#Recording Studios London

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Today, on August 24th, 1975 – Queen Story!

Queen starts recording ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at Rockfield studio’s in Galles.

🔸THE DAY QUEEN BEGAN RECORDING THEIR MASTERPIECE, ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’

- Ultimate Classic Rock, August 24, 2015

by Eduardo Rivadavia

If you were to write a history of the recording studio and, specifically, its usefulness as a laboratory for musicians' most ambitious creations, then an entire chapter might well be devoted to "Bohemian Rhapsody." The members of Queen began recording the song on Aug. 24, 1975, redefining the known limits of popular music in the process.

Suffice to say that, whatever Chuck Berry had in mind when he asked Beethoven to roll over, "Bohemian Rhapsody"'s jaw-dropping pastiche of rock and opera sure wasn't it. But then, Queen's flamboyant and unpredictable brand of art rock had been simultaneously stumping and amazing all those who'd heard it well before "Bohemian Rhapsody" came along. It continually morphed over the first three albums of the group's career, until 1974's Sheer Heart Attack started connecting all the dots.

During the first months of 1975, Queen toured the U.S. as headliners for the first time (alternately supported by Styx and Kansas), making their first trip to Japan (where they received a Beatlemania-type reception), and, in singer Freddie Mercury's case, receiving the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for his work on "Killer Queen."

All of these accomplishments no doubt boosted the band's confidence (and courage) as they started working on new material, both in unison and individually, for the album they would soon name A Night at the Opera. This was to be produced by their engineer Roy Thomas Baker, and it's safe to say neither band nor producer could have guessed what Mercury had up his sleeve as he started cobbling together both new ideas and spare song parts he'd been lugging around for years in the privacy of his Kensington apartment.

According to Baker, in an interview with Sound on Sound, his first inkling of what was in store only came when he visited Queen's singer at his home, and Mercury first played him "Bohemian Rhapsody"'s initial ballad section, concluding it by casually quipping, "And this is where the opera section comes in!" Mercury, Taylor and the other members of Queen -- guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor -- then entered the studio following three weeks of rehearsal to help bring Freddie's madcap magnum opus to life.

Together, the foursome and their studio hands spent as much time arranging, re-arranging, adding, subtracting, and adding some more to "Bohemian Rhapsody"'s bulk as most bands of the time spent on entire albums. In the end, Mercury's central ballad wound up preceded by one of Queen's patented, multi-tracked a capella choirs and was followed by a tasteful solo from May, a minute-long opera section, then a heavy metal instrumental passage and finally a reprise of the core melody, fading gently back into wherever it came from.

All these years later, it's the song's operatic climax that remains its most stunning, almost superhuman, accomplishment, as it required them to clock as 10-to-12 hour days over a three-week period. They reportedly needed nearly 200 vocal overdubs in order to flesh out an entire choir. And then, when they were finally done, their label EMI was, to put it mildly, quite unimpressed.

Although, to be fair, the suits' reasons were typically business-oriented, as "Bohemian Rhapsody's" edged close to the six-minute mark, well beyond the limit favored by commercial radio. Instead, the label suggested they release Deacon's excellent "You're My Best Friend" as first single from A Night at the Opera, but Queen wouldn't hear of it, and it only took a moment for the immediate support of DJs across Britain to prove EMI wrong.

Released in the U.K. on Oct. 31, 1975, "Bohemian Rhapsody" would be No. 1 by Christmas and then hold the spot for nine weeks. Its commercial fortunes were undoubtedly helped by the pioneering music video shot by Queen to stand in for them on Top of the Pops while they were already back on tour by the time they were invited to appear. Meanwhile, their single was also on its way to No. 1 in Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Belgium, earning Top 10 honors in multiple other countries and peaking at No. 9 in America, where it eventually became a million-seller.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" stands as one of the best-selling songs in rock history, prone to repeat visits to global charts anytime it is revived for a movie, commercial or other event, and frankly unique as nothing since has come close to matching its sheer heights of excess, bravura, and, oh yeah, inspiration.

(Source ↘️ https://ultimateclassicrock.com/queen-bohemian-rhapsody/)

📸 Pic: 1975 - Recording 'A Night At The Opera' album with co- producer Roy Thomas Baker

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Promo ad for ZZ Top’s Fandango album - 1975.

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that contrabass clarinet is about the same height as me 😂

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The Thin White Duke studios in Soho, London….

[aneverydaything]

Day 2128, 20 April 2024

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15 Stars by Ötzi from the album Storm

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Invisible Club 47

08.01.2025

Language Field – Hallucinations – Pulselovers Remix – 00:00 Michael Brückner – Moogroovia (Bonus Track) – 05:19 Lifting Gear Engineer – ITRF – 09:39 Mindheal – Wired Together – 14:08 David Beast – Racial Riots – 18:53 Phase4our – Rogue State (Proxy mix) – 20:49 Opulent Regime – fragrant trail – 25:18 Cate Brooks – Zarch – 27:51 Pbs’73 – Turquoise Daylight – 31:16 Consumer Electronics – Agile Methodology – 34:12 Andres Lopez Azpiri – Pueblo Minero – 36:11 Elías González – RNA – 37:28 Veelargo – Mountempt – 38:28 30 Door Key – Lucifer In Cefalu – 44:08 Le Morte d’Abby – All I Have – 45:50 Common Saints – Celebrate – 51:08

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worldwide fm, london - dream place <3

[meowtalhead]

People who have seen the wicked movie is it good? I'm a big fan of the musical but I'm a little on the fence about seeing the movie

[jichanxo]

actually criminal that there's still no studio recording of the english version of 'the way things are' from the death note musical. god please i need a miracle

[daemonianymphe-official]

Dear friends We are currently recording in London for two different projects, which will probably be released before the end of the year. We will also post updates about the new Daemonia Nymphe album soon. We are really excited about some of the guest musicians, which we will reveal in due time. Until then, enjoy the rest of the summer!

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Creative logo concept "piano + paint brush" ♡

Write your thoughts about this logo! 💬👇

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UK Drill | Maresz Varnz Unreleased "Serious Members" [Behind The Scenes]...

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jez murphy mixing at AIR studios on 35mm

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The Rolling Stones new album, Hackney Diamonds will be the band's first new LP in nearly two decades. Hackney Diamonds, which is an old East London slang for “broken glass,” will become the band's 31st studio album and their first with new music since 2005. It will also be their first album without founding drummer Charlie Watts who passed away at 80 in August of 2021. Charlie, you will never be forgotten 💎

[aneverydaything]

Day 2193, 24 June 2024

Today is amazingly An Every Day Thing’s sixth birthday. Thank you to everyone who has commented upon, re-blogged, liked or even looked at any of the daily photos on this blog. Admittedly, over the last 12 months or so, I have become somewhat disillusioned with photography both as an artform and even as a simple mechanism to record a moment. This is because there is so much fake and artificially created “photography” these days. Whilst I get the argument about artificially created photographs “being just another form of art, grandad”, personally I would prefer to get out to seek photographs rather than sit in front of a computer screen and create them. Therefore in an attempt to regenerate my love for photography and to keep it “real”, I have decide to experiment going forwards by adding comments to my daily photographs. The comments may be as short as a title or a bit about the background to the photograph. In keeping with my original aim, this blog remains “focused” on the image and is not intended to be autobiographical. I therefore intend to keep the comments more observational rather than self-promotional. And so to the first comment! I wanted something a little unusual for my first comment and so took a quick lunchtime trip to Trinity Buoy Wharf in East London. The photograph is of a lightship moored there which is now a recording studio. The is also a lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf which can be seen here on my blog Sometimes London. Yes both the lightship and lighthouse are real and not artificial creations!