{"id":857,"date":"2012-06-21T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2012-06-21T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:27:05","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-103-academy-days-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/06\/21\/my-musical-evolution-part-103-academy-days-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 103 Academy Days Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Queen<\/a>Let me begin by saying that I have not yet purchased News Of The World as pictured here. My Columbia House cassettte was Queen’s Greatest Hits.<\/em> I added this album cover because I wanted to take a moment to discuss album covers. As I rummaged through the racks of records and cassettes at local record shops or the Columbia House catalogs, I saw numerous album covers. Some seemed to stick out more than others. News Of The World<\/em> seemed to be around a lot.\u00a0 Another one that I saw frequently was REO Speedwagon’s You Can Tune A Piano But You Can’t Tuna Fish.<\/em>\u00a0 I used to see that album everyewhere. I didn’t know who REO Speedwagon was then but I would shortly and soon after that, Tuna Fish would be my favorite REO album but we’re getting ahead of the story.<\/p>\n

Mom had Bohemian Rhapsdoy <\/em>[Bohemian Monstrosity<\/em>] in the Scratchy 45 Days<\/em> and I heard some other Queen songs along the way but it wasn’t until I began to play the Greatest Hits tape to death that I became a true Queen fan.<\/p>\n

Queen is one of the bands\u00a0where it bothers me that I’ve never seen them live. It seems odd to think that during the Academy Days the tragedy of Freddie Mercury hadn’t even begun. It was all just playing great music and not thinking about loss of life and all that stuff that laces the edges of Queen music for me now.<\/p>\n

My Columbia House version of Queen’s Greatest Hits<\/em> had a unique track listing that was different from the vinyl or Compact Disc versions that I’d eventually purchase. We’ll talk about that soon.<\/p>\n

Another One Bites The Dust<\/em>
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