Similar to Queen Prince likes to ads opera influenced
bridges to his songs
and i think songs like 3 Chains of Gold ,Strays of the World
are direct tributes to
Queen
Also Prince uses harmonizing guitars
effect like Brian May but it can be a Boston or Thin Lizzy influence.
i read what Brian May said about
Prince when he seen 02 arena show and i know Freddie liked Prince but do you
think Prince is a fan of British rock band Queen?

how could he not be - Queens rocks!

Because Queen were never big in America

thebanishedone said:

According to who? Axl Rose is only four years younger than Prince and he has said on many occasions that growing up, he was a huge fan of Queen.

If they were popular enough for Axl to be exposed to their music growing up in Indiana, Prince would certainly have heard their music on the rock radio stations he listened to in Minneapolis.

Queen was pretty big in America. I would assume Prince was a fan. Two more examples are that he did a snippet of one of their songs in the Super Bowl performance and Sheila E.'s Merci for the Speed of a Mad Clown in Summer has a sound sample the same as an intro to a Queen album.

thebanishedone said:

They were HUGE in America.

thebanishedone said:

Totally wrong.

Freddie - what a powerful voice!!!!

no i am not wrong
Brian May said that I Want to Break Free burried Queen in Usa
because of the video
It was a parody of British soup opera but America seen it as gay.
they were popular until 1984 in Usa.

Queen has anthems in America..

We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions

Another One Bites The Dust was huge, The Flash Gordon sountrack, Crazy Thing Called Love.Grandmaster Flash , Public Enemy & Vanilla Ice even sampled them.

Queen was the shit in America.....
[Edited 1/28/10 18:20pm]

I believe Prince cited Brian May as an influence in an interview a few years back (Rolling Stone?). He also mentioned Boston in that same interview, I believe.

Maybe it's me, but I hear a lot of Steve Vai in some of Prince's live stuff.

jayquan said:

The Flash Gordon soundtrack is a guitar fan's wet dream. I love it.

thebanishedone said:

Right, so you were wrong. They had several multi-platinum albums in the US and No. 1 singles.

correction Grand Master sampled Good Times by Chic not Queen.
bass line from that song is the blue print of Another One bites the dust

i was semi-wrong
i knew they had hits in Usa but after I Want to Break Free they never managed to get hits in USA until Wayns World movie
[Edited 1/28/10 18:26pm]

thebanishedone said:

Let's just say this is not the rightest you've ever been.

thebanishedone said:

"The bass line was inspired by the song "Good Times" by the Disco group Chic. In an interview with New Musical Express, Chic co-founder Bernard Edwards stated, "...that Queen record came about because that Queen bass player... spent some time hanging out with us at our studio"

yes bravo Ernest
thanks for adding the info.

thebanishedone said:

Um, yeah you are very wrong. They were absolutely gigantic in America in the 1970s. Sold millions. Let's see..."Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You", "We Are The Champions", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Another One Bites The Dust", "Somebody To Love", "You're My Best Friend", "Under Pressure", "Fat Bottom Girls" - these were all huge hits in America and are STILL played on classic rock radio to this day.

You might want to look up the word "never" in a dictionary.

leecaldon said:

Actually this is pretty accurate. Queen was popular in the US throughout the 70's...and then The Game I think was their most successful album in the US. However, after that their popularity here definitely slid. I was 14 in 1984 and no one I knew was aware The Works even existed. My friends ripped me more about liking Queen than Prince at the time.

The band didn't truly recover in populrity here until Bohemian Rhapsody was used in Waynes World, and then followed by Freddie's death. I do think the fact Axl was such a fan helped them look "cool" again. Right around this time Classic Queen came out in the US which was a hit cause it included BH...but included mostly post The Game tracks. I remember the same friends who ripped me about Queen now dug them again and didnt realize they had so many great tracks in the 80s. All I could reply was with the ol "I told you so".

thebanishedone said:

Correction on Grandmaster Flash's 1981 "Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel" he used Another One Bites The Dust , Good Times , Rapture , 8th Wonder and a lot of other shit. But he spun and scratched Another One Bites The Dust....

Poplife88 said:[quote]

leecaldon said:

To keep it all in perspective Prince would have heard Queen. If you were alive in the 70/80s in the U.S. it would have been very hard to miss Queen.

I love Queen.

scififilmnerd said:

Me too. I'm listening to the "News Of The World" album right now

squirrelgrease said:

Exactly

Whichever way you slice it, Freddie is one of the greatest rock frontmen of all time. Possibly THE greatest.

I could easily believe that Prince loves and respects, The music by "Queen." I could not imagine anyone not liking this band. They're great.

Well, just listen to:

- Thunder
- Diamonds and Pearls (the bridge)
- Three chains of gold
- Strays of the world

To say he is a real fan, is just a guess, but for some years in the nineties he delivered songs that were influenced by them.

Militant said:

WTF? Axel Rose?

/\ What's so funny? Axl is one of the greatest rock frontmen of all time also. You got a problem with that?