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翻译：Joanna 校对：Ethan-泽生
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经典唱片
皇后乐队 《A Night At The Opera》
就像火箭一飞冲天 It took off like a rocket.
唱片刚上市就销量猛增 Suddenly we were in demand.
突然好像从此再不用举债度日了 Suddenly we were looking like we were not going to be in debt.
太不可思议了 And incredible.
*I see a little silhouetto of a man,*
歌曲《Bohemian Rhapsody》
*Scaramouche, Scaramouche,*
*will you do the Fandango*
*Thunderbolt and lightning,*
*very, very fright'ning me*
*(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo)*
*Galileo (Galileo)*
*Galileo figaro*
*Magnifico*
乐队四位成员作曲风格迥异 It's four writers that write very different songs.
*I've been with you such a long time*
歌曲《You're My Best Friend》
*You're my sunshine*
*And I want you to know that my feelings are true*
*I really love you*
*Oh, you're my best friend*
不像一般个人专辑里那种单曲 They were not individual song done like some solo record,
而是带有皇后乐队整体审美观的独立单曲 It was--It was individual songs as part of Queen aesthetic.
*Don't you hear my call though you're many years away*
歌曲《'39》
*Don't you hear me callin' you*
*Write your letters in the sand*
*For the day I take your hand*
*In the land that our grandchildren knew*
我喜欢看到艺术家大胆冒险 I love artists to take big risk,
对我们听众来说 会有更多乐趣 It's just more fun for the rest of us.
*I'm in love with my car.*
歌曲《I'm In Love With My Car》
*Gotta feel for my automobile,*
*Get a grip on my boy racer rollbar,*
*Such a thrill when your radials squeal.*
我们得有个重大转折 We needed a big turning point,
所以在这张专辑里 and so we sort of banked everything
几乎一切都推翻重来 On the album, you know, and
也许那就是我们发行出这张 I don't know, maybe that's one of the reasons
相当大胆专辑的原因之一吧 we released a rather daring recoard as a single.
*So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye*
歌曲《Bohemian Rhapsody》
*So you think you can love me and leave me to die*
*Oh, baby,*
*Can't do this to me, baby,*
*Just gotta get out,*
*Just gotta get right outta here*
有时候一支乐队发行了专辑 Sometimes a band produces its album
尼克·霍恩 电台DJ
实在太有创意的专辑 that is just so seminal, I suppose.
你就知道 这支乐队从此将再不一样 then you know that nothing is going to be same again with that band.
唱片发行后 乐队一时名声大噪 There comes a moment we were a band gets so big,
鲍勃·哈里斯 电台DJ 电视制作人
一经问世就受到万众瞩目 You know, all arrive in people's consciousness to such an extend,
即使不是很喜欢听音乐的人 That even people who weren't really into the music
也知道了乐队的大名 know who they are.
《A Night At The Opera》发行的两年前
他们的首张专辑发行前 百代给了我一盘试听带 I got a white label through from EMI of the first album.
之前我还从未听过他们的演唱 and I hadn't really heard anything about them.
唱针放到唱片上 Put the needle on the vinyl,
放的是《Keep Yourself Alive》 and it was "Keep Yourself Alive",
那段吉他的开场 And you know guitar intro...
听了15秒 我只能惊叹 And within 15 seconds I just thought: "wow"
这是谁呀 You know, who is this?
*Keep yourself alive(yeah)*
*Keep yourslef alive*
歌曲《Keep Yourself Alive》 1973年发行
*It'll take you all your time and money*
*Honey you'll survive*
我听过皇后乐队的首张专辑 爱死它了 I heard Queen album and I absolutely loved it.
皇后乐队首张专辑《Queen I》 1973年发行
就像颗精美切工的宝石 It was like a beatifully cut jewel,
就等着抛光 准备着一鸣惊人了 landing in your lap, ready to go,
之所以说它完美 It was perfection because
杰克·霍兹曼 艾丽卡唱片公司创始人
因为不像大多首张专辑 Unlike most first albums,
它具有某种平衡 某种广度 It had a...It had a proportion, a size to it.
那一直是我们努力的目标之一 It was always part of what we wanted to achieve,
布莱恩·梅 皇后乐队吉他手
在我们脑海中一直有这样的景象 that's the vision I had in our head
我们的声音应该是非常高昂 of what a sound shoud be absolutely broad,
极端的深远 和极致的宽广 absolutely incredibly deep, and incredibly wide,
一言以蔽之 The one word that
这张专辑总的来说就是 层次分明 I think in itself, sums it all up, is layered.
非常有层次的声音 It was very layered sound,
有层次的吉他声 you know, layered guitars,
有层次的嗓音 层层分明 ah, layered voices, you know, lots of them,
伟大的作品 big production,
他们首张专辑发行是1973年 在伦敦 Well, it was '73 there, before us, in England.
我们认为他们很棒 因为... We thought they were good because I--
专辑最后两首歌简直能令我达到高潮 I would come in during the last two song,
伊恩·亨特 马特与虎伯合唱团成员
分别是《Keep Yourself Alive》和《Liar》 Which were "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Liar".
那两首真的是好歌啊 and those were, those were good songs, you know,
我没见过他们组合的其他人 I didn't see the rest of the set,
但弗雷迪一直问我 你觉得怎样 But Freddie said "What do you think?" "What do you think?"
我说 你们没问题的 一定能红 I said "You are alright, you are gonna be fine,
因为你们的歌好 Cause you've got the songs."
*Fear me you lords and lady preachers*
皇后乐队第二张专辑《Queen II》 1974年发行
*I descend upon your earth from the skies*
歌曲《Seven Seas Of Rhye》1974年发行
*I command your very souls you unbelievers*
*Bring before me what is mine at the seven seas of Rhye*
他们雄心勃勃 They were hugely ambitious
米克·洛克 摄影师
要展现极致的古典英格兰风格 in a fabulously old fashioned British kind of old way.
而且那些并不是... I mean, these were not,
不会因为唱片公司的影响 而放慢脚步 they were not gonna get slowed down by record companies,
更不会因迷幻剂或任何其他因素放弃 by, you know, by narcotic intake, by any of that.
不管怎么说 Whatever the hell was going on,
他们逐渐成名 They, they were going for the big one.
一旦进这行 就一定得有自信 When you start this business, you have to be confident,
作为新乐队一定要 A new band has got to have
对自己充满自信 a real confidence in yourself,
弗雷迪·麦考利 皇后乐队主唱
一定得有某种程度的自大 But you have to have a certain amount of arrogance,
或者自负 诸如此类 and that ego, whatever it is,
因为你一定得对自己的作为有自信 because you have to believe what to do.
我们就有这样一种自信 So we had that sort of confidence,
第三张专辑《Sheer Heart Attack》 1974年发行
真正知道我们能够为大众所接受 and actually knowing that we will get through to the public.
*She's a Killer Queen*
*Gunpowder, gelatine*
歌曲《Killer Queen》 1974年发行
*Dynamite with a laserbeam*
*Guaranteed to blow your mind(anytime)*
*Recommended at the price*
*Insatiable an appetite*
*Wanna try?*
那绝对是红遍全球的开始 There were definitely a start of something,
绝对是头版头条 they were headlining acts.
《Killer Queen》的优秀使之毫无悬念 "Killer Queen" had seen to that
皇后乐队一向都有种冲力 Queen always had a momentum,
我也见过很多歌手 创作了精彩的专辑 I have seen artists make wonderful albums,
但不具备那种冲力 That they didn't have momentum,
就不会给观众留下长久印象 The public didn't give them the time necessary,
皇后乐队就有 Queen had momentum.
在《A Night At The Opera》发行的前夕 Immediately prior to Night of the Opera
我们正经历一个困难时期 We, we were really going through a difficult period.
罗杰·泰勒 皇后乐队鼓手
此前我们也有过成功的专辑 We had a very successful album,
如《Sheer Heart Attack》 "Sheer Heart Attack",
我们认为那是一张优秀的专辑 we thought it was, you know we thought it was a good album,
做得很好 It's done very well
《Killer Queen》这首歌在全球大红大紫 We had a major worldwide hit with "Killer Queen",
但我们却穷困潦倒 and we were broke,
我们很想知道原因 And, um, and we wanted to know why.
我们在准备这张专辑时 When we were planning to put this record out,
《A Night At The Opera》这张 "A Night At The Opera"
这张专辑的第一首歌 The first track of the record,
《Death On Two Legs》 "Death On Two Legs"
很明显是出自弗雷迪心声的一个声明 was a pretty obvious statement from Freddie's point of view,
鲍勃·美智 1976-1980年任百代总经理
他在向自己的商业合作伙伴发表声明 as to, eh, the kind of people he'd been in business with.
那首歌很有幽默感 There's a sense of humor to it,
但对弗雷迪 又饱含了他的愤怒 with Freddie, there was a lot of anger there,
他当时对我们的经纪人非常不满 He was very aggrieved at our management, at that time,
觉得没得到应有的尊重 和应有的报酬 who, he felt, didn't respect him, hadn't paid him,
觉得被窃取了...不管是什么 had stolen from him, you know, whatever...
他想把这些都表现在这首歌里 and he wanted to put it down on record,
*You suck my blood like a leech*
歌曲《Death On Two Legs》
*You break the law and you preach*
*Screw my brain till it hurts*
*You've taken all my money*
*And you want more*
那首歌的曲子很棒 即兴重复段很棒 Musically it was great, too. The riff is great.
当然 那即兴重复段不是我想出来的 Of couse I didn't invent the riff,
而是弗雷迪的创作 this is Freddie's riff,
首次是在钢琴上表现的 'Cause it was done on piano first.
但用吉他表现 也很棒 But it's a, it works great on guitar, this..
*Death on two legs*
*You've never had a heart *
*Of your own*
*Kill joy bad guy big talking small fry*
*You're just an old barrow boy*
*Have you found a new toy to replace me? *
*Can you face me? *
*But now you can kiss my ass goodbye*
我觉得当时我们都很震惊... I think even we were a bit taken aback with the...
弗雷迪竟然如此公开叫骂 with how vicious Freddie wanted to be,
我记得自己当时心想 天啊 I remember thinking: "Oh..."
但那是弗雷迪想要的 But it was what Frieddie wanted,
我们有不成文的规矩就是 you know, and the kind of unwritten law was that
作曲的人 自己做主 the author of the song got his own way.
有时我们也会产生分歧 Sometimes, we just disagreed,
但最终 还是词曲作者说了算 and in the end, What just happened is the writer is...the boss of...
他可以说 来看看 'cause he can say: "Yeah, look,
这首歌我想这么写 this is the way I want the song,
这首歌我要这样表现 and this is the way I'm gonna have it."
*A dog with disease*
*You're the king of the sleaze*
*Put your money where your mouth is *
*Mister know-all*
*Was the fin on your back part of the deal*
*Shark*
*Death on two legs*
*You're tearing me apart*
*Death on two legs*
*You've never had a heart of your own*
*Insane you should be put inside*
*You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride *
*Should be made unemployed*
*Then make yourself null and void*
*Make me feel good I feel good*
长话短说 To cut a very long story short,
我们最终同意约翰·里德当我们经纪人 We...we agreed that we would go with John Reid as our manager.
而约翰·里德的计划... And John Reid's plan, you know,
我们问他怎样摆脱财务困境时 'cause we said how do we get out of this?
他的计划是 好了孩子们 His plan was: "Okay, boys,
我会处理好财务状况 I will deal with the financial situation,
你们就回录音室去 you guys go back in the studion
做出你们的最佳专辑来 and make the best album you've ever made"
我觉得也许我们是下意识受了 I think maybe we were subconsciously influenced by the fact,
披头士专辑的影响 by the Beatles albums, I think, really.
尤其是他们最近的几张 Um, especially the later ones like, you know,
如《Rubber Soul》《Revolver》《Abbey Road》 like "Rubber Soul", "Revolver", "Abbey Road".
这些无疑都是佳作 They were, they were very eclectic albums.
*I go out to work on Monday morning*
歌曲《Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon》
*Tuesday I go off to honeymoon*
*I'll be back again before it's time for sunnydown*
*I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon*
当时我们所用的效果 绝大部分 In those days, a lot of effects that we used
加里·里昂 调音师
都是自然效果 而不是现在的电子效果 were natural effects as opposed to digitals we use today.
当时对主唱声音是这样处理的 The things that we did on the lead vocals were this,
罗伊·托马斯·贝克 制作人
要做出扩音器效果 is that we needed the megaphone effect,
就是那种早期的麦克风效果 you know, the old megaphone, from the old salad days.
主唱现在录音室录音 He was singing in the studio,
然后放入控制台 it was being fed into the console.
控制台再输出到耳机里 The console was then sending it out to a pair of headphones,
耳机是在金属罐里的 which were in a metal can,
然后把麦克风也放入金属罐 and then a microphone was in the metal can,
录下该金属罐里发出的声音 recording the voice coming out of the can.
那才是正式录到磁带里的声音 And that is waht went to the tape.
*Bicycling on every Wednesday evening*
*Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo*
同时还录有和声 We had background vocals bits as well,
是整个乐队都有参与的 where the whole band's saying...
现在大致就该渐渐开始了 and they should be coming in about now.
*Fridays I go painting in the Louvre*
*I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night*
*There he goes again*
*I'll be lazing on a Sunday lazing on a Sunday*
我们的音轨不够用 We also ran out of tracks,
当需要两把吉他和声时 so when we need two guitars,
甚至将其录入声乐轨 we also did those on the vocal tracks.
他们做《A Night At The Opera》这张专辑时 What they did with, you know, this album, "Night At The Opera",
运用了某种录音技术 is just take, sorta, recording techniques
达到了前所未有的境地 to an, to an area that they'd never gone before.
他们将那种技术运用到了极致 They pushed the technology to its very limits.
迈克·斯通的技术实在太赞了 We had a fabulous engineer in Mike Stone, you know,
这话我不止一次强调过 I've...I've said this more than once, I'm sure,
迈克·斯通绝对是这一切的幕后英雄 but Mike Stone is really the unsung hero of this whole thing.
迈克·斯通 1951-2002
从一开始就是 从我们的头三张专辑 Right the way through, from the first 3 albums
到《A Night At The Opera》 再到《A Day At The Races》 to "A Night At The Opera", to "A Day At The Races"
绝对是他成就了我们 Which he, he really just produced with us,
不然就没有我们的今天 'cause we had already had gone somewhere else by then.
他真是太了不起了 And the guy was really a phenomenon.
当时真是非常美好 非常有创造性 I remember it has been a very good time, very creative time.
我们合作无间 非常伟大的一个团队 We were a great team. It was a great team.
我们加上罗伊跟迈克 You know, between us and Roy and Mike.
是录音室里一个伟大的团队 Stupendous team in the studio.
在我听来 It sounded to me like
乔·佩里 空中铁匠乐队吉他手
制作《A Night At The Opera》时 皇后乐队已踏上成功之路 Queen was on this path, and when they hit "A Night At The Opera"
他们已开始展翅翱翔 it was, it was their wings had spread,
他们将自己在巡演时 所学到的每一分 they took everything they had learned from,
以及之前的录制经验 都运用到了极致 from touring all over the place, and having recorded before,
最终确立了自己的风格 They finally found their voice,
所以那张专辑才如此神奇伟大 and that's what makes that record so magic.
我们喜欢录音室 We love the studio.
一向喜欢 我至今还喜欢 We always did, and I still do,
因为它兼容并蓄 because it's an open canvas,
让你能做各种尝试 and you can do anything you want.
我们还借鉴了亨德里克斯和披头士的做法 And we were kind of deciples of Hendrix and The Beatles,
尤其是他们将录音室 particularly the way they used studios as,
几乎看成某种乐器 almost like an instrument.
但显然我们的技术比他们当年更为成熟 But obviously we, we had more technology than they had had,
所以能表达得更为深入 so we pusched things a lot further.
与皇后乐队在录音室共事感觉非常棒 Being in a studio with Queen was facinating,
罗西 音乐记者
但也很纠结 but very long winded,
因为他们是完美主义者 because they were such perfectionists.
跟他们在录音室录一整天 但我觉得他们 One day I spent with them, I don't think they did
最终放到唱片中的还不到30秒 more than about 30 seconds of what actually ended up on a record.
那不是我最喜欢的方式 so it wasn't perhaps my favorite,
作为音乐技师 我不是很喜欢过于较真的他们 not being a musical technician, my favorite way of seeing them.
我喜欢看他们的现场演奏 I liked to see them live.
歌曲《I'm In Love With My Car》
*Car*
*The machine of a dream*
*Such a clean machine*
*With the pistons a pumpin'*
*And the hub caps all gleam*
我从未见过一个像他们那样全面的乐队 I had never really heard a band in its entirety quite like that.
很多乐队都会为不同受众 创作不同歌曲 You know, you heard bands of different cuts for different people.
但都没有这么异彩纷呈 but not as varied as this,
这可能正说明他们每个人都很有才华 and it probably reflected the fact they all did right,
乔·史密斯 1975-1983年任艾丽卡唱片主席
都参与了唱片的创作 and all did have something to do with the producing of the record,
影响了唱片效果 the production of the record.
皇后乐队总让我想起披头士 It reminds me a lot of the Beatles,
约翰·英格拉姆 音乐记者
四位成员势均力敌 都才华横溢 that you had this kind of four equal people
同时 都有超乎寻常的感染力 at the same time, they had the influences that extended way beyond
有种类似蓝调音乐的感觉 that kind of blues background
这样的感染力在当时的乐队身上并不常见 that was, sort of the usual influence of bands at that time.
它跟你一般认为的摇滚歌曲 有点不同 It was slightly different from your average rock song,
基本上都是6/8拍的 it's basically in 6/8 time,
即基本都是华尔兹节拍 which is basically Waltz time.
类似...就是类似这样的 It was sorta...it was very sort of...
那种节拍很有节奏感 It's a great time signature to play in,
有摇滚的感觉 让人想随之摇摆停不下来 it rolls, it has a certain unstoppable rolling quality.
*When my hand's on your grease gun*
*Oh it's like a disease son*
*I'm in love with my car.*
我做了个很粗糙的唱片小样 我记得 I made up a very rough demo of it, and I remember
我去问布莱恩 你觉得如何 turning around to Brian: " So, what do you think of that?"
他看着我 说道 He looked at me, he said:
你开玩笑的 是吧 " you are joking, aren't you?
你开玩笑的吧 you are joking?"
我回答说 不 布莱恩 我很认真的 and I said: "No, no, Brian, dealy serious.
这首歌是说一辆车的 You know, it's about a car,
然后有人爱上了这辆车 and you know, and you know, someday who's in love with it."
他肯定会说 那歌描述的是别人 He'll tell it's written about someone else,
但我们都心知肚明 不是吗 罗杰 you know, but we know the truth, don't we Rog?
罗杰一向都喜欢速度快的东西 And, I mean, Roger was always into fast things,
快车 you know, fast cars,
诸如此类的 etc. etc...
旋律朗朗上口 It's very tuneful,
但当然 声音才是主题 but of course the vocal is the theme,
声音才是歌的主题 yeah, the vocal is the song,
是非常值得纪念的一首歌 and that's a very memorable peice of writing there.
*When I'm cruisin' in overdrive*
*Don't have to listen to no run of the mill talk jive*
*I'm in love with my car*
*Gotta feel for my automobile*
*I'm in love with my car*
*String back gloves in my automolove*
实在太过繁复 包括处理声音的方式 It's just so excessive, the way the vocals are all treated
和渐近渐远的背景音 and things going off backwards,
天知道这歌里有多少种配音和多轨合成 and god knows how much overdubbing and multi-tracking are...
我一直很喜欢唱片主创们 I've always been in love with producers
一往无前的感觉 who don't know when to stop,
我认为罗伊·托马斯·贝克非常拿手 and I think Roy Thomas Baker was very very good at knowing how,
知道怎样做到极致 how to go too far,
恰到好处的极致 but just enough too far.
而且他的这种极致 And I think he at this point,
恰好是他的 也是乐队能做到的 is coming into his own just the way the band did,
他们做到了这点 且彼此间合作无间 They were very much in tune with each other at that point.
词曲作者不止一个 There was no one writer,
但皇后乐队的特色是独一无二的 yet there was one Queen sound.
一听到歌曲 你就能听出这其中的区别 And you could hear all the differences in the song,
你可以通过他们的嗓音 but you could hear, with the vocal sounds,
通过吉他声 鼓声等等 and the guitar sounds and the drum sounds, etc.
这就是其中之一 Which is one of the things
对我最重要的事情 就是要确保 which is important to me is to make sure that
当人们第一次听到一首歌 when people hear a song for the first time,
即使在电台中刚听到 完全搞不清状况 even if they don't know how it is, on the radio,
但能一下子就听出来 这是皇后乐队 they could hear instantly it was Queen.
*Ooh you make me live*
歌曲《You're My Best Friend》
*Whatever this world can give to me*
*It's you you're all I see*
*Ooo you make me live now honey*
*Ooo you make me live*
*Oh you're my best friend that I ever had*
通常 要是别的乐队唱那么傻的歌词 Normally, I think any other band that's saying that lyric:
努诺·贝特恩考特 极限乐队吉他手
"你是我最好的朋友" "You're my best friend",
人们肯定朝他们扔臭鸡蛋了 then people would throw things at them,
在电台直播的时候 they would go...they would burn their records,
他们会烧了他们的专辑 You know, live on the radio.
但这首歌多么美好 but what a beautiful song.
让你不得不信服 就这样一首单纯的流行歌曲 Just the conviction of doing a simple pop song,
非常巧妙... well crafted...
突然 约翰·迪肯通过他的歌曲为人熟知 All of a sudden, John Deacon emerged from his vows of silence.
就像在大声宣布 他也可以独当一面 to, to speak up that he wanted his song out as a single.
他没有写很多歌 He didn't write that many,
但只要你想想他写的这些 but, you know, if you think about it:
《Another One Bites The Dust》 《You're My Best Friend》
《I Want To Break Free》
全都是伟大的作品 Big, big hits.
其中《You're My Best Friend》 And "You're My Best Friend"
至今仍是美国电台最常播放的歌曲之一 is still one of the most played tracks in American radio.
《You're My Best Friend》相当伟大 "You're My Best Friend" was a significant song
安东尼 音乐记者
至少全美的电台肯定都这么想 as far as radio is concerned in the United States.
我觉得那首歌饱含了更多的友情 I mean, I think that it was a kind of friendlier,
比当时皇后乐队的其他作品更易引发理解和共鸣 more accessible song, to some of the stuff Queen was doing.
约翰通常都是一匹黑马 John was awlays a dark horse.
一直都是 他通常话不多 He always was, you know, he's the guy who doesnt' say very much.
但有时说到某些话题 Up to a certain point,
他也会突然发狂般 滔滔不绝 I mean, he would go nuts sometimes and say a lot,
但通常都非常沉默 but generally he was the quiet guy,
通常都是他过来 然后我们问 有什么灵感吗 and he would come in and we'd say: "Have you got anything?",
约翰会说 我写了这个 但不知道效果 John'd go: "Oh, I've got this. I don't know",
就是说 不知道这歌好不好 you know, "Don't know if it's any good,
不过我们可以试下 but we could try this. "
他非常的谦逊 You know, very self effacing.
我认为是他们鼓励了他 I think they encouraged him,
乐队的其他成员想要 the other guys wanted
想要得到更多的奖金 ah, the more-- to have more of a staking,
因为毕竟 作为词曲作者 'Cause after all, the songwriting...
会有额外的版税收入 you know, there's all those extra royalties,
而那是摇滚乐队经常遇到的问题 and that's often an issue with rock&roll bands,
是其中很多乐队解散的原因之一 and quite often, a reason why some of them break up.
所以他们需要一颗定心丸 So they wanted to make sure.
我早就认识弗雷迪 和早期的皇后乐队 I know Freddie, I mean, even as early as Queen too,
他一直在鼓励约翰投稿 he's been encouraging John to contribute,
而约翰一直有点沉默 and I think John was just a little reticent.
他是最后加入乐队的 He was the last to join,
同时也肯定是最害羞的一位 and he was certainly the most shy.
他写的歌一般主题比较集中 He just write in that on area, which he likes,
类似一个汽车城这样的感觉 which is almost like a motown, sort of...
我很喜欢那样 喜欢那种主题的歌 and I love that, 'cause I love to sing on songs like that.
他真的很与众不同 So he's very different,
他所创作的歌曲 永远都不会沉重 I mean you can never call his songs heavy.
那歌就是在汽车挡风板上写的 It was written on a fender Rhodes...
约翰自己弹奏 在自己键盘上弹奏 John played it. John played his own keyboards.
据我所知 约翰写这首 And John, as far as I know,
写的是他可爱的小妻子 wrote the song about his lovely lady wife.
更多信息 你恐怕得自己问约翰了 Further than that, you would have to ask John.
虽然我觉得他可能不会有兴致回答 And I don't think he's probably in the mood to answer, at that point.
很可惜的是 他是真的觉得 And it's a shame that, you know, he he really feels
如今他不想再参与到音乐事业中来 that he doesn't want to be part of the music business, these days.
某种程度上我能理解他的想法 I see his point, in some ways,
但... but, um,
他差不多是真的不想 you know, He just sort of doesn't really want to,
不想整天抛头露面 he doesn't like meeting people a lot,
而是选择过自己安静的生活 and he has opted for the quiet life,
尽管他肯定我们的所为 although, he approves of what we do,
他这样说过 and has said so.
*And I really love you.*
*Oh, you are my best friend.*
皇后乐队唱片中的和音 The vocal harmonies, you know, on a Queen record,
总给人浑然天成的感觉 are gonna provided with untiy,
不管是哪种类型的 regardless of what the kind of,
不管是哪种类型的 哪首歌曲 you know, individual style of a particular song is.
总有着某种特质... You know, there's something that's,
让你一听立刻就能感知他们的特色 you know, instantly indentifiable about what they do.
我们三个人的声音一旦放在一起 The three voices that we had blended instantly,
效果立马不同 and sounded very big.
互相间能神奇地互相烘托 They interacted quite magically,
且我们的声音都各有优势 and we all had qualities in our voices,
我的优势在于高音区 and I had a sort of high serin quality,
弗雷迪在绝大部分音域都有非凡强度 Freddie had an incredibly powerful quality in most ranges,
而布莱恩在低音区 音质非常优美 and Brian had a very nice quality in the lower range,
所以三个人的声音组合 非常完美 and so that three made a very good combination,
但我们不会每人去唱某个片段 but what we would do is we would not take a single part each,
而是一起合唱每个部分 we would all together sing every part.
所以 我们三个人的合唱 So, as soon as the three of us sang a line,
效果本就惊人 it alreayd sounded quite big.
做成双音轨 效果就更惊人 You double track that, it sounds quite big.
然后 我们再一行一行唱下去 And then we would sing the next line, and the next line...
所以 我们的声音完全能涵盖高低两个音区 So, you really were looking after both ends of the sort of spectrum,
到达高低音的极致 there, in fact all ends,
从而涵盖了所有 and you were covering everything,
出来的效果也就特别强劲 So it came out particularly strong,
而这也正是皇后乐队的特色所在 and...and that was really part of the queen sound,
我们三个人会合唱所有部分 I think, the fact that the three of us sang every part.
这里就是和声 It's the backing vocals there.
*Ooo still come back to you*
*I'm happy at home*
他们能唱得层次分明 The skill that they could just build
又极其协调的这种能力 those layers and layers and layers of harmony,
让整体的效果凸显 and, and make the whole thing work
而不是让人关注其中某一点 rather than you focus one elements of it,
然后忽视其他的 and then, you know, forget the rest,
我认为 也正是这一点 that I think, is what always was the thing
让他们的作品总能脱颖而出 that made them stand out from anybody else.
从来不会去想 只是简单地写一首歌 Well, there was never any question of writing a single,
而是写一整张专辑 然后... you just...we just wrote albums and then...
所以 那些歌整体间都会是一致的 让人惊叹 you know, so they would really by consensus it would be:
啊 这首听起来像主打曲 "Ah, that sounds like the first single"
当然 也可能会争论到底哪首该做主打曲 you know, and then...and then maybe there might be some argument.
显然 每个人都会把自己的作品当做自己孩子 Obviously, you have certain...of your own babies,
一旦你写了首歌 肯定想让它 if you wrote the song, and you want them to be, um
广为传颂 heard in a wide area.
通常 写那首歌的那个词曲作者 Usually the writer of that particular, right song
肯定会争着想让它成为主打 would be arguing that he should have the single.
一旦失去了这个机会 And if you miss that opportunity,
就永不再有了 it's kind of gone forever,
在我看来 我们都遭遇过这样的事 and in my case I think we all had things like that,
为之伤心难过 that we felt sad about.
对我来说 就是这张专辑里的《Long Away》 In my case there's things like "Long Away",
或《'39》这样的歌 "'39" off this album,
其实都是可以作为主打的 you know, which...which could have been a single,
作为我来说 我也是这么希望的 and part of me wishes they had been,
因为它们更能引起大众的共鸣 because they had been much more in the public consciousness,
这两首都跟人的生活息息相关 um, you knw, songs become hooked into people's lives
勾起人美好的回忆 in a very wondeful way, you know,
听到这首歌 就能让你想起在某个海滩 you hear a song that reminds you of being on a beach somewhere,
与某个人 共度的某段美好时光 in a particular time, with a particular person,
总的来说 如果不能成为主打 and if... generally if the song hasn't become a single,
那这首歌就没办法 那么广泛为人所铭记 it doesn't have that opportunity to, to become part of, of life.
*In the year of thirty-nine*
歌曲《'39》
*Assembled here the volunteers*
*In the days when lands were few*
*Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn*
*The sweetest sight ever seen*
*And the night followed day*
*And the story tellers say*
*That the score brave souls inside*
*For many a lonely day*
*Sailed across the milky seas*
*Ne'er looked back never feared never cried*
我是想把这首歌写成类似 It was meant to be sort of, um
科幻太空民歌 science fiction space folk.
我记得某天醒来 有个念头冒出来 I remember waking up with the idea, thinking:
很多人弹着美声吉他 创作民歌 "A lot of people do folk songs with acoustic guitars
为远航的水手送行 with sailors that went off on a long trip,
但从没人为宇宙飞船写过歌 and nobody ever did anything about spaceship.
为宇航员送行的 and spacemen who go off,
整个故事对我来说 非常有感染力 and the whole story seemed to be very appealing to me,
宇航员乘坐着宇宙飞船远航 of the guy going off, to search for new lands,
去寻找新的行星 um, in a spaceship, um,
但根据相对论 广义相对论 but because of the relativeistic, General Relativity.
时间是有相对性的 time dialection effect,
飞船的行驶速度接近光速 he's going at speeds near to, to light speed,
所以他对时间的感觉 so his perception of time
跟地球上的人们 截然不同 is completely different from the people back home.
他以为自己出去了一年 He comes back after what he thinks is a year,
但对地球上的人们 却是整整一百年 but to the people back on earth it's been a hundred years.
歌曲的中间部分 讲的是太空旅行本身 The middle part is of course the, the journey itself
中间穿插着非常奇怪的和音 and it goes through very strange chords,
那是罗杰一定要加的部分 It's a tour de force for Roger,
他的声音又高又飘 who does this very high ethereal vocal.
非常类似我们小时候看的那种 It's very much like science fiction movies where...
科幻电影的效果 when we were kids,
正是我梦寐以求的效果 that's kind of the effect I was looking for.
*In the year of thirty-nine*
*Came a ship in from the blue*
*The volunteers came home that day*
*And they bring good news*
*Of a world so newly born*
*Though their hearts so heavily weigh*
*For the earth is old and grey*
*Little darlin' well away*
*But my love this cannot be*
*Oh so many years have gone*
*Though I'm older but a year*
*Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me*
唯一一点要补充说明的是 很可能 The only thing to add to that is, perhaps that, um,
整首歌有更多层的含义 all song have more layers in than,
通常都比创作者意识到的更多 very often, the writer even realises,
相信宇航员在宇宙航行的一路上 在返程途中 and I'm sure there's a lot of, this feeling of what to be on tour
都有这样的感觉 and come back and...
回来后发现所有的一切面目全非 and find life very changed when you get back, um,
实在是非常难以适应的一件事 it was a pretty difficult thing to adjust to,
相信我们每个人 其实都有过这样的感觉 and I think we all, we all suffered from it.
布莱恩确实为这张专辑倾尽了全力 Well, Brian did work his ass off on this album, actually.
布莱恩绝对是伟大的摇滚吉他演奏家 Brian is one of the great rock guitarist, I mean, you know,
尼基·霍恩 电台DJ
毫无疑问 there's no argument here.
他是位了不起的吉他演奏家 He's a wonderfull guitar player.
非凡的音乐家 He's a brilliant musican,
我们在舞台上的合作非常棒 we make a very good noise together on stage,
真是非常神奇的事 and it's quite a magical thing,
给人极大的惊喜 and it's a big wow.
歌曲《Sweet Lady》
*Oh, you are my*
*Sweet lady *
*You are my*
*Sweet lady*
弗雷迪·麦考利有几项特质 I mean, there are certain points about Freddie Mercury
非常明显 很容易就熟视无睹了 that are so obivous, that it's easy to miss them,
某种程度上说 他有种夸张的表现力 you know, and in a sense, the kind of theatricality,
用各种不同的方式表现着 running through a variety of different styles,
正是这 让他进入音乐殿堂 is what drew him to you know, music hall,
正是这 让他唱出动人的摇滚 is what drew him to glam rock, you know.
正因此他喜欢重金属乐 it's what he liked about metal,
正因此他喜欢他所钟爱的摇滚 it's what he liked about the rock&roll that he liked,
整个这些 I mean, running through all that
不过是他表演的一部分 was just this element of performance,
还衍生出一种特色 有戏剧效果 and inventing a character, theatricality.
他能引起广泛的精神共鸣 He could take a broad range of emotions in his psyche,
包括一点点的怀旧之情 and that did include a little nostalgia.
但不是烂俗的怀旧 回顾往昔之类 but not nostalgia in the corny, looking back sense,
而是将思古之幽情 but calling some of that emotion
带入到更生动的现在 and bring it into the dynamic present.
最明显的就是他那首《Seaside Rendezvous》 And that's obviously what he did with "Seaside Rendezvous".
*Seaside whenever you stroll along with me*
歌曲《Seaside Rendezvous》
*I'm merely contemplating what you feel inside*
*Meanwhile I ask you to be my Clementine*
*You say you will if you could but you can't*
*I love you madly*
*Let my imagination run away with you gladly*
*A brand new angle highly commendable*
*Seaside rendezvous*
我喜欢快速地谱写出一首歌 I like to capture a song very quickly,
弗雷迪·麦考利 皇后乐队成员
都是最新鲜的灵感 so that it's fresh.
然后再慢慢地加工完善 and then you can work on it afterwards.
但我不喜欢 类似那种 but, I mean, I hate, sort of...
绞尽脑汁写歌 然后暂时写不出的话 trying to wrtie a song, and if it's not coming,
就痛苦地在那纠结那种 "Oh, come on, let's try this..."
要不就灵感迸发 一蹴而就 It either comes quickly, and then you have it,
就像搭出基本的骨架 you know, like the basic skeleton,
然后说 我作了首歌... and then I say "Yes, we have a song, and now..."
然后可以慢慢润色 then we can start putting in all the clever bits.
有个闷热的下午 我跟弗雷迪在一起 One sweaty afternoon I was with Freddie,
就我们俩 just two of us there,
我们一起尝试了很多创作 I think, we did a lot of those things,
跳了"指尖舞" we would ta... we did the tap dancing,
就是指尖套个金属顶针 在桌上敲打的那种 was...thimbles on the fingers on the metal bit on the top of the desk,
罗杰·泰勒 皇后乐队成员
我用黄铜顶针来敲出旋律 and, I think I did a little brass section
弗雷迪则用嘴模拟出木管乐器声 and Fred was doing the woodwind with his mouth, you know...
就像个实验 It was like experimentation,
但同时觉得非常好玩 but we were sort of laughing at the same time, and...
但我觉得结果非常不错 but, I think it turned out rather well,
注定就是一出滑稽的喜剧 it was meant to be cod, and...cod it was.
*I feel like dancing in the rain*
*Can I have a volunteer (Just keep right on dancing)*
*What a damn jolly good idea*
你永远不会觉得 这支乐队太把自己当回事 You never got a sense that this band was taking itself too seriously,
安东尼 音乐记者
他们的那种风趣 那种多元化 there was a kind of wit, and a compiness, a...
那种自我嘲讽 让人觉得很愉快 a self irony, ah, that was, that was really a pleasure,
布莱恩·梅 皇后乐队吉他手
这是乔治·福姆比牌的 This is a George Formby,
著名歌手
真正的乔治·福姆比尤克里里琴[四弦琴] genuine George Formby ukulele,
甚至... 这还有他的照片 it has even... there you can see his picture,
这是我爸爸在二战期间 and this is, this is the instrument my dad carried with him,
随身带着的乐器 all through the war, the second world war...
这是把尤克里里-班卓琴 It's a ukulele banjo,
不是单一的尤克里里或班卓琴 it's not a ukulele or a banjo,
而是尤克里里-班卓琴 It's a ukulele banjo.
能发出这种独特的声音 And, um, makes this particular sound,
是我童年记忆中难忘的声音 which was part of my upbringing.
我爸爸通常都坐着 把这个放膝盖上... My dad used to sit and put this on his knee and get a...
我就是这样学会吉他的 This is how I learned the guitar.
我爸教我像这样拨动琴弦 The chord shapes that my dad taught me, to play things like that,
让我学吉他很容易上手 transfered quite easily to the guitar,
我还记得 我七岁的生日礼物就是吉他 and I remember I got, I got the guitar for my 7th birthday,
然后就开始学着弹吉他了 and started working out the chords for the guitar.
《Good Company》这首歌的灵感 就由此而来 So the idea of "Good Company", obviously comes from here,
*Take good care of what you've got*
*My father said to me*
*As he puffed his pipe and baby B*
歌曲《Good Company》
*He dandled on his knee*
*Take care of those you call your own *
*And keep good company*
一晃都二十年了... It's been twenty years, you know...
*Take care of those you call your own*
*And keep good company*
*Soon I grew and happy too*
*My very good friends and me*
*We'd play all day with Sally J*
*The girl from number four*
*And very soon I begged her*
*Won't you keep me company*
而且让我了解到其他风格的音乐 It also developed to another place,
也就是爵士乐队的风格 which is the place of the jazz band,
那也是我童年的一部分 and that's pretty much part of my childhood too,
德克谢爵士乐队 the Dexieland jazz band,
在我童年时 他们的歌又重新流行起来 was kind of revived when I was a kid,
当时有个极好的组合叫作"禁欲七人" and there was a wonderful group called The Temperant Seven,
他们将德克谢爵士乐队的歌重新编排混音 who played a mixture of Dixieland
在模仿20年代音乐风格上非常成功 and very arranged pseudo '20s music.
从他们身上 我学到了很多 And I learned a lot of my arrangement from, from those guys.
所以在《Good Company》的独奏部分 So when it came to doing the, the solo part for "Good Company"
我想表现出爵士乐队的效果 I wanted it to sound like a jazz band,
当然是用吉他来表现这点 and of course, I wanted the guitar to be the jazz band.
那首歌节奏感很强 每个音符都很清晰 It was very work intensive , every...every note was done seperately
以完美突出小号 to get teh actual proper trumpet sounds,
和长号的声音 and the trombone sounds, etc.
非常辛苦 但很有乐趣 Very painstaking, but a lot of fun,
因为这可以说前无古人 'cause it had never been done before.
同时 其实也是后无来者 I don't think I would do it these days, really,
我们这样做是有理由的 unless this was a very good reason.
我太喜欢这样了 Just love this stuff,
能不紧不慢地在录音室做这样的尝试 it was wonderful to be able to take the time
那种感觉太好了 to do this stuff in the studio,
这一直是我梦寐以求的 which I'd always dreamed of doing, I guess.
这也正是《A Night At The Opera》的伟大之处 That's the great thing about "Night At the Opera",
我们有时间 也给了我们机会 we had the time...that we were given the opportunity
去做各种尝试 to explore all those avenues,
而不是催着赶着要结果 rather than be rushing in and out.
很难相信那个吉他的效果 It's hard to believe that it's a guitar,
努诺·贝特恩考特 吉他演奏家 极限乐队成员
创作出那样音乐的人简直太神了 and that somebody had actually created that.
作为皇后乐队的乐迷 我真的想不通 I mean, am I a Queen fan? Is that a Queen fan, I don't know...
但即使我不是皇后的乐迷 I mean, you know, even if I wasn't a fan,
也会不由自主地疑惑 这是什么 you'd have to just go: "What is that?
怎么能做出这种效果 是谁做出来的 How did that happen? Who was responsible for that?"
大致上就是这样的声音 不配合其他乐器 This is roughly what they sound like, without anything else...
还有这铃声 And the bells....
麦考利日渐走红
当你听到其他歌手 尝试演绎皇后乐队的歌 When you hear any other vocalist trying to sing a queen song
当你真正听到他们的翻唱 it's not until you hear them trying,
你才会意识到 弗雷迪是多么非凡的歌手 that you realise what an incredible vocalist Freddie was,
有多么宽的音域 what a range he had,
鲍勃·哈里斯 电台DJ 电视制作人
有多么强的感染力 what great expression he had,
其中那些歌有多么的独特 and how idiosyncratic some of the songs were,
那些为他自己量身打造的歌 in terms of being written for him,
他那种演绎歌词的方式有多独特 and his way of expressing lyrics in a song.
基本上 如果你想把这些歌都放一起 Basically, I... I think if you sort of put them all in one bag,
我的歌都应归类为 情感类 I think my songs are all under the label: "Emotion",
都是讲情感和感觉的 you know, it's emotion and feeling,
我所写的歌 之前很多人都写过 so, I mean, I write songs that a lot of people have written before,
都是永恒的话题 爱和情感 it's always to do with love and emotion,
我只是个真正浪漫的人 you know, I'm just a true romantic.
我想人人都会写这方面的歌 And I think everybody's written songs in that field,
我只是用我自己的方式在写 I just write it in my own way,
所以呈现出的效果 有种... so that they carry a different, sort of...
有种独特质地 诸如此类 It's a different texture or whatever.
其中有些明显是关于玛丽的 那是他的挚爱 Some of them were obviously about Mary, who he was very fond of,
罗西 音乐记者
也是他终其一生的挚友 um, and was his best friend I think all his life.
这点本身就很迷人 That's fascinating in itself,
事实就是 that she...it really was,
讽刺的是 他的爱并未经受住... ironically, the love of his...not withstanding, whatever,
他的感情经历并不...但她是他一生的挚爱 his sexual life, was that...actually she was the love of his life.
那段感情非常动人 But that was fabulous,
我保存着一些精彩照片 他们都风华正茂 I was, I mean, I have these wonderful pictures, they are all pretty,
看得出来 弗雷迪很爱她 and you can see that Freddie loves her.
*Love of my life*
*You hurt me*
*You broken my heart*
歌曲 《Love of My Life》
*And now you leave me*
*Love of my life, can't you see*
*Bring it back*
玛丽·奥斯丁
*Bring it back*
*Don't take it away from me*
*Because you don't know what you mean to me*
弗雷迪唱出了不少像这样动人的背景和音 It's some lovely backing harmonics from Freddie on this as well.
弗雷迪有能力精确地唱出多层次歌声 Freddie has the ability to sing multi-tracked so accurately
会完美相合 that it would actually phase...
各个层次互相融合 one take would phase with another,
每次的层次融合都非常特别 because he would sing it so singualarly each time.
这种背景和音实在太美丽 It's beautiful backing harmonies.
*Love of my life*
*Don't leave me*
*You've taken my love*
罗伊·托马斯·贝克 制作人
*You now desert me*
这里是背景元音 It's the background vocals.
*Love of my life, can't you see*
这里加入合唱 And they blossom there
*Please bring it back, back*
*Don't take it away from me*
*Oh, know *
*Means to me*
我记得他在录音室这样做 I just remember him doing it in the studio, um...
弗雷迪的钢琴弹得非常好 He had a wonderful touch of the piano, Freddie.
他从不觉得自己弹得好 Really didn't think he did, you know,
他总是贬低自己的钢琴弹奏能力 he was deprecating about his piano playing,
后来的岁月中 几乎都不碰钢琴 and in later years, really didn't do any of it.
在舞台上 也弹得越来越少 Um, he played less and less piano on stage,
因为他想穿梭于舞台 更好地与观众交流 because he wanted to run around and deliver to the audience,
这点他做得非常棒 which he did so magnificantly.
他弹奏的并非是那种古典的旋律 He didn't have the classical range,
但能独创性地 发自内心地创作出 but he could play what came from him, inside him,
与众不同的 like nobody else,
非凡的旋律 with incredible rythem,
带有非凡的激情与感觉 incredible passion and feeling.
*To remind you how I still love you*
*I still love you*
但我爱这首歌 But I love this song,
几乎每场演唱会 and pretty much every concert we play,
我都会为弗雷迪演唱这首 I sing this song for Freddie.
而且觉得比唱我自己创作的歌 更令人满意 And I find it much more satisfying than singing one of my own songs.
因为这首歌能将弗雷迪带回大家身边 It's because it seems to bring back so much of Freddie,
带回我和观众身边 with me and with the audience.
*When I grew older*
*I will be there at your side*
*To remind you how I still love you*
*I still love you*
*Hurry back*
*Don't take it away from me*
*Because you don't know what it means to me*
*Love of my life*
很多年内我们都未意识到 We didn't really realise, for years,
包括我自己和布莱恩 这也是他的心声 Brian and myself, I'm really speaking for him now...
可能也是约翰的心声 and probably John,
我们没有真正意识到 他有多么伟大 um, we didn't realise how great he was, actually.
人们往往忘记 他是位伟大的音乐家 People forget he's actually a great musician,
有时候我就觉得很愤怒 and...and that sort of pisses me off sometimes,
人们总是说 他是位伟大的艺人 'cause, I mean, they say: "He's a great showman", you know,
但不仅仅是艺人 it wasn't just showman,
他还是位伟大的音乐家 it was, actually he was a brilliant musican,
且是富于灵感的音乐家 and...and quite an inspirational one, and um...
我觉得应该给他一个更公平的定位 So, you know, I think there should be a bit more balance there,
而不仅仅是想简单地 I mean, you know, it wasn't just all about
提醒人们认可 getting people to go:"Hey, hey,
他是位伟大的音乐家 you know, it was...He was a great musician."
*Is this the real life*
*Is this just fantasy*
*Caught in a landslide*
*No escape from reality*
关于《Bohemian Rhapsody》 早就有了诸多评论 So much has been said about"Bohemian Rhapsody", of course,
那是弗雷迪的宝贝作品 一直都是 and it's Freddie's baby, it always will be,
那是弗雷迪的梦想 it's Freddie's dream.
当然我们都有所贡献 Of course we all contributed pieces to it,
但他是无可争议的主导 but really he, he's the mastermind.
在我看来 那个是非凡的概念 It is an amazing conception, in my opinion.
不得不说 那绝对是我最爱的单曲 I have to say, it was definitely my choice for a single,
因为我喜欢它开始那段的旋律 'cause I love the original melody of the, you know,
妈妈 我杀了个人"那段 非常有力量 "Mama, just killed a man..." that, that was very strong,
我喜欢这个开头 I love the beginning of it.
但也并不总如此 But it wasn't, wasn't obvious.
当时 作为单曲 In those days, you know singles would,
长度不能超过三分钟 they had to be no longer than 3 minutes,
得一下就抓住你的注意力 and, you know, had to grab you.
*Mama, just killed a man*
歌曲《Bohemian Rhapsody》
*Put a gun against his head*
*Pulled my trigger, now he's dead*
*Mama, life had just begun*
*But now I've gone and thrown it all away*
*Mama, ooo*
*Didn't mean to make you cry*
*If I'm not back again this time tomorrow*
*Carry on, carry on*
*As if nothing really matters*
艾丽卡唱片公司审歌的时候有点担心 There was some concern on the part of Elektra,
有天我正好走进总裁办公室 I just happened to walk into the presidential office one day,
他说 看看你的乐队给我送来了什么歌 and he said: "Look what your band sent us."
霍兹曼 艾丽卡唱片创始人
说的正是《Bohemian Rhapsody》 and it was this single,
他当时是半开玩笑地说的 and he...he sort of, he said that sort of half jokingly,
然后放完这歌的全部5分55秒试听 and he played all 5 minutes and 55 seconds of it
问我 你觉得怎样 and said: "What do you think?",
我说 这歌非常经典 快点发行 I said: "You got a high class problem, release it."
真是个野兽 是吧 It's a monster, isn't it?
伊恩·亨特 马特与虎伯合唱团成员
因为这首歌将永世流传 It's one of those...'cause it's not gonna go away,
而且会继续大热 继续红下去 it's just gonna go where it supposed to go.
简直堪称艺术品 It's a piece of art,
米克·洛克 摄影师
老实说 Let's be honest about it.
那是一首伟大的摇滚歌曲 I don't...it was great rock&roll.
说它是伟大的摇滚歌曲很准确 it's fair enough if it's great rock&roll,
摇滚歌曲不一定都是艺术 it doesn't have to all be art,
但这首歌就是艺术 but that is art.
从没有哪家唱片公司能做到这样 There was no record company invention going on here,
鲍勃·美智 1976-1980年任百代唱片总经理
从来没有 there wasn't any...
不是说我们比别人更聪明 we weren't smarter than anybody else,
我们只是骑虎难下 Ur, we just had a tiger by the tail,
我们唯一做得聪明的地方 and the only place we were smart,
就是更多地同意他们的做法 was we said yes more often than we said no.
那是唱片史上最昂贵的一张专辑 It was one of the most expensive records ever made,
乔·史密斯 1975-1983年任艾丽卡唱片主席
单单录制这一首歌就花了整整三周 and it took them over 3 weeks to cut this one single.
但那些吉他的多层次 那些混音 But the, the layers of guitars, the overdubs of the vocals
还有我之后看到的录像 and then when I got to see the video,
你就能意识到弗雷迪·麦考利的超凡魅力 and you realised that Freddie Mercury was so charismatic
和独特之处 and so unique.
*It's too late*
*My time has come*
*Sends shivers down my spine*
*Body's aching all the time*
*Goodbye everybody *
*I've got to go*
*Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth*
我最喜欢的吉他独奏就是这段 My favorite solo is in...again,
我最喜欢皇后乐队的是 what I liked about Queen was...uh,
乔·佩里 吉他演奏家 史密斯飞船乐队成员
布莱恩的演奏是如此... and, and Brian's playing, is that
当你想通过音乐表达什么 it is...you try and make a little statement,
当你从开始到中间过程 到最后 you try to have, like, a beginning, a middle and an end,
都在吉他独奏时加入活力的变化 and some kind of dynamic change in a solo.
我感觉似乎... I find it easier to, um...
比起自己的歌 更容易融入他人的歌曲当中 to get into it with other people's songs than my own,
可能是因为那是来自别人的灵感 I think, because the inspiration comes from a separate place,
而且你觉得更自由 and perhaps you feel more free.
通过弗雷迪 So with Freddie's stuff,
我远在自己演奏之前就能听到他那版本的独奏 I always could hear the solo long before I played it, on his tracks,
他能激发我想象 because they just invited something.
为了这首歌 我用这两个拾音器 For this I use these two pickups out of phase again,
都是我最喜欢的 因为能产生尖叫效果 which is a favorite, because it makes it scream.
营造出和声效果 It really makes the harmonics come out.
我每次演奏都能出不同效果 It'll be different every time I play it,
但基本上都是那种尖叫效果 but basically it, it has that screaming kind of quality to it.
*I don't want to die*
*I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all*
唱片排行 第一名《A Night At The Opera》
*I see a little silhouetto of a man*
我们与"歌剧院"有个约会
*Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango*
这是皇后乐队乐迷的入门专辑 It is the crossing-the-threshold album, ah, for Queen,
将他们从比较受欢迎的乐队一举变成 I think, from, from popularity into, sort of, you know,
超级巨星 superstardom.
从此他们进入崭新的阶层 It took them to a completely different level,
不管是薪水 both in terms of their sales,
尼基·霍恩 电台DJ
还是人们对这乐队的感觉 and in terms of the perception of the band,
或者是他们的人生 and in terms of their life shows.
皇后乐队邀您共度"歌剧院之夜"
我们终于有了机会去海德公园表演 The opportunity to play Hyde Park came up,
门票售完
他们说 你们可以用这个新位置 and they said: you're gonna have this new site,
以前从未用作表演的地方 which had never been played before,
供你们免费使用 you can play it for free,
公园野餐演唱会
而且不限定你们吸引多少观众来 and there's no limit to the amount of people you can get there, "
对我们来说真是太棒了 which was amazing for us.
皇后乐队在海德公园开唱的消息 The thought of being able to put that show on,
皇后乐队 公园内免费开唱
居然吸引来了 and be able to get it across
超过十万名观众 to more than a 100, 000 people,
远超我们想象 was really beyond our imagining.
这是皇后乐队认识自己能力的一大步 It was a major step in Queen realising what they could do.
皇后乐队 世上最棒的演出
当然他们会继续扩大影响 And, and of course they went on to do it.
弗雷迪在百名观众面前就像巨星 Freddie could play in front of a 100 people and act like a total star,
约翰·英格拉姆 音乐记者
而在这里 整个伦敦都在他脚下 and here he had, you know all of London at his feet,
都沉醉在他魅力下 and clearly in his element.
而他就是有这样一种超凡魅力 You know, he's...he had the kind of charisma that I think,
世界对他来说也不过是个小舞台 the world was just about small enough a stage for him
他完全可以轻松自如地表现 to feel comfortable on.
*So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye*
*So you think you can love me and leave me to die*
*Oh baby*
*Can't do this to me baby*
*Just gotta get out *
*Just gotta get right outta here*
当一支乐队能达到那样的巅峰 I think, what happens when a band hits that stride,
粉丝们不由自主感受到偶像魅力 it's so true that the fans can't help but feel it.
所以那种共鸣肯定会转化成销量记录 And that's why it translates to a record that just resonates.
然后这就成为这支乐队和他们粉丝的标志 And then it becomes almost iconic for that band and their fans.
*Doesn't really matter to me*
刚开始的时候 只是个普通的乐队歌手 I think it just started off as a band with a singer,
后来他们发现了潜藏的种种天赋 and then they found all this great stuff hidden away
他们每一个人身上的能力和天赋 in everybody...in everyone of them, you know.
然后他们的演出规模 完美程度 The size of it, the perfection of it,
愿意到各地巡演 从音乐厅到爵士吧 the willingness to go everywhere, from music hall to jazz,
去穿上独特的音乐外衣 and to have them wear those different musical costumes
贴近自身 变成他们自我的一部分 close to their skin and part of who they were,
那些都不是假的 it was not fake,
而是真实的 it was always genuine,
能很清楚看到差别 and you can always tell the difference.
在英国 欧洲 澳洲大受欢迎 In England and Europe and Austalia,
这成就了我们 I think it defined us,
在很大程度上成就了皇后乐队 令人兴奋 it defined us as, as something big, something exciting,
有重大意义 something significant.
那是我们的成名期 It was the...it was our sort of epiphany,
是我们的转折点 it was our turning point,
我想说 从这个意义上来说 and I would say, ah...so in that sense
我们的大热正是从《A Night At The Opera》开始 with the single that came from it and, and the album,
那可能是史上最为重要的一张专辑 it was really probably the most important album ever made.
皇后乐队 《A Night At The Opera》 �