As Brian May said, Queen had more tools to play with in the studio by the mid-70s than the The Beatles had enjoyed back in the 60s and they were determined to take full advantage of them. The late DJ Gerry Ryan once said this album was “the most over-produced record of all-time.” Look at all the sounds we’ve already had in the opening seconds and he may have had a point. It builds to a crescendo of stabbing, Psycho-esque licks before a sudden Exorcist-like scream cuts across it and we cut to silence before Freddie’s teasing piano comes in again. It’s lulling you into a false sense of security, however, as Brian May’s angry guitar riff kicks in with a siren for backing. The recording techniques of George Martin and The Fab Four would be a huge influence on Queen’s early output.ĪNATO begins with Freddie Mercury’s flowery piano-playing drifting in out of nowhere.
The above description would fit Queen’s 1975 album “A Night At The Opera” to a tee but it’s actually Ultimate Classic Rock magazine’s review of The Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper” album.
Its kaleidoscopic approach to record-making – layer after layer of instruments and voices piled on top of each other until it all blurs into one colorful explosion – would become a marker and pattern for everything that came after it.” “A masterpiece of sound, texture and melody.
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