#BohemianRhapsody @ The Loving Memory : my own private #GreatestHits vol.1

Bohemian Rhapsody - il biopic dedicato a Freddie Mercury 
e Queen, dai primi anni '70 a Live Aid '85 - è ufficialmente 
candidato ai Golden Globes 2019 come Miglior Film nella categoria 
Drama, mentre Rami Malek ha ricevuto la nomination come 
Miglior Attore. 
Intanto, in Italia Bohemian Rhapsody - Il Film polverizza tutti 
i record d'incassi, superando ormai 12 milioni di euro.

Qui trovate la recensione del film per La Scimmia Pensa.com : 
https://bit.ly/2SKDL1w

Ma ora, per chi ha voglia di ascoltare: ecco il primo Greatest 
Hits da un amore di lungo corso; la prima 
playlist dei Queen secondo Marta Zoe & The Loving Memory.

1 OGRE BATTLE (1973, Live at the BBC) 

“Now once upon a time an old man told me a fable, when the piper is gone and the soup is cold on your table.”

Album: QUEEN I + QUEEN AT THE BEEB

Vers: Live at Langham / BBC Studios, London December 1973

Categoria: Primo album *Here comes the Black Queen

2 STONE COLD CRAZY (1974, Live At Rainbows)

“They’re gonna put me in a cell if I can’t go to hell. Lemme go to Hell. Crazy. Stone cold crazy you know.”

Lp:  SHEER HEART ATTACK

Vers: Live at Rainbows, London 1974

Categoria: Pre Punk/Hard-Rock *Metallica’s favorite Queen number

3 LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU (1978) 

“We’ll give you a crazy performance. We’ll give you grounds for divorce. We’ll give you a piece de resistance and a tour-de-force, of course!”

Lp: JAZZ / LIVE KILLERS

Categoria: “Rock à la carte” *Extremely Flamboyant 

4 IT’S LATE (1977)

“Too late: so let the fire take our bodies this night. So late: let the waters take our guilt in the tide.”

Lp: News of the world

Categoria: Rock’nRoll *Bloody Passionate Love-Ballad

5 WHO NEEDS YOU? (1978)

“But it’s dog-eat-dog in this rat race, and it leaves you bleeding lying flat on your face. Reaching out, reaching out for a helping hand. Where is that helping hand?”

Categoria: L’ironia è tutto *Queen & Freddie playin’ Maracas

6 NOW I’M HERE (1974)

“A baby I was when you took my hand and the light of the night burned bright. 

The people all stared didn’t understand but you knew my name on sight. (…)

You magic still light up the sky, and many a tear lives on in my eye.”

Lp: SHEER HEART ATTACK

Categoria: My love-affair with Freddie Mercury: Lover of Life & Singer of Songs

7 WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (1977, A capella)

“But it’s been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise. I consider it a challenge before all human race and I’ll never lose.”

Lp: NEWS OF THE WORLD

Vers: A capella / Vocals Only

Categoria: Canto di liberazione / inno da stadio / classico senza tempo *Freddie becomes a Legend

8 FAT BOTTOMED GIRLS (1978)

“Hey, I was just a skinny lad. Never knew no Good from Bad. But I knew Life before I left my nursery, ah!”

Lp: JAZZ

Categoria : Explicit / Naughty / Dirty *Sex-Ballad

9 SAVE ME (1980)

“I hang my head and I advertise: a Soul for sale or rent.”

Lp: THE GAME

Categoria: Cuori spezzati / Spacca cuore *Freddie Mercury: Living On My Own

10 DRAGON ATTACK (1980)

“Take me to the room where the beat’s all ‘round. Gonna eat that sound. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. “

Lp: THE GAME

Categoria: Nuove sonorità / Gay-Ballad  *Freddie Mercury towards the Eighties

 

>>> TO BE CONTINUED.

please #staytuned

#thelovingmemory : #itsalltrue