Poll Flash Gorden

[Electric Fire]

Mmm.... moeilijk dit. Hoewel ik Flash Gordon niet zo'n bijzonder goed album vind, staan er toch wel een aantal leuke dingetjes op. Zoals Football Fight, Battle Theme, Wedding March en The Hero.
Ik heb uiteindelijk gekozen voor Football Fight, omdat ik Roger's drumbeat hierin zo lekker vind. Maar het had net zo goed The Hero kunnen worden.

[Angela]

Football fight B)

[Erwin Bruins]

Ik heb eerlijk waar,deze cd niet eens.mis ik er wat aan?als ik de reacties lees volgens mij niet.maar het nummer flash vond ik altijd toch wel grappig.helemaal dat aaaaaaaaahaaaaa

[Delilah88]

:blink: het enige Queenalbum dat ik wel heb maar nog nooit gedraaid....

[Harry_queenbootlegs]

Flash. Football fight op 2de plek.

[edwardsfan2000]

Oh hier komt een topic kick na 5 jaar........

Voor mensen geinteresseerd in Flash en/of verhandelingen over Queen: http://thequietus.com/articles/01561-fl ... e-rock-ost

Dit had Brian er in zijn soepdoos over te zeggen:

**Tue 28 Apr 09**
FLASH RETROSPECTIVE

[Brian's response to the Editor and the Writer of thequietus - a music and culture website - about their new, in depth feature on the Flash OST - see Queen News]

Well, I did click your link
http://thequietus.com/articles/01561-fl ... e-rock-ost
or: http://tinyurl.com/flash-gordon-ost)
and went over to your page on "Flash".

That's very nice ... and very welcome. That's the kind of review you always hope someone will write someday when you do stuff like this ... someone who really does 'get it'. Thanks ... it's very complimentary, and you seem to understand the parameters very well. We were all attracted by the 'Saturday Morning Science Fiction' aspect of the film first of all, but it was the humour, and Mike Hodges's conscious camp and irreverent treatment of the dialogue which put the icing on the cake. I'm VERY proud of our music for the Battle Sequence ... it's all very fresh on my mind ... it was totally thrown together in the old-fashioned way ... playing TO PICTURE - and there was a moment when, left carrying the can ... (because Queen was actually busy making another album at the same time) ... I got on a roll with the Hawkmen and their rescue attack ... I could still 'sing' you that whole sequence ... to me it's totally a song.

I'll add a couple of interesting (perhaps) facts. This was the first time that we, as a band, recorded with synthesisers (previously we always had the declaration on our album sleeves "No Synthesisers"). And I believe that this really is the first time that a proper score, to something other than a story about musicians, was ever applied to a film by a rock band. It's very common now, but I remember having a conversation with the amazing producer of this film, Dino de Laurentiis, early on in the relationship ... wherein he said ... "The score of my movie cannot be rock music .;. it has never been done". And I said ... "but it COULD be done". I could kinda hear some of it in my head at the time. Then all four of us made demos of our ideas in the first week of recording ... having seen the rushes. Dino began to be convinced, but he definitely did NOT like "Flash" as a title song. It was the director, Mike Hodges, knowing that the film was going to succeed on a camp level, rather than a serious level, who persuaded him to let us develop the idea further. In the end, once Mike had cut a demo visual for the title sequence to our rough mix of "Flash", Dino started to smile. And he kept on smiling from then on.

The battle sequence has some classic lines in it - all part of the 'music' for me ... Mr Blessed, Hawkman in chief, enjoying every chuckle and overdoing it magnificently, declaims, "Oh Well, Who Wants to Live Forever!" - which must have stuck in my mind, because it leapt into view when I first watched the Highlander rushes, some years later ... and was the first seed of a song which became very symbolic of the film ...... and ... dear old Hawkman Miro, wounded on the wing of Ming's flagship, hilariously gasps "They just winged me"!!! he he. Love that.

Cheers!

All the very best
Bri