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Post by georg on Mar 25, 2022 17:28:34 GMT
While reading over the lyrics of 'It's Late', I came across the line "Now you tell me you're leaving / And I just can't believe it's true". I started humming along to the first line, but then in my head I imagined a little arpeggiated run up the piano before I got to the second line. Then it hit me: "Now you say you're leaving me / And I just can't believe it's true / You're my kind of lover..."
It's almost certainly coincidence – the act of a person telling another person they're leaving them, and that other person being in disbelief is certainly not unique to either 'It's Late' or 'Your Kind of Lover' – but I found it funny that after almost 30 years of intense (sometimes too intense) familiarity with both songs I only just now noticed that. I'm sure someone else knew about it long before me, though!
So – any other interesting callbacks or tie-ins to other songs you've noticed? 'Soul Brother' doesn't count.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Mar 25, 2022 17:54:03 GMT
While reading over the lyrics of 'It's Late', I came across the line "Now you tell me you're leaving / And I just can't believe it's true". I started humming along to the first line, but then in my head I imagined a little arpeggiated run up the piano before I got to the second line. Then it hit me: "Now you say you're leaving me / And I just can't believe it's true / You're my kind of lover..." It's almost certainly coincidence – the act of a person telling another person they're leaving them, and that other person being in disbelief is certainly not unique to either 'It's Late' or 'Your Kind of Lover' – but I found it funny that after almost 30 years of intense (sometimes too intense) familiarity with both songs I only just now noticed that. I'm sure someone else knew about it long before me, though! So – any other interesting callbacks or tie-ins to other songs you've noticed? 'Soul Brother' doesn't count. This probably just shows how thick I am, but it took about 30 years, and someone to point it out, that the instrumental intro to A Day At The Races is the riff from White Man (or vice versa). Also, the first chords in Brian's slow version of Hammer To Fall are very similar to those of It's Late. So much so, I almost leapt out of my seat when he started to play it at the Royal Albert Hall, thinking it was going to be It's Late, which wouldn't have been a good idea as I was seated right above a very steep set of steps!
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Post by ActionThisDay on Mar 25, 2022 20:00:17 GMT
Was It All Worth It contains a short section from the intro of Death on Two Legs (2:54-2:57).
I also think the part just before this is a little homage to The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke (2:48-2:51).
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Post by Raf on Mar 25, 2022 20:26:54 GMT
Also, the first chords in Brian's slow version of Hammer To Fall are very similar to those of It's Late. So much so, I almost leapt out of my seat when he started to play it at the Royal Albert Hall, thinking it was going to be It's Late, which wouldn't have been a good idea as I was seated right above a very steep set of steps! Brian really digs the A -> D transition using that specific voicing. You can hear the same riff one octave higher on both A Kind Of Magic and We Will Rock You as well.
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Post by pg on Mar 26, 2022 7:11:21 GMT
Also, the first chords in Brian's slow version of Hammer To Fall are very similar to those of It's Late. So much so, I almost leapt out of my seat when he started to play it at the Royal Albert Hall, thinking it was going to be It's Late, which wouldn't have been a good idea as I was seated right above a very steep set of steps! Brian really digs the A -> D transition using that specific voicing. You can hear the same riff one octave higher on both A Kind Of Magic and We Will Rock You as well. All ripped off from Alright Now by Free, of course...
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Post by Steve on Mar 26, 2022 7:15:23 GMT
It's amazing what one misses over the years isn't it lol.
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Post by Golden Salmon on Mar 26, 2022 9:51:19 GMT
Not a musical thing, and this is probably well known but I must have completely forgotten about it and I just saw this the other day. Freddie's posing was based on Marlene Dietrich's.
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Post by ActionThisDay on Mar 26, 2022 19:31:58 GMT
There are quite a few songs that contain Brian's A/D/A lick including some he didn't even write:
Liar We Will Rock You (slow) It's Late The Hero Put Out The Fire Hammer To Fall One Vision A Kind of Magic Khashoggi's Ship
I've also heard him sneak it into live versions of Now I'm Here, Body Language and his guitar solo.
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Post by qsmjohn on Mar 26, 2022 22:52:25 GMT
While reading over the lyrics of 'It's Late', I came across the line "Now you tell me you're leaving / And I just can't believe it's true". I started humming along to the first line, but then in my head I imagined a little arpeggiated run up the piano before I got to the second line. Then it hit me: "Now you say you're leaving me / And I just can't believe it's true / You're my kind of lover..." It's almost certainly coincidence – the act of a person telling another person they're leaving them, and that other person being in disbelief is certainly not unique to either 'It's Late' or 'Your Kind of Lover' – but I found it funny that after almost 30 years of intense (sometimes too intense) familiarity with both songs I only just now noticed that. I'm sure someone else knew about it long before me, though! So – any other interesting callbacks or tie-ins to other songs you've noticed? 'Soul Brother' doesn't count. This probably just shows how thick I am, but it took about 30 years, and someone to point it out, that the instrumental intro to A Day At The Races is the riff from White Man (or vice versa). Also, the first chords in Brian's slow version of Hammer To Fall are very similar to those of It's Late. So much so, I almost leapt out of my seat when he started to play it at the Royal Albert Hall, thinking it was going to be It's Late, which wouldn't have been a good idea as I was seated right above a very steep set of steps! I thought, I was the only one. The White Man/ ADATC Intro -thing was something I discovered last month, 12 years after my first listening to the album. I can't believe that I didn't hear that.
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Post by ActionThisDay on Mar 26, 2022 23:44:51 GMT
Procession is made up of guitar lines from Father To Son.
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Post by georg on Mar 27, 2022 0:06:55 GMT
Procession is made up of guitar lines from Father To Son. Also, doesn’t Father to Son quote Son and Daughter in some way? Maybe I made that connection in my mind when I first heard the songs, but I could’ve sworn Brian plays a lick or something that’s a reference to Son and Daughter.
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Post by donovan on Mar 27, 2022 1:43:31 GMT
Was It All Worth It contains a short section from the intro of Death on Two Legs (2:54-2:57). I also think the part just before this is a little homage to The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke (2:48-2:51). Me reading this post: Me after listening to the above times:
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Post by greatsoundingmaracas on Mar 27, 2022 19:20:44 GMT
I don't know if it's just me, but the endings of Save Me and No-one But You sound quite similar if you ask me. Not that surprising considering they are both written by Brian, but interesting nontheless.
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Post by georg on Mar 27, 2022 20:51:41 GMT
Another one I remembered: Brian once said that the guitar solo of Sail Away Sweet Sister was connected somehow to Killer Queen.
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Post by leroybrown on Mar 27, 2022 20:59:23 GMT
I’ll share this because there are always fans that don’t know it…
Hot Space side 2 starts with an anti-gun song Put Out the Fire. The track closes with the words ‘shoot, shoot, shoot’, which is a lead in to a song for John Lennon who had recently been shot dead.
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Post by ActionThisDay on Mar 28, 2022 14:31:09 GMT
Another one I remembered: Brian once said that the guitar solo of Sail Away Sweet Sister was connected somehow to Killer Queen. He also said the solo in It's A Hard Life is based on/in the style of Bo Rhap.
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Post by georg on Mar 28, 2022 15:02:23 GMT
Another one I remembered: Brian once said that the guitar solo of Sail Away Sweet Sister was connected somehow to Killer Queen. He also said the solo in It's A Hard Life is based on/in the style of Bo Rhap. And Brian also said that Dead On Time is a kind of update of Keep Yourself Alive. The words “keep yourself alive” are in all capital letters in the lyric sheet, though I don’t know if the original vinyl came with a lyric sheet (I don’t have a copy and discogs is no help), so this might’ve been a retroactive thing. But I do seem to recall Brian mentioning in a contemporary interview (likely the 1983 BBC interview, though maybe it was on the Whistle Test in 1978) that the two songs were connected.
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Post by mercurialfreddie on Mar 28, 2022 16:11:13 GMT
Another one I remembered: Brian once said that the guitar solo of Sail Away Sweet Sister was connected somehow to Killer Queen. He also said the solo in It's A Hard Life is based on/in the style of Bo Rhap. He also said that Innuendo is structured similarly to the Bicycle Race
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Post by JackG on Mar 30, 2022 14:23:05 GMT
This is a well known fact, but It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise) contains samples from Seven Seas Of Rhye (Both Queen I and II version) and I Was Born To Love You (Made In Heaven) contains vocals from Living On My Own and A Kind Of Magic
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Post by thesirhc on Aug 31, 2022 14:52:22 GMT
The guitar riffs from I Want it All and Gimme the Prize sound very similar to me - like the bass lines from Keep Passing the Open Windows and A Kind of Magic.
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Post by Arnaldo Ogre- on Aug 31, 2022 16:55:00 GMT
I have no musical training, but I find the riff in Let Me In Your Heart Again similar to Hammer To Fall.
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Post by akirafish on Sept 1, 2022 14:49:34 GMT
Was It All Worth It contains a short section from the intro of Death on Two Legs (2:54-2:57). I also think the part just before this is a little homage to The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke (2:48-2:51). I've never thought of it that way, but I've always dig the WIAWI section (2:48-2:57) in particular, and once connected, everything just makes sense. The glorious early Queen!
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Post by akirafish on Sept 1, 2022 14:54:04 GMT
I’ll share this because there are always fans that don’t know it… Hot Space side 2 starts with an anti-gun song Put Out the Fire. The track closes with the words ‘shoot, shoot, shoot’, which is a lead in to a song for John Lennon who had recently been shot dead. I also recall Brian saying Put Out the Fire was a homage to John Lennon too, though in a different way from Life is Real.
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Post by akirafish on Sept 1, 2022 15:00:10 GMT
And Brian also said that Dead On Time is a kind of update of Keep Yourself Alive. The words “keep yourself alive” are in all capital letters in the lyric sheet, though I don’t know if the original vinyl came with a lyric sheet (I don’t have a copy and discogs is no help), so this might’ve been a retroactive thing. But I do seem to recall Brian mentioning in a contemporary interview (likely the 1983 BBC interview, though maybe it was on the Whistle Test in 1978) that the two songs were connected. I guess you're referring this interview.
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Post by georg on Sept 1, 2022 15:20:15 GMT
And Brian also said that Dead On Time is a kind of update of Keep Yourself Alive. The words “keep yourself alive” are in all capital letters in the lyric sheet, though I don’t know if the original vinyl came with a lyric sheet (I don’t have a copy and discogs is no help), so this might’ve been a retroactive thing. But I do seem to recall Brian mentioning in a contemporary interview (likely the 1983 BBC interview, though maybe it was on the Whistle Test in 1978) that the two songs were connected. I guess you're referring this interview. That's the one! I’ll share this because there are always fans that don’t know it… Hot Space side 2 starts with an anti-gun song Put Out the Fire. The track closes with the words ‘shoot, shoot, shoot’, which is a lead in to a song for John Lennon who had recently been shot dead. I also recall Brian saying Put Out the Fire was a homage to John Lennon too, though in a different way from Life is Real. It's more of an anti-gun message song than an homage to Lennon, though it obliquely references his murder (pretty much the first two verses), but you're right, it's more of an angry reaction to gun violence than specifically mourning Lennon's death.
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Post by vicspec on Sept 8, 2022 21:32:21 GMT
"Life is Real", feels like callback to BoRhap when he sang "Is this the real life?"
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Post by bicyclerace on Sept 20, 2022 21:32:27 GMT
There's a motor sound in Death On Two Legs' intro that makes me think of I'm In Love With My Car.
Also, there's a little run in the Good Old-Fashioned Boy guitar solo (around the 1:57 mark) that is very reminiscent of Bohemian Rhapsody's solo.
Plus the very obvious Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls (duh!), and No More Of That Jazz and I Want To Break Free (12" version), which includes snippets of every song on their respective album. Isn't there another 12" version with snippets of songs on its album?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2022 10:45:39 GMT
I remember reading that Headlong was inspired by the 'rush headlong into this ecstasy' lyric from Breakthru, but can't remember the source!
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Post by bicyclerace on Sept 29, 2022 13:57:23 GMT
Forgot this one, in Tear It Up : "I gotta tell you you're driving me ga ga", obviously a reference to Radio Gaga.
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Post by katby on Sept 29, 2022 18:22:50 GMT
In 'The Loser in the End', there's the sound of a door closing after the line "All she gets is Goodbye Ma". In 'Mother Love' after the line "Mama please, let me back inside", there's a sound which I think is supposed to represent a door slamming shut.
Although it's not a musical reference, I believe the album cover of The Miracle could be a reference to something Freddie said in one of his David Wigg interviews. He expresses frustration at Queen being like a "four headed gorgon" and in the same interview mentions the only way for the band to survive going forward is if they all have an equal share of the songs. Perhaps the idea of the gorgon came back to Freddie when they agreed to share writing credits for the album? I've always thought it was a bizarre choice for an album cover - my theory would at least make it a somewhat logical choice.
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