Queen | White Man, Queen- Seven Seas of Rhye (Live 1974), The March of The Black Queen | Reaction!!! 

No controversy, only heavy Queen fans ever even heard white man. I bet most Queen fans still haven't heard it until you just reacted to it. ☮️

It would have been impossible to reproduce “March Of The Black Queen” in full in a live gig, due to the multi-tracked, cascading vocals and instruments. These guys refused to fake it by using backing tracks or backup singers to fill it all out. Heck, for many years, they refused to use synthesizers!

Anyone pick up on Freddies one handed play at the piano on Seven Seas of Rye? That's the man!! Simply amazing!

Fun fact Michael jackson got the idea of his white glove from watching freddie and his black and chain link glove he was a fan of queen and Freddie he actually told Freddie to release another one bites the dust roger thought he was mad and said u r joking lol

Some Queen songs, such as March of black Queen are best listened to thru headphones to hear the stereo effects. Other Queen songs with important meaningful lyrics: Put out the fire - gun control Keep passing open windows - suicide Is this the world we created - famine. Hammer to fall - nuclear war

The March of the Black Queen is considered the precursor to Bohemian Rhapsody. You should read more about the Queen II album. This is a great album and one of my favorites.

Your wonderful description of ...Black Queen is exactly, word for word, how I have always described Queen in general. Half an hour with Queen and you have hit every emotion, but always left euphoric!

March of the Black Queen is perhaps my absolute favorite Queen song- and so underated. Thank you for reacting! In fact the Queen II is probably their best, most intricate piece of work. Nevermore (also from Queen II) comes on right after Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke and is beautiful. My 12 year has the sheet music to this and plays the piano part on a regular basis.

You answered your own question of why The March of the Black Queen wasn't played live when you said you could see the choir. They felt they couldn't do justice to the song or the fans if they tried to do it live.

This is the first time i hear seven seas of rhye live.. that vocal.. just wow

Been waiting!!! Finally! 😆 And these are just my three of my favorites!! The March of the Black Queen, on top of my list.. the soul sister of Bohemian Rhapsody💕Thanks😄!!

Yippee ☺ The March Of The Black Queen is one of my favourite Queen songs! 💚 thanks for reacting to it (it's much better with earphones btw) Seven Seas of Rhye is a favourite as well 👍 And I love White Man. Oh my god I'm a Queen addict.

One of my favorite songs of theirs.

Man you have to appreciate how these Progressive Rock Bands veered into the thunder zone. Everything from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, CCR, on and on they just brought such a different sound out of seemingly nowhere.

That was great, thank you! TMOTBQ and Seven Seas are two of my favourites. Don't forget 'Play the Game', 'Let me Live', 'Made in Heaven', 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' and '39'.

I’ve been enjoying all your reactions, but I must admit I love Queen!

Queen could fuse Rock and Elizabethan era music you’ll hear on the 1700’s and you would still be vibing to it. That’s just pure talent. Still waiting for Stevie Ray Vaughn my friend. As always your reactions are awesome. Hope this channel keeps growing. It’s great watching a younger generation appreciate the music I grew up with. Bringing back a lot of memories. Thank you for that. 👍👍👍👍

Is it just me or was 70's Freddie hotter than bright blue blazes? Multitasking all over the stage, striking those poses, that incredible voice. And at the end of 7SOR, "Do you like my claws?". Yes, Freddie. Mee-owww. On a more serious note..the imagery in Black Queen has always reminded me of Alice in Wonderland..not much reality but a whole lotta sharp-edged fantasy right out of a fever dream. Liked what you said, L. Some large talented choral group should take it on. One more lascivious comment (don't know what's wrong with me today!), Freddie singing "I'll be a bad boy, I'll be your bad boy", that whole passage, made me wide-eyed as a teen and even now, still, makes me have to fan myself. Whew. I know I'm not the only one about that. I've seen & heard others talk about how much they love that part of the song (& for the same reasons). Really, the song is one of their grander, regal efforts but that sexiness just materializes out of nowhere when you least expect it. Whew again.

Wow 🥰 beautiful Freddie ❤️ Freddie Mercury ❤️

Yeah i dancing round the kitchen with a mop...scaring the grandchildren...😂😂😂. Love this stuff...Queens anthem stuff was great. But the deeper tracks just show how good they were as musicians. So brave not to churn out middle of the road stuff.💜Good to have you back😉😉

I swear, sometimes Brian plays notes only dogs can hear. There's one song, Bijou, that is just five lines sung by Freddie sandwiched between Brian's solos that are absolutely stratospheric. Here's a fan video with images of the band members. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I_d6_oQmraU.html

You are so funny! You got the itch for them! I do too. ALWAYS! I LOVE FREDDIE. SO HANDSOME. BEAUTIFUL EYES AND LIPS AND DIMPLES.

Amazing! Love Queen...and your reactions are fantastic!

Only a part of The March of the Black Queen was performed live... starts with “ I reign with my left and I rule with my right, I’m Lord of all darkness, I’m Queen of the night, I’ve got the power, Now do the March of the Black Queen....”🎼

You have to see sheer heart attack live at Montreal by queen

White Man is one of their heaviest and best songs. The drop D tuning of the e-string on the guitar gives it the heavy sound and vibe. I don't know if it was planned but this song came out in 1976, the US Bicentennial. hmmmmm Have a good weekend

Excellent reaction as ever! Thank you so much L for making my day. White Man was never released as a single, and certainly never played in America! You had to buy the album, I think it was A Day at the Races, (Queen fans help me out if I'm wrong). The other thing I wanted to say was thank you for your reaction to the Brad Paisley fish song. I literally sent your reaction to all the fishermen I know, and their wives! Hilarious!! But, I really could use more Queen in my life, and as you are by far the best Queen reactor, I depend on you!!! Thanks for all that you do for us!!!

Black Queen was pre-BoRhap, where all the previous hard work and experimentations really paid off, and still they're all unique. As for Brian's White Man, he was a thinker ahead of his time. Even Fat Bottomed Girls. As much as I'm against the message, it could be considered outdated feminism. Two Brian songs I adore are "Son and Daughter" (I read the lyrics as a man fighting against the oppressive society expectations on males) and "Sweet Lady" (same rebellion against society oppression, but from a woman's point of view). They are simply magnificent! Thank you so much, L!!

When this song first was released on the (Day at the races ) album it was eclipsed by the song Somebody to Love...it didn't really receive enough coverage to become controversial in the USA..and nobody in the UK or other parts of the world would be familiar enough with the subject matter to find it controversial

White Man - No. It was not very controversial. For a couple reasons. First off it was never released as a single so the masses likely never heard it. Secondly the world had not turned into a bunch of snowflakes yet. We could listen to politically charged lyrics without feeling like we were being attacked. Times have changed a significant amount over the last 40 years. As for the song. I love it. Have been trying to get peeps to react to this song for ages. And you gone done it! Thank you!!!! White Man and Dead on Time are two of Queen's most criminally underrated songs.

Finally! White Man! Wow - at last a review of such a powerful and insightful song, so very long in the coming. Go back and listen to it without the commentary - socks off blowing stuff!!!

Seven Seas of Rye is one of my favorites! Love it! I’ve never even heard of “ White Man!” You’re going DEEP here!! 😝

As far as I know it hasn’t been performed live in FULL, but there is a shorter version that was performed at the Rainbow Theatre in 1974

Omg I already love this and I haven't even seen it

🦋 I knew This Was Going The be an Epic Reaction. One Of My All Time Favorite Queen Songs. Next to Bohemian Rapsody, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions & Spread Your Wings. My Top5 Favorites!🤘😏 I Still have all my Vinyl Albums!

I love that high note that Roger hits during the first verse of Seven Seas of Rhye!

You need to listen to Queen's Prophet Song. It was written by Brian May for the Night of the Opera album (same album as Bohemian Rhapsody), and he wrote it about Noah's Ark, and its Queen's longest song at 8 minutes.

I’m late as usual but I will tell you definitively that I have requested the 1974 Rainbow performance of Seven Seas of Rhye from NO FEWER than 18 other channels. You are the only one who paid attention to my specific request. Which makes you King 👑 for a day, your Grace. THANK 👏 YOU 👏 VERY 👏 MUCH 👏 It’s the sharpest version and Freddie comes with the commanding vocals (and don’t forget about his claws) You’re a peach, man. Really, thanks!

You need to listen to Queen with headphones to appreciate the stereo sound.

About "White Man", would you believe some group somewhere recently criticized it as being racially insensitive to Native Americans because "Queen tried to make the music sound too 'Indian' like the stereotypical music used in old Westerns when native people appeared on the screen". Seems like that totally disregards the lyrics. Anyone remember "Cherokee People" by Paul Revere & the Raiders? I'm of English, Irish & Scandinavian descent. But there's some Cherokee in there too. Songs like that always stir my blood just like centuries-old English & Irish (& Viking!) folk songs do. An Englishman I spoke to recently called me an "Amerimutt". I guess that sums it up. Anyway, I like the song & love the way Freddie sings it.

Nice trio. You picked well today man. ☮️

I don't recall ever hearing any controversy or negativity around White Man. You did ask! It was an album track that is overlooked.

I don't think "White Man" was ever considered as controversial. It's just a heavy song about a historical event. The truth about conquest by immigration.

If I remember this correctly Freddie never wanted Queen to be a "political" band but they still pushed boundaries and came up with some socially engaged songs such as this one, Is This the World We Created or Put Out the Fire. Obviously recommended! Roger also has a vast selection of political songs both solo and with The Cross (incl. Nazis 1994 which got banned by radio stations for being too controversial. Because apparently denouncing holocaust denial is too much for an average listener). As for Black Queen in similar rollercoaster style you should definitely give Prophet's Song a go. It's sometimes called Brian's Bo Rhap. And ofc I'm still patiently waiting for '39 :)

March of the Black Queen was technically performed live in medleys, but only the Coda, or the part right after the soft spoken, ballad section

Yay I'm so happy your finally back with Queen reactions!!! I have found a video you need to react to, I know you already did Bohemian Rhapsody but you need to check it out Live at Rock Montreal 1981! They show a lot of the crowd going crazy which I know you love and the performance is amazing!!! Can't wait for more Queen!!!!! 💙

Nice to see people of all races/ethnicities celebrate the love of music. I was a very young child during this era but I knew of Queen's unmistakable sound especially Bohemian Rhapsody, Stone Cold Crazy, Bicycle Race, Body language, their soundtrack for Flash Gordon, the list goes on. In my opinion, songs/sound = perfection!! They remain one of my many musical heroes, particularly Freddie and Dr. Brian May. I am proud to say I share the doctor title with Mr. May. 💕💕

March of the Black Queen was the forerunner of Bohiemian Rhapsody. You can hear the ending guitar sounds alike. Now for something totally different, try "Bring Back that Leroy Brown"...it's like ragtime/barbershop quartet. It's weird as fuck!!! lol Another one you haven't done yet is "My Fairy King". Talk about an EPIC song!!!!!!!!

The last part of March of the Black Queen was performed live in a medley with Bohemian Rhapsody and Killer Queen in 1975

March of the Black Queen.. 💖Mercury Masterpiece💖

Listened to this with Blacklight posters in my day. ☮️

I knew you were gonna come back to the Queendom, L ! I just had to go back and rewatch your previous ones while I waited, man.

Seven Seas, just my absolute favourite Queen song.

Love this reaction so much!

I always check in late at night at in the UK to see if there is a Queen reaction!

Great reaction...one things for sure Queen had their own style...definately unique!

I love waking up to your reactions! Thank you so much! Love it as usual.

what a treat, thank you

Hey about doing a reaction to a Queen documentary? That would be beyond cool!

God when you see him, tight black jumper like that and saw how skinny he was, you had to wonder where that deep, powerful, voice come from. He, back when they started, was just a twig of a guy, skinny as hell, nothing to him, but man that voice came out like he was a booming Viking.

Whiteman live in houston 1977. So good so heavy

Withdrawal! LOL Initially I figured there was a support group for recovering Queen addicts... but who in their right mind would want to recover???

Makes me watch in wonderment that back in the early 70s Brian was playing the Old lady, "The Red Special" and it was several years old then and Brian is still touring the world in 2019 with that same guitar, shows the talent he and his father had and craftsmanship to build that thing to last this long.

Man, I am so glad to hear I'm not the only one who has Queen withdrawals.

I gotta admit I dig the young high Freddie voice alot

In the album "Queen II", "The march of the black queen" connects to "Funny how love is". You should listen to them "together". Same thing with "Father to son" and "White queen (as it began)".

I adore Seven Seas of Rhye, so this video made me super happy. I need to go back and listen to White Man again. I never paid attention to the lyrics.

Rollercoaster ride brilliant comments mate 👍👍👍

White Man wasn’t controversial because it wasn’t a single. Nobody knows it except hardcore Queen fans. So welcome to the club, lol!

I love when Roger sings on this and goes back to freddie

when I first herd march of the black queen song from the rock group called Queen it make me feel like I was on a acid trip back from the 60's. but the more I listen to it more I kind of liking it so I watch you listening to the song march of the black queen and you look kind of funny the way you rock out to Queen's music. lol.

Some Queen deep cuts nice!

Thankssssssssssssssss MATE has been a while since I've recommend THE MARCH OF THE BLACK QUEEN.

Oh yesss L is baack!!🙌🏻 Dope reaction as always man🔥👌🏻 White man was a song I’ve also never heard before☺️😱 I just read something about it on Brian May‘s Instagram a few days before. Pretty dope and so deep (but true) .. and I don’t know why but it also could be a song in Disney‘s Pocahontas lol I’m stupid but okay😂🙏🏻 and oh lord..😱 Seven Seas of Rhye live ?🥰 uhh Roger’s high notes were just ear candy 🍭🍬🤤 tho and March of the Black Queen👑 is also just a masterpiece. And I guess it was never performed live because first of all it is very very hard to perform live with all those harmonies and secondly because the choir effect you‘re talking about was created by layering their recording over and over again (I heard that the recording tape already went transparent😯) and that it makes it impossible to do it live. Brian would say that „It was not written for live performance“. He once said it in an interview in which the interviewer asked him why they never performed the opera section in Bohemian Rhapsody live. see ya next time!🔥 (hopefully very soon tho😭 I can’t survive school without ur Queen reactions to watch😂🙏🏻)

Oh and I have a pretty great idea for your next Queen video☺️ please do: -„Seaside Rendezvous“ - „Liar“ live in Houston 1977 - Freddie Mercury funny moments part 3 please man☺️

Love your reactions man!!! Hoping you will react to 'The Millionaire Waltz' some time...

I love your work, my man! You're hilarious, scratching with withdrawal! Love it! White Man - that's right, no controversy at the time the album was released. Nobody really heard it except for serious Queen fans. Somebody to Love was the monster hit. And Tie Your Mother Down got a fair bit of airplay. Thanks so much for reviewing it. It's an amazing song. And pretty interesting when the band says they were never political!? The March of the Black Queen was played live in at least 74 and 75, but only an excerpt as far as I know: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6pzkElG84Zw.html But it is amazing. I just love how you never know where you are going with Queen. So unpredictable. I just fall in love with song after song. There's so much there way beyond the monster hits. Big love to you El!

Uh huh...we thought MAYbe you don't LOVE us anymore...but we STILL love you. Sorry, I don't usually speak so LOUDly. Actually I've been enjoying your other reactions but also suffering withdrawal symptoms. Of course you're gonna cheat on us I mean do other reactions. Just don't make us go a whole week (or 5 or 6 days) without watching you watch Queen. We NEED it. I'm okay now (she said, smoothing her wildly mussed hair with trembling hands). Will gather my thoughts & wits before saying anything else.

Hey! I didn't complain about the lack of Queen reactions...... publicly :P

No one even comes close… nor ever will … to Queen.

Freddie looked hot in those claws...and in that"Taco meat and chest hair..." shirt...........*swings a pendalum back and forth in front of L* Yessss, you should where this on the next Queen reaction video.

I still do the posters on the wall. Of course now my posters are framed, they're hard to come by, usually I've traveled and worked to get them signed. It's gotten beyond posters to where there are photographs I've taken at live shows, vinyl, beautiful colored vinyl records in silhouette boxes, tour posters, show announcements from before they were Superstars, even have a Subway poster from England and a very interesting plastic type, but not plastic, I don't know what it's made of, its heavy duty, in Spanish it hung from the outside of the Arena announcing that the show was there. The thing is like eight feet tall hanging from my wall, but when I come home, especially when I've had a bad day, I can look around and it takes me right out of that horrible day and puts me into a better time, better frame of mind. Different bands, different years, different times. I may need a bigger place soon, unless I stop finding stuff that talks to me.

The majority of people who are Queen fans have only heard the greatest hits album, and seen Live at Wembley. Songs like White Man, Faery Fellers Master Stroke, My Melancholy Blues, and Fun It, are the domain of us hopeless romantics, diving deep, barely coming up for air and going back in. Soooo many deep cuts that are much more satisfying than their radio friendly pop hits.

White Man was written by Brian May and he rocks the guitar here.

I honestly didn’t think that you would get to the beginning of the group. These songs are the start of the greatest group ever.

hahahahahahaha OhMyGOSH, ThankYouAndILoveYou! (not in a creepy-stalkerish way, don't worry... I LUV my Hubby) You are Funny & Adorable tho... and you just pulled me out of an Anxiety Attack with your Itchy Queen Withdrawal schtick. Bless You🙋‍♀️

only a small bit of black queen was performed live, during the Sheer Heart Attack Tour, Night of the Opera tour and the 4 dates before A Day At The Races, only the bit from "I reigned with my left hand..." and the end of to the guitar solo. it was comprised in the medley which usually featured Killer Queen and Leroy Brown, and in the Opera tour, the ballad parts of Bohemian Rhapsody. it was dropped on the Races tour and was replaced with a longer medley that now included Lover Boy, Millionaire Waltz and Best Friend

The last two songs Seven Seas of Rhye and The March of the Black Queen have that medieval type music, which made it so interesting and enjoyable to me. For some reason I get that era that harpsichord type music, that time. In my head when I hear it I think of villages with people drinking ale and wenches, pirates, court jesters and the Knights fighting, jousting, so vivid to me. I do agree. I can absolutely see a choir behind Queen doing the backup vocals on this song, it would be absolutely Epic. If they have a video of them doing the song, though I've never been able to find it live like you just said, they could reinvent that. They could have the choir and do the performance in front of the choir, even if they wanted to perform with the choir, if they just had a video of Freddie singing it live, they could hologram him in or video him in, but I think it would probably look better with them being younger and just doing the video, adding the choir in the background. OH my God it would be so great if they could work on it and do something new with it without changing the song. it was also interesting to me that the vibing music changed in the march of the black queen from that medieval type music two more modern and almost futuristic type music like it evolve that it was going really freaking amazing. and then yet at the end it kind of a little bit goes back into that harpsichord or that so signature guitar sound from that medieval period, but it doesn't go fully back into it. He was just so amazing with the things that he wrote and sang Oh my God the vocals on this, so amazing

Love, love, love Queen!!!!

White Man is one of my all time favs ...

At the Rainbow in 1974 a part of the March of the Black Queen was performed live.

Hey I like your other reactions as well. But I love the Queen reactions. I’m hanging in there for all your reactions!

TMG is the PREMIER Queen Reaction Channel!!!!!! There is a tribute band (A Night of Queen) that does a wonderful job of replicating the Queen studio versions of songs. They have 14 people on stage to perform "Black Queen" what Queen did with 4 band members and over dubs.

Thank you! You delivered 👏 😁

Shared your reactions to the biggest Queen fan page!! They are gonna LOVE YOU!💛😉

The choir effect was overdubs of their voices--was supposed to sound like 180 voice choir. I saw a thing once where some composer was taking apart Bohemian Rhapsody and said you could tell Freddie had no musical training or he wouldn't have written it. Then said he was glad he didn't.

White Man is an Amazing Song. March of the Black Queen is my 2nd Favorite Queen song. Check out Bohemian Rhapsody ,Killer Queen, March of the Black Queen live at Hammersmith 1975. March of the Black Queen is only approx. 1 minute & 20 seconds but that as close has you're going to get to a live version of that amazing song

Live verse of March of the black queen is great though its in a medley think its only the chorus ..a must see..tnx for reacting to these 3 songs..love it..

Interesting to see Freddie holding his mic while playing the piano. This was before “Ratty”, Peter Hince, got that job and handed the mic to Freddie >600 times! Roger said, “and he better get it right”, which he always did

So many days Lamar didn't react to Queen so I even thought that he's gone somewhere and we must find him. I even thought that I need to unfollow this beautiful chanel, but CRASH BOOM BANG and Lamar is BACK!!! Thanx Lord, I'm staying in!!!