Flick of the wrise meme series#

The UK's 1987 3-inch CD single re-issue starts with the crescendo segue which ends 'Tenement Funster.' It ends with a fade-out before the song is properly over, missing the last line 'Baby, you've been had.' It ends with a fade-out over the segue into 'Lily of the Valley,' where the latter's opening piano is heard. The US AA-side version (the same as issued in Canada) has a much more pronounced edit at the beginning, with the first 18 seconds of the song absent. This version also features on the 1991 Japanese 3-inch CD single of ' Killer Queen'/'Flick of the Wrist.' The UK AA-side version features almost the same complete version as the Dutch version, but with a few notes edited at the beginning.

The Dutch AA-side version features the complete song without the seguing, overlapping sections from 'Tenement Funster' and 'Lily of the Valley'. Thus, a standalone version of 'Flick of the Wrist' is available.Īll the single versions and edits are from the original album recording. The original, non-segued master recordings of 'Tenement Funster,' 'Flick of the Wrist' and 'Lily of the Valley' were used for certain single releases, such the Japanese 3-inch CD single re-issue of Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy ('Tenement Funster'), the Dutch AA-side version of 'Flick of the Wrist' (see below) and the 1975 US-only re-issue of ' Keep Yourself Alive' ('Lily of the Valley'). baby, you've been had.' This last lyric appears at the beginning of the next CD track, 'Lily of the Valley'. 'Flick of the Wrist,' in this way, starts with the crescendo ending of 'Tenement Funster' and ends abruptly before the last line of the song '. Because of this structure, the record company had to select points to separate each track on CD re-issues of the album. Each song was recorded separately and later mixed together to form the unbroken stretch of music.

Flick of the wrise meme series#

When Brian May returned to work having recovered from his hepatitis, he had not heard the song before he recorded his guitar and backing vocals.Īs it appears on the album, 'Flick of the Wrist' is the middle song of a three-track series of songs which seamlessly overlap, segueing from one to the next: ' Tenement Funster', 'Flick of the Wrist' and ' Lily of the Valley'. The song includes Freddie Mercury singing octave vocals throughout the verses, and the chorus features a call-and-response style section between the backing and lead vocal parts. Our manager would like to think it's about him, but it's not.' Freddie Mercury explained that the unpleasant character in the song was not based on anyone in particular: 'I wrote it as a sort of tongue-in-cheek story about the con-men and rip-off artists we're always running into.