The Show Must Go On...
Set the Wayback Machine to 1991. Queen, the band, are still a thing, for now. Freddy Mercury is dying of HIV/AIDS, the huge boogeyman of his age (and mine, terrorists be damned!). The band, mostly headed by Brian May, write a song for what is obviously their last album, "The Show Must Go On", a painful item for them I am sure.
But, when it comes time to record, Fred is obviously getting weaker and weaker. Few, if anyone at the studio thinks he can even do it.
Dying of a disease that vilifies him in the eyes of many, even moreso than being a "Rock Idol", and running on a bottle of vodka, willpower, and a determination to not let his fans and bandmates down at this pivotal moment, he proudly exclaims, "I'll fucking do it, darling!"
One take, nailed. It released as a single. Freddy Mercury died about six weeks later.
It, like quite a few songs done by him and the band, are likely to be ones that continue in human history. Bach, Wagner, Beethoven, Queen. (Yeah, I know, the little Classical stuff I can listen to is very German.). A century from now, five centuries, a millenia... Ancient recordings in old, beat up analog media favored by some villain in what passes for Movies or TV of the time will have him listening to "We Will Rock You" as a passive and "subtle" method of showing how cultured he is.
The Doctor, travelling in his TARDIS, will find Queen recordings in generation ships to new planets in order to ensure that people do not forget where they came from.
When Sol finally burns out, and what Humanity becomes watches as old Sol III (AKA: Earth) burns to nothing, "The Show Must Go On" will be one of the songs played to remind people that despite loss and adversity, things do continue. That endings are only to introduce new beginnings.
Brian May's cover of "God Save The Queen" (the live one, from the roof of Buckingham Palace on the 2002 Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II) could conceivably be played for the end of the British Monarchy.
"Don't Stop Me Now" could be the theme song for a colony ship out to try and bring Humanity past Spaceship Earth.
We are living in history. All parts of it. Let us learn from those who have come before us, who are with us, and those who come next. Let us remember that despite all adversity against us, we can persevere.
When everything in life tells you "No", knock back that vodka, gird your loins, wear those tight ass pants, and spit in the face of anything that tells you that it can't happen, even Death itself.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” - Carl Sagan
But, when it comes time to record, Fred is obviously getting weaker and weaker. Few, if anyone at the studio thinks he can even do it.
Dying of a disease that vilifies him in the eyes of many, even moreso than being a "Rock Idol", and running on a bottle of vodka, willpower, and a determination to not let his fans and bandmates down at this pivotal moment, he proudly exclaims, "I'll fucking do it, darling!"
One take, nailed. It released as a single. Freddy Mercury died about six weeks later.
It, like quite a few songs done by him and the band, are likely to be ones that continue in human history. Bach, Wagner, Beethoven, Queen. (Yeah, I know, the little Classical stuff I can listen to is very German.). A century from now, five centuries, a millenia... Ancient recordings in old, beat up analog media favored by some villain in what passes for Movies or TV of the time will have him listening to "We Will Rock You" as a passive and "subtle" method of showing how cultured he is.
The Doctor, travelling in his TARDIS, will find Queen recordings in generation ships to new planets in order to ensure that people do not forget where they came from.
When Sol finally burns out, and what Humanity becomes watches as old Sol III (AKA: Earth) burns to nothing, "The Show Must Go On" will be one of the songs played to remind people that despite loss and adversity, things do continue. That endings are only to introduce new beginnings.
Brian May's cover of "God Save The Queen" (the live one, from the roof of Buckingham Palace on the 2002 Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II) could conceivably be played for the end of the British Monarchy.
"Don't Stop Me Now" could be the theme song for a colony ship out to try and bring Humanity past Spaceship Earth.
We are living in history. All parts of it. Let us learn from those who have come before us, who are with us, and those who come next. Let us remember that despite all adversity against us, we can persevere.
When everything in life tells you "No", knock back that vodka, gird your loins, wear those tight ass pants, and spit in the face of anything that tells you that it can't happen, even Death itself.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” - Carl Sagan