Sheer Heart Attack

And it's on an album

called Sheer Heart Attack.

It's got...

Great song.

So over to you, Paul.

Bring Back That Leroy Brown is the fifth track on side two of the band's third album, Sheer Heart Attack.

And the song was written by Freddie Mercury and produced by Roy Thomas Baker and assisted by sound engineer Mike Stone.

If you listen carefully to the 59-second mark on the song, you discover John Deacon on a stealthy four-beat bar.

Because if you look at Belly Button compared to Queen 1, I think Belly Button overall is probably a better album than Queen 1 in inverted commas, you know, just take my Queen hat off for a minute.

So I kind of see this as a little bit like the jump from Sheer Heart Attack to A Night at the Opera, if you want to sort of use a Queen analogy, is that Belly Button is their Sheer Heart Attack, which is just, you know, an unbelievable album out of the box, out of the gates for album one.

And then, you know, A Night at the Opera for Queen was the kitchen sink album.

You could argue Queen 2 was as well, but at Night at the Opera, they'd kind of honed it all by then, you know? And for me, Spilt Milk is...

Naturally, May was honored by both accolades, but during an interview, he actually nominated a different Queen solo as his personal favorite.

His solo on the band's 1974 single Killer Queen from the classic Sheer Heart Attack.

Killer Queen is his favorite solo that he's done.

Okay.

Yeah.

Sheer Heart Attack.

Dude, this is a great set list.

Dude, that is some [laughs] crazy-

I'm torn on this one.

I got one, like, one...

I'm gonna stick with Sheer Heart Attack.

I'm gonna go Now I'm Here.

[singing] Hey oh.

Welcome to Sheer Heart Attack, a Queen song-by-song podcast.

[upbeat music] Today's song is Dear Friends.

Welcome to the show.

So Paul, give us some facts about Dear Friends.

Okay.

So Dear Friends is the third track on side two of the band's third album, Sheer Heart Attack.

The song was written by Brian May, and it was produced by Roy Thomas Baker and engineered by Mike Stone.

I, I, I actually do, uh, pound for pound I, uh, aside from a couple of their, you know, older albums, I, you know, Night at the Opera, I think, um, but, um, I, I do pre-

Sheer Heart Attack might be my favorite Queen album.

I do pre-

Like, beginning to end

Well, Metallica covered, what they, they did, um- Stone- That's on- Stone Cold Crazy ...

Sheer Heart.

That's on Sheer Heart Attack.

Yeah.

Here's a little side note on that studio.

Queen, primarily, it was a studio where they primarily recorded a whole bunch of Night at the Opera and Sheer Heart Attack.

And Hemispheres and A Farewell to Kings by Rush were both recorded at that studio.

Well, my guess is not

It's high energy, it's aggressive, and it's really just pure fun.

And as we've mentioned already, Unusually for the band is a song written by the entire band, and it is one of the crown jewels from the Sheer Heart Attack.

album and do you have a

favourite moment from the track? Probably just Brimey's guitar solo it's just brilliant when it gets into the kind of in the middle of it But it's such a quick track that it's so hard to pick a bit.

I do have the Queen question out there.

Stone Cold Crazy off of Sheer Heart Attack.

Queen sang at Stone Cold Crazy.

Well, he hadn't answered it yet.