It reached number two in the UK Singles Chart and became their first US hit, reaching number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100. It was written by lead singer Freddie Mercury and recorded for their third album Sheer Heart Attack in 1974. But I had been thinking about doing an a cappella version of Killer Queen for a while, because it has such great and interesting harmonies! And then I added instruments one by one to make it more interesting. ' Killer Queen ' is a song by the British rock band Queen. Oh, and maybe I should tell you about my choice for a cover: I have always said that I don’t want to do any full covers, because they’ve already been made by so many other people, so it’s not that fun to just imitate. I learned a lot about chroma keying anyway, and if I’d ever want to do a video similar to this (and the other multi-Fredrik videos, like The Cartoon Medley, and The TV Theme Medley), I would do a much better job! It’s the music that counts anyway, right?
I did the best I could, and it’s certainly not perfect, but it will have to do. This one took a lot longer to make than I had planned, but now it’s finally finished! The problem was that although I used a yellow/green-ish sheet behind the couch, it obviously didn’t help at all when I wanted to make the red couch transparent, so that the red accordion and guitar could be in front of the main Fredrik. (Written by Freddie Mercury, published by EMI Glenwood Music Corporation) At one point there are two distinct bass guitar lines, one of which diverges into a descending run. Update: This recording is now available on iTunes.
Me and my seven clones, performing the Queen classic “Killer Queen” on vocals and several instruments.
