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GROUP COMPONENTS: -Alejandro Aja -Luis Martinez -Faustino Carton


 * TOPIC:** Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon - Queen

**Introduction:** Queen is an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor , with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year. Freddie Mercury wrote a lot of Queen's Greatest Hits : " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Seven Seas of Rhye ", " Killer Queen ", " Somebody to Love ", " We Are the Champions "…he played the piano in many of Queen's. Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS in the spring of 1987. Around that time, Mercury also claimed in an interview to have tested negative for the virus and die in 24 November  1991. Brian May has been referred to as a virtuoso guitarist. He has used a range of guitars, most often the " Red Special ", which he designed when he was only 16 years old. Roger Taylor is known for his "big" unique sound and is considered one of the most influential rock drummers of the 1970s and 1980s. As a songwriter he contributed songs to the band's albums from the beginning. John Deacon wrote a number of Queen's hit singles, including, " I Want to Break Free " and the band's biggest selling single, " Another One Bites the Dust ". He also played rhythm and acoustic guitars on several albums as well as occasional keyboards,   synthesizer  and programming. 
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**__ Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon __** I go out to work on Monday morning Tuesday I go off to honeymoon I'll be back again before it's time for sunny-down, I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon Bicycling on every Wednesday evening Thursday I go waltzing to the zoo I come from London Town, I'm just an ordinary guy Fridays I go painting in the Louvre I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (There he goes again) I'll be lazing on a Sunday Lazing on a Sunday Lazing on a Sunday afternoon 

Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" was another song by Mercury. He played the piano and did all of the vocals. The lead vocal was sung in studio, produced through headphones elsewhere in the studio in a tin bucket. A microphone picked up the sound from the bucket, which gives it a hollow "megaphone" sound. The guitar solo is also reported to have been recorded on the vocal track, as there were no more tracks to record on. The key change going into the guitar solo (Eb to A) is a tritone relationship, making it a jarring, but very effective. //Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon// has got a style like the 1920’s cabaret. // A night at the opera // is a very innovative album. For recording this album, they use a lot of new recording techniques. For example, in the song //“A good company”//, Brian May elaborated a guitar solo which recreates a  Dixieland -style jazz band, using his Red Special  guitar. He recorded the solo in 24 tracks which simultaneous sound!! In addition, the song was played with a mixture of a banjo and ukelele (banjolele), to give the song that style of Dixie-jazz. We can see it in this //making off://

In another song, //“Seaside Rendezvous”, // there is a section which was performed entirely by Mercury and Taylor using their voices alone. Mercury imitates woodwind instruments including a clarinet and Taylor mostly brass instruments, including tubas and trumpets, and even a kazoo. The tap dance segment is also "performed" by Mercury and Taylor on the mixing desk with thimbles on their fingers:

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 * Teaching proposals for Primary Education:**

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- Do you know the songs “We will rock you” or “We are the champions”? (If the children don’t know, hum them or listen to them on the cassette). =====

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3. With the lyrics of the principal song (Lazing on a Sunday afternoon), we can make some activities with common vocabulary: =====

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- Common actions (go to work,…) =====

__ Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon (Translation) __ ( **** Allá va otra vez) **
 * Salgo a trabajar el lunes por la mañana **
 * El martes me voy de luna de miel **
 * Estaré de vuelta antes de que anochezca **
 * Estaré vagueando el domingo por la tarde **
 * Monto en bici los miércoles por la mañana **
 * El jueves bailo vals hasta el Zoo **
 * Vengo de la ciudad de Londres **
 * Solo soy un chico normal **
 * Los viernes voy a pintar al Louvre **
 * Estoy obligado a prometerme el sábado por la noche ****
 * Estaré vagueando el domingo **
 * vagueando el domingo **
 * Vagueando el domingo por la tarde **