Queen - Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (Live at the Rainbow 1974) Queen Live Montage 

It’s hard to believe this song is about a painting. A painting by Richard Dadd. 1855

I googled this thinking, 'there's no fucking way there's a live version of this...' but queen will always pleasantly surprise you.

Thumbs up for John Deacon..

If time travel were possible, I would go to that night at the Rainbow

If rock and roll existed during King Arthur's days, Queen would have been the house band. This is majestic metal!

Absolutely magic. Best Freddie's era, as a composer and singer.

A very strong, unusual and impressive excerpt of the show. There is something magical in Queen's early period.

I don't have words... is a masterpiece

This is a great song. It's progressive rock. With his great melodic voice, this IS a masterpiece.

All kudos to Freddie, but Roger Taylor playing drums while singing this blows me away. A legend!

I keep expecting them to go into "Nevermore" at the end! :D

I love this song that unfortunately is unknown or underestimated by many people. For me a masterpiece!

This live version nearly is a different song. So fantastic. I love Queen forever.

So many people don't know just how good Freddie Mercury was.

A magical, fantastical, extraordinary, literally out-of-this-world Mercury song. One of Queen's most extraordinary creations. The original was brilliant but it shows Freddie's incredible vocal prowess to be able to sing a song like this so brilliantly live. Thanks so much for posting this video it's amazing to see this live performance of this Queen song I've loved for decades.

Ommggg this voice 0:27 🥵🥵😍it’s amazing how Freddie’s voice changed trough the years, it became “rougher ” with the cig and of course ‘cause he grow up. His voice in the late years was very very powerful, but even in the early stages like here in 74, he already had a beautiful, angelic voice, very « young » voice. He was a genius and a true artist, I think that even people who are not queen stan can admit it. 🤩🤩

4 people are a dirty laddio

Best gem of the whole Queen discography, Fairy Feller/Nevermore are the most underrated 4 minutes of the band

Never knew they ever played this live and what a superb job they made of it.Such a complex song and one of my all time favourite Queen tracks.Amazing that Freddie wrote this after seeing the painting by Richard Dadd.Awesome stuff.

the last "fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend" is ... wow.

QUEEN II , i think is by far their best album

00:50 Do you hear that sutil falsetto at the end of the frase? That's Roger's beautiful voice imitating Freddie's. Perfect voices.

This song is so underrated! It's a whole BOP

I am speechless...

One of their most complex studio masterpieces almost impossible to do live, as is most of Queen II, but I still love it, wish I was there!

Richard Dadd probably is ready to rise from his grave to listen to his painting being musicalized like this. Beautiful!!

I'm totaly blown away, did'nt think theycould do it live - fantastic

Freddie delivering his master stroke with that falsetto live! Best Freddie here in 74

What I love about this particular performance is that you just get the three voices harmonising together without any double/triple tracking which they did on their albums. They sound so great with just Roger on the higher line, Freddie middle and Brian on the lower. I’m a particular fan of unedited harmonising voices which is why I love the Beatles and especially the Eagles. I heard this for the first time and got such chills, brought a huge smile to my face. God Save Queen.

Fancy being up there playing this and knowing you are the bollocks. Knowing you are fucking perfection. These guys were this.

1:53 there is like a little “tremble” in freddie’s voice when he sings the word “he” (... is the leader) and i LOVE it, i keep rewinding it because it sounds so amazing even though it’s only a fraction of a second

very difficult composition to play live.....excellent video!

The piano 🎹 and guitar 🎸 at 1:25 is amazing

Very hard to sing live, for Mercury and above all for taylor at the peak of its counter tenor effort (and playing drums at the same time). The ogre battle/master stroke/nevermore combo is one of my fav rock moment ever. Incredible artisits!

The first two albums are very heavy, prototype metal with a medieval theme with songs like March of the Black Queen, Ogre Battle, White Queen, Nevermore, My Fairy King, Great King Rat......and still my favourites.

La canción es tan pero tan exigente q es muy difícil tocarla en vivo hasta para el.propio Queen, que maravilla de canción.

Love, love, love, love this song. Perfect song by a perfect band.

this song is pure magic and shows what great musicians they are! you don't find something like that anymore today. One of the greatest songs EVER (in my opinion)! I think I am a musician. After I heard this song I realized I am only a small four chord song maker. THIS is music in perfection and nothing less. Thank god that there is music like this in this world. Thank you Queen for writing this song for us!

Great live band. Long live Queen

Queen II is masterpiece.

"The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" was only sung in the first concert in the Rainbow Theatre. This concert was recorded partially and the video of this song doesn't exist. The second, this time, was recorded completlly. If my capacity for read lips works I would say that the material that we see in the video is "Killer Queen", also of the second concert. Likewise you did a great work with the synchronization and the other things. Pd: If you see something wrong, sorry, I doesn't speak english, I writed this with the little I know

My favorite Queen tune!!! I can't believe they pulled this off so effortlessly.

They could all sing and all could play their instrument like bosses.... what a band.

One of the songs I instantly fell in love with and made me buy Queen II as a 13 year old.

Right comrades, i think this whole album wipes the floor with Live Killers, thumbs up if you agree, comment why you don't!

This is supernatural, extreme fantastic good!

In terms of singing this is one of Freddies best live performances!!

Legends 😊

mi canción favorita de Queen... aún recuerdo haber buscado muchas veces si existía alguna versión en vivo y supuestamente nunca la habían tocado... y lloré el día que la escuché por primera vez en vivo 🤗

This is my favorite Queen song and they are playing this live it's like impossible.

MAGNIFECENT!!!

Jaw droppingly brilliant

Los AMO!! excelente versión, Que hermosa Voz Juvenil!!

1:46 Freddie with pitch correction: 🤖🎤

adoro i primi Queen ovvero quelli degli anni 70. I love the first Queen songs of 70's !!

Thanks for posting this, Queen brilliance....

fantastica

This is definitely Queen at there best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the title of a fairy panting by mad artist Richard Dadd, who was confined to a mental hospital and painted paintings as part of his recovery.

OMGOSH! !! I played there in a band a few years ago! !! Had no idea Queen was ever there!!!! That was such an odd song, but one of my favorites always! I'm stunned by this performance! !!!!

What gets me is they give a great performance and go into another one like no big deal. Love love ❤️ them !

The fairy folk have gathered 'round the new moon shine To see the feller crack a nut at night's noon time To swing his axe he swears, as he climbs he dares To deliver The master stroke Ploughman, "waggoner will" and types Politician with senatorial pipe, he's a dilly-dally-o Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow What a dirty laddio Tatterdemalion and the junketer There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter, he's my hero Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke) What a quaere fellow Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy Waiting to hear the sound And the arch-magician presides He is the leader Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary-man Come to say hello Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend The nymph in yellow What a quaere fellow The ostler stares with hands on his knees Come on mister feller, crack it open if you please

Wow incredible, it's so strange to see him perform such an amazingly complex song live, singing all these great high notes like that, something I wouldn't have expected considering he gets pretty tired sometimes. Fantastic!

queen is legendary but their 70s era is the best

First 2 albums exquisite!! Brian May phenomenal!!

Essa música é uma obra prima, amo!

Greatest live band ever amazing harmonies

Los primeros albunes de los 70's los mejores. Sublime 🌹💞

This is so amazingly awesome.

Эта композиция завораживает ! Невероятно красиво Thanks a lot Freddie, Queen

Just read the comments! WOW! SOOOOOOOOOoooo much love to this magical musical band of geniuses. And rightfully so! There really is something magical about 70s Queen

yes this is queen!!!

wow!!!! high quality!!!!!! its a masterpiece

Absolute GENIUS ❤ .. the way she plays the piano is absolutely fantastic FREDDIE ❤

Very awesome. Nothing like early Queen. I remember first buying Queen II in the military on vinyl and getting it REAL cheap (maybe 3 dollars) having never heard it before. Musicianship at its finest. They were obviously at their peak music wise and I HIGHLY recommend any casual fan to pony up and buy Queen II as it is above the cut in SO many ways with harmonizing and every band member brings so much to the table with each and every track. Just a masterpiece.

You people are all missing how good John Deacon's bass is. Man, he is so much better than I thought.

Wonderful stuff! I remember feeling overwhelmed when I first saw Richard Dadd's painting, so much going on, and a feeling of how Freddie felt as he gazed upon it...almost a feeling of Freddie was there sharing the same time and place....it was at the Tate Liverpool at the time....

i LOVE how they were able to transform the classic music they heard and learned into something even MORE transformative!!!...all without crossing ANY copyrights!!

I think that version is even better than the album version! Thank you for posting! It is the only live version I have ever heard of this amazing song..

Exceptionnels Queen !

That piano!!! My God!!!! Beautiful!!!

Definitely one of the greatest Queen songs ever

it amazes me that they did this live holy hell they have to be like the most talented group of people ever

Damn. It's rare to see Freddie so perfectly pulling out full-on falsetto singing as it's quite difficult to pull off when you've been singing constantly on tour, but he really did that one phrase at the beginning perfect. And that bit at 1:46 is insane.

An entire subcategory of metal arose in the neoclassical genre. The Who were the first to do a rock opera (Tommy); which was a collection of rock songs telling a coherent story. But Queen stands alone in a perfect blend of rock and traditional opera. Nobody did it better. There will never be another group like them.

Fantastici queen anni 70 Giovani , Belli freddie divino Stupendo ,bellissimo Voce angelica💖💖👑👑 Re delle regine 😊☺😉

I'm a huge fan and have worn out a couple of vinyl copies of Queen II. My take on this video: The boys had a go at the song live, took the tapes back to the studio, and augmented it with extra bits. I hear a LOT of background vocals and harmonies and guitar parts that were not done live. Still, I don't blame them one bit. This was evidently an early period where they were desperately trying to do live what they had done with 32 or 64 tracks in the studio--an impossibility. They got over that soon enough, and became a volatile live act in their own right by re-working complex studio material for the stage. In later tours they never used tracks (save for the middle section of "Bohemian Rhapsody") and re-arranged everything to a stripped down raw version for their stage show, essentially becoming two bands, one studio, one stage, both brilliant.

brilliant!

My favorite Queen song, astounding that they could do this live. Wow.

Such a heavy track can be live only...... genius Freddie and the band.

Stunning, just stunning...! Goosebumps! Love it!

this is perfection!

This song is the bomb the singing is phenomenal the piano playing is phenomenal Freddie Mercury is phenomenal!

This is Art, Freddie Mercury is a legend!

Ohhh genial... Nunca había visto un registro de esta canción en vivo, Grande Queen!!!!!

the painting is trippier than dayslong...Freddie rules

This is one of the most complicated and amazing fascinating song of queen

They pull off a masterpiece live. Thats crazy such am intriquite piece of music.

2019 👐👐

Master piece!!