@dgar
Nice touch for Brian May to rip out the Largo theme from local-boy-done-good Antonin Dvorak's Symphony from the New World. https://youtu.be/GzjG95rB96Q?t=3656
A shot rings out.
A man tumbles down three flights of stairs into a fjord.
Dripping but uninjured, he emerges and walks, nonchalantly but warily, into the cover of a nearby pine forest.
I have always adored Queen, they are my favourite band of all time and I have all their studio and live albums up to “Made In Heaven”.
That said, my favourite album of all time, from the vinyl my father played when I was very young, to the CD I ordered from eBay, is not a Queen album.
“The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast” is a ‘70s concept album written by Roger Glover after he left Deep Purple. Several great artists are featured on the tracks, notably:
• Glenn Hughes of Trapeze, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath.
• Ronnie James Dio of Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell.
• Jimmy Helms of Londonbeat.
• David Coverdale of Deep Purple and Whitesnake.
• John Lawton of Lucifer's Friend, Uriah Heep and the Les Humphries Singers.
• and several other great ‘70s talents!
The album follows a story based on a poem by William Roscoe, written in 1802, telling the story of a party for insects and other small animals.
The album cover design is from Alan Aldridge's design for a 1973 book based on the poem.
@dgar
Australian kids of a certain age might remember this little animation appearing regularly between Sesame Street and Play School in the 80s. https://youtu.be/BR6pYICqZT0
Sorry it's taken so long to write my first Toot, but I've been too busy reading so many interesting and entertaining things here.
My interests include Swing Dance, Data Science and extremely amateur music composition of the pseudo-classical variety (using Musescore, because open-source rules!).
I have come from a Facebook background (where all my friends still are except it seemed to die in early 2022 when everyone else repopulated the real world), rather than Twitter. So I have almost no experience with Twitter-like etiquette or practice - I'm used to Comments, Likes and Shares rather than Retweets and Hashtags and whatever else went on in the Bird site before it became the Musk-oX site.
