SHEER HEART ATTACK - Queen's finest album from start to finish. Period.

@godbluffvdgg

2 жыл бұрын

News to the World; best queen album...followed by Queen II

@jkkansasband7056

2 жыл бұрын

@@godbluffvdgg That is the correct order Rob. I grew up in NE Philly.

@godbluffvdgg

2 жыл бұрын

@@jkkansasband7056 :)...Yo!...I've done a lot of work in that neck of the woods...It's like driving to california now...I'm out near the OTHER airport...in SWP...: )

@patrick3926

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite of theirs 🔥

@youandwhosearmy6339

2 жыл бұрын

I could not disagree with one single word. The first proper album that I got into as a teenager discovering music and happened to be a total one off masterpiece. Love The Beatles, The Byrds, Stones, love Zeppelin, love early Genesis, Yes, but Queen fuck me what a band.

It's a beautiful world when you can excel at guitar and be an astrophysicist.

The whole album is full of substance. Arguably their best. The next three songs bleed into each other, we always recommend reactors to take them as a combo (Tenement funster / Flick of the wrist / Lily of the valley)

The next three songs need to be done together! Tenement Funster, Flick Of The Wrist, and Lilly Of The Valley!

@radicaladz

2 жыл бұрын

Seconded.

@debramoore7513

2 жыл бұрын

Thirded

I know "Bohemian Rhapsody" is clearly their best song, but "Killer Queen" and "You're My Best Friend" are my sentimental favorites.

This is my favorite Queen album. He’s having an affair with, it sounds like a very young woman/girl, if you listen closely. Brian plays this solo live, and HAS since it’s conception. A must see. He’s an amazing guitar player and human being. An astrophysicist!! From London’s Imperial College where they all met. I love Queen. Please explore and do more of these with them.

@debramoore7513

2 жыл бұрын

Yep it’s based on a 1940’s movie thriller about an ill-fated love affair!! Love Brian’s solo. 🎸🎸

Way to go! I wondered if you would get around to this one. This is Queen at their absolute best. This album ranks solidly in my top 10 all time favorites. It's bloody perfect! Enjoy!

@mikell5087

2 жыл бұрын

I would rank Queen's first album as their best, the second as their second best, the third as their third best, and so on. They just progressively lost my interest with every album. The Game was the last album I purchased and the last one I have heard in its entirety. Long live early Queen!

The first 3 Queen albums are great! I remember trying to get people into them, especially Queen Ii. All I got was "Ew! They sound like a swarm of bees.". Then Bohemian Rhapsody came out and everyone loved them. By then, I moved on. They had a lot of great songs after that, but the albums had a lot of hits and misses, imo. Still, there's no denying, they were a talent and force to be recond with.

"And nobody played synthesizer!" I saw these guys live three times (A Day at the Races, News of the World, The Game tours) and there is just nothing like it. Nothing. (I love bragging about that to my kids. 'Cause I'm evil that way...) I love this album a lot (Tenement Funster is probably my favorite Roger Taylor tune), but my favorite Queen album is Queen II. There's an album you'll love. And then all the Queen fans will want to know if you preferred side White or side Black. My preference has changed over the years. If no one's mentioned it yet, you need to know that several of these songs are connected. Tenement Funster, Flick of the Wrist, and Lily of the Valley are all connected. In the Lap of the Gods leads straight into Stone Cold Crazy. Misfire and Bring Back That Leroy Brown overlap a bit. This is gonna be fun. You know what else would be fun? City Boy's concept album, The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Oh yeah...

@apmen21

2 жыл бұрын

I love that medley

@SharpblueCreative

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky to have seen Queen at Live Aid in 1985. Awesome

@debramoore7513

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!! The evil continues bragging about seeing Queen live!! I’m so jealous of you right now!! 😂 🤨

@SharpblueCreative

2 жыл бұрын

@@debramoore7513 85 to 95 I did a lot of live concerts including Queen on the A Kind of Magic tour. It was a great time for live music. Cheap as chips by todays standards. Seeing Pink Floyd at Wembley Stadium in 1988 was only £16. The internet & music piracy destroyed the music industry hence album sales declined dramatically so now artists rely on massive concert ticket prices to claw back revenue. We will never see the like again. The Queen ticket in 86 was only £14.50 with Status Quo as support. Live Aid was only £5 with a £20 donation. How life was so much better back then

@Habichiwoowoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@debramoore7513 😈

Queen & Pink Floyd - my top two favorite bands 🔥🔥🔥

The amazing thing about Brian’s guitar solos is that you could never imagine a better fit within the song. He has a knack of playing with restraint when called for but boy can he rock your socks off too !!

Queen is the first rock band that two contradictory words come to my mind. Heavy and elegant.

I believe Killer Queen was their first well known song in the US. Love it,

I love this album! The solo guitar section in Brighton Rock with the echo set the stage for The Prophet’s Song on the following album. It has one vocal line that is repeated at two different points which creates amazing 3-part harmonies. Very creative!

@radicaladz

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: that solo that the track is built around was originally from a totally different song - Son and Daughter from Queen 1 - which would act as a middle break before a reprise. You can find versions of it on recent releases of their early 70s concerts.

@debramoore7513

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

Brighton Rock is my all-time favourite Queen song. The guitar section (not technically a solo, because it's multiple overdubs) is the definition of epic.

This is the album where they started coming into the Queen we all know and love, IMO. Brian May was an absolute beast on Brighton Rock and on Killer Queen is Freddie, just being Freddie. Always so complex but throughly intertaining.

Queen could really rock out, especially in their early days. Heck, anytime they wanted to. Love older Queen. Great stuff.

Saw Queen several times. On one occasion in the town of Brighton England. Freddy said "oh well as we are here we best play this" brought the house down. There will never be another.

Going nuts on the compression, Brian May commented on Rick Beato's channel how their enginner needed a short leash. It is kinda exciting i suppose ^^ I note the raised eyebrows at the extended soloing, well we loved to hear stuff like that, he's accompanying himself on an echoplex which puts him up there with Gandalf to this (then) 14 year old. But I see you loved it too :)

I kind of wished that Roger got more lead vocal opportunities. I love him on "I'm in love with my Car."

I love the way May uses Echoplex, harmonizing with himself. It was amazing live!

Hi Justin, you're right - Sheer Heart Attack was released before their biggest hits/albums, such as Bohemian Rhapsody. However, Killer Queen was their first big single, thanks to which they become recognizable and more popular.

Early Queen, no one can touch them. Sublime

Thank you for venturing into some early Queen! Each of their first three LP's are amazing and set so much of the groundwork for their later hits! If you have the time, the energy, the interest and the inclination I (and many others) will be eternally grateful to you for any songs you can do from these albums! Best we can hope for is entire album reactions to all three (especially side Black of Queen II, the most criminally underrated side of music in history)! Hoping for the best and wishing the best for you!! Take care and enjoy the ride!!

@richardhorky3717

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, oh, the night comes down…🎶

Brighton Rock is my favourite Queen track of all time. I remember buying this album with my birthday money back at the time.

"Did I just say voicals?" XD This is why we love you. And yes, Brian May's guitar playing has always impressed me.

@JustJP

2 жыл бұрын

😁🤭

@-davidolivares

2 жыл бұрын

Not everyday one coins a new word.

Yea! Finally listening to Queen! Such a great band! Great album! And no one will ever convince me that there ever was or ever will be a better male rock vocalist than Freddie! The man who said he wasn’t going to just be star, but a legend. And right he was!

Still the best concert EVER!!! Queen 1981 I'm so thankful I was able to see them.

The next three songs "Tenement Funster" "Flick of the Wrist" "Lily of the Valley" all run together. Best to listen to all three at once. The guitar solo in Brighton Rock ended up expanding live and became the basis for Brian's solo for years. The simple explanation for what's going on is that he uses two delays that are timed in a way that as he plays a scale the repeated notes are in harmony with with each other. You can hear him do this in other songs as well. And they use the same effect with vocals on the Prophets song on A Night at the Opera.

Queen's Killer Queen entered the UK Top 40 on the 26th October 1974 and peaked at no.2. The Top 10 this week included: 1 - Ken Boothe - Everything I own 2 - Slade - Far far away 3 - Bay City Rollers - All of me loves all of you 4 - Sweet Sensation - Sad sweet dreamer 5 - David Essex - Gonna make you a star 6 - Paul Anka - (You're) Having a baby 7 - Peter Shelley - Gee baby 8 - Gary Shearston - I get a kick out of you 9 - George McCrae - I can't leave you alone 10 - Queen - Killer Queen Also this week... Roxy Music - All I want is you The Drifters - Down on the beach tonight Sparks - Never turn your back on mother earth Stylistics - Let's put it all together Olivia Newton John - Honestly I love you Stevie Wonder - You haven't done nothing. Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 was: 1 - Dionne Warwick & The Spinners - Then came you 2 - Stevie Wonder - You haven't done nothing 3 - Bachman, Turner and Overdrive - You ain't seen nothing yet 4 - Carole King - Jazzman 5 - Elton John - The bitch is back 6 - Bad Company - Can't get enough 7 - Tony Orlando & Dawn - Steppin' Out 8 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet home Alabama 9 - Mac Davis - Stop and smell the roses 10 - Osmonds - Love me for a reason Really enjoyed this one, haven't heard Killer Queen for years

Ah, memories. I played this on a jukebox. In a bowling alley. ..I know. Livin' large, my friends.

One of the reasons I left home at 14 was to do the fun stuff, like go where I wanted, when I wanted! 1975 some freaks & I go to see Steely Dan and this new British band nobody knew! We did after that night! 35 feet from the stage at general admission show. Whoa, what a show. Peace.

@-davidolivares

2 жыл бұрын

Who was it? jk.

Just like with Yes’ The Yes Album and Genesis’ Nursery Cryme, Queen’s Sheer Fart Attack was the third Album. And what all these albums have in common is that after two experimental albums where the bands were looking for their sound, they all found it on their third.

Yay! More Queen! Along with Pink Floyd, the most influential bands to me. Brian May is the reason I picked up a guitar. I really hope you'll continue on the Queen trek. Especially the Opera/Races albums. Or even a couple watchalongs of their live performances! Queen (+ Paul Rodgers) @ the Hollywood Bowl was the first concert I ever saw. My Mom had the privilege of seeing Queen twice in 1977 (Thin Lizzy opened the first one). 40+ years and hundreds of concerts later, she still says those were the best concerts she ever attended.

Now you're tapping into some old Queen they had a different sound more of a rock edge to them when they 1st came out I really like their early sound there was a number of good songs on the first commercial album,great reaction brother thanks for finding this one I can remember the day I was walking home from school And it was 1975 I think with a friend and we passed by his house and he said Hey man come on and I want you to hear this new album I just got and I immediately felt something different in their music definitely a different sound,very raw from were they end up but I really liked the early music of the band and followed their careers,keep spreading the music to the masses Godbless

@mikewest1542

2 жыл бұрын

The old Queen sort of disappeared in 79 after Jazz for me , then it was a funky Queen after with The Game and especially Hot Space and then Pop all the way thereafter, shame , as early Queen was brilliant up to and including Day at the races!

Now I've got Skidmarks On My Heart by The Go-Go's in my head.

Great reaction and analysis! Killer Queen was actually a big hit, it is Queen's first hit in America and Britain. This is a great album, the following 3 tracks are great together, Tenement Funster/ Flick Of The Wrist/ Lily Of The Valley. Dream Theater has also done a cover of those 3 songs, it is a great medley. Brighton Rock really displays Brian unique guitar style and signature sound, it is created with delays. Killer Queen is really Queen's only Glam Rock song, a lot of people think of Queen as a Glam Rock band, but they only dressed in Glam Rock outfits at the time. It is actually a very complex song with 29 different cords, Killer Queen is studied alongside Beethoven for a musical degree in Britain. Queen were very good at playing complex music, and making it sound very catchy and memorable as well. Freddie Mercury did love cabaret, so you are definitely correct to notice those influences. It is great that you noticed the bass and drums as well. Roger kills it on the drums in Brighton Rock, and Killer Queen is known for having a great bass line.

killer Queen was one of Freddies their first hit,no 2 uk and their first to chart in the us at no 12

Great reaction as always JP. Brighton Rock I feel is more about the music than the vocals or lyrics. Killer Queen is up there with all the Queen classics. Fantastic thought provoking lyrics, with a sense of humour. Brian, Roger and John killing it with the instruments. Also great use of the stereo, I think both Queen and Bowie made full use of stereo. yyou have to listen to their music with headphones or surround sound for the full experience

JustJP, you are 100% the best guy doing reaction videos on YT. I love to watch you listen to Queen, The Smiths, Genesis, Bowie etc etc especially the British bands and artists. You do an amazing job, keep up the excellent work.

@JustJP

Жыл бұрын

Thats very very kind of you to say, thank you for that. Hope you're having a great weekend so far

@youandwhosearmy6339

Жыл бұрын

@@JustJP No, seriously, I'm from the UK and I absolutely love your youtube stuff. You are leagues above the others that I watch. Keep up the good work, JP.

What a band and my favourite Queen album great memories and so lucky to have seen them in 1975 at the hammersmith odeon london xmas eve a famous concert just brilliant thank you for this please play the rest of the album just brilliant!

Brighton Rock is one of my favorite Queen songs as it was the first song of theirs I ever heard. A friend bought "Sheer Heart Attack" when it came out. Their third album. Went to his place and was blown away at how great they were. Brighton Rock is such a great album opener. One of Brian May's greatest moments IMO. He truly rules this track. What's amazing though is the other members are great too. Then "Killer Queen" with a radio friendly sound. Big hit! Please do the rest of the album as it is great!

You would enjoy listening to the live version of Brighton Rock on Queen: Live Killers. I think it’s one of the best live albums ever released.

This album and the next two are astonishingly good; their high-water mark. Not that there isn't plenty of great stuff on their other albums, but these three ... well worth your time, Justin.

My fave Queen album. Everyone always goes on about the opera stuff, but as a straight a head killer rock outfit, Queen was among the best, if not *the* best of the era. I always try to get people to listen to Brighton Rock as an example of their incredible *rock* talent.

Good morning Justin and fellow followers! As others have said, Killer Queen was a radio played single I heard in '74 when I was 14. For me, while I loved the tight harmonies, it was one I would leave on and not switch stations, but it's not one I would request. Nor did it prompt me to get either the 45 nor the album. Night At the Opera was what really brought me to Queen. Surprisingly, I fell in love with '39 first, then You're My Best Friend, and then Bohemian Rhapsody. So, Brian May was my initial draw to Queen as a vocalist. I later came to love The Prophet Song. Bloody Brilliant!

Mondegreens: 06:57 "Building a remedy for Christian longevity." 07:07 "Carry on, cigarettes. Well blasted etiquette." 07:15 "Goodbye longevity." 07:24 "Recommended at the price, they say she's pulled an appetite." 07:54 "She came, naturally, from Paris, because she couldn't care less. But, still, I'm so precise." 08:46 "Drove a bus. She's a silly g**, papal as a pussycat."

LOVE that you are going into this one.....the less commercial and most hard rocking Queen before they get into the arena rock anthems.....

Hope you do the rest of this album - having just heard the first two tracks again I had to carry on and play the rest of it

Great review. You may have missed the twist on Brighton Rock that the dude was being unfaithful to another lady on that holiday. That song was Brian's moment in pretty much every Queen concert after the album came out. Sometimes it would be reduced to just the solo, but he got very good at expanding the delays and making them work in combination. The album has one delay and he would use two in the live shows.The Live Killers version is really good. I'm surprised you hadn't heard Killer Queen before. It was fun to see your 1st reaction to such a classic. They were already doing some great production tricks at this point with harmonized guitars, the layers of vocals, and I especially like the touch of Brian's guitar making the cat sound before the line "playful as a pussycat." There are no bad tracks on this album, some stronger than others. When you've finished it you may make it one you like to just throw on and listen start to finish.

Both brilliant both completly different, genius.

Killer Queen is one of my favorite songs. Has been since it was released.

Yes, I am the kind of Queen fan that prefers Brighton Rock over Radio Ga-Ga. I could hear Brighton Rock every day, and if I never heard Radio Ga-Ga again, it wouldn't bother me.

I forgot how much I like "Brighton Rock" and of course "Killer Queen" is classic. I suppose there was a time when I tired of it, as it was played a lot back in the day. But with time passed I can gravitate back to it, and appreciate it appropriately again.

So many différents styles with Queen in an album .solo guitare in Brighton rock is fire. Good soundin album. I had a great day JP thanks have a good night

Your 'did I just say voicals?' reaction gets a lol and a like from me.

@JustJP

2 жыл бұрын

😅Haha ty Chris!

Utterly sensational!😁 A Night At The Opera was (in my opinion) their magnum opus, but this is still pure gold.

Stormtrooper in Stilletos (She Makes Me) is my all time favourite off Sheer Heart Attack. Have to say Brighton Rock is probably the heaviest of all the Queen songs.

@Habichiwoowoo

2 жыл бұрын

I love that song too!

Now I'm Here is simply Spectacular. It's one of my favorite tracks on that album.

The band really displayed their collective chops in their earlier albums.

Love this album bought it just weeks before A Night At The Opera came out. I like this one better.

I so love Killer Queen.

So nice to hear some of their older stuff. Enjoy

The ‘rock’ is also a pun reference to a type of candy popular in UK seaside towns like Brighton- made in a stick or cane shape that crumbles when you eat it

Queen has a ton of good songs. Thank you for leaving the beaten path.

Great pair of songs. Brighton Rock was completely new to me while Killer Queen was an AM hit here (possibly the first song of theirs I had heard). Great reaction... amazing voi-kilizations. If I ever launched a glam band it would be called "Fat Men in Latex". If Clark Kent launched a glam band he would perform under the "Super Glam" moniker and if Peter Parker launched one it would be, of course, "Spider Glam". I can hear Peter's hit single in my mind right now...

@JustJP

2 жыл бұрын

LOL! I love the idea!

Killer Queen was their first huge hit.

It's great how Brighton Rock is PURE raw rock/metal, then straight into a Killer Queen which is a modern/70s take on the 20s swing sound. Two completely opposite ends of music styles.

Have always loved Queen's singles and 'Killer Queen' is my favourite; it's so sophisticated and cool musically with such clever vocals. I've never listened to a Queen album, I'm not sure why, but after hearing 'Brighton Rock' for the first time I'm ready to go on this journey. Brilliant guitar solo which clearly puts Brian May on the all time great guitarist list (btw Brighton is a famous seaside town in England and at the time of this song was notorious for holiday violence between mods and rockers) but need to listen again as it was a little 'messy' the first time around.

Bo. Rhap was 1975, taken from the Night at the Opera album. These tracks were a year earlier. Brighton is a seaside playground, easily accessible from London on the train. One of the delights of seaside towns is the stick of rock. A hard candy stick 1" in diameter 12" long, usually made with the name of the town going through the centre. Graham Green wrote a novel titled Brighton Rock, but I've not read it so can't draw any parallels with the track. Obviously the title is a gimme for a song in this genre. Killer Queen is a wow. You can play as much Queen as you like, I'll hit the like button. They are good.

Hell yea! My favorite queen album and opening track. Highly recommend you watch a video of Brian discussing how he made his guitar and about the Deacy amp he still has the John deacon built in 1973ish.

If you continue with the album, the next three songs go together.

@JustJP

2 жыл бұрын

Ty for the heads up :)

Hi Just ! You shall treat every album from the 70's from Queen this way ! Really nothing to reject in there. I'm not so keen with the 80's production although there are lots of highlights. I know some may throw me to hell but I think they deserve at least a place on the podium of the 1970's prog rock bands

An all time great album. Don't stop here. Go farther.

It was Seven Seas of Rhye and Killer Queen that put the band firmly in the British public consciousness. Killer Queen reached number two in the UK Singles Chart. I think it even reached number twelve in the US Singles Chart.

Very first album I bought aged 11 in ‘74. Was hooked from the start. Hope you do the whole album and go backwards to Queen II which is a masterpiece. Everyone knows the later Queen hits, but the early stuff is well worth exploring.

KIller Queen was their first hit in the Netherlands. But I didn't buy a Queen album until Bohemian Rhapsody (A Night At The Opera) in 1975. Then I worked my way back to their first three as I loved that album so much. Come to think of it, this was my very first contemporary rock album I got. My second LP, first one being Elvis - Greatest Hits volume 2 which I still play as well. From then on I bought every Queen album, skipping Flash and Hot Space up to their their -for me- very emotional (still) fantastic last album with Freddy. 1975 I also discovered ELO, Genesis and Yes (who never had songs in the pop charts at the time) and of course Pink Floyd, Renaissance and Camel. The soundtrack of my teen years. Best music ever made ;-) Until I also found Marillion and Pendragon and countless others of course.

Not much I can add here, simply splendid.

That album is a tour de force.... Brighton Rock is awesome.... that echo guitar solo is with no overdubs....

killer queen.. masterpiece..!

Queen made pretty heavy music

Yes, my favourite Queen album too. At least six of the tracks deserve 9/10 and the rest aren't far behind. Brighton Rock when done live has some of the best guitar work of the time and proves that the band wasn't just Freddie and some mates (no true fan thinks that but some commentators give that impression)

"Killer Queen" was their first hit single that I can remember, when I was in 4th grade. But hearing these songs maybe you'll understand why us old-timers are baffled at all the fuss over people like Lady Gaga.

Great album..especially side one. The next 3 songs should be listened to all together as the endings and beginnings mesh. Thanx.

The best queen album for sure.

My first VINYL!!! And Queen II - stole them from my big brother in 1975. Fell in love with this band. Could not stop listening to SIDE A of Killer Queen...then one day, I flipped it over and was taken to a magical place. In the lap of the Gods...nuff said! Thank you JP for always playing a great range of work that touches all you followers. Everyone have an amazing day...boy, I was just taken back to my 10 year old self clinching that album cover and listening to the album and singing along.

I don't know if someone else has mentioned this, but Brighton Rock (the first track on the album) begins with a bit of 'I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside' which also closes the last track on the previous album - Seven Seas of Rhye.

Killer Queen I First heard back in 75

The previous album, Queen II ends with the band singing "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside" and Sheer Heart Attack opens with fairground noises and someone whistling "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside". Intentional? You better believe it!

My absolute favourite album from Queen

This is the era of Queen that is my favorite. These were rocking while I was in college so a lot of memories, but they are also just great rock songs. Brighton rock is a killer (pun intended)

This is gonna be funnnnn 😄 This was part of my teenage-hood.

DooooooooooD !! JP!!, So glad you are checking out early Queen. I sincerely hope you find surprise and enjoyment therein. In considering my own roots in earlier prog (Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, etc..), I've tended to consider early Queen as an outer, though rightful member of that glorious more-than-just-pop club. If you're up for it, Queen II is awesome in it's own way. Harder edged in some ways then anything they've done, but also intricate and a "sleeper" of a masterpiece. For a one-off forgotten b-sider, Prophet Song on Night at the Opera. I've gone on too long 🤣

@JustJP

2 жыл бұрын

Ty! Looking forward to more :D

Waiting to hear if your new purple shoes've been amazing the people downstairs.

Sheer Heart Attack Is their greatest album. A Night At The Opera comes a close second, mind you.

Great reaction!

@JustJP

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Paul!

I've always thought "Killer Queen" was an influence on Kate Bush. I could totally hear her singing this song.

@georgesonm1774

2 жыл бұрын

true!

Killer Queen was the first number 1 hit to fully utilise the 24-track tape machine. While it's true other bands have used 24 track before, most cases range from using only about 10 tracks in total or having the machine only temporarily used because they were notorious for having poor quality back then. With Queen, because they were known for their immensely layered sound, they used every track and had no issues, or at least for this song. The vocal harmonies are among some of their strongest because they utilise 7 and 9 chords for almost everything and because the mix was so tight and compact, it creates an old 1940s commercial-radio sound that translates very well with their conventional sound. Now, the problem with 24 track tape back then was because the tape had to restrict 24 track into a 2-width piece of tape, and considering the technology wasn't as good back then, the tape often was very brittle and not only that, but the tape machines were poorly made and would actually shred pieces of the iron oxide off of the tape that would in turn lose some elements of the recordings. This notably happened on their song The March Of The Black Queen which was a 16 track tape, and then again on Bohemian Rhapsody which was 24. They went over it so many times and the machine would just keep shredding pieces off. They were lucky to transfer all the recordings to a new reel of tape and onto a new machine before they lost too much. Had matters taken a different turn, we wouldn't have either of those songs.

I remember Brighton Rock from when I used to jog with it in my Walkman - and that gives you an idea of how far we're going back. The opening sort of reminds me of group of motorcyclists crashing the seaside serenity of the place, and the driving beat reminds me of a boxer's training routine, no doubt helped by that bell. Killer Queen is, as I'm sure many have pointed out, is about a high-class prostitute, a courtesan, not just a lady on the move. Recommended at the price - insatiable an appetite. Wanna try? Oh no, I'm compromised, I must apologise, if my lady should discover how I spent my holidays...

Killer Queen was the track that many many years ago made me fall in love with Queen.