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Speaker 1: Clearsy releases the story behind the album.

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Speaker 2: A Night at the Opera, Queen's fourth studio album, released

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Speaker 2: in November nineteen seventy five. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker

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Speaker 2: and Queen, it was reportedly the most expensive album ever

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Speaker 2: recorded at the time of its release. Of course, the

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Speaker 2: name probably sounded familiar to a lot of people. It's

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Speaker 2: named after the Marx Brothers film of the same name.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's drummer Roger Taylor talking about the name, and the.

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Speaker 3: Title came about. It's a simple story. Actually, we're all

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Speaker 3: littery and the Welsh borders in sitting down in our

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Speaker 3: on our plush sofas, it's very so basic place, and

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Speaker 3: that we had had this fantastic new thing called video player,

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Speaker 3: and I think Roy, our producer, had got the Marx

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Speaker 3: Brothers movie A Night at the Opera, And I remember

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Speaker 3: just sitting down, we were settling down after dinner, you know,

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Speaker 3: Saturday night. It was our night off and we weren't

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Speaker 3: going to do any more work, and Fred and I

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Speaker 3: looked on one another and a good title, good time,

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Speaker 3: because we've just been doing this sort of mock operatic

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Speaker 3: thing for Overhemian Rhapsody. And then I think I think everybody

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Speaker 3: just sort of thought, yeah, good title, good title.

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Speaker 1: As simple as that as that.

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Speaker 2: What wasn't simple was the recording because they did it

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Speaker 2: at seven different studios over a period of four months.

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Speaker 2: That seems like a lot of moving around and setting

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Speaker 2: up each area that you want to get the best

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Speaker 2: sound out of it. They employed a complex production that

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Speaker 2: extensively used multi track recording, and the songs incorporated a

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Speaker 2: wide range of styles such as musical, Sea Shandies, Dixie Land,

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Speaker 2: hard rock, and progressive rock influences. Aside from their usual equipment,

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Speaker 2: they also utilized a diverse range of instruments such as

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Speaker 2: a double bass, harp and uku leley. And of course

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Speaker 2: technology was well, it's ever evolving, isn't it. Absolutely At

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Speaker 2: this moment.

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Speaker 1: It was coming on and they've just come off their

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Speaker 1: album Sheer Heart Attack, which was working on that classic

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Speaker 1: Queen sound. But Brian May we know he can be

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Speaker 1: a bit robotic with things. He's a very smart man,

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Speaker 1: and he loved the technology. He loved getting in the studio.

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Speaker 4: We loved the studio. We always did and I still

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Speaker 4: do because it's an open canvas and you can do

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Speaker 4: anything you want. And we were kind of disciples of

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Speaker 4: Hendrix and the Beatles, particularly the way they used studios

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Speaker 4: as almost like an instrument. But obviously we had more

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Speaker 4: technology than they had had, so we could push things

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Speaker 4: a lot further.

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Speaker 1: They were very experimental in a Beatley kind of way.

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Speaker 2: Word well, it was that, I mean they you know,

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Speaker 2: it was the luxury of that time, things a running

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Speaker 2: new ones.

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Speaker 1: And also you had big, quite big budgets from record

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Speaker 1: companies back then as well.

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Speaker 2: They were all involved. Each member of the band wrote

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Speaker 2: at least one song. Freddie wrote five of the songs,

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Speaker 2: Brian wrote four, and Taylor and Deacon wrote one song each.

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Speaker 2: Of course You're my best Friend, as we heard from

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Speaker 2: Deex and it's it's that's how they decide who gets

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Speaker 2: the final say on things, too, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: I wrote it.

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Speaker 1: Boss, Brian May and Freddie Merkery even we were.

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Speaker 4: A bit taken aback with the with how vicious Freddy

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Speaker 4: wanted it to be, I remember thinking, But it was

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Speaker 4: what Freddie wanted, you know. And the kind of unwritten

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Speaker 4: law was that the author of the song got his

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Speaker 4: own way. Sometimes you just disagree and in the end

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Speaker 4: what does happen is the writer is is the boss

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Speaker 4: that he can say, yeah, look.

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Speaker 1: This is the way I want the song, and this

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Speaker 1: is the way I'm going to have it. They have

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Speaker 1: before out didn't they times?

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Speaker 3: Oh for sure.

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Speaker 2: But I think that's a very wise that you know

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Speaker 2: the writer gets them. It's like when if you're driving,

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Speaker 2: you get to decide where you're going.

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Speaker 1: Best drivers in again exactly. I love it the same

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Speaker 1: idea very cool. I do also love the fact that

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Speaker 1: the next album is called a Dat the Races. I

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Speaker 1: think we all got the jocos. It was pretty cute.

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Speaker 1: But here is the one and only Freddie Mercury. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's sort of talking about the band peaking at that

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Speaker 1: stage and is there any future once you've got to

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Speaker 1: the to the top it is?

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Speaker 4: It is going to be difficult, especially with Vehemian Rhapsody

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Speaker 4: being as large. Well. He wrote a letter about that

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Speaker 4: and said, I study demonology and satanic things.

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Speaker 1: Why do they use bills above which I suppose that's

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Speaker 1: a legitimate question. Why do we use it? I mean,

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Speaker 1: why do we use anything?

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Speaker 4: I mean it doesn't necessarily mean im I study demonology

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Speaker 4: and things.

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Speaker 1: I just love them. The words about.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it that sounds like an Australian the interviewer it.

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Speaker 1: Does sound like a Nasi, yeah in there and asking

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Speaker 1: the tough questions, Yeah, are you satanic in anyway? No,

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Speaker 1: we're just like the sound of the word, sound of

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Speaker 1: the word. Who doesn't