Sheer Heart Attack
(8 November 1974)
Tracklisting: Brighton Rock / Killer Queen / Tenement
Funster / Flick of the Wrist / Lily of the Valley / Now
I’m Here / In the Lap of the Gods / Stone Cold Crazy /
Dear Friends / Misfire / Bring Back That Leroy Brown
/ She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos) /
In the Lap of the Gods... RevisitedBrighton Rock ���
A Brian May tour-de-force, hard rocking piece, ‘Brighton Rock’ is
replete with May’s trademark multi-tracked guitar solo. Starting
with the whistling of ‘I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside’, ‘Sheer
Heart Attack’ picks up from where ‘Queen II’ left off – literally.
Well produced.
Killer Queen ����
The band’s first major international hit, ‘Killer Queen’ is pure
Mercury pomp and show, in a track built on a taut piano chord.
Very Mott the Hoople, ‘Killer Queen’ features some of Brian May’s
most interesting, and incisive, guitar solo work. The recording of
the track is pure Queen excess, containing, as it does, elaborate
four part vocal harmonies. Great stuff.
Tenement Funster ��
‘I got a way with girls on my block, Try my best to be a real
individual, And when we go down to smokies and rock, They line
up like its some kinda ritual.’ Taylor penned, and sung, ‘Tenement
Funster’ is a typical Led Zeppelin-esque rocking number. Echo
effects on May’s guitar and Taylor’s impressive vocals drag this one
out of the dirge.