And that segment is what most of the people, commenting here, didn't listen to. People have a limited attention span it seems...

@@soundandvision5382 Freddie was a music genius and Brian too but the song was the most important piece in this puzzle.

I'd imagine _a lot_ of engineers and producers have done this over the years. There are probably a hundred hours of these sort of exchanges between our most beloved musicians, but they've never been released because the artists have the master tapes. One can only imagine the things that The Beatles, The 'Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd (Waters and Gilmore fought for sure), and countless other legacy rock bands said in the studio. Between all of them, there are likely miles of tape full of arguments, jokes, and all manner of shenanigans.

What's a complicated musical relationship?

@@ianjonas7380 One in which business, artistic expression, and friendship all have to coexist. This is one of the biggest reasons why pop music is so screwed up.

You ever fart in your hand and smell it? "This is how it's done folks." 😂 so pretentious.

@@Fiveash-Art Every day, sir... every day. =)

Spot on..

@@SaberToothGary They savor their own stench. .... People who pretend to be cool online are insufferable. "No Cap!"

@@Fiveash-Arthow much time have you spent in a recording studio? To a large extent, this IS how it's done. Seems to me it's YOU who's trying to be cool on the internet.

Yeah totally. 90% of bands get more hyped up than this.

There have been bands who came to literal blows over far less, that's for certain. I recall it being joked about by one or more Queen members that they broke up all the time, only for their need to get another word in squashing whatever it was that was being fought over. Basic human relating, in other words.

Absolutely, this is very civil. I've seen actual punch ups over the dumbest shit in rehearsals.

Absolutely

Yeah looks normal to me. Just part of the creative process

I agree , each of them are musical geniuses, and thats why they made Soo much great music, my all time favorite 👍👍🙌🙌

Which makes them.far more interesting than many who just kinda churn out their signature style.

Agreed! Some of the best hidden gems come from Roger & Brian’s Dragon Attack is one of the baddest songs ever written.

Radio Ga Ga.. even Freddie loved it.

"I'm in love with my car" is an all time Taylor great

Haha! Brilliant points you’ve raised! 👍🏼😄👍🏼

This comment made my day 😂

He wanted it all and he wanted it now!

Cool Cat

He wanted to get dowwwwwwn, make lovvvvve 😮

Do you mind me asking who you were playing with? Sounds like a great experience!

Exactly!! I was only in a low level, local gigs, weddings, birthdays and cover type of band but even we had a lot of squabbles in rehearsals! Usually started when when the lead singer/rhythm guitarist and the lead guitarist went off into a huddle to work their harmony parts out and me (bass) and our drummer got bored and started acting out a bit. Our drummer was actually a really good lyricist and wrote a lot of what I thought were good songs, or songs that were at least worth trying to work on but our lead singer always rejected them out of hand without even trying...still irks me a bit, that, cos he had all the melodies in his head and it wouldn't have been too much to ask to at least have *tried* to work on a few arrangements instead of doing "Crocodile Rock" for the thousandth time! Sorry, don't know why I launched into that long winded and probably quite boring story as a reply 😂

@@anthonywallace3830 Metallica's Speed of Sound tour.

Actually, SOME do! (Or I should say, "someone/something" writes them THROUGH the musician/singer!)

I thought they were written in their entirety in 10 minutes on the toilet on a roll of 3 ply?

Very well said. The trouble bands get into is when they start paying too many yes-men to just stroke their ego all day and night. When everyone is telling you "that's great, that's perfect" every dang take is when bands lose passion and get complacent.

There's a lot of respect that goes with that as well. "I know you're capable of better" isn't an insult at all.

And sometimes it's Freddie fucking Mercury.

Tell that to Billy Corgan, lol. The quality of his published output dropped in proportion to his increasing involvement in production and the decreasing amount of external feedback received. Dude made a lot of shit, he just had people around him with good ears who could pick out the good from the bad. When he decided that feedback was "negativity", his ability to make consistently good music evaporated.

Everybody needs an editor.

Agreed!

I disagree.

depends on if you're married. If you're a man you lose.

What a load of bs

Yes !

Well summed up!

And John was the glue that held them together. None of them could have survived on their own. This band made them better.

@@fleatactical7390 I don't know much about John Deacon. There was definitely a great synergy in the band. I've played in bands with musicians interested in different genres. I think that kind of variety makes music interesting and unpredictable - and that describes Queen.

I agree. One of the quirks of Queen was a handful of their albums were all over the place but assembled in a way that made them cohesive. A lot of folks overlook the careful ’assembly’ that elevates certain albums. XTC’s Skylarking and Pink Floyd’s DSOTM immediately comes mind. Great albums that would have likely been less so if assembled differently. I wasn’t necessarily a big rock fan back in the day but I absolutely loved and admired Queen for a multitude of reasons.

Exactly... I remember well the musical slip Queen went to in the early 80s. I was so sad!

Absolutely brilliant way to make sense of this!

well put!

No, this is an example of why many bands break up. I give credit to Brian May for putting up with that crap. Mercury's ego was out of control. He did not collaborate with May in this clip. He treated him like a child. It came off as putting May in his place for no reason...just picky, control-freak bullshit.

@@litlrikd Yeah, "Welcome to making music together as a band." Seems that those who have no problem with how Mercury acted are as pompous as he is.

@@kahlesjf Someone woke up on the wrong side of the tour bus.

Check out Rory Gallagher, May credits him for his tone and sound.

Mark Knopfler

@@randomguyontheinternet7940 So so true . The Vox AC 30 and the Treble Booster both came from Rory's advice.

True!

I thought the special sound came from the box John built for Brian? Or did he built it per Rory's advice?

"hits were made"? "Brilliant"? 3 songs 40 years ago? Ceskoslovenska.

@@kilvapkram4302 What do you mean by: "3 songs 40 years ago?"

@@kilvapkram4302 It is more about 40, 40 years ago. 😉

@@kilvapkram4302Are you ok? Nurse will be along with the meds shortly.

Let´s not go overboard with the praise here. They were just doing what they do.

Hahah exactly.... They i better one oa other d3finetevly

Yes !

no he did not!

No, he didn't.

@@filipeleite5174 Watch the video again so you can stop being an idiot saying 'no' at the wrong time

@@filipeleite5174 Yes he did

@@KB-ke3fi I don't discuss with young people.

A little too late for that now isn't it?

It's a kind of magic.. kinda magic..

@@ytr3488 I don't understand your comment here. What do you mean by: "A little too late for that now isn't it?"

Oh, I think you understand. Its not that complicated.

Ya, it seems like the normal process of writing and recording. Butting heads is just a healthy part of it. They all do this. Plus those English chaps are just born snippy and a bit egotistical. When the dust clears they have magic, and some bruised egos but, they either forget and move on or leave or get kicked out. Its rock n roll

Exactly. I found the end part of this video (audio only) quite amusing 😂

Yes !

Yes !

This was a collab song As Freddie said he got more involved with John and Roger songs but songs wouldnt normally be worked on like this

@@bluebell3720 Yes !

Well he’s good friends with Iommi

Well, heavy metal is the law😅😅

*Roger w/o the 'd' & *Freddie with an 'ie' if you please 😉

@@Motown-1966 Weewees Wadja.

😜Sorry @@Thebuilderofthings1 It's compulsory 😂

Miami Vice face??...😂😂😂😂

I read ir again! You ve said Phase, I understood "face" ..😂

Very good. Hip hip hoorah.

Sometimes they do 'just somehow happen'

It helps if they have One Vision though 🤪

@@sarkycutt9611 good one!😆

@@loganm15 no they don't. They take lots of work and effort and practicing.

Yes !

He can't possibly be nasty behind Brian's back with the camera rolling :)

@@laurentiurudeanu4102 I think they forget anyway lol and I agree with you, but anyway the first clip is hard to find now and I saw a lot of complaints in comments before that.

@@scottcrawford7674 yes and I think the small impromptu audio fragment ar the end captures that very eloquently; how their working relations actually were, how perfectionist, serious, driven and passionate they were when it came to their music. It wasn't all fun and games as it appeared in the live shows when everything had already been sorted out, polished & perfected

As Elton John mentioned, he could never be in a band. It takes incredible patience and flexibility and many other things to be in a band.

@@scottcrawford7674 I respect your opinion. I like what Norman Sheffield said about Mercury. Everyone started to treat him like a god and he began to behave like one. You will not find a bigger Freddie fan than me. By the way I got to meet Brian, Jer , and Kashimira April 2001 NYC Walforf Astoria Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Induction ceremony.

👍👍👍👍👍👍

Yes !

They still do

I think both Freddie AND Brian could be 'perfectionists' but occasionally their perfectionisms were moving in different directions....Freddie's vocals had so many diverse roots & influences & Brian was so into that cutting Power Rock sound with melodic liquid tones harmonies.

@@walterevans2118 Brian said many times that Freddie wanted every song and instrument synchronized in very special ways. During the 20 plus years that Our Legendary Freddie Mercury and Queen worked together, they did perform as perfect as they did!!

@@Queen71373 Yes

@@walterevans2118 This was just my opinion of how I saw Freddie and Queen through their careers and lives.

I think this shows very much that the dominant forces in the band were Mercury and May. I know Taylor and Deacon wrote great songs but often with a lot of help from Mercury. Obviously May didn't want or seek that help

Yes. It's complex, not complicated.

Yes probably more in the 70s though when they were under pressure , getting ripped off etc. By the mid 80s they were financially secure and older and obviously huge. The audio at the end where they have an argument is 1977 I think.

It worked. Songs can be like the birth of a child, there's a hell of a lot of pain, then you love it.

@@frederickball2969 🤣😂Oh!!!! Perfect comparison👍🏻.

@@annabelej8021 Say 2 blokes.

John wrote their biggest.

Each member has written a number 1, only band to do that.

@@castleanthrax1833 Freddie wrote it and gave John the credit. Brian said in an interview that John told Freddie that he had an idea for a song and Freddie went with the idea. Brian said Freddie was in the studio until his throat bled to get the song perfect. Freddie had great affection for John and I believe actually wrote John's song after he told John that he needed to write some songs to make money money.

I'm in love with my car 🤩

@@attilapataki8030 The machine of a dream!

You are absolutely right!...This is what make the huge difference between Queen and most if rock bands! ...memorable...amazing...fantastic rock ever!❤❤❤❤

Eloquently put, ding dong

Freddy complains about Brian still playing "heavy metal" where he wanted to move on, for example towards disco. I am team Brian here. I really hate I want to break free and Radio Gaga. The period that nearly ended Queen. Innuendo turned things back to better music.

@@marcelgommans2020 *Freddie with a 'ie'...never 'y!' Regarding them experimenting in other genres, they'd ALWAYS had done this from the door! Them doin' a song or two that fell under 'DISCO' wasn't even that bad! Firstly, the DISCO era as ppl tend to remember started in the mid '70s in Blk/Gay clubs. The sound morphed to the point where it was everybody's genre (whites/blacks/asians/etc). What made it totally unacceptable was when rock DJ's went on this campaign to kill DISCO so that their targeted teenage audience can get back on track to listing to what they supposed to be listening to! Those aforementioned rock DJs sandblasted ANY & ALL rock musicians that dared dabbled in the DISCO genre (like the Stones & Rod Stewart) were crucified for daring to jump on the DISCO bandwagon. Rock DJ, Steve Dahl declared war on DISCO & burned DISCO Records/LPs at the official DISCO Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park 12 July 1979; thereby, setting the stage for the genre's demise which occurred in '81. Queen's so called DISCO LP wasn't even DISCO! Hot Space released in '82 (AFTER DISCO's death) had only TWO DISCO-ish songs on it (Staying Power which was Funk, not DISCO & Back Chat with the deafening electric drums). The rest had dance (Body Language), Latin (Las Palabras de Amor), Action This Day (New Wave), Calling All Girls (New Wave), Dancer (Rock), Put Out the Fire (Rock), Life is Real (rock ballad), & of course, Under Pressure (Rock). Queen returned to their rock roots with The Works LP from which I Want to Break Free & Radio GAGA came on. There was NOTHING DISCO about that LP (or A Kind of Magic & The Miracle LPs for that matter). The main differences between Bri & Freddie's style is that Freddie wanted to experiment. He never was satisfied with the status quo. He understood that in order to remain relevant, one MUST change with the times. THIS is where Bri falls short as evidenced by the lack of hits he'd put out as Queen + Paul Rodger's Cosmos Rock LP and now with him not happy with new music in studio as Queen + Adam Lambert. Freddie had that production ear & the ability to stay ahead of the music trend. The main reason Queen were the success they were WAS because of Freddie's producing ears! He wasn't around long enough to see Made in Heaven's production thru, and it shows.

Excuse me, my friend. That was not "involvement", it was "over control". Their music is iconic and timeless because they were four great musicians. But when they "really" let Freddie take control of things: Hot Space, The Miracle... Until Innuendo you'll find nothing "iconic and timeless" again.

@@bassaniobrokenhart5045 ……Sorry, ‘my friend’….”total involvement” in the instrumentation does NOT mean total control! It was hearing certain nuances in the ‘iconic’ songs that a lead singer needs to hear from the individual instruments. It’s called quality control, my friend. And, your last comment is an obvious mistaken perception, IMO.

@@paso193 That's exactly what I said. And I remove the "my friend" bit. Who the hell was Freddie Mercury to exercise "quality control" on Brian May, who's a thousand times a musician as he'd ever been? What rubbish did Mercury produce when he went solo? Any timeless melodies? And I stand by my last comment. Hot Space? BS The Miracle? BS. And about "Brian May's bitching"... Who was the bitch in Queen? Get outta here, please.

Definitely quality control! Without Fred & John it was lacking, the sparkle & magic had left the band!

they almost did not survive it. They all did solo stuff to get away from each other. Well John Deacon didn't.

You should at least check out their 70's output. It's some of the best rock music ever made. Excellent albums. Queen 2 is one of my favorite albums of all-time.

@@jasongaylor2232 I've listened to every single album and song they put out, I just never found myself wanting to listen to it again. Just didn't get into it like I did other music.

@@fleatactical7390 I think their 70's catalog is extremely consistent and can easily rival any other great artist that put out a string of great albums. I constantly listen to those albums because they are so good. And the diversity helps.

Exactly. Well said. And they were extremely diplomatic. They put the band first over their own egos. And they were extremely close and more like a family compared to most bands. I think this is why they never broke up and never even considered it.

@@jasongaylor2232 Somebody needs to remind Brian and Roger of that. According to their backstabbing movie, Freddie walked out on the band hurling insults as he left and had to grovel his way back into the band with an AIDS diagnosis he hadn't even received yet. All of it was false. Freddie wasn't the first one to do solo work and Freddie did interviews saying how he never expected Queen to play his Mr. Bad Guy songs when the fans came to hear Queen and how Queen always came first for him. Fans new to Queen believe that crap about Freddie being the wild party animal that the three other choirboys were forced to put up with and what a selfish diva he was and it's all due to Brian's jealousy of Freddie and Roger and John going along with it. The movie really opened my eyes to why Freddie made so many comments about not getting along with Brian and why Freddie felt the way he did about Brian.

@@debra2700 Everything you said about the Bohemian Rhapsody movie is correct in my opinion, the film sucks. However, you sound like you think that Brian wrote the script of Bohemian Rhapsody and intentionally made Freddie look bad to boost his own ego. Please don`t slander Brian he doesn`t deserve that.

@@patepulkkinenvtec2403. Brian and Roger were consultants and Jim Beach was a producer and they had complete authority over the movie. Remember how they spent six years negotiating with Sasha Baron Cohen to play Freddie and he thought they were two clowns for wanting to kill Freddie off in first half of the movie? They fired Cohen because they had the authority to do so and went on to make that horrific hit piece on Freddie. That's why you think it sucks and why I hate it. None of it rang true, none of it was Freddie. Brian told an interviewer once that if one more person asks him what it was like to work with Freddie Mercury, he would throw up so yes, I believe that Brian's actions were deliberate.

@@debra2700 The way they handled Freddie in the movie was trash but I don't think SB Cohen would have been a great pick either. He would have probably just made Freddie look like a clown, not to say Freddie wouldn't have had his comical side.

It's really stupid how people like you are just blurting out 'no not complicated no' out of your bonehead-level ignorance. Your brain "is not complicated".

I don't think it was complicated at all. Just 2 talented musicians with differing opinions striving for perfection. Lennon & McCartney were the same, probably Jagger and Richards too. .

@@CB-xr1eg difference is Lennon and McCartney gave up on each other.

@@Xander1Sheridan I strongly disagree. It was Lennon who first said he wanted to leave The Beatles but he wanted it kept quiet. McCartney wanted the group to carry on but he didn't want Allan Klein as manager. He got outvoted so he had to leave, it wasn't by choice. Now we all know that McCartney was right not to trust Klein.

​@@OlafProtIt isn't. Not in the slightest.

This was a historical and unique performance with M Caballet in Barcelona...Freddie was too much in many ways...❤❤❤

@@montanabonita If you are a Queenianado you will remember Teo Torriatti, He used the same breathing pauses, and nothing since hit quite the same nerve for me. Then the internet, thank God, and the Spain collaboration was in one of my feeds, and it just completely closed the cycle of his passion. They were soul mates, in an expressive sense, and both as good as it gets. What a delivery, glad to meet you. BEST.

Couldn’t disagree more!

Though they should have.

@@perbes100 Why?

@@stephen1562 A band is not like a car. In a car, you replace a flat tyre. You can't do that with most musicians.

@@perbes100 I was referring to the era when all four members were alive. I thought that was obvious

Если вы всерьёз так считаете - то вы вообще ни хрена не знаете об этой группе. Они работали совсем иначе, нежели Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Uriah Heep, Rainbow или Dio (где в самом деле записью заправляли один, либо два человека). В Queen никогда не было музыканта, который бы "руководил процессом". Они всё решали коллегиально + учитывали мнение продюсера (будь то Рой Томас Бэйкер, Рейнхолд Мэк или Дэвид Ричардс).

Mais les autres membres ont bien spécifié qu il n y aura plus de groupe Queen sans Freddie ? Normal.

It's not a rickenback. He designed his own guitar from parts.

It was written by Roger

I queen erano soliti collaborare per rendere le loro canzoni scritte da uno di loro indimenticabili e nel video si vede l impegno di tutti ma soprattutto la meticolosità e la ricerca della perfezione da parte di freddie mercury come sempre

@@MariagiovannaOnnis if you watch the whole twenty odd minutes you'll see it was Roger who originally wrote the lyrics, they changed some so the lead singer Freddie words could sing it as they had it in their heads, same with any song which the others wrote, it went to Freddie only so they could work out how it sounded best, his throat was bleeding for John Another One Bites The Dust, going over and over getting the sound right

I read they played every show, whether to 10 people or 10,000 people like they were at Wembley Stadium!