20. Nevermore (1974)

Nothing but the facts.

Tell us, Paul, a bit more about Nevermore.

So Nevermore is the third track on Side Black of Queen 2.

The song was written by Freddie Mercury.

It was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Robin Jeffrey Cable and the band.

If you take the material from Flash Gordon out of the equation, Nevermore at 1 minute 18 seconds is the band's fourth shortest song.

Yeah, from Made in Heaven being the shortest at just four seconds, but we won't include that.

The band never performed the song live in concert.

However, they did record it for a BBC Live session recording in April 1974.

Aside from appearing on Queen 2, it also features on the 2014 compilation Queen Forever and the 2016 compilation Queen On Air.

I

was going to say, if you want to do a Queen song on karaoke, then Yeah is the one to do, isn't it? All you need to do is Yeah and you're done.

We consciously wanted to give a show and that was an unfashionable thing to do at the time.

We decided that we wanted to communicate with the audience.

We wanted to give a show and in the one or two hours or whatever it was that we were on stage, we would do everything to get across and make contact, to make those songs connect and leave the audience bleeding, you know, deaf and blinded, emotionally drained.

Nothing but the facts.

Tell us, Paul, a bit more about Nevermore.

So Nevermore is the third track on Side Black of Queen 2.

The song was written by Freddie Mercury.

It was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Robin Jeffrey Cable and the band.

If you take the material from Flash Gordon out of the equation, Nevermore at 1 minute 18 seconds is the band's fourth shortest song.

Yeah, from Made in Heaven being the shortest at just four seconds, but we won't include that.

The band never performed the song live in concert.

However, they did record it for a BBC Live session recording in April 1974.

Aside from appearing on Queen 2, it also features on the 2014 compilation Queen Forever and the 2016 compilation Queen On Air.

I

was going to say, if you want to do a Queen song on karaoke, then Yeah is the one to do, isn't it? All you need to do is Yeah and you're done.

We consciously wanted to give a show and that was an unfashionable thing to do at the time.

We decided that we wanted to communicate with the audience.

We wanted to give a show and in the one or two hours or whatever it was that we were on stage, we would do everything to get across and make contact, to make those songs connect and leave the audience bleeding, you know, deaf and blinded, emotionally drained.