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Is “The Prophet’s Song” by Queen from “A Night At The Opera” criminally underrated? Yes.
Is it the highest score we’ve ever given a song on this channel? Also yes.
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0:00 – Intro
0:56 – Song History
3:11 – Start of Song
13:49 – Initial Thoughts
14:23 – Expertโs Corner
17:37 – Grading the Song
22:37 – Final Thoughts
“The Prophet’s Song” is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by their guitarist Brian May, originally released on their fourth studio album A Night at the Opera in 1975.
“The Prophet’s Song” was composed by Brian May and is the longest Queen song, at 8 minutes and 21 seconds, exceeding Bohemian Rhapsody by 2 minutes and 22 seconds. On the show In the Studio with Redbeard, which spotlighted A Night at the Opera, he explained that he wrote the song after a dream he had about a great flood while he was recovering from being ill while recording Sheer Heart Attack, using the dream as his source for some of the lyrics. Portions of the song were recorded but abandoned during sessions for Queen II.
May spent several days putting it together, and it includes a vocal canon sung by Freddie Mercury. The vocal, and later instrumental canon was produced by early tape delay devices. It is a heavy and dark number with a strong progressive rock influence and challenging lead vocals. At over eight minutes in length, it is also Queen’s longest song with vocals, though the untitled instrumental track from Queen’s last studio album, Made in Heaven, is about 14 minutes longer.
A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.
A Night at the Opera was recorded at various studios across a four-month period in 1975. They employed a complex production that extensively used multitrack recording, and the songs incorporated a wide range of styles, such as ballads, music hall, dixieland, hard rock and progressive rock influences. Aside from their usual equipment, Queen also utilized a diverse range of instruments such as a double bass, harp, ukulele and more.
A Night at the Opera topped the UK Albums Chart for four non-consecutive weeks. It also produced the band’s most successful single in the UK, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, which became their first UK number one. Despite being twice as long as the average length of singles during the 1970s, the song became immensely popular worldwide.
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