The Safari used to go round to
MG’s house after school, or in the hols if the weather wasn’t good enough to
play footy, cricket or go out wildlifing round the local farms and woods, to
doss round playing board games, cards or table footy while listening to the
latest 45s and LPs on his little record play. In the early 70s when we were
about a year older than FW is now he put on this LP by a new fangled group we’d
not heard of he’d borrowed from another frien
It was different, deffo not heavy
rock like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, and not really
progressive like Genesis or Yes and certainly not glam rock-poppy like Sweet or
Slade nor was it 12 bar bluesy like Status Quo and yet it had elements of all
these genres but was certainly in it’s own little musical niche.
When we finally saw them on Top
of the Pops some months later by eck did we think they were a bit weird
especially that lead singer.
So who is this mystery pop group?
Queen of course. We followed them for a few years buying all their albums up to
A Day At The Races and then we went to Uni and had a slight musical taste
change and ignored them but still continued to hear the singles on the radio
through the years. We never did get to go to see them in those early years and
then sadly Freddie Mercury died and that too many people was the end of Queen.
But not to the other band members who, after a while, began to tour again with
‘guest’ lead singers including Free’s incomparable vocalist Paul Rodgers (who
we saw in his Bad Company incarnation along time ago) and then went on to
recruit American Idol runner up Adam Lambert.
A new world tour began this year
after last year’s success and we just had to grab a ticket or two.
Where to next? Got some stuff from today to tell you about tomoz.
In the meantime let us know who's belting out the tunes in your outback
1 comment:
Sacha Baron Cohen was supposed to play Freddie Mercury in a biopic, he would have been a great replacement lead singer!
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