Queen Discussion Thread

A FOUR-fer :D

The Wedding March

Written (more arranged) by: Brian May

Musicians:

Brian May - guitar orchestrations
Roger Taylor - cymbals




- The two remaining members of Queen together although it's really mostly Brian.

- In a stroke of genius, Brian also includes a snippet of a Death March in it as well.

QUOTES:

- Those things go back a long way with us because, you know, we did God Save the Queen and we did the beginning part for Tie Your Mother Down and we did Procession on the first [sic] album. Those little guitar pieces go back a long way. I had heard Hendrix's thing but his approach is very different really. The way he did those things was to put down a line and then sort of improvise another line
around and the whole thing works on the basis of, erm, things going in and out of harmony, more or less, by accident. It's very much a freeform multi-tracking thing, whereas my stuff is totally arranged. I'll make sure that the whole thing is planned and treated like you would give a score to an orchestra to do. It's a complete orchestration. So, it's a different kind of approach really but I enjoy doing those things. It's sort of an indulgence really but, at the same time, I thought it would be funny for that Wedding March to come out that way. Because, all our people, who know our music, would recognise that immediately as one of our treatments and anyone else in the cinema would think of it as a strange Wedding March. It's meant it to be a musical joke anyway, in the film, so it was just heightening that joke really." - Brian May - BBC Radio 1 - 1983


PERSONAL NOTES:
- Perfectly Queen. I love it and wish my wife would have let us use it for our wedding At least she let us walk into the reception to the hard rock section of Bo Rhap

Marriage Of Dale And Ming (And Flash Approaching)

Written by: Brian May and Roger Taylor

Musicians:
Brian May - guitars, piano, organ, synthesizer, vocals
Roger Taylor - drums, vocals
Freddie Mercury - vocals
John Deacon - bass guitar




- Includes the humorous wedding vows.

PERSONAL NOTES:

- Nothing much musically - more of the same theme, it's the dialogue that makes this one.

Crash Dive On Mingo City

Written by: Brian May

Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - piano, synthesizer
Brian May - guitars, vocals, piano, organ, synthesizer
John Deacon - bass guitar, synthesizer, guitar
Roger Taylor - drums, percussion




- Another dramatic moment from the band as this ends up being the climax of the film.

PERSONAL NOTES:
- Not much to say except that no surprise, it works great with the film.

Flash's Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations)

Written by: Brian May

Musicians:
Brian May - guitars, piano, synthesizer, vocals
Roger Taylor - drums, vocals
Freddie Mercury - vocals
John Deacon - bass guitar




- The reprise of the main theme and the celebration begins!

PERSONAL NOTES:
- Again not much to say, it's short, sweet, and to the point.

Next up we end the soundtrack with The Hero