Queen
"The Prophet's Song"
Album: A Night at the Opera
Released: 1975
Writer: Brian May
Label: EMI. Parlophone (Europe) - Elektra, Hollywood (US)
"The Prophet's Song" was composed by Brian May (working title "People of the Earth"). On the show In the Studio with Redbeard, which spotlighted A Night at the Opera, he explained that he wrote the song after a dream he'd had about a great flood while he was recovering from being ill while recording Sheer Heart Attack, and is the source of some of the lyrics. He spent several days putting it together, and it includes a vocal canon sung by Freddie Mercury. The vocal, and later instrumental canon was produced by early tape delay devices. It is a heavy and dark number with a strong progressive rock influence and challenging lead vocals. At over eight minutes in length, is also Queen's longest song (not counting the untitled instrumental track on Made in Heaven in 1995).
"The Prophet's Song"
Album: A Night at the Opera
Released: 1975
Writer: Brian May
Label: EMI. Parlophone (Europe) - Elektra, Hollywood (US)
"The Prophet's Song" is a song by British rock band Queen, originally released on their fourth studio album A Night at the Opera in 1975. AllMusic stated that the song is as epic as"Bohemian Rhapsody".
Queen "The Prophet's Song" (Vinyl)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" may be the best known epic from A Night At The Opera but that album features another epic that is just as fascinating: "The Prophet’s Song" is a mystical rocker that manages to sustain its eight-plus minute length with a combination of strong riffs and a complex arrangement.
(Allmusic, review by Donals A. Guarisco)
(Allmusic, review by Donals A. Guarisco)
"The Prophet's Song" was composed by Brian May (working title "People of the Earth"). On the show In the Studio with Redbeard, which spotlighted A Night at the Opera, he explained that he wrote the song after a dream he'd had about a great flood while he was recovering from being ill while recording Sheer Heart Attack, and is the source of some of the lyrics. He spent several days putting it together, and it includes a vocal canon sung by Freddie Mercury. The vocal, and later instrumental canon was produced by early tape delay devices. It is a heavy and dark number with a strong progressive rock influence and challenging lead vocals. At over eight minutes in length, is also Queen's longest song (not counting the untitled instrumental track on Made in Heaven in 1995).
Queen - "The Prophet's Song" (1975 Remastered)
Queen - The Making of The Prophet's Song
May plays a non-standard Queen instrument, a toy koto, during the introduction and closing "wind" sections of the song. As detailed by May in a documentary about the album, the speed-up effect that happens in the middle of the guitar solo was achieved by starting a reel-to-reel player with the tape on it, as the original tape player was stopped.
The dream May had was about The Great Flood, and lyrics have references from Book of Genesis and the Noah's Ark account.
Queen - "The Prophet's Song
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"...'Prophet's Song' is absolutely perfect, the quintessential QUEEN Prog track, has absolutely everything great piano, outstanding guitars, the rhythm section is just perfect and the powerful vocals by Freddie and his choir is just breathtaking, the best song of the album by far."
(Progarchives, review by Ivan Melgar M)
Lineup / Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals
Brian May - guitars, backing vocals, toy koto
Roger Taylor - drums and backing vocals
John Deacon - bass guitar
Link / Review:
wikipedia: The Prophet's Song
allmusic: Queen - "The Prophets Song"
Progarchives: Queen - A Night at the Opera
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