Post by fabiogminero on Mar 5, 2023 11:01:18 GMT
Hello everybody.
Below is a short article on Queen: it is the review of the album 'The Game' written by the American journalist Don Lawson in September 1980, shortly after the album's release. The journalist praises the album, comparing it with previous works and calling it the best LP of the band in the last four years.
Unfortunately the image is in poor quality, but I was able to transcribe the text and reproduce it below.
Enjoy the reading.
Below is a short article on Queen: it is the review of the album 'The Game' written by the American journalist Don Lawson in September 1980, shortly after the album's release. The journalist praises the album, comparing it with previous works and calling it the best LP of the band in the last four years.
Unfortunately the image is in poor quality, but I was able to transcribe the text and reproduce it below.
Enjoy the reading.
THE GAME
Queen
Elektra
The British group Queen will go down in the books as one of the most popular groups of the late 70's/early 80's period. Their latest album, The Game, represents some what of a recoup of the quality which marked their early albums luck are both fine songs though not but which was regretably absent of the very highest quality. These from their last two or three efforts.
The Game, may in fact, be Queen's finest album. The music is uniformly well written and competantly performed. The quality of the selections is generally high, and the sound is clear and sharp.
The first side is opened by Play The Game written by keyboardist/ vocalist Freddie Mercury. Mercury's flash tenor voice is unique in popular music and earmarks Queen's sound. On this song (and several others), it is presented to great advantage. Play The Game is Queen's finest tune since Bohemian Rhapsody on the A Night At The Opera album.
The current hit, Another One Bites The Dust, by bassist John Deacon, is part of an effort to make Queen's image seem more in touch harder with the roots of rock in the early fifties. While this effort on the whole is probably a mistake, this song is a very fine piece and ranks with the best of Queen's work.
At the height of Queen's effort to achieve the fifties sound is their biggest single to date, Crazy Littly Thing Called Love. This song is not articularly amazing, but Mercury manages to sound remarkably like Elvis Presley. The song is interesting if nothing else.
Rock It (Prime Jive), written and sung by drummer Roger Taylor, is the other outstanding number on the disc. The song has a slow, mellow opening section which leads into an all out rock'n'roll concluding section.
I said, "C'mon baby, now it's all right,
To much rock'n'roll on a Saturday night
I said "Shoot and get your suit and come along with me
C'mon, baby, down, come and rock with me!"
Don't Try Suicide and Dragon Attack are both fine songs though not of the very highest quality. These two, together with the aforementioned songs, combine to make this the finest Queen album in the past four years.
All the musicians in Queen are technically pruficient. They are all brilliant men (Brian May has a Ph.D in astrophysics from Cambridge). Mercury's pianos are more than just frills, they integrate into the music and help to carry it along. This is rare in a hard-rock group.
The members of Queen have always prided themselves in that they were able to achieve their sounds without the use of a synthesizer. This album marks the first appearance of a synthesizer on a Queen album. The sound probably could have been done without it, but Queen would have had to work harder.
All in all. The Game is as pleasing an effort as Queen is capable of producing. It is thoroughly worth while and will undoubtedly make its influence felt in music circles.
-DON LAWSON
Queen
Elektra
The British group Queen will go down in the books as one of the most popular groups of the late 70's/early 80's period. Their latest album, The Game, represents some what of a recoup of the quality which marked their early albums luck are both fine songs though not but which was regretably absent of the very highest quality. These from their last two or three efforts.
The Game, may in fact, be Queen's finest album. The music is uniformly well written and competantly performed. The quality of the selections is generally high, and the sound is clear and sharp.
The first side is opened by Play The Game written by keyboardist/ vocalist Freddie Mercury. Mercury's flash tenor voice is unique in popular music and earmarks Queen's sound. On this song (and several others), it is presented to great advantage. Play The Game is Queen's finest tune since Bohemian Rhapsody on the A Night At The Opera album.
The current hit, Another One Bites The Dust, by bassist John Deacon, is part of an effort to make Queen's image seem more in touch harder with the roots of rock in the early fifties. While this effort on the whole is probably a mistake, this song is a very fine piece and ranks with the best of Queen's work.
At the height of Queen's effort to achieve the fifties sound is their biggest single to date, Crazy Littly Thing Called Love. This song is not articularly amazing, but Mercury manages to sound remarkably like Elvis Presley. The song is interesting if nothing else.
Rock It (Prime Jive), written and sung by drummer Roger Taylor, is the other outstanding number on the disc. The song has a slow, mellow opening section which leads into an all out rock'n'roll concluding section.
I said, "C'mon baby, now it's all right,
To much rock'n'roll on a Saturday night
I said "Shoot and get your suit and come along with me
C'mon, baby, down, come and rock with me!"
Don't Try Suicide and Dragon Attack are both fine songs though not of the very highest quality. These two, together with the aforementioned songs, combine to make this the finest Queen album in the past four years.
All the musicians in Queen are technically pruficient. They are all brilliant men (Brian May has a Ph.D in astrophysics from Cambridge). Mercury's pianos are more than just frills, they integrate into the music and help to carry it along. This is rare in a hard-rock group.
The members of Queen have always prided themselves in that they were able to achieve their sounds without the use of a synthesizer. This album marks the first appearance of a synthesizer on a Queen album. The sound probably could have been done without it, but Queen would have had to work harder.
All in all. The Game is as pleasing an effort as Queen is capable of producing. It is thoroughly worth while and will undoubtedly make its influence felt in music circles.
-DON LAWSON
