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BECHSTEIN DEBAUCHERY: QUEEN STUDIO INFO (1971-1991)

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Bechstein Debauchery (taking its name from the liner notes in the A Night at the Opera album) is a project started in 2003 about compiling a detailed and very much in-depth Queen discography. Sometimes official information's very short, incomplete or incorrect, or it can be broadened, so that's why this web exists. As any academic work, it may have mistakes and it things that can be rendered wrong in the future (remember there was a time when scientists thought the earth was flat).

All of the information found here has been carefully checked and verified as much as possible. It still does NOT mean it's a 100% error-proof research (even the people who were there make mistakes about what happened) but it does ensure that it's way more than mere speculation and guessing. Not being able to prove everything is not the same as not being able to prove anything.

If you want to copy, quote, paraphrase, elaborate on, agree with, refute or condemn any part of this text in a public or private medium and acknowledge me, thank you very much for your consideration and inclusion. If you want to copy, quote, paraphrase, elaborate on, agree with, refute or condemn any part of this text in a public or private medium without acknowledging me, there’s nothing I can do to prevent it and I’ll probably never notice anyway.

Enjoy!
UPDATES

Tuesday 15th June 2010: Corrections here and there. New articles and sections will come but please be patient.

Tuesday 8th June 2010: More mistakes corrected and a brand new analysis: One Year of Love. Next one will be Machines (Back to Humans).

Sunday 6th June 2010: Many small mistakes have been corrected and an in-depth analysis on I Want It All was added. Please drop me a line if you're a vintage synth expert and can help me out with identifying the brands, models and presets used on that song (or any other for that matter).

Thursday 3rd June 2010: A big mistake on my These Are the Days of Our Lives article was corrected - Roger did play acoustic drums (they weren't programmed). Next songs which will be analysed in detail are (in queuing order):

- I Want It All, written by Brian May for The Miracle.
- One Year of Love, written by John Deacon for A Kind of Magic.
- Machines, written by Roger Taylor and Brian May for The Works.
- Cool Cat, written by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon for Hot Space.
- The Ring, written by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon for Flash Gordon.
- Sail Away Sweet Sister, written by Brian May for The Game.
- Fat Bottomed Girls, written by Brian May for Jazz.
- Spread Your Wings, written by John Deacon for News of the World.
- Drowse, written by Roger Taylor for A Day at the Races.
- Love of My Life, written by Freddie Mercury for A Night at the Opera.
- In the Lap of the Gods, written by Freddie Mercury for Sheer Heart Attack.
- White Queen, written by Brian May for Queen II.
- Doing All Right, written by Brian May and Tim Staffell, included on Queen.

After I finish writing in-depth articles about those, the tentative second round list will be:

- Jesus
- Funny How Love Is
- She Makes Me
- Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
- Somebody to Love
- My Melancholy Blues
- Mustapha
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Marriage of Dale and Ming
- Back Chat
- Keep Passing the Open Windows
- Friends Will Be Friends
- The Miracle
- The Hitman
- A Winter's Tale
FAQ

- I do want to write analyses for the solo albums (and maybe The Cross), but info's way harder to gather and verify. Still, I expect some doubts to be cleared sooner or later. For a (self-proclaimed) songwriting scholar, it's useful to see what they did without each other. I'm also interested in documenting places, dates and equipment used in collaborations but all of that will come later. Just hang on... in there.

- Speaking of which, I'm also keen on adding B-Sides and non-album tracks ASAP, just be patient, please. But no, I'm not planning to add info on demos, at least not for the moment. Sources are hardly ever reliable, and I don't want to risk the website to become too gossip-driven, especially regarding who wrote what.

- As for The Cosmos Rocks, if you want to read about that album you can do it in some of the excellent websites out there like Queenpedia or Ultimatequeen . But no, it will not be included here. I've got absolutely nothing against Paul Rodgers (he's a phenomenal singer) but as you can see in the banner, this website only covers the 1971-1991 period.

- No-One But You won't be included either, for the same reason. As I told a poster on QZ, an encyclopaedia on American presidents in the 1850-1900 era doesn't need to include Clinton, and it doesn't mean it's denying his existence or calling him a bad person. Same here: Bechstein Debauchery covers 1971-1991 (with Made in Heaven making it as a lot of it was done between 1980 and 1991 including all of the songwriting), and it hasn't got to include anything else (e.g. Say It's Not True, The Call, whatever they recorded with Dave Stewart some years ago), which doesn't mean at all that I'm denying their existence or saying they're 'crap'.