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Just watched the first part of the Queen documentary Days Our Lives and it came across as Freddie, Brian, Roger, oh and the bass player John Deacon. His joining the band got about 5 seconds and is next mentioned when he composed Another One Bites The Dust for The Game album and went to number 1 in the US. I get Freddie was so charasmatic and is a true legend and that Roger and Brian are the ones who keep Queen active (John having retired and became somewhat of a recluse certainly from the public eye) but John deserves more notice than fleeting glimpses in clips. All 4 played their part in the band throughout.

Also cool to see that Kenny Everett was the one who got Bohemian Rhapsody on the airwaves after stealing a copy of the song and playing it obsessively on his show. Kenny of course was great friends with the Beatles, they would appear often on his radio shows, he edited their last 2 christmas records, and also would ‘borrow’ acetates of beatle songs and make copies of them for his own pleasure. 

A very funny man Kenny was as evidenced by his tv show.

I do agree with you Ben. On top of their game Queen really were fantastic, miles better to many if not most bands who are in the same ladder rung that is popular music. However they did put out some unbelievably dreadful material at times and i dont just mean the Hot Space album.

And in part 2 of Queen: Days Of Our Lives John Deacon was again pretty much overlooked. A few mentions and 1 short interview clip.

Freddie has to be up there as being one if not the best musician on stage ever to get an audience involved and bring it all together, certainly from the footage that is available to see. His onstage presence was incredible. It wasnt just singing alone, he could have over 200,000 people eating out of his hand and could work them all effortlessly.

Queen have openly stated they could take themselves incredibly seriously and not all all seriously in the same moment – a cataclysmic collision of ego. I love Seaside Rendezvous and Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon which are quite simply piss-takes (forgive my language). The joy of having them come on randomly in a playlist and folks wondering “what the heck is that?” is priceless. Yes sometimes it gets too much but when it comes of it is wonderful music.

Only thing that comes to mind was the one where they hold up cards which say something like Get Off You Nit. Was that to/with Bruce Forsyth on the Palladium show? Anyway that was ’63 so too early but here is a pic

They were on that Bernie Winters show (Blackpool Night Out) and Ringos on an operation table, that was in 1964, tho i dont think that had any cards on it.