Queen - White Queen (A Night At The Odeon - Hammersmith 1975) - First Listen/Reaction

[@kuntumlaleanqueezer]

Greatest Band of all time

[@andreakormosnekacso4804]

This is musical perfection.

[@peaceofiona9198]

Some hardcore Queen fans consider Queen II their best album. It made me fall in love with these guys. You should check it out. Their debut is also great

[@richlisola1]

I do

[@leslieduncan2405]

You just CAN'T BEAT QUEEN ❤ Freddie's piano skills are AMAZING!

[@Sassypaws4927]

"A Night At The Odeon - Hammersmith" was a live broadcast by the BBC of Queen's concert at the Odeon Theatre in Hammersmith, England on Dec. 24, 1975. Of course, the title was a play on Queen's album, "A Night At The Opera" released earlier that year. This is classic Glam Rock period Queen with Freddie wearing his white, winged Mercury suit. Queen II, instead of the conventional Side A and Side B, was split into "Side White" and "Side Black", dominated by Brian and Freddie compositions respectively. Although some have interpreted it as a concept album, it isn't really a concept album but just a collection of songs with a loose theme running throughout. Freddie later confirmed this in a 1976 Sounds interview, citing that "it just evolved to where there was a batch of songs that could be considered aggressive, or a Black Side, and there was a smoother side". The "White" side is very diverse: four of the five numbers were composed by Brian, one of which is an instrumental. Freddie sings two songs; Brian sings one; and Roger sings the closing track, which is his only composition on the album. John played acoustic guitar on "Father to Son" in addition to normal duties on bass guitar (Brian was in the hospital recovering from hepatitis). Freddie composed and sang all six songs on the "Black" side. "White Queen" is from Side White and "The March of The Black Queen" is from side Black. (FYI - "The March Of The Black Queen" was "Bohemian Rhapsody" before "Bohemian Rhapsody" - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaClfpuulMajlck.

[@MarcoGoethe]

Queen 2 is fantastic

[@dianecourtney2724]

In my top 5 Queen songs. Just grateful it was filmed ✌🏼🥰

[@sherryheim5504]

My favorite live performance, period! Hard to believe it is live. Brian wrote this song about a girl in one of his college classes he admired, but never could muster up the nerve to ask her out.

[@linnettsamuel5026]

Best four instrument jam ever

[@lindamaclellan4899]

"White Queen" was the song that made me love Queen forever regardless of the year they performed. I finally saw them in 1981 in Montreal - it was jaw dropping. I think any song from that live performance will not disappoint you - especially "Somebody to Love" and 'Save Me" which are incredible. For their later work, I recommend their concert in Budapest, 1986 - their performance of "Who Wants to Live Forever" is astounding. Thanks for reacting to this song!

[@jeanninedoyle9523]

Freddie’s voice is spectacular in this performance.

[@dropzone9639]

This is just a gem. It showcases Freddie's incredible piano skills, not to mention fabulous vocals, and Brian's gifted guitar blending perfectly with the piano! It is an early masterpiece in my opinion!

[@MusicWithToddLedbetter]

Couldn't agree more!

[@marciebulsaraorcutt]

SOOOO GLAD you reacted to this live version!!! One of my FAV live performances... THANK YOU FOR THE REACTION!

[@truhunk1]

Their early stuff is great. You are lucky if you get to discover all that fantastic music.

[@lisaargyrou1488]

Wow 🥰 beautiful sweet Freddie ❤️ thank you for reacting to my favorite live performance of Freddie's and queen in the 70s🤩 liked subscribed 😁

[@debramoore7513]

Awwww the White Queen penned by Brian May about a crush he had on a girl in his Biology class!! He adored her from afar but lacked the courage to approach!! Very Tolkien IMO .. like a page out of Lord of the Rings!! 🧝🏻‍♀️👑🌙🌟💫 On the album, it’s part of a three-song transition 👉 PROCESSION/FATHER TO SON/WHITE QUEEN …

[@peggyh8937]

This is my favorite version of this Queen song. It is my all-time favorite Queen song. What I'm hearing from you is that you haven't seen much of them live. I recommend you focus your reactions on their live performances because that is where Queen becomes something extraordinary. Their live performances will completely change your opinion of songs that you think you don't like, particularly Radio Gaga. Fortunately, there is a lot of quality recordings of Queen performing live on youtube. Queenies will point out the best of the best performances, but quite frankly, all Queen performances are something special. The more you watch Queen live, the greater your understanding of what this band can do. You are already familiar with some of the music but there is so much more to know about Queen and I guarantee you that you will have an entirely different appreciation for Queen after you watch all the live performances. I recommend you watch Queen's 20 min 1985 Live Aid performance in it's entirety, don't split it up. You must experience it in one sitting as if you were there in the audience. It was voted the best live rock performance ever. Even if you don't react to it, watch it for yourself. Queen live does not disappoint! It's something everyone should see at least once in your life. It's just that good! Careful which video you choose for Live Aid. The one typically at the top of the search cue with 3.3M views cuts off the end and it really messes up the viewer's experience. If the video starts with the date, you've got a bad one. I recommend this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqmpe5l3ec6Kq9k

[@andalltheangelssay212]

Great song, great reaction xxx

[@deniseleger2683]

So Beautiful 😊 thanks for your reaction 😊

[@MusicWithToddLedbetter]

Thanks for watching!

[@HealthAtAnyCost]

I was just like you, liking the mid-albums, ending at Live Killers, too. Then, when I began listening to Queen again after _Bohemian Rhapsody_ , I *really* started studying their music and the guys. I am wayyyy deep down the rabbit hole and have learned so much. (Still so much to learn, of course.) On _Queen II_ , "The March of the Black Queen" is considered the older sister of "Bohemian Rhapsody," then right after, making up the three sisters is "The Prophet's Song." If we do add the fourth, it would be "Innuendo" - an exquisite song and amazing video. What's fun about _Queen II_ is how we can hear _A Night at the Opera_ in its infancy. Hearing Queen grow and change over the early years is a side effect I had not considered when I began listening from the beginning. The guys *clearly* knew what they wanted to sound like and worked their asses off to get it. And they never stopped changing, something most bands/musicians would never do once they hit their peak. Goddess, I love Queen!

[@barrysiewert7386]

Another great early Queen is Liar at the Rainbow. Great comments btw.

[@GinMae]

Thanks! This is a truly astonishing live performance.. the interplay between Freddie on keys and Brian on guitar is "epic" lol -- not to mention Fred's vocals, and the drums & bass! This is a true precursor to what they would become.. and remains one of my favorites... (BTW, song by Brian).. Look forward to more from you...

[@jeanninedoyle9523]

My personal favorite is “Was it all Worth it”, done when Freddie was sick, but again it’s fabulous

[@kellycrook543]

You can't beat Live Queen!!!

[@stargzer_nzm2239]

Queen II is so special that many hardcore Queen fans consider it as their best. I agree.

[@Sandy-dt2mp]

I love Queen II. MY favorite❤❤❤

[@lisaargyrou1488]

Wow 🥰 beautiful sweet Freddie ❤️ Innuendo is a beautiful song from the last album of queen when Freddie was still alive 🤩 maybe you can react to it 😜

[@KevinWood9]

Queen was always good in the studio but even great live

[@MusicWithToddLedbetter]

So true!

[@deborahallen3318]

This song is hauntingly beautiful with amazing talent! This is the very best version of the song IMO Brilliant! edit: I knew that you'd love it! 😉

[@tplouffe9226]

Queen II is by far my favorite album, and is a huge fan favorite. But if you want something from later on to get a taste of how their style kept evolving, I reccommend something off of Innuendo, their last album before Freddie passed. Innuendo the song is like the popular one of the album, amazing amazing song, but another super meaningful song is The Show Must Go On, being that it was one of Freddie's last vocal performances and Brian wrote the lyrics but it was written with Freddie in mind and Freddie really feels it and owns it, not to mention the amalgamation of all their talents in that song. Queen released Hot Space and kinda just fell of the map for a lot people, but they knew that, and they tried to get back to more authentic Queen immediately after, so everything after Hot Space is almost perfect Queen in my books, highly reccomend their later catalogue

[@eLite-Tiss91]

Queen one of the great Rock bands.

[@sergeinester6261]

Queen 1 and Queen 2 were hard to come by for a long time through the 80’s to 00’s and didn’t appear on early streaming due to them being with Trident records at the time.

[@julieperkins7077]

This was freaking awesome for sure!!!😊😊😊

[@corneliasardan5145]

Magnificent ! Unique !

[@marklar5334]

Queen 2 is their best album, a ten star titan.

[@pablomarin6444]

Que genialidad.

[@luceliaalencar8242]

QUEEN PERFEITO ❤️

[@jeanninedoyle9523]

Roger called what Freddie was wearing “his Kermit outfit”, LOL, This concert was the first time they performed BoRhap

[@DonnaleaSpencer]

Freddie and Brian's piano and guitar duet soars to the heavens! (doggone cameraman tho, wish he'd panned over to Brian a bit during that interlude)

[@Catstales4you]

Love love love early Queen. Well all of Queen but the early stuff is so good

[@deboraclark5791]

The first and second albums are great, I love all their music especially live. This one is so beautiful. Check out Queen's Innuendo song from 1991 it's great, Freddie was really sick at the time, but his vocals were amazing, the band was fantastic. Great reaction.

[@TenementFunster.74]

watched this live xmas eve 1975.

[@rodolfosarona2504]

Love the song melow touch

[@melitakazesovic5412]

Pure perfection.

[@aileenturrietta7553]

You should go straight to the Live Aid concert and get your best version of Radio Gaga. The words are also profound.

[@MusicWithToddLedbetter]

Yes, I have seen that performance a few times, amazing!

[@DukeEnlil]

Sometimes and especially with Queen, its hard or impossible to play live some songs made in studio, sometimes live versions are better than the studio one's (E.g.songs from Hot Space) in this case I like both versions, but studio version gives me more goosebumps cause of acoustic guitar, multilayered chorals and guitar orchestrations... As a Queen fan...Queen 2 is my top album!

[@BuFFoTheArtClown]

Love the avatar :)

[@gracemichelli.2am124]

Wow...that's amazing. ❤️

[@MusicWithToddLedbetter]

It really is!

[@janetschulman8998]

Listen to innuendo. From the album of the same name love queen I and II. Lots of live at the Rainbow.

[@dawnmoore4329]

How about a reaction to the man responsible for Brian May's sound? That would be the legendary Rory Gallagher, who was happy to share with a young Brian the secret to his set up (Vox AC-30 and a Rangemaster treble booster). Take a listen to Rory's 1979 Rockpalast performance of Tattoo'd Lady and be prepared for 13 minutes of guitar heaven!

[@MusicWithToddLedbetter]

I've heard it, so awesome. Thanks for hanging out. Todd

[@DonnaleaSpencer]

I do love Brian talking so reverently about old man Rory talking with young Brian and sharing the secrets of his success. I smile because Brian was actually older than Rory.

[@ricardopeixoto88]

I like that you do some research before reacting to the song!

[@TenCapQuesada]

If I have just one gripe about this video it's that the camera hardly touches the other band members. I would have loved to see Brian's riffs.

[@MusicWithToddLedbetter]

Good point.

[@jome7382]

Have you listened to liar, seven seas, profit song... Who wants to live forever & there's another one that for the life of me I can't remember the title but it's about Freddie & the band being majorly pi**Ed of about a manager of theirs (it's brilliant) Somebody will fill you in.

[@lemming9984]

We know Freddie is the frontman, but it would have been nice if the cameras had found other band members.

[@marcburger8458]

Thx, that was very beautiful, would love to watch your reaction Iggy Pop "I'm a conservative" from the Soldier album

[@sallymj5588]

Can you react to Dragon Attack in Montreal by Queen

[@andalltheangelssay212]

Hi Todd, please could you react to Soul love kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIecZJuOqt19pLs with David Bowie’s saxophone solo that gets me every time and the lyrics are amazing, and Rock n roll suicide by David Bowie, kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3Wmc595nNSLabc preferably in the same video? Both songs give me goose bumps and chills. Rock n roll suicide , saving lives since 1972 xxx

[@laurenraubaugh9542]

Yes!!! I can understand not vibing with all of their mid-late 80s stuff (though I LOVED Freddie's voice at this time and it was the height of his iconic performances), but there are definitely tons of gems in there. For what was called a true "return to form", check out 1991's Innuendo album, recorded during the last year or so of Freddie's life. The title track is sort of the youngest sibling of Black Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody, and "The Show Must Go On" includes some of Freddie's most impressive vocals ever (shocking, considering he was too ill to sing and stand at the same time and had to sing propped against the recording table). Brian was worried he wouldn't be able to do it - he'd written the song with Freddie in mind, and the lyrics are heartbreaking - and Freddie said "I'll f**king do it, darling", downed a shot of vodka, and "lacerated those vocals". For the 80s songs, ALWAYS do them live. "Who Wants to Live Forever" is one of my absolute favorites, written for the Highlander soundtrack. Check out any of the three recorded versions we have from 1986, though Budapest is my personal favorite. There are also two separate nights at Wembley.