Top Ten FB Album Challenge Part 8
Day
8.
Queen:
A Kind of Magic
“Hey!
Have you seen the preview for that new movie Highlander? Queen does the
soundtrack!” That might have been how it started. Or maybe it was with
Entertainment tonight discussing Highlander and showing a clip from a video
with Freddie Mercury and
Christopher Lambert.
I
was already a bit of a Queen fan, but this album is the first one I bought. I
had it on cassette first then CD. That’s a big part of the reason it makes the
list.
The
album rips and roars. Brian May builds, builds, and builds his guitar sound
until it explodes all over the songs.
One
night my friends and I were driving around aimlessly listening to a tape of the
audio of the Highlander movie that George Barnes had recorded. Not only was the
highlight yelling along with the quotes, but also hearing that music. That
amazing music.
The
night I got a phone call telling me that Freddie Mercury was dead the first
thing I thought of was this album. He was gone. Freddie wasn’t immortal in
flesh, but he is in music.
Long
live the princes of the universe.
Speaking
of the princes of the universe, here they are:
Yours in one vision,
Count Robot
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