Overview
Queen Involvement
Executive producer Alexander Biner
Directed by Greg MacGillivray
Music score by Steve Wood with additional music by Queen and
Brian May.
Narrated by Michael Gambon.
Premiered on 16 March 2007, and released on DVD in the USA only
in 2008.
Length 45 minutes.
Filmed at various locations in Switzerland.
This film tells the true story of author and climber John Harlin,
who climbs the North face of the Eiger which claimed the life of
his father forty years earlier. As such, it doesn't really have
much of a storyline and only features John Harlin, his family,
friends and climbing team.
The surround sound mix for the film features the commentary
through the centre channel, the music through the front channel
and echoed music through the rear channel. Bonuses on the DVD
also include short features about Switzerland and trailers of
other films.
The film features a brand new guitar solo by Brian May, plus
reworked versions of several Queen tracks, as follows:
The DVD also features a 40 minute 'Making Of' featurette,
which includes parts of Brian's guitar solo, which is nothing
different to that in the film, plus some footage of Brian in the
recording studio.
In addition to the tracks above, the film features orchestral
music, some of which features elements of 'Who Wants To Live
Forever' and 'Bijou'. However these excerpts are generally fairly
short, and don't feature Brian, so they are not mentioned below.
Last Horizon
(live)
This is an edit of the track on the 'Return Of The Champions'
album, and features the section from approximately 0:10 to 2:35,
ending with an explosion. Length 2:28.
Details of the original live version can be found on the 'Return
Of The Champions' album page, while details of Brian's
original studio version can be found on the 'Back
To The Light' album page.
Who
Wants To Live Forever
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A
Kind Of Magic' album page.
This version is a completely new version, featuring slow electric
guitar, acoustic guitar, orchestral music, and piano, based
around the melody of the track. Length 2:30, although there is a
break of about 30 seconds in the middle which is unrelated.
This version is derived from the original album version but has
additional elements. It features the approximate sections 0:21 to
0:57, retaining only one line of vocals, then some of the
instrumental outro from 4:15 to 4:35. It then features a new
section which is essentially an instrumental version of the
section from 1:25 to 2:05, but with a new solo by Brian. Length
1:49.
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away from us
Guitar Solo
The film features a number of new guitar solos from Brian, which
appear over the top of orchestral music. These new pieces were
recorded by Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson, and are
very good, but unfortunately too short, and very typical of his
usual solos.
Details of other guitar solos can be found on the 'Live
Solos & Improvisations' page.
Four of the solos are based around the same theme:
Piece 1 : two solos of length 13 and 23 seconds during 59 second
piece
Piece 2 : a 14 second solo during a 34 second piece
Piece 4 : two solos of length 17 and 21 seconds during a 50
second piece
Piece 5 : an 18 second solo during a 58 second piece
Piece 3 is a much slower and more gentle solo, over a 50 second
piece.
Don't Stop Me
Now
This is an edit of the normal album version. It contains the
sections 0:25 to 0:42, then jumps to 0:52 to 1:06, then contains
2:57 onwards. The song then jumps to the karaoke version for the
piano outro. Length 0:52.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Jazz'
album page.
Don't stop me now
Don't stop me
'Cos I'm having a good time
Having a good time
I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
I'm burning through the sky yeah
200 degrees that's why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit
I'm travelling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you
Don't stop me now
'Cos I'm having a good time
Don't stop me now
Yes, I'm having a good time
I don't wanna stop at all
Bijou
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Innuendo' album
page.
This is a straight instrumental edit of the album version, upto
0:25. Length 0:25.
This is a straight instrumental edit of the album version from
2:09 onwards. Length 1:25.
Ride The Wild
Wind
This is derived from parts of the album version, and has been
slightly remixed. It contains the approximate sections from 0:07
to 0:23 (without the 'hey' vocals), then 0:27 to 0:35 and finally
2:32 to 2:49. Length 0:42.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Innuendo'
album page.
Ride the wild wind
Push the envelope, don't sit on the fence
Ride the wild wind
Live your life on the razors edge
It ain't dangerous enough for me
Live life on the razors edge - (hey, hey, hey)
Gonna ride the wild wind (ooooh)
It ain't dangerous enough for me
It's A
Beautiful Day
This is a shortened version of the track, omitting some of the
intro, the middle section of the song and much of the outro. This
version fades up at approx 0:35 then continues until 1:25, then
merges into the section from 2:00 to 2:09. It then finishes with
a new orchestral crash which is not part of the original. Length
1:00.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Made
In Heaven' album page.
It's a beautiful day
The sun is shining
I feel good
And no-one's gonna stop me now, oh yeah
It's a beautiful day
I feel good, I feel right
And no-one, no-one's gonna stop me now, mama