Had the honour of seeing Queen in the pouring rain in Brisbane Australia in February 2020 after waiting 34 years to see them. A magical night that won't be forgotten any time soon, thanks in large part to Dr May...my hero and inspiration
Swap thing..... not calling them Queen just cuz Freddie isn't there doesn't give much credit to Brian, John, or Roger. I get it, Freddie is not replaceable, but they are still Queen
@breme well, but they played only pubs & Uni's & had no success at all until Freddie's clever Killer Queen & then Bohemian Rhapsody made them overnight millionaires.
I saw Queen years ago in Manchester England ...amazing band .... Listening to Brian now ..he has a lovely gentle soul xxx Not many famous people like this? Bless you all Queen xx
Fantastic interview with Brian. He is just an awesome person. Talking & seeing how excited he gets when he is asked about touring next year. You can see the eyes light up & he is ready to go out there & tour.
Same! Sadly for us die-hard fans, the audience is mainly composed of the average kind of fan, who wants to hear the hits. Then on the other hand, if they primarily played for the main fans, they wouldn't get the massive crowd they deserve, so I guess I'm ok with that. I, for one, would LOVE to hear "Machines" in concert, but according to what he said, I assume it will not happen again.
I bought Back to the Light the original day it wqs released in the day AND had the extreme pleasure of seeing Brian and the gang play live in Chicago with the late great Cozy Powell on drums, may he rest in peace. Brian, thank you for all yhe great music a d God bless!
Interesting discussion on the "Don't Stop Me Now" track. The version of the song that made the BoRhap movie soundtrack was full of Brian's guitars (a version I prefer to the original version released on Jazz). Funny thing is, it is clearly the same recording. The vocal performance, the drums and bass, ... everything is identical except there is a great new rhythm guitar track added (including a similar but slightly different lead guitar break). I guess it is nice to have both, but after I discovered this it always made me wonder how many unreleased variations of other songs might still exist. It would be great to hear more.
I don't even know how many copies of "Back to the Light" I have bought and given away over the past couple of years. Or how many times I've played it for myself. What a great album!
No Roger Taylor songs on GH1 lol. So much stuff on his mind that this slipped. Back to the light is awesome! can't wait to share that with my subscribers as part of the Queen Chronicles Series... it'll be a while though.. I guess I can always give them a sneak peak. Resurrection is such an amazing song, back to the light and Last Horizon.. what an album!
Common Brian, Love Kills, The Great Pretender and I Was Born To Love You were hits, Barcelona was a no.2 hit, before Driven To You. Brian has a serious chip on his shoulder when it comes to Freddie's solo albums.
He did have two hits Two top tens from his first album none off the second Driven by you he wrote for a ford adv no 6 uk 91 and no 9 us (nov 91 25th a day after Freddie died)(then inc on solo sept 92) he deserves to be proud of that (though the timing is a bit off) TMLWKY which he co wrote with two people uk no 5 he debuted it at Freddies tribute April 92 I dont know for sure but i think people thought it was to raise money for AIDS as it was released soon after but it was the single off his solo album sept 92 He toured 92 and us 93 last horizon? uk no 51! resurrection? uk no 23! Roger did the first solo album in 81 and had done his second when freddie did his first and Brian had done an LP Brian has done two albums in total 92 Back to the light uk no 6 (2021 no 7) 98 Another world uk no 23 (no hits) Roger has done 6 solo albums and another 3 with The cross a band he formed in 87 no hits as far as I can find Freddie did Mr Bad Guy released in 85 uk no 6 the same as brians album in 92 (no promo for it) he was probably dissapointed with this and expected it to do better but it was very different from Queen albums and there wasnt a balance (he has done similar songs with Queen) Born to love you 85 uk no 11 unfortunatly the rest did worse than brians! living on my own video was banned it was re mixed by no more brothers in 93 no 1 uk they took the scatting from the begining out which personally makes it more bland they shortened and obscured the video which Im fine with no issue with him using party footage but some of it seemed odd to include lets turn it on was used in a film soundtrack teachers 84 Mr bad Guy 2nd series of The Boys (comedy) 84 Freddie wrote released love kills Moroder added disco music uk no 10 soundtrack for mopopolis (that must have gone down well with Brian! his hammer to fall the same day !was no 13) 87 Freddie cover of Great pretender uk no 4 technically though he didnt write it was a hit before driven by you! 87 Barcalona uk no 8 92 (olympics) uk no 2
Freddie was good enough to warm the crowd up for you he hadn't been around for a while! closing ceremony 2012 olympics I would hope it was a big deal to be apart of it and yes you did do a solo by yourself but Freddie was there too in spirit! getting the audience joining in when you had finished Jesse sang with you even Roger played with you! sure must have been exciting and scary when you were on your own but stop making everything just about you! Opening ceremony they also showed images of Bo Rap video while parts of the song were played Freddie made two appearances!
DSMN raised bon radio on freddies birthday Brian finally talked about DSMN without claiming his dislike was due to concern! it is very very very clear his main issue with this was a lack of guitars 'painful'!? bit OTT Brian he expected them to respect how he wanted his songs but it was painful that Freddie didnt want it to be guitar driven? Freddie wanted it to be piano driven but brian ignored that and wrote guitar anyway? going to a lot of trouble for a song he doesnt like out of concern!? he shows his disrespect for freddie and his obsession with the song by adding loads of guitar to the version used in the film,it's ridiculous but they betrayed freddie in the film for being a * Freddie had done other songs that werent guitar driven but he has a real issue with this song its not as if all of Brians songs are heavy/rock songs hes saying here again oh it was about concern what concern? 78 he left a 3 year relationship with david for Joe who he was with for 2 years sure he went to clubs but he was from one relationship to the next he wasnt living an ott party life in 78 but he clearrly has issues with the lack of guitar his other issuue which he admitted to in 93 guitar world was he had a go at Freddie for having songs on the gay side he may not feel comfortable repeating that now but hes making people believe freddie was irresponsable a t this time hes claiming he cared about him and was worried... he was worried people realising freddie was gay and having a gay tone to their songs would loose them fans which is reasonable to a point but he had a go at him couldnnt stop it being a single but discouraged it being on their set but now pretending he was a concerned friend who was worried he also said in 93 and repeated in 2011 was he saw these songs as seprratism 2011 he started talking about concern here he says that but clearly more about guitar 'painful' not painful to see his friend in danger (according to Brian) but painful he didnt dominate freddie song! 'recklace' he had been introduced to ny clubs but didnt have a drug addiction to any concern just dabbled as roger did went to clubs again not any concern he left along term relationship for someone he dated 2 years how is this 'recklace' behaviour? eat my hat mean he was wrong bit odd if this song is about a recklace time about loosing his friend that its now ok now eating his hat because people like it hes talking rubbish on his birthdday he simply said he it didnt fit in with what they were doing on stage light and fluffy!? reluctance came from brian how wrong was I ..now the place errupts second most down loaded song
Indian parsee things from Freddie what were they exactly? is he thinking of arabic? which isn't 'parsee' 'Indian parsee' is nationality and ethnicity his parents were born and brought up in India Freddie would be parsee 'ethnicity' if he hadn't gone to school in india his sister never went to India before coing to britain still 'parsee' parsee represents persian and indian culture/influence.. parsee when Freddie was born also indicates direct line of persians of the zorioastrian faith fled to India (both parents,the law has been changed but most in the indian parsee community dont agree with marrying non parsee)
AOBTD I can't find clear information but I'm doubting it's a bigger success than Bo Rap which had 1.6 downloads a few years ago on spotify its their no 1 and AOBTD is third after DSMN I'm assuming this is the same on others Bo rap is still uk best selling non charity single it was no 1 uk 2 AOBTDwas their best selling us single what is strange is Bo Rap has diamond award mean over 10m us sales but AOBTD doesn't? less than 10m or they havent bothered checking either way a bit odd if its their best Johns song but 'we' helped ,really? previously Brian has said it's johns but it was Freddie that made it happen Freddie fought for what he beleived in.. Brian and Roger didnt want it or work on it now its 'we'? Brian previously said they felt forced into releasing it as the radio stations kept playing it
? Freddie 84 (moroder) love kills uk no 10 Disco music! (same day as Brians hammer to fall no 13) Freddie 87 (cover)(mike) Great Pretender uk no 4 Freddie 87 (Mike/Montsarat) Barcalona uk no 8 (Driven by you nov 25th 91 day after freddies death! no 6) 92 Barcalona(olympics) uk no 2 before TMLWKY no 5 93 Freddie living on my own uk no 1 (re mix/ no more brothers) before Brian cover of rock you with five live no 1in 2000
'Roger has tracks on GHs 1 album' NO 70s -81 Roger had no singles so how would he be on the album? he's getting confused with the second GHs album Roger uk Ga Ga No 3 Kind of magic no 3 (Freddies re arranged version) Brake Thru no 7 inv man no 12 Innuendo with Freddie no 1
Brian ghts 1 Now im here no 11 On TOTPs We will rock you was not released uk Double a side with champions us no 4 Fbgs which was released with freddies bicycle race uk 11 Double a side Save me uk no 11 Only top ten he had was 1980 flash at no 10
Ghs 1 Freddie seven seas no 10 TOTPs killer Queen no 2 TOTPs Bo Rap no 1 (9 weeks) Video TOTPs somebody to love no 2 TOTPs good old fashioned lover boy no 17 TOTPs champions no 2 On TOTPs DSMN no 9 now their second most downloaded bicycle race no 11 CLTCL no 2 (their first us no 1) play the game no 14
He was Voted the best guitarist in the world and I certainly agree
He is SOOOOOOOO humble.....I really like that about him.
I'm so glad Brian likes my Menopause version of Bohemian Rhapsody! That has made my day - week - month - probably year! 😀
That was EPIC! Congratulations Shirley!
yea. I watched it a few weeks ago, had a great laugh. love it.
Freddie is laughing about it in heaven.
That’s fantastic!
I loved it!
I love seeing Bri's energy and happy demeanor here!
Brian’s solo work is fabulous! And that’s in addition to his phenomenal work with Queen.
Had the honour of seeing Queen in the pouring rain in Brisbane Australia in February 2020 after waiting 34 years to see them. A magical night that won't be forgotten any time soon, thanks in large part to Dr May...my hero and inspiration
No. You didnt see queen. You saw what is a shadow of the original queen. So, dont be too excited my australian friend.
Swap thing..... not calling them Queen just cuz Freddie isn't there doesn't give much credit to Brian, John, or Roger. I get it, Freddie is not replaceable, but they are still Queen
@@The_Rizz_Lord_ Bro if he is happy it's ok... they are Queen and they represent Freddie's heredity.
@breme well, but they played only pubs & Uni's & had no success at all until Freddie's clever Killer Queen & then Bohemian Rhapsody made them overnight millionaires.
@@shandathrush8355 2 members out of a 4-piece band do not make a group called "Queen" ...
I love queen and Brian May, thankyou.
I saw Queen years ago in Manchester England ...amazing band .... Listening to Brian now ..he has a lovely gentle soul xxx Not many famous people like this? Bless you all Queen xx
I appreciate Dr May so much and love their music (with Freddie and Adam).
Brian's awesome. Seen him solo and with all versions of Queen. Never less than incredible!
So underrated Machines. Some of Bri’s most awesome guitar work.
Te miró y te miró y me pareces tan bello,cuando ries cuando hablas! Eres tan especial querido brian may!!!!
Fantastic interview with Brian. He is just an awesome person. Talking & seeing how excited he gets when he is asked about touring next year. You can see the eyes light up & he is ready to go out there & tour.
Great man. Great band. Lovely chat with Richard. Thanks magic
Awesome!!! Love Bri !! Legend..come tour Australia again
I have my tickets for 2022 since 2019! Can't wait! I hope they'd play more deep cuts on concerts though
Hope you have a fantastic time!
@@MsPixi66 Thank you!
Same! Sadly for us die-hard fans, the audience is mainly composed of the average kind of fan, who wants to hear the hits. Then on the other hand, if they primarily played for the main fans, they wouldn't get the massive crowd they deserve, so I guess I'm ok with that. I, for one, would LOVE to hear "Machines" in concert, but according to what he said, I assume it will not happen again.
@@Daniela_Germany I agree with you !
Wish a health and more musical years for Brian!
I bought Back to the Light the original day it wqs released in the day AND had the extreme pleasure of seeing Brian and the gang play live in Chicago with the late great Cozy Powell on drums, may he rest in peace. Brian, thank you for all yhe great music a d God bless!
Interesting discussion on the "Don't Stop Me Now" track. The version of the song that made the BoRhap movie soundtrack was full of Brian's guitars (a version I prefer to the original version released on Jazz). Funny thing is, it is clearly the same recording. The vocal performance, the drums and bass, ... everything is identical except there is a great new rhythm guitar track added (including a similar but slightly different lead guitar break). I guess it is nice to have both, but after I discovered this it always made me wonder how many unreleased variations of other songs might still exist. It would be great to hear more.
Isn't Brian just adorable!
Love you Brian..so talented you are!
They were not trying to replace Freddieand as you said no one could. They just needed lead singer and they could not have picked a better one
Without whom my dream of seeing Queen would still be just a dream. 2014, 2017, 2019 all great shows.
Now you Shsnda, said it honestly!
!
Going to have Another One Bites The Dust at my funeral.
I don't even know how many copies of "Back to the Light" I have bought and given away over the past couple of years. Or how many times I've played it for myself. What a great album!
Loved this. Thanks!
Thanks for this great interview. Live Queen!!!
No Roger Taylor songs on GH1 lol. So much stuff on his mind that this slipped. Back to the light is awesome! can't wait to share that with my subscribers as part of the Queen Chronicles Series... it'll be a while though.. I guess I can always give them a sneak peak. Resurrection is such an amazing song, back to the light and Last Horizon.. what an album!
Lol classic, great compliment to Shirley. " Rhapsody about Menopause", lol she is indeed in the " antipodes" NZ.
Good interview!
Common Brian, Love Kills, The Great Pretender and I Was Born To Love You were hits, Barcelona was a no.2 hit, before Driven To You. Brian has a serious chip on his shoulder when it comes to Freddie's solo albums.
Eye that’s what I thought, definitely did not have a so called hit before Freddie, maybe a senior moment by Brian 🧐🙈
@@krisbowditch827 Brian can be a bit forgetful at times.
15:41 Yeah! The menopause version" Shirley Serban, you beaut!
"Proper Queen fan has it, probly on vinyl, it's an album called Jazz"
Goes to amazon. Y-yes proper queen fans have that.
He did have two hits
Two top tens from his first album none off the second
Driven by you he wrote for a ford adv no 6 uk 91
and no 9 us
(nov 91 25th a day after Freddie died)(then inc on solo sept 92)
he deserves to be proud of that (though the timing is a bit off)
TMLWKY which he co wrote with two people
uk no 5
he debuted it at Freddies tribute April 92 I dont know for sure but i think people thought it was to raise money for AIDS as it was released soon after but it was the single off his solo album sept 92
He toured 92 and us 93
last horizon? uk no 51!
resurrection? uk no 23!
Roger did the first solo album in 81 and had done his second when freddie did his first and Brian had done an LP
Brian has done two albums in total
92 Back to the light uk no 6 (2021 no 7)
98 Another world uk no 23 (no hits)
Roger has done 6 solo albums and another 3 with The cross a band he formed in 87
no hits as far as I can find
Freddie did Mr Bad Guy released in 85 uk no 6 the same as brians album in 92
(no promo for it)
he was probably dissapointed with this and expected it to do better but it was very different from Queen albums and there wasnt a balance
(he has done similar songs with Queen)
Born to love you 85
uk no 11
unfortunatly the rest did worse than brians!
living on my own video was banned
it was re mixed by no more brothers in
93 no 1 uk
they took the scatting from the begining out which personally makes it more bland
they shortened and obscured the video
which Im fine with no issue with him using party footage but some of it seemed odd to include
lets turn it on was used in a film soundtrack teachers 84
Mr bad Guy 2nd series of The Boys (comedy)
84 Freddie wrote released love kills Moroder added disco music uk no 10
soundtrack for mopopolis
(that must have gone down well with Brian! his hammer to fall the same day !was no 13)
87 Freddie
cover of Great pretender
uk no 4
technically though he didnt write it was a hit before driven by you!
87 Barcalona uk no 8
92 (olympics) uk no 2
I didn't hear 5them mention you.
Freddie was good enough to warm the crowd up for you he hadn't been around for a while!
closing ceremony 2012 olympics
I would hope it was a big deal to be apart of it
and yes you did do a solo by yourself
but Freddie was there too in spirit!
getting the audience joining in
when you had finished Jesse sang with you
even Roger played with you!
sure must have been exciting and scary when you were on your own but stop making everything just about you!
Opening ceremony
they also showed images of Bo Rap video while parts of the song were played
Freddie made two appearances!
DSMN
raised bon radio on freddies birthday
Brian finally talked about DSMN without claiming his dislike was due to concern!
it is very very very clear his main issue with this was a lack of guitars
'painful'!? bit OTT Brian
he expected them to respect how he wanted his songs but it was painful that Freddie didnt want it to be guitar driven?
Freddie wanted it to be piano driven but brian ignored that and wrote guitar anyway?
going to a lot of trouble for a song he doesnt like out of concern!?
he shows his disrespect for freddie and his obsession with the song by adding loads of guitar to the version used in the film,it's ridiculous
but they betrayed freddie in the film for being a *
Freddie had done other songs that werent guitar driven but he has a real issue with this song
its not as if all of Brians songs are heavy/rock songs
hes saying here again oh it was about concern
what concern?
78 he left a 3 year relationship with david for Joe who he was with for 2 years
sure he went to clubs but he was from one relationship to the next he wasnt living an ott party life in 78
but he clearrly has issues with the lack of guitar
his other issuue which he admitted to in 93 guitar world was he had a go at Freddie for having songs on the gay side
he may not feel comfortable repeating that now
but hes making people believe freddie was irresponsable a t this time
hes claiming he cared about him and was worried...
he was worried people realising freddie was gay and having a gay tone to their songs would loose them fans
which is reasonable to a point
but he had a go at him couldnnt stop it being a single but discouraged it being on their set
but now pretending he was a concerned friend who was worried
he also said in 93 and repeated in 2011 was he saw these songs as seprratism
2011 he started talking about concern
here he says that but clearly more about guitar
'painful' not painful to see his friend in danger (according to Brian) but painful he didnt dominate freddie song!
'recklace' he had been introduced to ny clubs but didnt have a drug addiction to any concern just dabbled as roger did
went to clubs again not any concern he left along term relationship for someone he dated 2 years
how is this 'recklace' behaviour?
eat my hat mean he was wrong
bit odd if this song is about a recklace time about loosing his friend
that its now ok now eating his hat because people like it
hes talking rubbish
on his birthdday he simply said he it didnt fit in with what they were doing on stage
light and fluffy!?
reluctance came from brian
how wrong was I ..now the place errupts
second most down loaded song
its time to retire be thankful with what you did with Queen and let it rest.
Indian parsee things from Freddie
what were they exactly?
is he thinking of arabic?
which isn't 'parsee'
'Indian parsee' is nationality and ethnicity
his parents were born and brought up in India
Freddie would be parsee 'ethnicity' if he hadn't gone to school in india
his sister never went to India before coing to britain still 'parsee'
parsee represents persian and indian culture/influence..
parsee when Freddie was born also indicates direct line of persians of the zorioastrian faith fled to India
(both parents,the law has been changed but most in the indian parsee community dont agree with marrying non parsee)
AOBTD
I can't find clear information but I'm doubting it's a bigger success than Bo Rap which had 1.6 downloads a few years ago
on spotify its their no 1 and AOBTD is third after DSMN I'm assuming this is the same on others
Bo rap is still uk best selling non charity single
it was no 1 uk 2
AOBTDwas their best selling us single
what is strange is Bo Rap has diamond award mean over 10m us sales but AOBTD doesn't?
less than 10m or they havent bothered checking
either way a bit odd if its their best
Johns song but 'we' helped ,really?
previously Brian has said it's johns but it was Freddie that made it happen
Freddie fought for what he beleived in..
Brian and Roger didnt want it or work on it
now its 'we'?
Brian previously said they felt forced into releasing it as the radio stations kept playing it
AOBTD reached 1b this year
If it is fair enough but seems a bit odd
Love queen and Brian guitarist may not that keen on solo stuff
😭 I MISS FREDDIE! I don't know why they tried to replace him. The 3 left are really awesome and really, Freddie Mercury is irreplaceable.
?
Freddie 84 (moroder)
love kills uk no 10
Disco music!
(same day as Brians hammer to fall no 13)
Freddie 87 (cover)(mike)
Great Pretender uk no 4
Freddie 87
(Mike/Montsarat)
Barcalona uk no 8
(Driven by you nov 25th 91 day after freddies death! no 6)
92 Barcalona(olympics)
uk no 2
before TMLWKY no 5
93 Freddie living on my own uk no 1
(re mix/ no more brothers)
before Brian cover of rock you with five live
no 1in 2000
Brian is a vain and envious man.
..he likes to chat and be in the spotlight.
'Roger has tracks on GHs 1 album' NO
70s -81 Roger had no singles so how would he be on the album?
he's getting confused with the second GHs album
Roger uk
Ga Ga No 3
Kind of magic no 3
(Freddies re arranged version)
Brake Thru no 7
inv man no 12
Innuendo with Freddie no 1
Brian ghts 1
Now im here no 11
On TOTPs
We will rock you was not released uk
Double a side with champions us no 4
Fbgs which was released with freddies bicycle race uk 11
Double a side
Save me uk no 11
Only top ten he had was 1980 flash at no 10
Ghs 1 John
had two tracks
you're my best friend
uk no 7
AOBTD uk no 7
TOTPs
(US no 1 )
Ghs 1 Freddie
seven seas no 10
TOTPs
killer Queen no 2
TOTPs
Bo Rap no 1 (9 weeks)
Video TOTPs
somebody to love no 2
TOTPs
good old fashioned lover boy no 17
TOTPs
champions no 2
On TOTPs
DSMN no 9
now their second most downloaded
bicycle race no 11
CLTCL no 2
(their first us no 1)
play the game no 14
BM,