Credits

• Written by: author
• Produced by: producer(s)
• Musicians:

Freddie Mercury - instrument

Brian May - instrument

John Deacon - instrument

Roger Taylor - instrument

Discography

Albums:

• album, year
• other albums

Singles:

• single

Compilations:

• compilations

Alternate Versions:

• 1998 eYe “10 Edit - Electronic Arts DDE05501 101S
• Intro: 06” - Total Guitar CD Magazine
• Starlicks Video Edit - Starlicks Video
• Early Take Version - Unreleased

Soundtracks:

• soundtrack

Additional Info

• Original Working Titles: Happy Little Fuck, Happy Little Day, Blackpool Rock, Bognor Ballad, Southend Sea Scout, Skiffle Rock and Herne Bay. Session engineer Mike Stone is the likely culprit of some of the titles, though the band members themselves frequently employed working titles during the song development process.

• GB IQFC convention October 16th 2004, Vlaardingen, Holland: Unreleased Brighton Rock (Early Take Version) Musically, very similar, but Bass guitar is very different, no guitar overdubs. The solo is much shorter, and most of the lyrics consist of Freddie La la las.

Queen Talks

Brian May, 1983, Guitar Greats, BBC Radio One

Brian's response when asked about Hendrix influences on Brighon Rock.

They might be although, I’d got away from listening to Hendrix quite a bit by that time and I’d like to think that that was more sort of developing my style really. Particularly the solo bit in the middle, which I’d been doing on the ‘Mott The Hoople’ tour and sort of gradually expanded and has got more and more ever since. Although, I keep trying to throw it out it keeps creeping back in. That involves the repeat device actually using it in time, which I don’t think, had been done before up to that time. It’s a very nice device to work with because you can build up harmonies or cross rhythms and it’s not a multiple repeat like Hendrix used or even The Shadows used, which is fairly indiscriminate, sort of makes a nice noise. But this is a single repeat, which comes back, and sometimes I’ll add a second one too. So you can actually plan or else experiment and do a sort of “Phew” type effect. So that was at it’s very beginnings on ‘Brighton Rock’, and became more developed after that.

Covers

Recorded by:

• artist, album, release

Bootlegs

• bootleg

Chords & Tabs

• chords

Lyrics