Songbird Salutes the 70's --- Queen
The 1970's. My teen years. My musical tastes were developing. I liked a lot of different types of music, anything I heard on WABC, NYC's top 40 station, was good...pop, rock, country, movie ballads, all good. For awhile I was really into the singer-songwriter style. Harry Chapin. Don McLean. Jim Croce. John Denver. And then along came Bohemian Rhapsody , and swung me right back towards rock... I mean, listen to that song. It starts and ends with Freddie Mercury's incredible, powerful, wonderful voice. Add beautiful vocal harmonies, mysterious and intriguing lyrics ... it's a ballad, it's hard rock/heavy metal, it's opera. It's a capella singing at its finest, it's beautiful piano, it's a fast paced guitar solo. And the technology -- the dubbing and overdubbing -- The song captures and holds you... It's an incredible song by an amazing artist. I had to buy the 45. I was so disappointed when I pl...