WINNER - Ultimate Battle of the Bands

 A Champion is crowned!!!   And the WINNER is QUEEN in a landslide victory (10 of total 12 votes cast).  How fitting!!!  

For some of us, we had the good fortune to not only listen to Queen in the mid-late 70s as they reached their peak musically but to also witness their dazzling on-stage concert performance at their zenith (in my case, Toronto ice hockey stadium in 1978).

Their music has been categorized as glam rock, progressive, hard rock, pop rock but was consistently well-crafted music and songwriting.

Queen was larger than life with the perfect front man in Freddy Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara).  Blessed with a four-octave vocal range and flamboyant persona, each album and single release was an event to be eagerly anticipated.

  

And let’s not forget their six minute masterpiece “Bohemian Rhapsody” that still sounds unlike any other #1 chart-topping single ever recorded.  It happened to be one of my first ever 45 rpm records I purchased in my youth!

In fact in 2012, the song topped the list on a UK poll as the “Nation’s Favourite Number One” spanning 60 years of music!!!

Let me leave you with a snippet of lyrics from that memorable song:

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo,
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.

Congratulations to a well deserving musical CHAMPION of the World!

Ultimate Battle of the Bands - CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND

And Then There Were Two!!!

Clear favorites for the Final Championship Round as the 60s and 70s dominated in voting from 11 participants!

So there you have it – The Beatles vs Queen for the crown as Ultimate Band of All-Time!

Beatles were on their heels early but ended strongly with 7 of 11 total votes, while Queen cruised capturing 8 of 11 votes.

The Final Vote is simple, either:

BEATLES (1963-1970) – Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, White Album , Abbey Road

OR

QUEEN (1973-1991) – Night at the Opera, Day at the Races, News of the World, The Game

Deadline:  End of Day Thursday April 14^th (6pm EST)

WINNER published Friday April 15^th

Submit your VOTE here.  GOOD LUCK!!!

Ultimate Battle of the Bands - Final Four

And Then There Were FOUR!

Excellent participation once again as 14 music fans cast votes to determine the champions of each respective Decade bracket, so here you have it:

A) 1960s			B) 1970s
1. Beatles (64%)			9. Queen (79%)

  

D) 1990s+			C) 1980s
7. Coldplay (86%)			13. Police (57%)

Beatles and Police needed late surges to pull away, whereas Queen and Coldplay dominated throughout.  In fact only Chris Miller and I cast votes for Radiohead, go figure!!!

So the Final Four brackets are very simple. 

A.    Beatles vs D. Coldplay

B.    Queen vs C. Police 

Select two bands to advance to the Final head-to-head competition.

Deadline:  End of Day Friday April 8^th (6pm EST)

Good Luck and please submit your selections and Comments here.