Brian Wilson's Magical Jukebox
Kurosawa:
Well, more reason to love Queen if there was not enough already.
Surf City is am amazing record, btw.
Dunderhead:
Wow, now this is what I was hoping for, thanks bgas, and everyone else, great work.
Mike's Beard:
Both Brian and Freddie have said that Beach Boys were a big influence on their double tracked harmony style so it's cool to hear that Dennis and Brian were fans of Queen.
hypehat:
Quote from: Ian on September 24, 2010, 01:20:36 PM
The Queen reference is in Richard Cromelin's piece for Sounds, Aug 7 1976: Brian says "Like for instance there's a group called Queen. They made a record, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which to me was a fulfillment and an answer to a teenage prayer, of artistic music...I studied the record. I became very familiar with it, and I'm very very fond of it and I'm scared of it at the same time. Oh, it's the most competitive thing that's come along in ages! It's just totally amazing what people do when they lose their noggins, when they lose their heads and they go in there and freak...That's what Queen did. They had enough of what was happening, and by God they went in and did their thing and stomped! And I appreciate that and I'm very fond of it." Clearly in 1975 Brian was doing very little and probably listened to Rodney , Jim Pewter and other DJ's every day. By the way-I had the privilege of interviewing Chip Rachlin for my book and he told me that he took Dennis to see Queen in 1975 or 76 and that Dennis insisted on going backstage afterwards and meeting them.
Oh my god, that quote is the best. It's like he's talking about Good Vibrations, which is not a million miles from Bohemian Rhapsody in multipart harmony drenched pop ambition.
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