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Queen: Flash Gordon

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Label: Parlophone Records
Released: 1980.12.08
Time:
 35:01
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Brian May, Reinhold Mack
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.queenonline.com
Appears with: Brian May, Roger Taylor,  Freddie Mercury
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Flash's Theme (B.May) - 3:30
[2] In the Space Capsule [The Love Theme] (R.Taylor) - 2:21
[3] Ming's Theme [In the Court of Ming the Merciless] (F.Mercury) - 2:53
[4] The Ring [Hypnotic Seduction of Dale] (F.Mercury) - 0:58
[5] Football Fight (F.Mercury) - 1:29
[6] In the Death Cell [Love Theme Reprise] (R.Taylor) - 2:26
[7] Execution of Flash (J.Deacon) - 1:06
[8] The Kiss [Aura Resurrects Flash] (F.Mercury/H.Blake) - 1:47
[9] Arboria [Planet of the Tree Men] - (J.Deacon) - 1:41 *
[10] Escape from the Swamp (R.Taylor) - 1:44
[11] Flash to the Rescue (B.May) - 2:47
[12] Vultan's Theme [Attack of the Hawk Men] (F.Mercury) - 1:15
[13] Battle Theme (B.May) - 2:20
[14] The Wedding March" ["Bridal Chorus"] - (B.May) - 0:56
[15] Marriage of Dale and Ming [And Flash Approaching] (B.May/R.Taylor) - 2:04
[16] Crash Dive on Mingo City (B.May) - 1:01
[17] Flash's Theme Reprise [Victory Celebrations] (B.May) - 1:39
[18] The Hero (B.May/H.Blake) - 3:31

* - Listed as "Man" on the 1982 US LP, 5E-518-B

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Freddie Mercury - Lead & Backing Vocals, Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Arranger, Executive Producer
Brian May - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer, Banjo, Piano on [1,18], Co-Lead Vocals on [1], Guitar Orchestration on [14], Arranger, Executive Producer, Producer
Roger Taylor - Drums, Timpani, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer, Arranger, Executive Producer
John Deacon - Bass Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Synthesizer, Arranger, Executive Producer

Reinhold Mack - Producer
Josh MacRae - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Howard Blake - Additional Orchestral Arrangements, Conductor
Alan Douglas - Engineer, Mixing
John Richards - Engineer
Eric Tomlinson - Engineer
Cream - Artwork
Neal Preston - Photography

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While writing and recording The Game, Queen were asked by renowned movie director Dino DeLaurentis to provide the soundtrack for his upcoming sci-fi epic Flash Gordon. The band accepted and promptly began working on both albums simultaneously. Although at first many fans criticized Flash Gordon since it was issued as an official Queen release rather than a motion picture soundtrack, it has proven to be one of rock's better motion picture soundtracks over the years. The majority of the music is instrumental, with dialogue from the movie in place of Freddie Mercury's singing (only two tracks contain lyrics), but the songwriting is still unmistakably Queen. Highlights abound, such as "Football Fight," "Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawkmen)," "The Wedding March," and the heavy metal roar of "Battle Theme." But it was the two more conventional songs that were the album's two best tracks -- the anthemic U.K. Top Ten hit "Flash's Theme" and the woefully underrated rocker "The Hero." With Queen involved, Flash Gordon is certainly not your average, predictable soundtrack.

Greg Prato - All Music Guide



To truly quantify the gloriousness of the soundtrack to the 1980 sci-fi flick Flash Gordon, you’ve got to understand just how terrific a choice it was to have Queen (that great near parody of rock excess that still somehow managed to make heads bang) create the music for such a cornball movie. This was a band that wrote bouncy songs about bohemian rhapsodies and fat-bottomed girls, so naturally it would have no problem scoring a film about the adventures of a dim Jets quarterback, a hottie named Dale, and requisite mad scientist Hans Zarkov, all trapped in the lava-lamp landscape of the planet Mongo.

From the pounding theme song (”Flash! Ah-aaah…he save every one of us!”) and the Arabian synth wa-wa of ”The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction of Dale)” to the arena-rock-ready ”Battle Theme,” the music is so goofily muscular, it’s like someone gave superintelligent space monkeys a bushel of PCP-laced bananas and let ‘em loose in a room of guitars and keyboards. Better yet: The film’s blissfully inane dialogue is mixed in with the music — everything from Zarkov’s (Fiddler on the Roof’s Topol) rantings to bald baddie Ming the Merciless’ (Max von Sydow) tyrannical marriage vows (”Do you promise to use her as you will…not to blast her into space?”). This album is such a fully rendered piece of art it rests on the same aural plane as great opera: You can take as much from listening as you can from seeing, maybe more. You see, dear friends, it’s like you never have to watch the movie again! And if loving this makes me guilty, then I don’t wanna be innocent.

Marc Bernardin, March 10 2000
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