It's A Hard Life - Queen Guitar FC (Lego Rock Band Custom) HD Gameplay (Xbox 360)

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Published on April 10, 2024 8:25:36 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxUb-nr9Hk

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Lego Rock Band (2009)

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My Thoughts On The Song/Chart: One of my favorite songs from the 1984 album "The Works" and a standout track from this period of the band IMO.

Song Facts:
"It's a Hard Life" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was featured on their 1984 album The Works, and it was the third single from that album. In 1991 it was included in the band’s second compilation album Greatest Hits II.

It reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart and was their third consecutive Top 10 single from the album. It also reached number 2 in Ireland and number 20 in the Netherlands. It also came 19th in a poll, The Nation's Favourite Queen Song broadcast on ITV on 11 November 2014.

The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The same melody is also quoted in the soundtrack of the movie A Night at the Opera after which Queen had named their 1975 album.

Musically, the song recreates the feel of "Play the Game" in order to update the story, utilising Mercury's piano playing and the band's characteristic technique of layered harmonies. It is recorded very much with the ethos of earlier Queen albums in that it features 'no synthesizers'. By that time the band had been using synths on record since 1980's The Game and the gesture of returning to the traditional Queen sound was comforting to some fans.

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