Queen: Days Of Our Lives Documentary By Tony Stewart

The band members of Queen, generated a sound of their own because they integrated a wide range of diverse styles. Queen formed in London (1970) and included the members, Freddie Mercury (originally named Farrokh Bulsara), Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon. Together, the band incorporated an array of sounds with “[an] approach [of] wildly different styles, from straight-up Hard Rock and Arena Rock to Glam Rock, Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal, Disco/Funk, Pop, Rockabilly, New Wave, Synth Pop [even Opera]” (TV tropes). During their time, no other band or artist came up with such keen concept that set them apart from anyone else. Significantly, Tony Stewart (Editor of NME) admits “Queen were an incredible breath of fresh air in rock music”

The band, for example came up with various ideas which they combined, either on vocals, composing, a few “riffs” on the guitar, notes on the piano or a different genre that they oriented to. It was always the idea of finding the sound they had in mind and take out the best piece. This is also a reason why Freddie Mercury “strongly emphasized. . [that he] was twenty-five percent, John twenty-five percent, Roger twenty-five percent and Brian twenty-five percent. . Everybody had an equal input, equal output” as Peter “Phoebe” Freestone (Freddie’s former personal assistant) endorses. Artists now, like Beyoncé (a former Destiny’s Child member) differ from Queen’s integrity within music. Image A (last page) sets an example between Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” vs. “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen. Firstly, it demonstrates the number of people that were involved in the making but gives a closer look into the lyrics. There is no depth, no feeling and this is

The band directed their audience into an unknown perspective, an ongoing cycle of surprises, fascinating many. The thing about their audience was that they were an “open minded” audience as “Phoebe” Freestone acknowledges, always expecting the unexpected and well received. While Queen performed album hits at concerts, a big scenario was played out, cultivating their best work, it was to either go big or go home. For instance, Hyde Park (1976), a free concert in London with “a crowd of about 150,000 [people]” (Wikipedia) were given a taste of the band’s greatest move. Introducing a “show” to the audience, a unique brand that found its way out of the norms for rock bands, as they were considered. Though Harvey Kurburnick, a Music Journalist/Record Producer from Los Angeles expressed his concern on the band: “I went to see the Queen show, and I’d never seen so much luggage and crew and amps and lighting … this is not rock and roll, this is a show, this is a production, this is Broadway”. Queen knew how to distinguish themselves from the rest of the bands, yet some people did not fully understand the image they portrayed. Especially with Freddie, the front man. Many disapprovals came from the narrow minded part of the audience who searched in a “rock band” a rock image and therefore believed Queen needed to be just that. Still the band knew