After being universally lambasted for being more than overzealous in my review of QUEENSRYCHE's Operation Life-Crime, plus forgetting to mention the existence of Video Mindcrime, I went to my G.P. and got a prescription, so I've taken my medication and feel much better Mr Editor, etc. And now I'm going to take a calmer view of QUEEN's Greatest Flix II. It's awfully good. 30 minutes of the good, the bad, and the hilarious, as well as the arty. A charming pictorial history of one of the greatest bands in the world (fuck, I've done it again).
On the menu we have "A Kind of Magic," the Metropolitic "Radio Gaga" (check out John Deakin's hairstyle. He won't be showing that to the kids in years to come), the brilliantly funny "I Want to Break Free," with its drag ala Coronation Street/ballet concept. The naffist example of someone's overworked imagination is the "Breakthru" video, which for such a great song, is a bit shitty really.
But on we go, barely being given time to wipe the soup from the plate before the next course arrives. "Who Wants to Live Forever" (orchestra and male voice choir backing Freddie and the guys), "Headlong," "I'm Going Slightly Mad," a song that carries the immortal line "one wave short of a shipwreck," Ha!
In all, there are 17 hits to savour. The final two being, "The Show Must Go On," the last single to come off the Innuendo album, and "One Vision," the song that basically put Queen back into the limelight after their triumph at Live Aid. I personally enjoyed the trip but now it's time for me to get back in my box. (Released: 28 October 1991)
Peter Grant
Riff Raff
January 1992
In all, there are 17 hits to savour. The final two being, "The Show Must Go On," the last single to come off the Innuendo album, and "One Vision," the song that basically put Queen back into the limelight after their triumph at Live Aid. I personally enjoyed the trip but now it's time for me to get back in my box. (Released: 28 October 1991)
Peter Grant
Riff Raff
January 1992
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