#queen on line

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

July/October 1978 - Queen Story!

"Jazz"

🔸Queen's seventh studio album was the first to be recorded outside of the UK. Sessions for Jazz began at Mountain Studios in Switzerland, in July 1978, and later moved to Super Bear studios in Nice, France, concluding in October. Producer Roy Thomas Baker had been absent on the previous two LPs, but for this project the team was reunited - though it would prove to be the last Queen/Baker production. Geoff Workman and John Etchells were the engineers.

Jazz was released in the UK on 10th November 1978 and four days later in America.

Singles from this album: 'Fat Bottomed Girls' / 'Bicycle Race' / 'Don’t Stop Me Now' /'Jealousy'

(source ➡️ queenonline.com)

Pic: Summer 1978, Nice, France - Queen at Super Bear Studios (in the village of Berre-les-Alpes in the hills 23k north of Nice) during a break from the recording sessions of 'Jazz' album

Photographer Chris Hopper 📸

[drenched-in-sunlight]

Theory: Messmer's timeline and story will only make sense if you consider him Marika's beloved firstborn

Aka, welcome to my doomed Mother & Son presentation slide 🔥🫡

This is written with the assumption that readers are aware of the big reveal regarding Marika's past.

(spoilers for SoTE and long discussion from Messmer’s birth to his final moment)

edit to add this dialogue from Gideon:

EDIT 2: Messmer's helm description literally stated he accepted his fate. he was just brooding sitting in the dark minding his own business, & he'd have been fine for a long time more if the Tarnished hadn't sauntered in & triggered all of his insecurities at once.

hell, he's still maintaining the jar clinic, the Keep still shows signs of activities, his "suffering" is him not being able to see his mom. but it is what it is, he already accepted that. yet people still love to blame Marika while we are the one fucking his brain chemical up???

his bros are throwing a divine disco light party next to his house and he's like "i do not care 🫤 i do not see 😑". he doesn't even give a shit there would be a new God (as long as it's not his mom marrying someone he deems unfit). i think he'd even take up gardening while waiting for Marika to pick him up, no problem. why can't we just tell him his mom is imprisoned istg

EDIT 3: clarification on the mistranslation of Messmer's armor description

[plantsjustwannahavefun]

❌ "I don't want to be your friend"

basic

unconvincing (could be confused for tsundere)

invites challenge

✅ "The light of friendship won't reach us for a million years

devastating

stone cold burn

would cause someone to shrivel up and crawl away in sheer defeat and lose will to live

[cosmogyros]

this absolute fucking drama queen

[sm-baby]

PIECE BY PIECE - Character Line Up✨

ko-fi🃏

New lineup dropped, and PNGs that we can all be responsible with

[olessan]

The Rings of Power 2x08: Shadow and Flame

"My place is here. You know it is." "And where is mine? If not with you?"

[snailification]

Idk who needs to hear this, but the reason your fic isn't getting a lot of attention is bc it's one big block!!

[sunberies]

i love when babies are in those silly little star onesies it makes me so very happy

Rosie is a September baby so they’ve gotta keep her warm ya know?

[nataliescatorccio]

I like to believe I'm still the Lady Alicent, but... all anyone sees when they look at me now is "The Queen."

[naomistares]

rejoice! mini comic #2 about annoying heirs, nervous knights, stupid fights, and confessions!

up next! one more final "mini" comic: world's most obnoxiously cunty assassin gets involved (unwillingly) with funny wizard gone rogue post-economic-crisis-post rejoice's crowning... you get it! (it's about ever the fairy but that won't make sense til the very end)

[splinterclan]

Moon 18.2: Truth coming out!

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - May 22nd, 1989, 'The Miracle" album released in the UK.

This album was originally titled “The Invisible Men”, as a riposte to their critics and because it appeared nearly three years after 'A Kind Of Magic' album (1986)

Reached no 1, on chart for 32 weeks, achieved Platinum status

🔸Queen's thirteenth studio album was recorded at Olympic and Townhouse Studios in London, and Mountain studios in Montreux, between January 1988 and January 1989. It was produced by the band with David Richards, who also engineered the sessions with the help of various assistants. Having spent considerable time with the band on both Queen various solo ventures, Richards was now a permanent fixture on sessions and would remain so through to the final songs Freddie recorded in 1991.

For the very first time on a Queen album, all the songs (and subsequent single B-sides) were credited as written by the band collectively, regardless of the actual author.

The striking cover artwork for the album was based on a concept conceived by Queen and represents the unity of the band; a seamless merging of four people becoming one. This was, after all, during the period when the Queen members were pulling together closely beneath a veil of secrecy in dealing with Freddie's deteriorating illness. Indeed, there was the very real likelihood during these sessions that Freddie would not be around to complete the work. The band closed ranks like never before to focus on the work ahead and in order that nothing deterred them from their course. The four faces morphed into one on the cover, captures this feeling and remains today one of Queen’s most admired and universally recognised images. The startling back cover took the idea a step further, with a seamless regimented montage of just the band's eyes.

Although there were rumors that a tour would be announced following the release of the album, sadly, for reasons that are now obvious, this was not to be. In May 1989 the band recorded a special interview for BBC Radio One in which Freddie explained to Mike Read that it was he who didn't want to tour. “We've been there and done that”, he said, and now the time had come for Queen to break the relentless 'album, tour, album, tour' routine.

Freddie went so far as to say that at his age he didn't feel he should be running around a stage in a leotard any more.

To continue on 👇

http://www.queenonline.com/music

Pic: Queen, Press shot from the Miracle photo shoot.

Shot at Olympic Studios in barns

📸 Photographer © Simon Fowler

[theabigailthorn]

TOMORROW

The House of the Dragon season finale drops tomorrow!

Can't wait for you to meet Sharako: she's such a badass I love her and some of her lines are going to be especially loved by tumblr haha

[bbygirl-aemond]

daemon: the mother grieves as the queen shirks her duties

rhaenys:

[trendingdrama]

QUEEN OF TEARS 눈물의 여왕 (2024)

BONUS :

[evil-sometimes]

I am completely obsessed with a crown of candy. like caramelinda and lazuli were IN LOVE. imagine you're caramelinda. you are married to the love of your life. and she dies. your country is unstable, you need to remarry, politically. you have to remarry to her baby brother who up until now has just been a reckless prince getting up to stupid shit in the war. and now he's your husband. and now he's king. you have two daughters with him. he is a useless ruler, so you manage everything. you try to keep your family safe. your daughters grow up and take after their father. they take after lazuli. they are reckless. they just want to fight things, and you feel like their jailer, trying to impose rules, trying to keep them safe. you love them and would break apart if anything happened to them. you miss your wife. you have been married to your husband for 20 years now. he has been by your side longer than you even knew your wife. you deserved her, not him. it is impossible not to love him. but never like you loved her. he is still an irresponsible reckless warrior. he is a coward. he is your partner in life. you have children and a kingdom together. one of your daughters dies. she dies sneaking away after you told her to go to bed. you are queen. you are supposed to be able to protect her. you had ordered people to follow her and keep her safe. she still died. you want to blame her. you want to blame everyone. you want to blame yourself, you tried so hard to keep her safe. you cry in your husbands arms. you find out your wife kept secrets from you. you have to leave your home. your family is in danger. your family is protecting itself. you feel like dead weight. you miss your wife.