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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 4, 2019 0:09:44 GMT
Now I’m no fan of the band but that is one of their songs I can get through without wanting to rip my eardrums out. I found out today that my late aunt was a huge fan and the song was played at the end of her funeral today. She was 89 years old and we don’t usually expect someone from her generation to go out with a bit of 1980s glam but there you go.
She was also the last person in my family who lived through WW2. Us baby boomers are the old folk now.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 4, 2019 0:41:29 GMT
One of my favorite Queen songs.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 4, 2019 0:56:25 GMT
The song is 44 years old; it came out in '75, so if your aunt was 89 when she passed, she was only 45 when it was released, and means was she just a kid in her 20s at the dawn of rock n' roll, which she no doubt kept up with well into maturity, as many of us did.
It's easy to think of we geezers as just old, but we were all young once, and the kids within us survive even underneath all the wrinkles. One of our best friends, a lady well into her 70s, still travels all over the country to follow her favorite bands of the '60s - '70s - '80s.
Once a rocker, always a rocker.
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 4, 2019 8:23:22 GMT
The song is 44 years old; it came out in '75, so if your aunt was 89 when she passed, she was only 45 when it was released, and means was she just a kid in her 20s at the dawn of rock n' roll, which she no doubt kept up with well into maturity, as many of us did. It's easy to think of we geezers as just old, but we were all young once, and the kids within us survive even underneath all the wrinkles. One of our best friends, a lady well into her 70s, still travels all over the country to follow her favorite bands of the '60s - '70s - '80s. Once a rocker, always a rocker. You’re right about the date, I’m not a fan of the band but always thought of it as coming from their later years. She wasn’t a fan until she saw them on Live Aid (on TV of course) but her generation wasn’t quite the rock n’ roll generation. That was more for people who were teens at the time. To put things into perspective this was the song played during the service.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Apr 4, 2019 19:34:01 GMT
Now I’m no fan of the band but that is one of their songs I can get through without wanting to rip my eardrums out... ...Because you're nuts. Your grandma on the other hand had taste. Sorry to hear of her passing.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Apr 4, 2019 19:35:50 GMT
The song is 44 years old; it came out in '75, so if your aunt was 89 when she passed, she was only 45 when it was released, and means was she just a kid in her 20s at the dawn of rock n' roll, which she no doubt kept up with well into maturity, as many of us did. It's easy to think of we geezers as just old, but we were all young once, and the kids within us survive even underneath all the wrinkles. One of our best friends, a lady well into her 70s, still travels all over the country to follow her favorite bands of the '60s - '70s - '80s. Once a rocker, always a rocker. 
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 4, 2019 19:43:47 GMT
Now I’m no fan of the band but that is one of their songs I can get through without wanting to rip my eardrums out... ...Because you're nuts. Your grandma on the other hand had taste. Sorry to hear of her passing. No, I just don’t like Queen. 
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Apr 4, 2019 19:44:50 GMT
...Because you're nuts. Your grandma on the other hand had taste. Sorry to hear of her passing. No, I just don’t like Queen. I repeat... because you're nuts. 
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 4, 2019 19:49:41 GMT
The song is 44 years old; it came out in '75, so if your aunt was 89 when she passed, she was only 45 when it was released, and means was she just a kid in her 20s at the dawn of rock n' roll, which she no doubt kept up with well into maturity, as many of us did. It's easy to think of we geezers as just old, but we were all young once, and the kids within us survive even underneath all the wrinkles. One of our best friends, a lady well into her 70s, still travels all over the country to follow her favorite bands of the '60s - '70s - '80s. Once a rocker, always a rocker.
Mind you, does that work if the person wasn’t really a rocker in the first place? 
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 4, 2019 19:50:29 GMT
No, I just don’t like Queen. I repeat... because you're nuts. Perhaps you just love Queen too much.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Apr 4, 2019 19:53:33 GMT
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Apr 4, 2019 19:54:29 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 4, 2019 20:32:39 GMT
The song is 44 years old; it came out in '75, so if your aunt was 89 when she passed, she was only 45 when it was released, and means was she just a kid in her 20s at the dawn of rock n' roll, which she no doubt kept up with well into maturity, as many of us did. It's easy to think of we geezers as just old, but we were all young once, and the kids within us survive even underneath all the wrinkles. One of our best friends, a lady well into her 70s, still travels all over the country to follow her favorite bands of the '60s - '70s - '80s. Once a rocker, always a rocker. You’re right about the date, I’m not a fan of the band but always thought of it as coming from their later years. She wasn’t a fan until she saw them on Live Aid (on TV of course) but her generation wasn’t quite the rock n’ roll generation. That was more for people who were teens at the time.
Yeah, that's pretty much true, although I'm happy to say there were exceptions. My introductions to Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, LaVern Baker and the like came through my 30-something parents, who'd often put a stack of the newest 45s Dad brought home from Wallach's Music City onto the Kaye-Halbert hi-fi, push back the furniture and dance up a storm. Come to think of it, he'd have turned 100 this year if he were living, and couldn't do without his daily dose of MTV well into the 1990s.
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