Here’s where I need to be a little tricky. I really can’t think of my song that fits this at all, so I’m going to amend it to a song that you used to hate but now love. This is a song that I never really appreciated fully until recently. The Spanish guitar isn’t Brian […]
I have never met the Queen, but I do admire and respect her and believe she does a great deal to help our country. The BBC has produced this lovely page with a photograph for each year of her life. It can’t possibly sum up everything she has done, but it covers so many wonderful […]
I know they aren’t to everyone’s taste, but Queen also feature a lot in my musical life. This song is from Made In Heaven, their last album as a full four-piece original band. This makes me sad because it contains the last recorded singing from Freddie Mercury. Half way through the song, Brian takes over […]
David Bowie, if I’m honest, isn’t a musician that I’ve explored a great deal. I’m a firm believer that your early musical tastes are shaped by your parents. My mum wasn’t a particular fan of anything when I was growing up, preferring to watch tv in the house or have a silent car, if memory […]
I just found out that the legend that is Richard Whiteley sadly died today just days after undergoing heart surgery. Richard Whiteley, who has died aged 61, endeared himself to millions of television viewers as the avuncular host of Countdown, the cult word game show whose fans include the Queen. A veteran TV journalist, he […]
I’m telling you now, in the future everyone will be singing to everyone else. The world will be a massive, unbearable musical. The signs are already here. For years “Jesus Christ, Superstar” has taken a story we all know and sang it to us. Then Ben Elton‘s career stalled and he turned his hand to […]
I was reminded earlier this week of a great quote by the legend that is Al Murray, Pub Landlord. Speaking to Q one issue about the perfect pub compilation album, he described Queen‘s Bohemian Rhapsody as “encapsulating the drunken night out – a quiet bit at the start, some people arguing with each other, then […]