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02/01/1998 SABC 2 - Brian With Roger | ||
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RT:
The last album "Made in Heaven" was quite, quite slow, quite down,
quite a lot of ballads, lot of slow songs and we thought it would be nice,
if we did release a compilation, releasing the hard rock songs of Queen. BM:
We thought it would be nice to give people what we never gave them,
which is everything up. Like an album was normally very full of light and
shade, all our albums were like that, you would find something very strong
and then something very gentle on purpose you know so that the album
was very listenable I suppose. But we thought it would be just great to have
an album that you can just bung in your car or whatever and it rocks the
whole way. (Clips
of "I'm in Love With My Car" live) RT:
Queen were in essence a hard rock band. (Clip
of "Headlong") RT:
This album represents a lot of the reasons why people liked us in the
beginning. BM:
Yes there were ballads and yes there were anthems and everything but really
it was a rock band. (Clip
of "We Will Rock You")
BM:
There were actually a lot of tracks available, I think probably twice as
many tracks as we could get on the CD. So we were able to be very picky and
I think when you can be choosy then you can make a good combination. (Clip
of "We Will Rock You)
RT:
Except the new song which Brian happened to write, and gave me a tape
and said what do you think of this song... and I actually forgot to listen
to it for a while. BM:
He put it away in a drawer somewhere you know, cause he was busy or whatever
and it was months later when Roger phoned up suddenly, excited and said I
just listened to the track and its amazing, and we have to do it as a Queen
song. RT:
So we just got together and chemistry clicked back in and it was really good
fun, I really enjoyed working with Brian and John again. (Clip
of "No-One But You")
Narrator:
Both Brian May and Roger Taylor have been sharpening their vocal skills for
their own solo albums and they share the singing on this Freddie Mercury
tribute video. atmosphere.
(Clip
of "No-One But You")
BM:
If we were making a Queen video Freddie would be at the piano, or a gig you
know and, for instance, there would be cups and stuff on the piano and there
would be cups and Freddie would take a sip of whatever. And if it were a gig
there would be a glass of champagne here because at some point he would say
"Cheers Darlings" or whatever you know. (Clip
of "Tie Your Mother Down")
Narrator:
Although Freddie has been dead for six years it still feels to the remaining
member so the band that in some ways he is still with them and not just in
his musical legacy. RT:
I think we all always feel that somehow he's around. We lived with him for
so many years we know how he would react to any given situation,so you
imagine in your head he'd be saying, "Oh stop that... don't be
ridiculous. BM:
The last shot was of the champagne glass, just so we had it covered and I
was very keen that we have it in case... because you never know how you
cut... how you finally edit a video, sometimes you change your mind in the
edit and we had a final shot all planned. (Clip
of the planned final shot of "No-One But You")
BM:
But then we thought well, you know, maybe this glass which has been there
all along would be a nice way t end as well. And in the end there's just one
spot light on it and the Rudy goes cut and just before he goes cut,
something happened! And I went, what was that? Did something happen? And
everybody said, "No I don't think anything happened." Anyway we
ran the thing back and you see this little, tiny moth come down and it sort
of wheels around the glass and the off into space. TA:
Over a 20 year period Queen broke every record in the book. 47 chart
hits, 24 top tens, million selling albums and an enormous fan base.
Six years after the untimely death of their flamboyant lead singer Freddie
Mercury, the band have now released a compilation album, reminding everyone
that QUEEN ROCKS. Clips
of "We Will Rock You", "I Want It All" and "Headlong".
TA:
Yeah. Now like me you were probably singing along there, but nestled
amongst those well loved favourites on the album is a brand new Queen tune,
just recorded by the other three. But, how can you have a Queen track
without Freddie? BM:
It just kind of happened, 'cause I wrote the track for my solo album which
I'm working on at the moment and erm, it just happened that, erm, Roger and
John really liked it and kind of felt that it aught to be a Queen track -
and it was about Freddie really so it, it sort of begged the question. Clip
of "No One But You", and video (approx 30 seconds) TA:
What do you says then to fans that say Queen isn't Queen without Freddie? BM:
Well it isn't, it probably isn't. You know, and I know we have this
track out there - its kind of a one-off and its almost an accident, erm,at
the moment I don't see that we can be Queen without Freddie. TA:
Do you have plans to record any more tracks as Queen? BM:
At the moment no, no, erm, it's always very tempting because everybody wants
you to, you know, you know that there's the audience out there and if
somehow you could be Queen again, properly, everyone would be very happy,
you know, including us I'm sure... but it isn't that easy | |
