Queen II

[rock music]

This is from Queen II.

Oh, wow.

That, that's an oldie.

Number five.

Good.

Also from Queen II.

Yes.

Opens up, Sheer Heart Attack, Randy.

But it was wr- it was written in, it was written for the Queen, during the Queen II sessions, I guess I'd read here, and the band just thought, "Eh, it doesn't really fit with the rest of, uh, Queen II, so let's bump it." But I'm glad it ended up being the first song on Sheer Heart Attack, and it's nice because at the end of Queen II, we get Seven Seas of Rhye, which finishes with, "I do like to be beside the seaside," and there's a little bit of that in the intro to this song, so.

Right.

Do you want to, uh, you want me to give it, give it a listen and see what you think?

I love that drum pattern, [singing].

It's such a cool fucking, such a cool pattern.

And like production-wise, you know, I mean, Sheer Heart Attack I don't think suffers from really any of the production issues you got on Queen I and Queen II.

It's still a little bit, you know, it's not got quite as much clarity as, you know, Nights at the Opera, A Day at the Races, but I think it suits this.

So yeah, we were really, really stoked with that bit actually.

Do you know, there's an album Queen 2 by Queen, right? And the first track on the second side is exactly that.

The drummer took home the two track recording and didn't realize it only went one way and put the tape on the tape player and played it.

And it was the end of the song backwards.

Deacon was recruited in February 1971, before the band released their self-titled debut in 1973.

Queen first charted in the UK with their second album, Queen II, in 1974.

Sheer heart attack later that year, and A Night at the Opera in 1975 brought them international success.

The latter featured...

But this is kinda cool.

Queen II, uh, March 8th, 1974, Queen II comes out as the very first Kansas album.

So we get this massive, uh, the very biggest progressive metal band, quote unquote, somewhat, uh, in Kansas coming out as this UK progressive metal band, somewhat, uh, same time.

Um, November 8th, '74, that's when we get Queen's Sheer Heart Attack, but the very same day, we get Deep Purple Stormbringer, um, a Cat Stevens album, a Frup album.