Another edition of my little series about the B-sides of Queen singles, this time “Stealin'” on the “Breakthru” single from 19 June 1989 from the The Miracle album. Though today the A-side also gets its spot…
New: » All songs in a row in a Youtube playlist
First the A-side: This is – after a slow intro that’s originally from a separate song “A New Life Is Born” which didn’t get beyond demo sage – a fast-paced rock song that somehow makes one think of a train, and exactly that’s what the video shows: Queen performing on a flatbed carriage behind an old steam engine; the blonde at the beginning is, by the way, Roger Taylor’s then girlfriend Debbie Leng.
Freddie once said in an interview (see Wikipedia) that this was a great example of two separate bits coming together to make a final track. He commented on how the band had about 30 tracks to work with and only completed a handful, working on all of them at least somewhat.
» Breakthru – official video
» Breakthru (Extended Version) – fan video (using the official one)
» A New Life Is Born (Demo) (1:30) – still-image video
» lyrics
On to the B-side, a bluesy tongue-in-cheek song (which offers more variety than one might think from first couple of minutes) about a notorious thief, and there’s a (really good!) demo version of it that normal Youtube users need to split in two parts to upload it (here linked to inside my playlist):
» Stealin’ (4:01) – single version, still-image
» Stealin’ (Demo) (12:10) – still-image
» lyrics
Photo: clix/sxc
juliaL491 2009-06-19 at 15:54 912 Comments
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Ah, das Zugvideo war eines der ersten, die ich “damals” bewusst wahrgenommen habe und ich war schwer beeindruckt![:)](https://cimddwc.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Stealin wird tatsächlich nach der Hälfte richtig interessant. Hat Ansätze von Innuendo.
cimddwc 2009-06-19 at 19:46 6311 Comments
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Wobei zur 2. Hälfte von Stealin’ mit den Wörtern “In charge of my heart” auch noch ein Querverweis auf das gleichnamige Lied von The Cross (Rogers Neben-Band damals) interessant sein könnte, das 1990 (auch nur als B-Seite) erschienen ist; Queenpedia meint:
(Ich wollte den Beitrag oben aber nicht zu lange werden lassen…)