Awesome

I think I described it well enough. Oh, and this is Queen by the way if you didn't know.

This is the album "Dragon Attack" is on. You can also find "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" on it.

Closing The Olympics- British Style

I'm glad that I watched the London Olympics Closing Ceremony yesterday because it was pretty cool.  I was glad to see that Freddie Mercury made yet another appearance in the closing ceremony as well as an epic guitar solo from Brian May himself.

Brian May with his awesome guitar solo.

After the solo, Brian May and Roger Taylor went into one of Queen's most famous songs, We Will Rock You. Sadly, instead of Adam Lambert or the Freddie Mercury hologram playing, pop singer Jessie J sang instead and my reaction to that was much like this:

I used a sensor bleep for the sake of keeping this stuff family friendly.

Here's what Freddie looked like at the closing ceremony.

Here's a video of the song. I couldn't find the solo or a better version because of copyright reasons.

I was sad to hear the song ruined by Jessie J, but it was still cool.

At the end, there was another performance from The Who. They played Baba O' Reilly and My Generation. It was really cool to watch and summed up the closing ceremony nicely.

I mean, who's more British than The Who? I'll tell you who. The Who of course!

Now I could go on and on about all the other cool stuff like John Lennon and David Bowie and stuff, but that will make it very long so I'm going to end right here with this octopus.

Oh, and before I forget, for all of you Monty Python fans out there, there was a little segment with Monty Python stuff. It was pretty fun to watch.

There was also a giant octopus.

The London Olympics- The Opening

I know the opening to the Olympics was quite a while ago, but I haven't thought to write about it until now. I feel great that a lot of great classic rock songs were featured in the Opening Ceremony in London including Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, She Loves You by The Beatles and My Generation by The Who (Of course they were all British songs because the ceremony was in London). I loved all the fireworks too. The end was also cool because Paul McCartney (who was part of The Beatles) sang and performed the ending to two songs, Hey Jude and The End. All in all, it was a great Opening Ceremony.

During the fireworks, they also played Pink Floyd's Eclipse.

And here's Paul McCartney for all of you guys who didn't believe me.

We also have Queen here because they are my favorite band and  my favorite song by them was played in the Opening Ceremony. This is a 70's photo of them because they wrote the song Bohemian Rhapsody in the 70's.

Bohemian Rhapsody- What Does It Really Mean?

A lot of people know about the song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, but do they know what it's really about? A lot of people would say it's about a guy who killed a man and tells his mom.  Some people think it's about a guy's mom who frames his son for killing a man (what an evil mom). Freddie Mercury is the one who knows for sure, but he never told anyone and now he's gone. Part of the greatness of the song though is that no one really knows what it means. Queen has sworn to never tell the meaning of any of their songs. We may never know what it really means, but the not-knowing makes the song 20% cooler.
Brian May said in an interview that if everyone knew what the song Bohemian Rhapsody meant, it would lose some of its meaning and wouldn't be as good. (Paraphrase)

Or as I always say, "If I actually listened to the lyrics of this song closely, it might have some sort of deeper meaning to it."

This is the 1975 album that the song Bohemian Rhapsody appeared on.

If you want to take a look at the song yourself, I have the lyrics below to help you figure out the meaning.

If you think you know what it means, please comment below. I want to see what other people think.

Some More Freddie

More Freddie!

A lot of people seem to be looking at the Freddie Mercury Post that I posted a couple weeks ago, so I thought that I would show some more stuff. Like this:

This is just so random. There's an explanation at the Colleen Coover's website. I have the link in the other Freddie post which has it's link up above.

What next... how about a video! I know just the one...

Perfect! I think that the song "Somebody To Love" doubles in greatness when it's live. Plus, I love the ending!

Have a great week everyone!

Bohemian Rhapsody

Sorry for the late post. I had trouble with my computer yesterday. So, today I will show you what I was going to do yesterday.

Bohemian Rhapsody is Queen's most famous song. Is was featured on the 1975 album a Night At The Opera. Freddie Mercury wrote this song. The way this amazing song goes is that Freddie connected the ballad part with the guitar solo and hard rocking part with an operatic part. The opera mixed with the hard rock and the ballad make this song so amazing. It is also what my friends and I call Rockra (mix of opera and rock). The opera and Freddie's voice mixed with the guitar solo is what really makes this song stand out so much. Anyway, I have the music video below.

Make sure that you listen to this song loud like it should be!

Roger Taylor: My Favorite Drummer

Roger Taylor is the drummer for Queen. He has also written many of Queen's songs such as, Radio Ga Ga, A Kind of Magic, I'm In Love With My Car, Fun It and many more. What separates this drummer from other drummers is that he wrote and even sang many of Queen's songs. He did a lot of back-up vocals during concerts. He also sings one of his songs that he wrote. It's called, I'm In Love With My Car. This song is featured in Queen's most famous album, A Night At The Opera which came out in 1975. This album also featured Queen's most famous and incredible song, Bohemian Rhapsody. In this song, during the operatic part, Roger sings the high "Galileo!"s while Brian May and Freddie sing the other lower parts.
Anyway, I have a live version of Roger's song.