What is the hardest Queen song to sing?

Flash, Play the Game, Under Pressure

Having tried them myself. This subject is all relative.

First that came to mind is Another One Bites The Dust. Particularly because the tapes have been sped up something less than a semitone. That scowl is incredibly difficult. (Making Freddie' s gifts even that more apparent)

Though I'm not sure if both the vocal AND the track are sped up or whether it's just the music. As a kid I struggled on my bass wondering why.

Gotta agree that STL, BORHAP aren't the hardest. Freddie' s post 88 range is even higher and results in my efforts sounding almost always horribly strained like Michael Bolton in a higher register

God I hate Michael Bolton


1) aobtd
2) tsmgo
3) loml (smoothly)
4) heaven for everyone
Anything from the miracle onward that's high. Freddie didn't rely on falsetto and had an incredible voice (no shit Sherlock)


dsmn is kinda tough (breath wise) but not the range


God I hate Bolton

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-Innuendo (hard high notes)
-Kind of magic (if you want to imitate the exact Freddie studio version, quite hard)
-Made in heaven (try the whole, very hard)
-Who wants to live forever (try to give it the perfect softness of Brian, and to go as high as Freddie)
-My Fairy King (Freddie=king of falsetto)
-Another one bites the dust (yes, sounds easy, but try and reach Freddie rank "How do you think you're gonna get along wihtout...etc" without sounding like shrieking saw).
lots of others...
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Pretty much my pick as well, but for me BoRap wasn't too hard, and Lap of the Gods wasn't that bad after a few do overs.

I still sound like a whale farting underwater, but it wasn't too hard to sing.

I can sing them all perfectly :p

Actually, I can't sing that well at all, however I think Stone Cold Crazy is a real tongue-twister. I know the words, but just keep stumbling lol.

for me, it's stone cold crazy

For me it's any song which has a fairly high note in it. I just end up yelling, cracking or switching to falcetto. I have probably 1 octave range or something I assume, lol.

"The march of the black queen" I'd say is probably the most complex (vocally) Queen song to sing and if not then it's certainly a good contender.

play the game

Not the greatest Queen song, but Cool Cat has to be one of the hardest....Surprised no one mentioned that one...

For me, it has to be 'We are the champions'.

Freddie usually let Roger take the high notes in the chorus when performing live, and even Roger usually sounded like he was screaming, despite having a naturally higher-pitched voice. It's a very awkward song to sing. I realise that it was usually done at the end of shows when everyone was tired, but the chorus is absolutely relentless. It's part of what makes the song great, but there is a good reason why you don't hear too many people singing it in the shower (other than it being a slightly inappropriate song to be singing to yourself while naked).

Also... I disagree about 'Lap of The Gods...' Freddie switched from chest to falsetto easily in the Wembley concerts, for example. It probably suffered a little live in the earlier years because, again, it was often done at the end when everyone had already sung themselves out.

Maden in Heaven ,Somebody to Love ,Show must go on, Who wants to live forever ,Dont try so hard ,Was it all worth it ,
Dont stop me now ,Intro Its hard life ,We are the champions
These are the songs of our lives and to be honest from them most difficult to sing is Made in Heaven ,no one on this earth except me can sing this song

Don't Stop Me Now is extremely difficult!

I'd pick anything on side A of Hot Space.

The songs themselves haven't aged well, but they may well be Mercury's finest vocal performances.

Everything exept Crazy Little Thing Called Love