Professional Musician's FIRST TIME REACTION to Queen - My Fairy King 

Yes, Freddie is singing lead vocals & yes, Roger did the high voice! This is the song which may have inspired Freddie to change his name from Bulsara to Mercury. The lyrics contain a verse with the words “Mother Mercury, look what they’ve done to me.” Brian May commented that after the line was written , Freddie claimed he was singing about his mother. Freddie was also inspired by Robert Browning’s poem “The Pied Piper”. I love this song it’s so beautiful in many ways! 🤗 The outro is gorgeous! Loved your analysis!!🎉🎉

The high vocals are Rodger Taylor and most of the intro guitar is recroded backwards!

To me it's one of the most beautiful Queen's songs

Queen and Queen II are my favorite Queen albums - so amazing ! Your reactions are amazing!

From The same álbum, "Liar" and "Great King Rat" are the masterpieces.

Brain May (guitarist) with his father built his guitar, named Red Special. After Freddie Mercury died, Brain May's friends encouraged him to complete his education, he did. Brain completed his doctorate thesis in Astrophysics and today he is active in the field with a number of papers on zodiacal dust which were confirmed by a NASA satellite

Thank you for this reaction. Great song. That was Freddie singing. He has an amazing range. Roger's voice could go very high but it was quite raspy.

Queen and Queen II are masterpieces. MASTERPIECES!

I loved your reaction to this song. Queen has something special to offer in every one of their songs. I look forward to your next visit with them. Another good one from this album is Great King Rat, composed by Freddie Mercury...lots of changes.

Great approach of this masterpiece! So original! Never notice the similarities with Deep Purple well done man! Cheers from Paris!

The outro piano/guitar are so amazing, one of a kind.

Welcome to my ears for years, the best reactions.

Chorus from intro are from Roger. Freddie sings the lyrics.

The eldridge screech was Roger, but all other vocals were Freddie.

Thank you SO much for this reaction! I think there is a huge difference between 70th and 80th Queen music. But you hit right for 2 of my favorite 70-Queen songs. When I first heard the Queen / QueenII albums I said, "What?" But the more I listened, the more addicted I got. Alsways something new to discover in the songs (I tink this is what you call "layer" but as a non-musician Teen it was just "so much mire" ;) ... to be true: I accuse them of bringing me to music like Arther Brown or The Doors while opening my mind to try more styles of music than "just" rock ... And I like the way you help me understand what you're doing and that it's not just the "fan" who thinks this is a really nice piece of work.

THIS ALBUM WAS WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME I LOVE HOW U KIDS TODAY REACT TOO QUEEN FEELING WAT I FELT 50 YRS AGO I SAW THEM LIVE IN SYRACUSE NY UNBELIEVABLE!

Love your reaction. I'm looking forward to more queen reactions from you.

Please do 'Great King Rat' same album :)

Fantastic reaction! The first Queen album also have some songs that connect with each other. My Fairy King is the second song, the first song is The Great King Rat. It was Freddie's songs that were connected with each other. Queen's debut album is amazing and very underrated because they were not big at the time. There is a great live version of The Great King Rat that is better then the studio version, The Great King Rat live at the Rainbow 1974 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nNDOazfRg08.html. Brain May has never really used pedals, the only pedal he uses is a wah pedal. All of the sounds and effects were done with voices and guitar, most of the time. Of course Queen also did not use synths in the 70's. Brian made his own tape delay, it was not a very usual effect in those days. Great mention on Highway Star, that was released in 1972, and Queen's debut album in 1973. But in fairness to Queen the songs were recorded far ahead of the release, they had to wait over a year, simply for the studio to release their album, and the songs were mostly written far in advance. It was a struggle for Queen to get signed and to release their first album. Were you looking for the word, arpeggio? Roger did the falsetto parts the rest was all Freddie, his voice was not strong yet on Queen's fist album. Full album reviews would be great!

Freddie does lead vocals in falsetto as well as his normal voice He also does backing/harmonies with Roger and Brian Roger does the high notes Freddies song on their first album 74 I dont think Roger did any songs in full falsetto

Sounds like Bohemian Rhapsody love of my life Millionaire but queen

Roger. The dog whistle

Excelente analisis! segui reaccionando a Queen! lo haces muy bien!

Todo en Queen fue impresionante y, a pesar de los años, sigue siendo de los grandes

Early Queen just magic

Nice to see you react to this song :)

Me encanta tu forma de reaccionar... Y, de paso, aprendo ;)

You should do a review of Keep Yourself Alive's guitar riff.

When I first heard the song, my first thought was also "That intro sounds like Highway star".

Its all Freddie. This is the song he adopted his last name from... Mercury

My Fairy King 1971-1972.

The high notes at the start are Roger singing falsetto.❤️❤️

I believe the section where he wrote Mother Mercury what have you done to me was the reasons he chenged his nane to freddie.

SORPRENDENTE CANCIÓN DE QUE EN AMIGO ABRAZO DESDE BUENOS AIRES

do Beatles please or Paul McCartney please

Revolver pepper only heart cub band please

I an a Queen forever and you make it even better, so down to earth..request Stone Cold Crazy 😊🙏

White abum please or yellow submarine please or Abby rood please or let be by Beatles

Freddie is lead singer on this, great reaction.

Th e singing was Freddie's falsettos, I promise,

¡Muchas gracias por tomar en cuenta mi recomendación! (No creo que lo recuerdes, pero yo fui quien te recomendó esta canción). Como ves, Queen es una banda que evolucionó mucho a lo largo de su carrera, ya que comenzaron como una banda de hard rock y rock progresivo que incluso coqueteó con el metal muchas veces. Tengo varios puntos para comentarte (si es que ves el comentario lol). El primero es que sí, los gritos agudos de la intro son de Roger Taylor. Aunque luego los que se escuchan a lo largo del resto de la canción son hechos por Freddie. Luego decirte que la canción entera es cantada por Freddie (ya que dijiste que al principio te parecía que no era él). Freddie en los '70s (sobre todo al principio) tenía una voz diferente a la que solemos pensar cuando hablamos de él: era una voz más ligera, y de hecho en esos primeros álbumes usa mucho el falsette, cosa que en los 80's comenzó a cambiar, empezando a usar mucho el belting para llegar más agudo en voz de pecho, lo que le dio esa característica voz muchas veces distorsionada y muy potente. Luego quería comentarte que los 4 primeros álbumes de Queen (excepto Queen I, que iba a tener y al final no tuvo) tienen canciones conectadas entre sí. A esto Queen les llamaba "medleys", y es algo que incluso hacían en vivo, tocando varias canciones juntas sin detenerse y mezclándolas con pasajes intermedios. En Queen I iba a haber un medley, entre la canción Great King Rat y una canción que quedó finalmente fuera del álbum: Mad The Swine. Se tenía pensado que las uniera un solo de batería. Esta segunda canción estuvo muchos años inédita, hasta que fue lanzada como lado B del sencillo "Headlong" en 1991. En Queen II tienes los siguientes medleys: Procession - Father To Son - White Queen; Ogre Battle - The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke - Nevermore; y The March Of The Black Queen - Funny How Love Is. En su tercer álbum, Sheer Heart Attack, están: Tenement Funster (cantada por Roger Taylor) - Flick Of The Wrist - Lily Of The Valley; e In The Lap Of The Gods - Stone Cold Crazy. Y en A Night At The Opera está The Prophet's Song - Love Of My Life. Luego te puedo recomendar que tu próxima escucha sea "Good Company", de A Night At The Opera, justamente. Es una canción de género dixieland, un estilo de jazz de los años 40, y tiene la particularidad de que TODOS los instrumentos que allí suenan, exceptuando el bajo, la batería, y un banjo-ukelele que era del padre de Brian May, son hechos con efectos de guitarra (el bajista de Queen, John Deacon, es ingeniero electrónico, y creó un amplificador que, mezclado con la guitarra de Brian, que también es casera y la hizo con su padre, lograba sonidos orquestales muy diversos. De hecho Queen no usó sintetizadores hasta 1980, y la gente confundía las orquestaciones de guitarra con sintetizadores). Aquí el link a la canción: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XQo5tqwAwgE.html De todas formas, si por alguna razón escuchaste ya esa canción (ya que quizás habrás escuchado alguna vez el A Night At The Opera entero, al ser el álbum más famoso de Queen), te diría que reaccionases al medley Tenement Funster - Flick Of The Wrist - Lily Of The Valley, para que veas cómo mezclaban canciones. Te dejo aquí un link con el medley entero, que además de tener la letra en inglés y español (genial para aquellos que te sigan que quizás no dominen el inglés), tiene bastantes imágenes y videos de la banda en la época en la que las canciones fueron lanzada, es decir, 1974: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mhjMi2ZyBwo.html Espero toda esta Biblia de información te sirva, y espero que continúes reaccionando como lo vienes haciendo.

I don't know how familiair you are with the discography of the band Muse (I think it's always a little bit "risky" to request songs from really famous bands). If you don't know the song already I would like to recommend: 'Muse - United States of Eurasia (+ Collateral Damage)' or 'Muse - Blackout (Live from Wembley Stadium)' (that last one is still one of my favorite live performances of them ever) Muse is a band with quite a few similarities to Queen in some of their songs, that's why I thought of them immediately during this song.

please please me a hard day’s night with the Beatles or help rubber soul

Los falsetos altos los hace Roger

Reacciona a génesis back in New York city!!! Soy un fan de génesis de su etapa con Peter Gabriel... Bueno de genesis hasta el. Disco abacab!!!!

Who doesn't have Liar in their head now?

The guitar at the beginning is reversed, volume and pedal make a different sound.

Reacciona a Sugar Baby Love (1974), de The Rubettes, o, a Tiger Feet (1974), de Mud. Saludos. :)

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Ogre Battle next!

Shhh. We can hear it…

¿Eres colombiana o inglesa ??. Añadir un subtitulo.No era fan de Freddy Mercury, solo después de que escuché a Dimash y Celine cantando Show.

Highway Star has a completely different rhythm to this song. {:-:-:}

No synth was used in the making of this song

Freddie is doing all the high voices, listen to Exercises in Free love, which Monsteratte Caballe, the Spanish opera singer sang it at the Royal Opera House in London before she & Freddie did a whole album

40% Roger and 60% Fred.