The story behind
Queen wrote Good Company for the Album A Night at the Opera, released in 1975. The song follows a boy who grows up, gets married, loses contact with his friends and ends up alone. At the end, an old man tells his life as if it were a story of someone who no longer has anyone to tell it to. Brian May played guitar with his Red Special, using an amplifier made by John Deacon. That equipment, called Deacy Amp, was built in 1972 with parts from an old radio. It had no volume or tone controls, but with it and the guitar, they managed to imitate orchestral instruments: violin, viola, trombone, clarinet, even voices. It was in Procession and The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke of 1974 when they started using that technique. ↓ Skip to chordsIntro 1
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From the album
A Night at the Opera
Queen · 1975 · Track 0