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One Track Mind: Tangerine Dream with Brian May, "Star Sounds" (2011)

Maybe you suspected, just from listening to his wildly inventive work with Queen, that there was little guitarist Brian May couldn’t do. I wasn’t so sure. You May Also Like: Desmond White, “Dream Girl” from Glace (2017): One Track Mind The ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ Song That Confirmed Queen’s Metallic GeniusRead More

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Something Else! Featured Artist: More Queen

All of sudden, there is a flurry of activity surrounding Queen — prompting a rare second edition for the band in the Something Else! Featured Artist series. You May Also Like: The ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ Song That Confirmed Queen’s Metallic Genius Adam Lambert’s Favorite Queen Song Might Surprise You WhyRead More

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Something Else! Featured Artist: Queen

Freddie Mercury, talking about his band Queen, once compared them to the sweeping Hollywood auteur Cecil B. DeMille, and he wasn’t that far off. The group, which also included guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor, was a heady mixture of heavy metal, prog, power pop, discoRead More

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Steve Cropper – ‘Dedicated’ (2011)

Tribute records are a tricky things; star-studded tribute projects even more so. It takes a strong unifying voice, some central character beyond the featured composer, to save them from sounding like choppy compilations. Steve Cropper, on today’s 429 Records release Dedicated, is that voice. Co-founder of Booker T and theRead More