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"One Vision" is a song written and recorded by the band Queen, first released as a single in 1985 and then included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic. Even though it was on this album, it was not featured in the movie Highlander, but instead it was featured in the movie Iron Eagle. Queen were inspired to write and record this song because of the euphoric feeling that came from their performance at Live Aid. The song was included in all Queen's live concert performances of the 1986 Magic Tour, as the very first song of each concert. They claimed they chose "One Vision" as the introduction song because its intro made a perfect concert introduction. Image File history File links One_vision. ...
A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...
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A Kind of Magic is a 1986 album by English rock band Queen. ...
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1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...
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The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
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In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
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Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...
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Thank God Its Christmas is a Christmas single by British rock band Queen. ...
A Kind of Magic is a pop rock song written by Roger Taylor for the film Highlander, for which Queen wrote the music. ...
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1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A Kind of Magic is a 1986 album by English rock band Queen. ...
Highlander is an American film which opened on March 7, 1986. ...
Iron Eagle is a 1986 action film about a teenage boy named Doug Masters (Jason Gedrick) who steals an American F-16 fighter jet to rescue his father (Tim Thomerson), a prisoner of war being held in an unidentified rogue Middle Eastern country. ...
Ethiopia, as its borders were in 1985. ...
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Distorted vocals The song contains mysterious and distorted beginning vocals (which on the album and extended versions, also appear throughout Roger Taylor's drum section and in the end), most prominently the vocals retained in the single version. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Possible reverse message renditions These vocals have been rumoured to contain a Satanic message, most commonly rendered as "Yes, sweet Satan... Yes, I've seen sabbath..." or "I've seen sabbath... Yes, my sweet Satan...".[1] But those rumors are untrue, also due to the sounds one hears when reversing the vocals (and especially when playing them at a high speed) - the sounds are more likely to form the message "E eight-six-seven... that scene seems away..." or "E eight-six-seven... yes, it seems away...", but it is not known whether this message would have a meaning at all.
Forward message Although, what is true, is that these very vocals have sense when played forwards - they say "God works in mysterious ways... mysterious ways..." Although it has been claimed by an official Queen fan club that the second part is sung by Brian May, it's most probably also sung by Freddie Mercury, and the same as the end of the first part, just distorted differently before being incorporated into the song. It is because it is clear shown during the sections of the studio recording session of "One Vision" on both the Magic Years documentary and the DVD Greatest Video Hits II, how Mercury sings the line. Brian Harold May, CBE (born July 19, 1947) is a virtuoso[1][2][3][4] guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and backing, sometimes lead, vocalist for the English rock band Queen. ...
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British rock musician and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Queen. ...
On both documentaries, the complete line says "God works in mysterious ways. And Hey, people! All around the world. I look forward to those glorious days once again!" However, the last line, as well as the word "helps", would be ambiguous, due to the music (which is an early prototype version without special and distorted sounds and no percussion, of "the One Vision" intro) in the background.
"Fried chicken" The final line of the song (in both the studio and live versions) is "fried chicken", although the lyrics say "One vision". This was a result of a prank that Freddie Mercury did in the studio, as the band had fried chicken for dinner. It was Mercury's boyfriend, Jim Hutton's, idea to keep it in the song. It has been rated the best line in the song.
Live performances What is notable that the live performances of the song added an additional section in the beginning of the song, right after the guitar riffs without the percussions, and a big finale, which included ad-libbed vocals by Freddie Mercury. The ad-libbed vocals were not present on all performances though, the most notable being the performance at the Maimarktgelände in Mannheim, on June 21st, 1986. Also, the live versions of the song included a different version of the intro, which starts like the single version intro, but later changes into the album version intro, but repeats the section after the vocals "Ii" near the end. It also features the initial distorted vocals as they were in the single version. However, the version used on the Wembley shows was yet different from the one mentioned above - basically it had the complete initial distorted vocals, and the first part was also like in the one in the album and extended versions, but the transition to the second part was just like in the version, mentioned above, and it did include the repeated section in the end. The VHS version of the July 12th Wembley show has the first part of the middle instrumental section of the studio version of Brighton Rock instead of the initial distorted vocals. The version of the song from the July 11th Wembley show has not yet been officially released. Interestingly enough, none of the two versions of the intro has been used with a studio version of the song so far. Brighton Rock is a song recorded and performed by English rock band Queen, and written by their guitarist Brian May. ...
Single B-side A remixed version of the song, basically an extended and completely different (but not in structure) version of Roger Taylor's drum section from the song, but retaining the ending (however with a longer version of the music from the end of the song's intro plus an additional non-distorted sond over the final vocals "Vision vision vision vision...", which are like in the single version of the song), and repeating the existing famous distorted vocals (also in a new form, which is the first repetition), plus adding new distorted vocals (although they are nowhere as prominent as the famous ones), has been released as the song's B-side on both the 7" and 12" singles, and titled "Blurred Vision".
Cover versions "One Vision" has been covered by many artists, the most notable is the German-language cover by the industrial music band Laibach, titled "Geburt einer Nation" ('Birth of a Nation'), which changed the song's feel and mood from the somehow light-hearted and optimistic original to the feel and mood of a Nazi propaganda song. This version also starkly revealed the ambiguity of lines like "One race one hope/One real decision". It was released in the 1987, on the album Opus Dei. It has also been performed live, both as Laibach alone and accompanied by Dream Theater. Laibach is a Slovenian experimental music group, strongly associated with industrial, martial and neo-classical. ...
Opus Dei is the fourth album by Laibach. ...
Dream Theater is a progressive metal band formed by three students at the Berklee College of Music in 1985. ...
Promotional video The video to "One Vision" mainly showed the band recording the song at Musicland Studios in Munich and was the first to be directed and produced for Queen by Austrian directors Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, also collectively known as DoRo. DoRo and Queen developed a fruitful working relationship which would result in numerous acclaimed and award-winning videos (for "Innuendo" and "The Show Must Go On", among others). Musicland Studios was a recording studio based in Munich, Germany. ...
Munich (German: , pronounced ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga [1]) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ...
Doro (band) is the German vocalist Doro Pesch formerly from the heavy metal band Warlock. ...
Innuendo is a song by English rock band Queen. ...
The Show Must Go On is a song by English rock band Queen, featured as the twelfth and final track on their 1991 album Innuendo. ...
The video also featured a "morphing" effect of the band's famous pose in 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody" video to a 1985 version of the same pose. Bohemian Rhapsody is a song written by Freddie Mercury, originally recorded by the band Queen for their 1975 album A Night at the Opera. ...
References - Queen - Magic Years vol. 1 (1987) VHS
- Queen - At Wembley (1990) VHS
- Queen - Live At Wembley '86 (1992) CD
- Queen - Live At Wembley Stadium (2003) DVD
- Queen - Live In Budapest (1987) VHS
- Queen - Greatest Hits II (1991) CD
- Queen - Greatest Flix II (1991) VHS
- Queen - Greatest Video Hits 2 (2002) DVD
- Queen - Box Of Tricks (1992) Boxed set (VHS + CD + booklet)
- Queen - Reigns The World (19??) CD (bootleg; Mannheim June 21st 1986 concert)
Notes - ^ One Vision (Queen) Easter Egg: Strange Messages.
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