discussing it the other day on another board.
i gues during the 70's homosexuality was not legitimate in the UK, it was actually a felony which carried a sentence of imprisonment until 1989... during the late 19th century people were still doing time for being gay (y'know, if they were caught in action or something), including Oscar Wilde (served a sentence of two years in prison for "indecent behavior in public", or something like that - between 1895-7). Fred was a big fan of Wilde and maybe he saw himself as his successor and the first few lines of the song refer to what hapeened to Wilde -
"i've paid my dues
time after time
i've done my sentence
but committed no crime"
whereas the "victory" lines refer to the gay triumph and Fred's personal uplifting feeling when he accepted his own sexuality and came to terms with it. i think.
what do you think about this interpretation?
i gues during the 70's homosexuality was not legitimate in the UK, it was actually a felony which carried a sentence of imprisonment until 1989... during the late 19th century people were still doing time for being gay (y'know, if they were caught in action or something), including Oscar Wilde (served a sentence of two years in prison for "indecent behavior in public", or something like that - between 1895-7). Fred was a big fan of Wilde and maybe he saw himself as his successor and the first few lines of the song refer to what hapeened to Wilde -
"i've paid my dues
time after time
i've done my sentence
but committed no crime"
whereas the "victory" lines refer to the gay triumph and Fred's personal uplifting feeling when he accepted his own sexuality and came to terms with it. i think.
what do you think about this interpretation?
i was always wondering why pepople say We Are The Champions has messages about homosexuality in it till we were discussing it the other day on another board.
i gues during the 70's homosexuality was not legitimate in the UK, it was actually a felony which carried a sentence of imprisonment until 1989... during the late 19th century people were still doing time for being gay (y'know, if they were caught in action or something), including Oscar Wilde (served a sentence of two years in prison for "indecent behavior in public", or something like that - between 1895-7). Fred was a big fan of Wilde and maybe he saw himself as his successor and the first few lines of the song refer to what hapeened to Wilde -
"i've paid my dues
time after time
i've done my sentence
but committed no crime"
whereas the "victory" lines refer to the gay triumph and Fred's personal uplifting feeling when he accepted his own sexuality and came to terms with it. i think.
what do you think about this interpretation?
No he wrote a song about that already before '77 called Bohemian Rhapsody somewhere on the A Night At The Opera album.
I can see how some people would think that Bohemian Rhapsody is about Freddie being gay, but it leads more towards the fact that he had AIDS (which we know isnt possible) I do think Bohemian Rhapsody was about Freddies personal experiences, but i dont think it was about him being gay. I think a portion may be about it, as he wasnt really sure if he was gay at the time, do correct me if i am wrong. But Bohemian Rhapsody is a song I dont want to know the meaning to. If we found out the meaning, then the song would, in essence, die. There is only one person who knows that actual meaning, and he will never be able to tell anyone. If i wrote a song like BO Rhap that keeps people guessing like that, i wouldnt want anyone to know the meanings, would you?
I've always been curious about She Makes Me (e.g. the heavy breathing and ambulance towards the end)
Does anyone know anything about that??
Does anyone know anything about that??
I can see how some people would think that Bohemian Rhapsody is about Freddie being gay, but it leads more towards the fact that he had AIDS (which we know isnt possible) I do think Bohemian Rhapsody was about Freddies personal experiences, but i dont think it was about him being gay. I think a portion may be about it, as he wasnt really sure if he was gay at the time, do correct me if i am wrong. But Bohemian Rhapsody is a song I dont want to know the meaning to. If we found out the meaning, then the song would, in essence, die. There is only one person who knows that actual meaning, and he will never be able to tell anyone. If i wrote a song like BO Rhap that keeps people guessing like that, i wouldnt want anyone to know the meanings, would you?
Roger apparently knows the meaning as well. Not that he would ever tell though.
Didn't it say at the start not to try to decipher BoRhap?
Didn't Brian write "All dead" after his cat's death or something?
Didn't Brian write "All dead" after his cat's death or something?
'So much ado my lover
So many games we played
Through ev’ry fleeted summer
Through ev’ry precious day'
????? really???? (i hope you weren't serious) - unless Bri was into some serious feline-beastiality
I think he is serious..
I've read in lots of places that that song was about his cat that died. Of course the cat might only have been an inspiration to write the song, which explains those lines.
I've read in lots of places that that song was about his cat that died. Of course the cat might only have been an inspiration to write the song, which explains those lines.
Very thorough (TYPO!! ARGH!!). I congratulate you on the amount of thought you put in that last post. I don't really believe that it was about a heroin addiction though, although that is only my opinion.