You should check out wabash cannonball performed live by Charlie Daniels, boxcar Willie, and the king of country music Roy Acuff. An all time live performance of any song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QIWI8qeEI8s.html
Deaky gave us 2 of the most recognized bass riffs in music....Another One Bites The Dust and Under Pressure. He is completely under rated and does not get the flowers he deserves.
I love how Freddie was just unapologetically himself. His attitude was he's going to say and do what he wants and if you dont like it? Piss off then lol
What's great about this band is how great every member was. Roger Taylor's vocals on the chorus, it's easy to forget how vital he was to Queen's sound.
I was an EMT back in 80/81 when this song was popular and back before helicopter transport. I was driving for a Paramedic transport of a very sick patient from Green Bay to UW Madison Medical Center. About ten minutes away, the patient starts crashing and at the same time this song starts playing!!! LOL We got the patient to the center ALIVE!!!
At my wedding in 1981 at the reception all his buddies put him on a chair, lifted him up singing this! It was pretty funny! 7 years later i should have sang it to him when i divorced him!!!😂😂
I think I read somewhere that there was a movie crew filming the Montreal ‘81 concerts and Freddie did not like the rules they were giving him and especially didn’t like how they were instructing the audience not to interact with the band during the performance. So Freddie did things to deliberately piss off the movie people, including gradually wearing less and less clothing as the concert progressed. Makes me laugh every time I see these videos!
@@jazzlefettie Yep Jazzie, I heard the same and it makes sense. I remember seeing Freddie telling the audience they could move about or even take their clothes off, lol, on some reaction or other. Makes sense, they were subdued for a Queen crowd, Freddie still got em though.
I was 18 in 1980 when this came out. It was very different at the time. Was it disco? Rock? R&B? Didn't matter, everyone loved it, and you heard it on EVERY radio. It was HUGE....
My niece & nephew grew up listening to Queen, but this was the first video they saw of Queen performing. Seeing Freddie in those shorts, I believe they didn't blink for a year!!!
Freddie, Dr. May, Roger and Deaky are what music should be about. Great grooves, awesome lyrics, phenomenal musicianship and a great stage show. Queen exemplified this to a level that no other band has been able to reach. They are simply the pinnacle of all that is great and good in music. RIP Farouk Bulsara aka Freddie Mercury. The world lost a real one when he passed and music has not been the same since. Love live Queen!!!!
Freddy? Dr. May? Are you messed up or do you wish you took one more shower with them? I get SO sick of people posting diatribes-not one scrap of info we already know for years. I dunno, maybe I’d have dome one at 17 myself
Farouk is Arabic his name Farrokh is Persian different pronounciation people kept pronouncing his name differently,probably why he started calling himself Fred/Freddie in school don't know why he chose fred though
He's in shorts, and not much else, because this was song #21 out of 26 on the concert video it's taken from...first song of the encore. Want to see an awesome show? Watch the whole Queen Rock Montreal show.
I love this song, it is one of their three anthems that will live forever along with We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions. Freddie gets very comfortable on stage!! Who else could pull this off...short-shorts, a bandana and a baseball cap?
That beginning riff is one of those that is instantly recognizable in the rock world. BTW this was covered so hilariously by Weird Al. One thing about Freddie, he didn't care what anyone thought of his clothing or lack thereof. LOL Besides, it's his voice people came to see...errr or hear rather. lol
The riff is actually from CHIC'S disco funk hit "Good Times". Bernard Edwards mastered that riff and Nile Rodgers wrote the song. That song was also used by Sugarhill Gang's "Rappers' Delight."
It wasn't a rock star thing either, it was a sign of the time those shorts. Men wore those "sport" shorts....as did women. Although freddy did everything best 🖤
Yep-men played tennis while wearing those shorts, and they even put their spare/extra tennis balls in their pockets! I never understood how the seams didn’t just pop open!
To be fair... All men wore those shorts back in the 70's. And knee high socks, and sneakers. Many had porn 'staches. Some wore shorts even shorter because they came up on the sides. At least the 70's was better than the 80's, lol.
@@TreeFreak women, too. They were really comfortable. And tube socks. And boob tubes. And Adidas track suits. And Adidas sneakers. And a surf haircut. And Jean jackets. And bib overalls. Levi jeans and cords. And those parkas, green for guys, navy for girls. Oh, the days when I took a 26/36 Levi’s. Had to lay on the bed and use a rat tail comb to get the zipper up. And posters. Stoned Again, Keep on Truckin, Makin’ Bacon, Desiderata.Ten speed bike. Life was fun and exciting. Innocent and lustful at the same time.$3.65 for a pint of rum. 60 cents for a pack of smokes. Other smokes,$5 for 7. Good times, good friends, running wild.
Oh Jamel.... You gave the best "shorts" review I've ever heard. You certainly made me smile all the way through this song. Thanks for your reaction and your movin' and groovin'. I enjoyed it. Take care and be well. Peace.
The story behind the outfit (or lack of it)...Queen played two nights in Montreal....the production company wanted them to wear the same clothes on both nights...they wanted to combine the two shows for a video....Queen said “no way, we’ll wear what we like”....you see the result....one person on RU-vid said, “my guy’s a lifeguard and he might go swimming later”.....so very Freddie....doing it his way...an absolute legend🤩
Freddie wore the shorts at this performance because the band was mad at the director who was filming the shows and he wanted to ruin the continuity. He wore shorts now and then with no wardrobe malfunctions ;). He was a professional and one hell of a showman. Love this version! The full Montreal concert "Queen Rocks Montreal" was brilliant.
No, Queen did not perform this song on Live-Aid. There is however another video of Queen performing this song live during the 80s, AFTER Live-Aid, also at Wembley stadium when they went on tour. Is an extended version of the song. Look it up. John Deacon shows why he was one of the best bass players in that video.
Yes, he had a stage presence like no other. He just commanded attention and you wanted to give it to him! A true gem and a one of a kind. I miss him. My he RIP. Thanks Jamel! ❤️💜💚
@@cristyrawks6325 there's just something charismatic about Freddie's energy, the only ones who don't love him are the ones who haven't seen him do his thing
This is often cited as the first song that helped Queen capture a black audience. "It was the beginning of something quite big for us, because it was the first time that one of our records crossed over to the black community." -Brian May
Just like with Rob Halford and his stage prancing, leather outfits and general queen-like behavior, it's in retrospect interesting that both of these singers ever had to publicly "come out of the closet" lol. They both always were absolutely fabulous and flamboyant on stage. And this is one of Queen's best songs of all time for sure.
@@markinator8826 Oh I agree, it absolutely doesn't matter as such. My comment was more aimed at homophobes than the actual artists anyway. Like, there would be people blatantly expressing their hatred towards the gay community, yet they banged their head to JP, absolutely clueless. Just a bit ironic.
John Deacon the bass player who wrote the song was in the studio when Chic recorded Good Times.The opening bass notes are inspired by the Bernard Edwards bassline.😎
They didn't play Another One Bites The Dust at Live aid , You might be thinking about Wembley 1986 which was performed a year after Live Aid. More Queen Reactions Pls ❤️
That bass makes this song. Actually, all parts came together perfectly to make this song the hit that it was/is. I think during LiveAid, Freddie was really sick. That may have been the difference in the two performances.
Freddie had a throat issue and he was told by his doctor not to sing but in true Freddie fashion he ignored the doctor and went on and the Live Aid performance was born
This is from Queen rocks Montreal....possibly their best live dvd! You should review ''Somebody to love'', from this dvd..it is the best version of that song! Thanks for your channel!///// Saw this tour a week before this show in NY....right down front, got Freddies' towel! One of the besst shows I have ever seen if not the best! The energy was amazing!
@jl5777 Here you go. I think it was Jamel's 1st Queen reaction and (& a great one!)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tW-iqNNnMWw.html 💙☮
This concert was recorded over a couple of nights in November 1981. They played Montreal in August of 1980 the first time. They were in New York at the Garden in September on the 28th, 29th & 30th. I saw them there on the 28th.
@@vernhoke7730 Yes but I saw them in Glens Falls NY in a little 6,000 seater upstate....camped out for tickets.....Correction / my show was Sep 23, 1980. Thanks!
@@jimilove7773 That's a good deal. I saw Heart in 1977, Styx in1978 & Southside Johnny in 1983 in Convention Hall on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jesey. It's a really small arena around 2,500-3,000 seats. In fact the night I saw heart was the day Elvis died, they dedicated the last song of the encore to him. It was Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll. The Queen show at the Garden was featured in the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" when the hit the US big time. Brian said in an interview that his father would've rather he continued his education instead of playing music. He invited his parents to New York, flew them over on the Concorde, for those MSG shows, the bands first time there, and his dad said "Okay, now I get it" in response to the way the audience reacted to the band.
i absolutely love your reactions to Freddie and Queen! Every time I watch this video I tell my husband...I am so jealous of Freddie in his shorty shorts and his legs look better than mine!!! LOL Freddie was absolutely the best singer ever and he had a beautiful soul!! Freddie lives on through his music!! WE LOVE YOU FREDDIE AND THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOME MUSIC THAT WE STILL LISTEN TO AND LOVE!!!!!
Hey Jamel, I just want to let you know that I'm slogging through heartbreak and a deep depression right now and your vids really help me to feel a bit better. Thanks for your energy and dedication.
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It’s the early 80s, and I’m back at the skating rink in my white rollerskates (with purple poms, of course) jamming with everyone else on the rink and this on the jukebox. (I was born in ‘75.) This is 🔥.
Didn't he kill himself? Its kinda hard to put some one like that up as a hero type. Just think how many more great songs he may have delivered if he had been taught how to use a simple thing known as a belt. Pretty stupid to me.
"Another One Bites the Dust-ahh!" I love the extra syllable and emphasis Freddie placed on his lyrics. Reminds me of the breathiness in Michael Jackson's songs...
Freddie's duet with Michael on "There Must Be More to Life Than This" is (a kind of) magic. Funnily, Freddie was about 12 years older than Michael, but Michael had started performing 5 years before Freddie had joined Queen. Nonetheless, arguably the two best male vocalists of all time.
@@amyelizabeth529 I can’t tell for sure from your comment if you know this or not: John, not Freddie wrote Another One Bites The Dust (how else could it have the fantastic bass?). John wrote the lyrics too.
When I saw them in concert, can't remember which time, they had the Marshall stacks on either side of the stage set up in tiers, and Freddie ran up and down them like stairs, all while singing. Back and forth, back and forth, across the stage, up, down, across the stage, up down. The athleticism was amazing, and he never seemed out of breath.
I’ve been a Queen and Freddie Mercury fan since the early ‘70’s and I am glad that people who weren’t even around back then are appreciating Queen and Freddie now. That’s the enjoyable thing about art-it can be appreciated by anyone at any time. I think Queen’s music will continue to be loved long after those of us who have been their fans since the beginning are long gone.
I had the pleasure to see Queen in Seattle 1979 on their "Another One Bites the Dust" tour🤗🎶 What a great performer Freddy Mercury was, continue to Rest in the Eternal White Light Mr Mercury ❤
🤔🤔🤔 Greatest crossover ever!!!! Funk/Disco fell in love with it and everyone in between. Give “ Innuendo “ a chance, it’s IMHO such an underrated fantastic Queen song that deserves to be reviewed. Cheers 🥂
💥 The fun fact about those shorts Freddie is wearing was that he was annoyed with the film production & security for telling the audience to behave during filming. It was a two-night concert so Freddie wore the shorts to break continuity with the filming cuz they were going to edit both nights together. Basically, Freddie F’d with the production! Also heard that the audience volume was turned down, too so it appears that the crowd is more quiet … not true for those who were there!! There’s a moment in the concert where Freddie tells the audience that “it’s okay to move your arses around”. 🤣🤣 I like the shorts!! 🥰
reminds me of the roller rink in elementary school 🙌 when my daughter was about 5 she went through a phase of requesting her dad to play this time every time she got in his truck 😍 so cute singing along😍 cherished memories = this song🙏🦋🌈🌞🌻💜
You always make my day Jamel! Thank you! I grew up with Queen. Such a tragic loss yet again in the music world. Freddy also was a cat lover and I just personally view cat lovers as special people🐱🥰. THIS song, even now, I crank up the radio in the car when it is on! RIP Freddy💕