Let's talk about Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

What do you guys think? For me know, this is one hell of a good song.. My favorite for the time! It's damn catchy and has a great sound. Just wandered if it's only me that loves this piece of mastership within' music?

I like it as well! Great tune and lyrics!

Perfect cabaret song. Freddie was genius with this type of song on a rock album.

The gayest song Queen ever did, and I mean that very literally...I think most (as in 95%) of the love songs by Queen were about men and women, but I am convinced that GOFLB is about man-on-man love/sex.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]TheImpossibleMan wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The gayest song Queen ever did, and I mean that very literally...I think most (as in 95%) of the love songs by Queen were about men and women, but I am convinced that GOFLB is about man-on-man love/sex.[/QUOTE]

it's a parody
it was Freddie's attempt at Noel Coward vaudeville style...so by default you are also saying that...seaside rendezvous, lazing, and millionaire - are all gay too?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=green>Bren<font color=orange>ski wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]TheImpossibleMan wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The gayest song Queen ever did, and I mean that very literally...I think most (as in 95%) of the love songs by Queen were about men and women, but I am convinced that GOFLB is about man-on-man love/sex.[/QUOTE]

it's a parody
it was Freddie's attempt at Noel Coward vaudeville style...so by default you are also saying that...seaside rendezvous, lazing, and millionaire - are all gay too?[/QUOTE]No, because I didn't get the impression that he was talking about gay sex. The style of music is one thing, the lyrics are another, and the lyrics of GOFLB are very gay.

TheImpossibleMan,
GOFLB is very much in the style of vaudeville/cabaret music.
Right down to the language.
If you listen to some cabaret music from the era of Noel Coward you would know that.
There is nothing that sets this as being about gay sex/love any more than any of Freddie's other vaudeville/cabaret songs.
Freddie was great at digging into different styles of music and picking up the nuances that set the genre apart.

erm...i think i agree with theimpossible man...the lyrics suggest a gay relationship. the style of the song is, of course, is very much like seaside roundevous etc. they can all be described as camp, because of the vaudevile nature of the style, but none of them apart from GOFLB imply to me in their LYRICS a gay relationship.

imho the solos in Good Old-Fashioned Lover boy are similar to I Want to Break Free

I don't care if the song is about two men or two women or man and women, the song is bloody brilliant!....as is the whole ADATR album.

Whether the lyrics relate to gay relationships or not is irrelevant and I don't think they do anyway, it's another Vaudeville tune.

Personally I cannot stand this song, to be honest.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]mike hunt wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I don't care if the song is about two men or two women or man and women, the song is bloody brilliant!....as is the whole ADATR album.[/QUOTE]

There could be three of them, you know...

....IS a opusmaster of Freddie God Mercury... i estudent on a schoolloverboys...:)...

THX ALL!!! (Gabriel-Barcelona ).

i think it is a awsome song and i just looove the lyrics and the person singin, ode to Freddie!!!
even if the lyrics suggest a gay relationship what does it matter? the song rocks anyway!

It has a lovely jazzy feel to it. I for one think it is about a straight relationship- old fashioned lover boys of the twenties were rather effeminate compared to today but that shouldn't be an issue anyway. I love the vocal harmonies to- so tightly structured in a way that oozed precision. Like Kiler Queen, it had those little nuances, like the clock chiming at the restaurant that made Queen such a great band.