Who wants to live forever and Flash connection

BrdyNum202

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Jul 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/23/96

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I know the inspiration for "Who wants to live forever" came from the movie
"Highlander", but does anyone know if Queen took the actual title for the
song from the movie Flash Gordon. It's what Vulcan says just before he
dives down to attack war rocket Ajax (I think that's what it's called). It
seems to me too much of a coincidence that that line is used in Flash
Gordon and then later made into a song of the same name. Just wondering.

Aaron

TymeDelay

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Jul 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/23/96

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Your right. I can go thru any Queen album and find a future reference or
a past reference to another song or album not on the album that the first
song is on. It's stupid but fun to do. Like the "He's my hero, ahhhh!"
from Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke sounds like "Flash ahhhh". The whole
hero thing.
TymeDelay

Bibliotheek Hengelo

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Jul 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/26/96

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On what album is a dozen red roses for my darling

Alwis Hohlweg

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Jul 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/26/96

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I doubt very much that there is a deliberate connection. Firstly, there
is a high probablity that some line in a groups songs appears somewhere
in a movie, so a coincidence is quite likely. Secondly, the lines are
used in completely different contexts. In Flash it is a sort of Kamakaze
battle cry "Who want's to live forever! ha ha ha DIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!"
whilst in the song it is more of a phisolophical question posed by an
immortal, lamenting on the cons of being immortal. So, really, the line
from Flash is not very inspirational for Highlander, as amusing as a
connection may be. (I have always jokingly maintained that Queen
predicted that they would write WWTLF and thus put the line in Flash)

Alwis Hohlweg

Cliff

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Jul 28, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/28/96

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In article <31F8D2...@bibliohengelo.nl>, Bibliotheek Hengelo
<us...@bibliohengelo.nl> wrote:

> On what album is a dozen red roses for my darling

It's not on any album - it's the B-side to the Kind Of Magic single.
However, a (not very good) vocal version of the track appears on the AKOM
album under the title Don't Lose Your head.

Cliff
(a simple man with a simple name)

Delphoene

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Jul 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/31/96

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Cliff wrote:

> > On what album is a dozen red roses for my darling
>
> It's not on any album - it's the B-side to the Kind Of Magic single.
> However, a (not very good) vocal version of the track appears on the AKOM
> album under the title Don't Lose Your head.
>
> Cliff
> (a simple man with a simple name)

Has anyone seen Queen:The Magick Years I, they are in the studio,
about to record "One Vision" and Brian I believe is playing an
absolutel gorgeous piano solo. I guessed this must have been "A Dozen
Red Roses", but obviously not! Anyone know what it is?
D.
"I'll get no sleep till I find you"

Allison Sigrist

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Aug 15, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/15/96

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It's a guess, but the piano solo sounds vaguely like "Who Wants to Live
Forever." That studio clip was filmed around the time he would have been
writing it, too. Maybe he was in the beginning process of writing it.

Allison
The skating bassist, or is that the bassing skatist?

Delphoene

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Aug 17, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/17/96

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Allison Sigrist wrote:
>
> It's a guess, but the piano solo sounds vaguely like "Who Wants to Live
> Forever." That studio clip was filmed around the time he would have been
> writing it, too. Maybe he was in the beginning process of writing it.
>

Doensn't sound much like it to me and from what I know, Brian wrote
"Who Wants To Live Forever?" in the back of a bus after viewing the
"Highlander" rough-cuts.

One card short of a full deck,
D.