I've always thought that BatDance was inspired by Flash.
They both have samples from the movies, and the vocals are more to connect the samples rather than being the focus of the song.

I would say he is closer to Led Zeppelin.

Chas said:

You may be on to something.

1970's Queen -> Best band of that decade.

Sheer Hard Attack

Queen II

News Of The World

A Day At The Races

A Night At The Opera

Jazz

Queen




Marvellous records, all of them. Great musicians.

I think Rod Steward in the 70's influenced Prince look too

Yes he is! I saw a scan of an interview from 1985/6 from a a manager of a hotel Prince stayed at for a while. He said something along the lines of "he would sit in his hotel room living off popcorn & pasta watching Queen videos"

OldFriends4Sale said:

I don't think Prince necessarily had his ear to white radio as much as people think, especially in the 70's. There are always going to be rock stars that dress alike. It just happens. Prince wasn't even aware of the huge success of Bob Seger until Matt Fink allegedly told him about needing a song like Bob's (ergo "Purple Rain").

Efan said:

"this is gonna be a bad ferris wheel ride"

But Prince was aware and exposed to white radio more then black .(because only
2 % of the population in Minneapolis were black)

most of the stations at the time were playing Classic rock .
Prince had to search
for Black music.
one of Prince's favorite bands was Grand Funk Railroad

jayquan said:

True.

MyNameIsCally said:

yeah i remember reading something like that and the guy snooped about, took photos of princeys gear in the wardrobe, damn weirdo.
during the parade era

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Poplife88 said:

70s and early 80s they were big...not until WW after that...again, in the US. Worldwide they were always huge. I almost guarantee Prince was a fan since 3 Chains o Gold is directly influenced by Bohemian Rhapsody. No question there...but I was referring to the general popularity of Queen after The Game. Queen's pop definitely slid in the US after that. Believe me I was one of the few fans around at the time and got a LOT of crap for liking them.

They played a concert in Minneapolis in 1980 too

Queen are 1 in a billion, they one of the greatest bands of all-time. Only unique artists/bands have there own sound. Sold more than 400 million records!

Sam 8)

I'm not sure if any of you have heard of a concert called Live Aid? I doubt you could name any other band / artist that stole the show like Queen did?
They were massive all over the world, including the USA. There can't be too many people that can't name at least 10 Queen hits?!?!?!
As a quick side note, did you know MJ sang with Freddy pre Thriller? They wanted to release a song together but it never transpired!

I think Live Aid performance is very overrated ,yes they were the best that nite but it's not up to Queen standard
they were the best when they were young and hungry like here:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...DzEGqY33B8
or here:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...9PJ2uxiUGc

Militant said:

Besides the fact he is a bigot. By the way, didn't Queen have their own controversy involving South Africa?

what controversy

Robert Mugabe fan more like.

Cx

Trust me alot of Prince's virtuosity stems from growing up here and being exposed to rock radio in the 70's. As an african american who grew up "finding" the funk in champaign illinois it was hard to avoid how fucking hot them cats were. Many brotha's who detested our situation ( having to wait for R&B to be played 1hour a week on local radio and still missing the new jams) knew and loved Queen. Put it this way, Queen was bumpin from a lot of of boombox's back in the day and they are all over my ipod.

'A Night At the Opera' is without doubt the most amazing thing I've ever heard.

Quite literally changed my life.

....Still gives me goose bumps.

As far as Prince goes, I'm sure he is a fan, however I think you'd be hard pressed to get him to admit it.

thebanishedone said:

Queen played there when other acts were boycotting. '85 from memory.

TyphoonTip said:

I !
I !
I !
I ain't gonna play Sun city... !!!

yankem said:

I have that 12".

TyphoonTip said:

squirrelgrease said:

Me too !!! A lot of wonderful artists on it (including Miles Davis and Gil Scott Heron, if my memories are right...)

Queen buried Queen. Freddies insecurities. He didn't wanna play smaller venues after their gyhe apex of the game. They didn't tour for the works here and that killed them here.

yankem said:

What a cool cast. Queen were some greedy bastards! On a separate note, Brian May is a huge Prince fan. During the London concerts, May wrote a poignant essay on Prince's genius that was published somewhere. Anyone have that article?

jdcxc said:

Yeah ! I'd like to read it too...

thebanishedone said:

Your joking right?