But the band finally broke through with their fourth album, A Night At The Opera. While the group didn’t exactly light up the charts with their first record, an appearance on Top Of The Pops, performing “Seven Seas Of Rhys” and a tour with Mott The Hoople got them noticed.įrom Brian May’s health scare in 1974 to “Killer Queen” to the band being virtually broke with three albums out and a growing reputation – we get an insiders look, mostly from May and Taylor’s perspective. When asked why he came up with the Queen moniker, Mercury in an interview with Bob Harris quips, “At the time it was outrageous…” The singer, May and Taylor, formerly of Smile, and bassist John Deacon were on their way to world dominance. Part one jumps right into the individual members’ musical ambitions, and before you know it, Queen is born. The story is told through rare concert and studio footage, clips of Mercury and bassist John Deacon, plus current interviews with May, Taylor, former manager John Reid, present manager Jim Beach and various other associates and journalists. After 10 years of making Queen DVDs, Lupton and Thomas, who have been behind many of Queen’s music videos, were asked by the band to produce an authoritative 40th anniversary documentary. Coinciding with the group’s 40th anniversary, it was produced by Queen fanatics and associates Rhys Thomas and Simon Lupton, and directed by Matt Casey. According to guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor in the documentary Days Of Our Lives, Mercury literally recorded songs for Queen until the day before he died – perhaps the saddest revelation in this captivating two-part story of one of rock’s greatest band.ĭays of Our Lives, originally broadcast on the BBC 2, is now available on both Blu-Ray Disc and DVD. They could have gone even further, but the two-decade reign of Queen with Freddie Mercury out in front was as prolific and productive as most major artists still in business today.
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