The thing is, it’s so easy for us to do, it’s something, which we slip into almost without thinking, on stage or on record. Once Freddie starts playing in E þ and A þ, which he very often does, it has that particular sound and of course it’s very difficult for a guitarist to play in Eþ and Aþ. They’re just the keys you don’t want to be playing in, naturally, so the fact that those songs are played in those keys brings something different out of me. There are certain kinds of shapes, which I can use, that don’t use any open strings and are sometimes a bit painful to get together. But as soon as that’s happening that sort of formula is there and we can do it all night and all day. It’s that sort of Queen ‘Sound’ yeah!
It’s very untypical playing for me and Mack actually persuaded me to use a Telecaster which I’d never done on record before AND a BOOGIE amplifier IF YOU PLEASE! Which I never would have considered using.
The current single is typical of our old style, but most of the album is different from the epic sound.
If I had to choose three favourite Queen tracks, I'd have: Dragon Attack, because it has such a great riff and that insane drum solo; Play the Game, which I remember from first hearing The Game album and which still sounds incredible; and, finally, Under Pressure.