I’m out and about every second Thursday leading walking tours in Kensington – and in a few week's I'll be launching my Musical Kensington tour…
Last year I started my Kensington Playlist as an accompaniment to my Kensington tours. Here's track 3… Killer Queen by Queen…
Of all the Queen songs that I could have chosen – surely Bohemian Rhapsody is the most obvious choice – I have gone for Killer Queen. Why? Well it has all the elements of a great Queen song. The words are histrionic and witty. Freddie Mercury's star-studded lyric paints a vivid and outlandish picture of glamorous excess. Syllabically, it is so tightly packed that it almost functions as an additional rhythm instrument.
Musically it's highly contagious, real earworm stuff. It's a great pop song length - i.e. not too long (which is not always the case with Queen). Finally it has great rock elements among all the theatricality - Brian May's solos here are, I think, among his best, so clipped yet passionate – along with those lush vocal harmonies.
Here's the playlist so far – with Queen joining Hubert Parry and Arthur Bliss…
Freddie Mercury's former home in Kensington remains a place of pilgrimage for fans from all across the globe…
… although the shrine pictured here was removed in 2017…
But the floral tributes still appear. This was the scene when I visited with a music tour last week…
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A walking tour of London's royal village…
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My NEW Musical Kensington tour is on Sunday 3rd May 2020…
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