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“How did you manage to get such a loud noise on one record?” the late Capital Radio DJ, and renowned Queen fan, Kenny Everett asks Freddie Mercury in an interview in 1976 to promote Queen’s fifth album A Day At The Races, the interview one of many extras on this multi-disc extravaganza. “You do get a lot of sound on a little LP,” adds Everett, pleasantly bemused.


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No amount of deadpanning could disguise from listeners that dropped-jaw reaction at hearing Queen, six months ahead of the July 1973 release of their self-titled debut album, performing My Fairy, Keep Yourself Alive, Doing All Right and Liar on Peel’s show. You can experience the surprise for yourself with this package uploaded by me DjGHOSTFACE.


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Bookending their live career, they are a hoot, not just for the delicate sound of thunder emanating from the stage but also for the period scene-setting. The first is a before-they-were-famous affair, introduced by a chap whose pronunciation makes him sound as though he’s sporting a Terry Thomas ’tache. By the second show Queen are already the biggest band on earth (give or take The Police), playing to a record-breaking São Paulo crowd of 131,000. The third and final performance is Queen’s penultimate live radio broadcast, aired in Germany less than four weeks before their final show with Mercury.


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Those three CDs of radio interviews – 17 in total, lasting 220 minutes – are by turns daft and revealing, the plummy tones of some presenters evoking the dour, staid times in which Queen emerged with their theatrical brand of colourful, camp hard rock. There’s Mercury being coerced by Everett into doing the weather forecast. Roger Taylor grumbles to Radio 1’s Tom Browne about the parlous nature of Queen’s relationship with the press – hard to believe today, when Queen are about as loved as any band, but back then their “techno-flash rock” (Taylor’s phrase) and Mercury’s peacock preening made them music-press pariahs (‘Is This Man A Prat?’ was a typical NME headline). Towards the end of Mercury’s life there’s an encounter with Simon Bates in which the fame-weary star says: “There are days when I wake up and wish I wasn’t Freddie Mercury.”


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The music was enough to enliven the dead. The first session evinces a band keen to incorporate some of the structural advances of prog, Mercury establishing himself as a powerful singer to match Robert Plant even if he was a strutting narcissus almost of a different species.Even without producer Roy Thomas Baker’s studio bombast, Queen make an impressive racket. The second session, from July ’73, features See What A Fool I’ve Been (perhaps closer to Led Zep’s blues rock than we might remember), Keep Yourself Alive, Liar and Son And Daughter which essays a new paradigm: choral raunch’n’roll. By their fourth trip to the Beeb, in December ’73, they had already begun work on their second album, Queen II, released the following March. Here the band premiere a new song from that album, Ogre Battle, alongside three from the debut, including the Taylor-sung Modern Times Rock’n’Roll.

With their penultimate session, in October ’74, a month before the release of third album Sheer Heart Attack, Queen continued using the BBC to road-test new material: the explosive Now I’m Here, the hard-rock hurtle of Stone Cold Crazy, Flick Of The Wrist – all staccato attack and stacked, multitracked harmonies – and Tenement Funster, another Taylor vocal.


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But it’s on their final, October ’77 session – following a three-year layoff during which, in the wake of Bohemian Rhapsody, they had become a global attraction – that they took the opportunity to veer off-piste. Peel – still a fan even at this, the height of punk – warns us to expect “in some cases, radically different versions” to the ones on the then-imminent News Of The World. So be prepared for two quite different renditions of We Will Rock You: a brief take on the monstrous terrace chant stomp that we know and love, with a female voice-over at the end intoning balefully about Buddha and Brahma; and a faster one that is sheer heads-down, no-nonsense, gloriously mindless stadium boogie. You can almost hear Kenny Everett wondering: “How did they do that?”


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Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 320 kb/s
Album                                    : On Air
Performer                                : Queen
Genre                                    : Rock


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Tracklisting:


Freddie with Kenny Everett, 'A Day At The Races' album, Capital Radio
Tracks 1-9. Total length 15:53.
This interview was broadcast in November 1976, is divided into nine parts, and features excerpts of all ten tracks from 'A Day At The Races', plus 'Dear Friends'. It begins with a radio tuning sound effect.


Queen Interview with Tom Browne, 'News Of The World' album, BBC Radio 1
Tracks 10-30. Total length 40:32.
This interview was broadcast as two programmes, on 24 and 26 December 1977, and is divided into twenty one parts.
The interview was originally released in the '40 Years Of Queen' book, with initial pressings in 2011 incorrectly including the first part only (lasting 32:33; up to the middle of track 21), while subsequent issues included the full interview (lasting 61:44). The 'On Air' version is heavily edited, losing sections about favourite songs, Brian's background, record deals, stereo photography, legal issues, Roger's 'I Wanna Testify', and future plans.
'On Air' features three tracks from 'Queen' and 'Queen II', three tracks from 'Sheer Heart Attack', 'A Night At The Opera' and 'A Day At The Races' (with the book version adding one song from each) and two tracks from 'News Of The World' (with the book version adding a further two). The book version additionally features 'I Wanna Testify' by Roger, 'Heard It Through The Grapevine' by Marvin Gaye (John's favourite), 'You've Got A Friend' by Aretha Franklin (Freddie's favourite), 'Anyway Anyhow Anywhere' by The Who (Roger's favourite), and 'House Burning Down' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and 'And Your Bird Can Sing' by The Beatles (Brian's favourites).
In most cases, the tracks differ between the two versions in terms of how they are edited, as the book version features cross-fades, whereas 'On Air' features the tracks fading out and then back in again.
Excerpts from the interview were also used in the 2013 Radio 2 programme 'Queen At The BBC'.


Roger with Richard Skinner, 'Live Killers' album, BBC Radio 1
Track 31. Length 4:29.
This interview was broadcast in June 1979, and features a live excerpt of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.


Roger with Tommy Vance, 'Flash Gordon' album and film, BBC Radio 1
Tracks 32-36. Total length 5:50.
This interview was broadcast in December 1980, is divided into five parts, and features excerpts of 'Flash's Theme', 'In The Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise)', 'The Wedding March', 'Airheads' and 'The Hero'.


Roy Thomas Baker 'The Record Producers', BBC Radio 1
Tracks 37-40. Total length 10:33.
This interview was with Andy Peebles and was broadcast in the early 1980's. It is divided into four parts, and features excerpts of 'Keep Yourself Alive', 'Seven Seas Of Rhye', 'Killer Queen', 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and an unknown track by the band Jet.


My next upload will include the period 1981-1986 Interviews. NOT TO BE MISSED.


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