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==Credits== | ==Credits== | ||
* Musicians: | * Musicians: | ||
| - | : '''[[Brian May]]''' - vocals, guitar | + | : '''[[Brian May]]''' - all vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards and anything else around except: |
| - | : '''[[ | + | : '''[[Cozy Powell]]''' - drums on [[Back To The Light (song) | Back To The Light]], [[Love Token]], [[Resurrection]], [[Nothin' But Blue]], [[I'm Scared]], and [[Driven By You | Driven By You (new version)]] |
| - | : '''[[ | + | : '''[[Geoff Dugmore]]''' - drums on [[Let Your Heart Rule Your Head]] and [[Rollin' Over]] |
| - | : '''[[ | + | : '''[[Gary Tibbs]]''' - bass guitar on [[Back To The Light (song) | Back To The Light]], [[Let Your Heart Rule Your Head]], and [[Rollin' Over]] |
| - | : '''[[ | + | : '''[[Neil Murray]]''' - bass guitar on [[Love Token]], [[I'm Scared]], and [[Driven By You | Driven By You (new version)]] |
| - | : '''[[ | + | : '''[[John Deacon]]''' - bass guitar on [[Nothin' But Blue]] |
| + | : '''[[Mike Moran]]''' - piano on [[Love Token]] and [[Rollin' Over]], keyboards on [[Last Horizon]] | ||
| + | : '''[[Don Airey]]''' - extra keyboards on [[Resurrection]] and [[Nothin' But Blue]] | ||
| + | : '''[[Miriam Stockley]]''' - backing vocals on [[Back To The Light (song) | Back To The Light]] and [[Rollin' Over]] | ||
| + | : '''[[Maggie Ryder]]''' - backing vocals on [[Back To The Light (song) | Back To The Light]] and [[Rollin' Over]] | ||
| + | : '''[[Suzie O'List]]''' - backing vocals on [[Back To The Light (song) | Back To The Light]] and [[Let Your Heart Rule Your Head]] | ||
| + | : '''[[Gill O'Donovan]]''' - backing vocals on [[Back To The Light (song) | Back To The Light]] and [[Let Your Heart Rule Your Head]] | ||
| + | : '''[[Chris Thompson]]''' - co-lead vocals on [[Rollin' Over]] | ||
| - | * Produced by Brian May | + | * Produced by [[Brian May]] and [[Justin Shirley-Smith]] |
| - | + | * Engineered by [[Justin Shirley-Smith]] | |
| - | * Engineered by [[ | + | * Recorded between 1980 and 1992, mainly at [[Allerton Hill Studios]] |
| - | * Recorded | + | |
==Charts== | ==Charts== | ||
Revision as of 20:52, 13 June 2007
Tracklists
Credits
- Musicians:
- Brian May - all vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards and anything else around except:
- Cozy Powell - drums on Back To The Light, Love Token, Resurrection, Nothin' But Blue, I'm Scared, and Driven By You (new version)
- Geoff Dugmore - drums on Let Your Heart Rule Your Head and Rollin' Over
- Gary Tibbs - bass guitar on Back To The Light, Let Your Heart Rule Your Head, and Rollin' Over
- Neil Murray - bass guitar on Love Token, I'm Scared, and Driven By You (new version)
- John Deacon - bass guitar on Nothin' But Blue
- Mike Moran - piano on Love Token and Rollin' Over, keyboards on Last Horizon
- Don Airey - extra keyboards on Resurrection and Nothin' But Blue
- Miriam Stockley - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Rollin' Over
- Maggie Ryder - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Rollin' Over
- Suzie O'List - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Let Your Heart Rule Your Head
- Gill O'Donovan - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Let Your Heart Rule Your Head
- Chris Thompson - co-lead vocals on Rollin' Over
- Produced by Brian May and Justin Shirley-Smith
- Engineered by Justin Shirley-Smith
- Recorded between 1980 and 1992, mainly at Allerton Hill Studios
Charts
- #35 UK, #125 US
Liner notes
STOP! What you have just picked up is not your normal kind of album. Not an album which has been "thoughtfully pieced together by a coordinated band as a balanced and polished listening experience". Not a Queen album. Not a solo Brian May album. It is a record of a unique event.
On the 21st and 22nd of April 1983, five musicians from different backgrounds, who had previously known each other only as friends, played together for the first time. Purely for fun. In listening to this record, I hope you will share in the excitement we felt.
Star Fleet is the theme tune for a superb TV sci-fi series broadcast in England for kids of all ages; Japanese visuals and British soundtrack including music by Paul Bliss. The heroes pilot space vehicles which can assemble into a giant robot for land battles. The aliens fly fantastic insect-like craft which spawn smaller fighting machines, all intent on possession of the secret of F Zero One... Having been introduced to all this by my small boy, I became equally obsessed by it, and formed the idea of making a hard rock version of the title theme.
A few months later, I found myself in LA doing very little. I suddenly realised that four musicians, with whom I'd long wanted to play, were at the end of a local telephone call. To my great surprise they all liked the ideas I had, so I took my courage in both hands, booked a studio, and in we went. None of us had done this kind of thing before - no record company, no plans for release, no back-up organisations - just us. Just for fun.
In Star Fleet, recorded on the first day, you can hear a kind of nervous exhilaration. The new situation produced a strange and different kind of energy.
In Let Me Out - an old song of mine which found new life - and in Blues Breaker, which of course is purely spontaneous, you can hear a much more relaxed set of people, just laying back and enjoying the fresh inspiration of each other's playing.
I could have put these tapes in a bottom draw and kept them as a private record of one of the best experiences of my life. But the few people I've played them for have urged be to "publish", and it will make me very happy if others can enjoy this stuff the way I have.
I've attempted to hone Star Fleet into something like a "proper record" - my thanks to Roger for helping me with the chorus vocals. But I haven't messed one scrap with the tracking done on the day. The rest is simply mixed 'naked'.
In Blues Breaker you can hear us smiling as we search for answering phrases. In the last solo of Let Me Out, Edward tortures his top string to it's audible death and winds up quite naturally on the remaining five. I'll leave the rest to imagination. It's not too hard to figure out who did what.
Brian talks
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