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Killer Queen

Index Killer Queen

"Killer Queen" is a song by the British rock band Queen. [1]

67 relations: A-side and B-side, AllMusic, Arpeggio, Art pop, Ö3 Austria Top 40, Backing vocalist, Bass guitar, Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian May, British Hit Singles & Albums, Cabaret, Call girl, Canada, Cashbox (magazine), Courtesan, Drum kit, Dutch Top 40, Electric guitar, Elektra Records, EMI, Finger snapping, Flick of the Wrist, Freddie Mercury, GfK Entertainment Charts, Glam rock, Irish Singles Chart, Ivor Novello Awards, Joel Whitburn, John Deacon, Katy Perry, Kent Music Report, Lead vocalist, Let them eat cake, List of musical medleys, Marie Antoinette, Mark tree, Moët & Chandon, Multitrack recording, Music Week, Noël Coward, Now I'm Here, Phonograph record, Piano, Power pop, Queen (band), Refrain, Rockfield Studios, Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), Roy Thomas Baker, RPM (magazine), ..., Seven Seas of Rhye, Sheer Heart Attack, Single Top 100, Somebody to Love (Queen song), Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, Tack piano, The Works Tour, Triangle (musical instrument), Trident Studios, UK Singles Chart, Ultratop, United Kingdom, United States, Vaudeville, VG-lista, Vocal harmony, Who Wants to Live Forever. Expand index (17 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Arpeggio

A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes.

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Art pop

Art pop (also typeset as art-pop or artpop) is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by pop art's integration of high and low culture, and which emphasizes the manipulation of signs, style, and gesture over personal expression.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bohemian Rhapsody

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen.

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Brian May

Brian Harold May, (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist, and photographer.

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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Call girl

A call girl or female escort is a sex worker who (unlike a street walker) does not display her profession to the general public; nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by an escort agency.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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Courtesan

A courtesan was originally a courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dutch Top 40

The Dutch Top 40 (Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Finger snapping

Snapping (or clicking) one's fingers is the act of creating a snapping or clicking sound with one's fingers.

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Flick of the Wrist

"Flick of the Wrist" is a song by the British rock band Queen, released as a Double A-side with "Killer Queen" in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States and most other territories.

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Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 194624 November 1991) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart (Irish: Cairt Singil na hÉireann) is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by The Official Charts Company.

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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.

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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939) is an American author and music historian.

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John Deacon

John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen.

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Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Let them eat cake

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread.

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List of musical medleys

In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, usually three, played one after another, sometimes overlapping.

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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.

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Mark tree

A Mark tree (also known as a chime tree or set of bar chimes) is a percussion instrument used primarily for musical colour.

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Moët & Chandon

Moët & Chandon, or Moët, is a French fine winery and co-owner of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE.

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Multitrack recording

Multitrack recording (MTR)—also known as multitracking, double tracking, or tracking—is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Now I'm Here

"Now I'm Here" is a song by the British rock band Queen.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Power pop

Power pop is a rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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Refrain

A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.

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Rockfield Studios

Rockfield Studios is a recording studio just outside the village of Rockfield, Monmouthshire near Monmouth in Wales.

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Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)

Roger Meddows Taylor (born 26 July 1949) is an English musician, singer and songwriter.

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Roy Thomas Baker

Roy Thomas Baker (born 10 November 1946) is an English record producer, songwriter, arranger, and Recording Academy governor, who has produced pop and rock records since the 1970s.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Seven Seas of Rhye

"Seven Seas of Rhye" is a song by the British rock band Queen.

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Sheer Heart Attack

Sheer Heart Attack is the third studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 8 November 1974 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.

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Single Top 100

The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by MegaCharts.

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Somebody to Love (Queen song)

"Somebody to Love" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by the lead singer/pianist Freddie Mercury.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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Tack piano

A tack piano is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which thumbtacks or nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the hammers hit the strings, giving the instrument a tinny, more percussive sound.

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The Works Tour

The Works Tour was a concert tour by the British rock band Queen.

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Triangle (musical instrument)

The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family.

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Trident Studios

Trident Studios was a British recording facility, located at 17 St. Anne's Court in London's Soho district between 1968 and 1981.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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VG-lista

VG-lista is a Norwegian record chart.

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Vocal harmony

Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture.

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Who Wants to Live Forever

"Who Wants to Live Forever" is a song by the British rock band Queen.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Queen

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