Another vaudeville/ twenties era / barbershop song comes in the form of Mercury’s “Seaside Rendezvous.” Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help hearing “Doin’ the Pigeon” throughout this song. May’s penchant for sad story songs would continue with “Sail Away Sweet Sister” from the album, The Game. It also acts as a balance to the other songs on the album, being much more bombastic in nature.īrian May gives his songwriting a go on “39,” about British soldiers going off to war and missing their loves and families, possibly never to return again. Regardless, or because, of its simplicity, singalongs are almost a necessity. Now a classic rock staple, the song can be considered somewhat schmaltzy, but at least sincere. The album’s second single follows, “You’re My Best Friend,” penned by bassist John Deacon. “I’m In Love With My Car,” a song written and sung by Roger Taylor, can at times sound like a precursor to another Roger’s works, that being Waters’ work on The Wall. “Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon” is pure vaudeville rock, if there is such a thing. The song employs intricate layered Mercury vocals and the trademark harmonies, which, though always beautiful, still act as anger in this track. The album starts off with vitriol in “Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to…),” a song for a former manager. Of course, now, after Wayne’s World, the death of the charismatic Mercury, and a Mountain Dew commercial, A Night at the Opera is most infamous for housing “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the six-minute dramatic opus that is now the band’s signature song, even more recognizable than “We are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You,” at least outside of sports stadiums.
QUEEN A NIGHT AT THE OPERA GAME ALBUM COVER CRACK
The album was the first to hit the top of the UK album charts, while also the first to crack the top five in the US. A Night at the Opera cemented the band into super-stardom thanks to its campy, over-the-top nature, the magnificent guitar noodling of Brian May, and the operatic showmanship of the legendary Freddie Mercury. England’s Queen, a tongue-in-cheek name if I ever heard one, already had three albums under their belt before they decided to let it all go with the first of two albums named after Marx Brothers movies.
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