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There aren\u2019t many singers who can claim to have sung no wrong notes quite like Freddie Mercury<\/a> could.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even though every singer has their fair share of off days where everything doesn\u2019t sound right, the fact that he could power his way through even the hardest working conditions and still sound like one of the greatest in his field is the reason why Queen are considered one of the greatest bands of all time. Mercury wasn\u2019t going to make anything that he wasn\u2019t proud of, but he felt that some tunes were so bad that they didn\u2019t warrant seeing the light of day.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not like any of Queen\u2019s records were completely awful<\/a> from a performance point of view. Every single one of their albums usually had that glossy sheen that everyone knows them for, and even if there are pieces that just don\u2019t work together that well, like Hot Space, they do at least hold together as a somewhat coherent mess. Then again, Queen were already starting to toy around with what made them famous by the time the 1980s kicked in.<\/p>\n No one wanted to keep rehashing the same sound over and over again, but where Brian May was more into heavier rock and roll, the dance scene was bound to have a lot more impact on the band than anything else. \u2018Fun It\u2019 was already the first sign of things to come in their catalogue, but when they started working on \u2018Another One Bites the Dust\u2019<\/a>, they were initially going to ditch the entire song were it not for Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n As it turned out, \u2018The King of Pop\u2019 was a massive Queen fan, and his suggestion to put the tune on the album was absolutely the right call when it skyrocketed up the charts. The whole thing was so massive that Mercury had even suggested working with Jackson on a few of his songs for Thriller, but when listening to the kinds of tunes that his friend was making, Mercury felt that the song \u2018State of Shock\u2019 didn\u2019t have nearly the same kind of hooks that he wanted them to have.<\/p>\n It was strange enough for Mercury to be in the studio and working together with Bubbles in the corner, but their conflicting schedules led to the Queen frontman feeling disappointed about not getting the song into shape, saying<\/a>, \u201cI think one of the tracks would have been on the Thriller album if I finished it, but I missed out. I was initially gonna be on Thriller. Can you imagine that? I blew it!\u201d At the same time, it\u2019s not like the song was going to be some undiscovered masterpiece when they began working on it.<\/p>\n Mercury liked the idea of making a couple of tunes, but if they were going to whip something into shape, it was going to require a lot more heavy lifting, explaining, \u201c\u2018State of Shock\u2019 I couldn\u2019t complete. So Mick Jagger did it. I actually did the vocals. Timing is everything. At the time when he wanted me to finish it, I just said, \u2018I can\u2019t, I really haven\u2019t got time.\u2019 I was working with Queen. I was in Munich. He was in Los Angeles. He said, \u2018Is it OK if Mick does it?\u2019 I said, \u2018Fine.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n But given Jackson\u2019s track record working with rock and roll stars, there was always a 50\/50 chance that it would work out right. Eddie Van Halen worked wonders on \u2018Beat It\u2019, but the fact that pairing one of the biggest pop stars in the world with one of the greatest pop songwriters on \u2018The Girl is Mine\u2019 amounted to something that was just fine<\/a>, it wasn\u2019t like that creative lightning struck every time the right people got into the studio.<\/p>\n But the fact that Queen managed to make their own dance-oriented album and have it out in the same year that Thriller debuted is funny when you look at how history lines up. Jackson had suggested that Queen go in a dance direction, but the idea of songs like \u2018Body Language\u2019 and \u2018Back Chat\u2019 competing with the biggest pop album that the world has ever seen<\/a> is adorable in retrospect. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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