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Queen - Spread Your Wings

Ok so for my first music review I’m going to do my favourite song of all time - Spread Your Wings by Queen. This song is from the 1977 album News Of the World and is written by John Deacon.

Spread Your Wings on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0MqUyrjDnnEKSyDJbFRZGg?si=616b03f3d8bd4d1f

Review The start of the song really sets the tone for the rest of it, the soft piano with a simple melody gives the impression of innocence or gracefulness to me, starting the song off on a happy foot, but the first lyrics hit you like a truck (more in depth lyric review later). The dynamic builds up from the first pre-chorus to the first chorus, and dies down momentarily, before coming back abruptly when the bridge in the middle comes in. Then there is a short guitar solo, the tone of the guitar really matches the mood of the song, the overall tone is bright and chorus-y, but the way its played almost resembles weeping, to match the sad undertones of the song overall. The dynamic for the second verse resembles the first half of the song, but yet again gets way louder ready for the second pre-chorus. My favourite part of the whole song is in this part, the vocal tone of Freddie in this part of the song is simply beautiful. If you listen to the vocal track a cappella, you will hear just how raw and powerful his tone is. I also think the decision to not have any backing vocals for the entire song also was a very good choice, as it makes the lyrics and the vocal tone more impactful to the listener. The use of augmented notes in the chorus is a really nice touch as well, it just adds more interest to the song. The song ends with a simply beautiful guitar solo that ends the song beautifully.

The lyrics for this song are so haunting to me; the melody is such a happy one but the lyrics seem to be about something much darker. Maybe I’m overanalysing it, maybe not, but the way I interpret it is way darker than the melody lets on, which is so fascinating to me. The first lyrics are especially powerful as the song starts off as a gentle, soft, happy song, yet the first lyrics are “Sammy was low,” which completely changes the mood of the entire song. My favourite lyric of the song is “Sammy boy don’t you know who you are?” This is so much to belt out as a naturally loud soprano singer, so maybe I’m a bit biased.

My overall thoughts for this song are that it’s simply a phenomenal song, I didn’t include all of the things that I find amazing about this song because then the post would be too long, but I really recommend you listen to it yourself and form your own opinion on it!  Rating: 5 stars - Simply amazing!