Queen are a terrible band aren’t they? Overblown, pompous, noodly bollocks for people who can’t bring themselves to dance or listen to anything with a trace of funk. They’re so white they’re borderline Aryan.
Still, there’s obviously a huge market of Stock Broker Rock and Queen have hardly struggled throughout their career.
But what is it that people like about them? Well, if you ask Brian May, it’s because they “speak for common people”.
Speaking to the BBC, May said that he felt that the band had endured because…
“We’re not the most technically accomplished, we’re not virtuosos. We speak how we feel and I think we speak for common people. We’ve always been a people’s band. We’re not locked into any time frame, we speak for people’s dreams, hopes and aspirations and I think that endures”.
Now, let’s look at that statement. They speak to the common man. They speak for people’s dreams. They’re a ‘people’s band’.
That’s Brian May there, the star-gazing, elitist, Tory-voting, Royal-loving, clog-wearer who was in a band that thought nothing of playing in apartheid South Africa.
Yeah. Real man-of-the-people Bri’!
Still, we’re wrong to attack your personal lives. You were talking about your band weren’t you, with their real ‘of the people’ lyrics eh?
Scaramouche! Fandango! Galileo! Figaro! Magnifico! Bismillah!
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H. Kerer says
What a load of bollox. Brian May was not trying to degrade anyone. You are misrepresenting the man. Common people is his way of describing the average music listening person and he is 100% accurate in his statement.
Catherine O'Gden says
Overblown pompous noodly bollocks sums it up for me, though I’m not sure what noodly means … but if it’s bad it’s true.
Brien Comerford says
Brian May is tenably one of the five most virtuosic guitar players in the world. His riifs are refined, majestic, emotive and poignant. His tone is impeccable. Brian May is also a longtime advocate of social hustice, human rights and world peace. He’s a staunch animal rights advocate and humane vegetarian. Brian May’s brilliant, kind and muli=talented.
Up your harris, cunt. says
Everything about what you wrote here is bollocks. You clearly have misunderstood what Brian May said, and to do so you seriously must be dumb as fuck. You should work for the Sun. You’d fit right in there.