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If there\u2019s one thing that could never be said about Queen<\/a>, it\u2019s that they never took risks.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the defining part of most biopics, as well as most recollections of how they grew to become one of the biggest rocks act in history. It\u2019s why a track like \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 turned into something untouchable\u2026because they stuck to their guns. While the industry pushed for safe bets and radio edits, Queen doubled down on creative freedom, even when the whole world seemed to be shouting at them to play it safe.<\/p>\n In fact, each member took a risk every single time they went on stage and brought their vision to life before a live audience. Queen\u2019s message wasn\u2019t for everybody, and they even got heat for it from some of their peers. They took rock to the next level, which meant making anthems out of familiar rock traits. But it also meant breaking it down and taking on things they never thought they could.<\/p>\n This was the case with creating the soundtrack for the film Flash Gordon. A little outside of Queen\u2019s usual remit, they took on the challenge and then some, deciding not only to pour everything into making it great but also to make it a real rock soundtrack that felt like watching the film whenever you\u2019d listen to it. <\/p>\n In 2008, Roger Taylor told Mojo that that was their main goal: to make the first rock \u2018n\u2019 roll soundtrack, because all too often in films you would never come across rock songs. And so, for Flash Gordon, they sought to rip out the rulebook and make something people would actually remember. Without their efforts, it\u2019s unlikely we\u2019d have had soundtracks as iconic as ones like Pulp Fiction and other cult classics, with \u2018Flash\u2019 becoming the main touchpoint<\/a> for those gritty (albeit slightly tongue-in-cheek) hit films people just keep coming back to.<\/p>\n Still, no matter the seamless nature of listening to \u2018Flash\u2019 or any other parts of the soundtrack, things almost fell apart before they even got started. They each went away with the goal of coming back with something the others believed in, and when they did, producer Dino De Laurentiis wasn\u2019t so sure. He\u2019d like what they did with it, but he wasn\u2019t entirely sure it was for Flash Gordon. At first, anyway.<\/p>\n The thing is, the others really liked it. Director Mike Hodges even apparently jumped up and down when he heard it, yelling, \u201cIt\u2019s brilliant, it\u2019s brilliant!\u201d But that clash mainly came from the two of them having different opinions on the tone of the film itself; Hodges seeing it as some sort of \u201cspoof\u201d, and Laurentiis thinking it needed to be far more serious. Hence why, when they presented what they\u2019d made, Laurentiis uttered a downbeat, \u201cIt\u2019s very good, but it is not for my movie\u201d.<\/p>\n According to May, they all got a bit \u201cglum\u201d after that. But the time away from Laurentiis was seemingly enough for Hodges to get him to come around. \u201cWhat I think happened was Mike went to Dino and said: \u2018You got to have faith here. This is something that is going to work and Brian has actually captured the essence of the movie in this piece of music,\u2019\u201d May told The Independent in 2012. <\/p>\n Continuing, \u201cBut it was a big adventure in those days. I don\u2019t think there had ever been a feature film with background music done by a rock band before \u2013 it was a real dangerous departure. You had to have your base of strings to create emotion. It had never been done. And to his credit, Dino did come around and was very supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Spotify) Thu 4 September 2025 7:00, UK If there\u2019s one thing that could never…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[13254,77,269,4575,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-397114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-brian-may","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-queen","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145799895491580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}