If Freddie Mercury survived would Queen still be successful today

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DRAGON LANCE

01-04-2016

The electronic disco sound of Hot Space wasn't so much Queen jumping on a band wagon but more because Freddie had been influenced by gay clubs that played that sort of music. He initially managed to sell it to the band off the back of the success of Another One Bites the Dust. However things went sour with Brian and Roger making no secret of their contempt for the style of music and they apparently became more disillusioned as the album was recorded.

Freddie's manager Paul Prenter was also meant to have been a rather destructive influence whispering in Mercury's ear that Brian May was old fashioned and he shouldn't listen to him anymore. You can see the first signs of the band tearing itself apart in this era. The fact that the album was (by Queen standards) a flop didn't help either.

bryemycaz

01-04-2016

Originally Posted by DRAGON LANCE:
“The electronic disco sound of Hot Space wasn't so much Queen jumping on a band wagon but more because Freddie had been influenced by gay clubs that played that sort of music. He initially managed to sell it to the band off the back of the success of Another One Bites the Dust. However things went sour with Brian and Roger making no secret of their contempt for the style of music and they apparently became more disillusioned as the album was recorded.

Freddie's manager Paul Prenter was also meant to have been a rather destructive influence whispering in Mercury's ear that Brian May was old fashioned and he shouldn't listen to him anymore. You can see the first signs of the band tearing itself apart in this era. The fact that the album was (by Queen standards) a flop didn't help either.”

John Deacon liked that style though. Hot Space was very much a Deacon/Mercury effort.

dodrade

02-04-2016

Originally Posted by unique:
“the term "dance music" to describe the type of music most people will think of now, wasn't used back then. house music didn't start until years later. they recorded radio gaga in 1983, which was the period between the end of discos popularity and before even early house music. hi-nrg was the type of dance music that mainly filled the gap between disco and house but it wasn't anywhere near as popular and it didn't sound anything like radio gaga, neither the beats or the synths or bass

queen had only started using keyboards around 79 so it sounds more like they were influenced by other rock bands using synths than dance music, even if hot space was more influenced by dance music. if anything it sounds more like georgio moroders 70s disco sounds, perhaps a touch of kraftwerk, so more retro than anything else

many commercial rock bands were doing similar synth prominent tracks around that time and it just sounds like queen were jumping on the same trend”

Didn't Queen have a "no synths" sticker on their early albums?

unique

02-04-2016

Originally Posted by dodrade:
“Didn't Queen have a "no synths" sticker on their early albums?”

from the second album onwards they put it on the sleeve. the game mentions it's the first album to use synths on the cover

bryemycaz

02-04-2016

Originally Posted by unique:
“from the second album onwards they put it on the sleeve. the game mentions it's the first album to use synths on the cover”

The first album had this on it "And nobody played synthesizer."

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