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Titolo: Le 11 cose [sbagliate] che la gente o i fans credono sui Queen

Le 11 cose [sbagliate] che la gente o i fans credono sui Queen, tratto da
una ml inglese. E'  appunto in inglese, ma è interessante
Cheers!
Max
1. Freddie can't play guitar. - According to Brian May
Freddie actually wrote a major partof his music on
guitar.
2. Freddie was a founding member of QUEEN. - Freddie
wasn't in SMILE, the group that later evelved into
QUEEN. Brian is the only one who was there since the
very beggining.
3. Freddie wrote every note in "Bohemian Rhapsody". -
The solo at the end was Brian's idea. He wrote the
music for it.
4. Brian only plays his Red Special. - He plays a
Telecaster on "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". Also,
once he was invited to join Bon Jovi on stage, but he
didn't have his guitar with him, so he borrowed one of
Ritchie Sambora's guitars.
5. John never sang. - during the recording sessions
for "The Game", in an attempt to demonstrate to Fredie
how he wanted "Another One Bites The Dust" to sound,
John sang the refrain. He was asked by his bandmates
to never ever sing again.
6. Brian May is "The Guv'nor". - Although Jeff Beck
said about Brian: "He's the Guv'nor...", the song of
the same name was written for the soundtrack of a
British movie that never got made. The screenplay was
the story if a boxer, hence the refference in the
lyrics: "He got a fist likea switchblade".
7. QUEEN never mimed a performance. - The band was
invited to perform on a EuroVision telecast, but the
television crew required them to mime the performance.
Throughtout their career QUEEN have been against this
tecnique and they never repeated this action.
Moreover, they hace criticesed artists who do this,
which makes it difficult to understand why they agreed
to record and performed with boy-band 5ive - a band
that has got into the habit of miming their concerts.
8. During the band's active touring Brian, Roger and
John never performed without Freddie. - On September
22nd, 1984 in Hannover, Germany, while performing
"Hammer To Fall", Freddie slipped and damaged his
knee. He was helped to the piano where he performed
three more songs in excruciaing pain. Afterwards he
was rushed to a hospital. The band completed the
concert as a three-piece.
9. "Sleeping On The Sidewalk" was never performed
live. - it was only performed once, in Portland USA.
Aparently it didn't work so well live and it was never
again featured in the live set. More recently, Brian
May has incorporated this vastly underrated song into
his solo concerts.
10. Roger Taylor was the principal sonwriter of The
Cross. - for the album "Blue Rock", Roger only wrote
one song and co-wrote another one. His writing
contributions end there.
11. The phrase "Queen are: Freddie Mercury, Brian May,
Roger Taylor and John Deacon." is also a
misconception. - in recent years, we've seen Brian and
Roger (with or without John) being billed as QUEEN.

 Roger (with or without John) being billed as QUEEN.
Lasciam perdere va....
CIao,
Nick

that has got into the habit of miming their concerts.
Non l'hanno fatto anche a Sanremo?
MASTER

 Roger (with or without John) being billed as QUEEN.
Purtroppo....
Possibile che nessuno l'abbia fatto loro notare???
Ciao da Andrea

 that has got into the habit of miming their concerts.
...sarà, ma a me sembra di aver visto un killer queen durante un pop of the
pops degli anni 70 in cui non sembravano proprio dal vivo...
si capisce che erano abituati al live, non "mimavano" bene