Talk:One Vision

One Vision in the Highlander

The article states that "The song featured briefly in the film Highlander playing on the radio in the car of the gun nut" but that was not One Vision. That was "Hammer to Fall" Tchaidze (talk) 23:37, 8 November 2009 (UTC)tchaidze

Did One Vision inspire Michael Jackson's Black or White?

I have not read anything about this on the net, but I think think there's a noteworthy similarity between the riff Brian May plays at 1:25 in One Vision, and the main riff of Michael Jackson's Black or White. Now, the thing what makes it seem like more than mere coincidence, is the line that Freddie Mercury sings just before Brian plays this riff; "I'm gonna tell you there's no black and no white".

I know that MJ and Queen were good friends, so is it possible that MJ put this riff in his song as a small homage to Queen? It can't be the other way around, since One Vision was released in 1985. Any thoughts on this? (I posted a similar comment on the song Black or White's talk page as well) Lappado 12:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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Added a line to show song is used in the film Iron Eagle but realised that I hadn't logged in. Un-did the edit and re-did it after logging in. Gopez (talk) 20:18, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

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Um, you know the bit about the slowed-down 'mysterious ways' lines at the beginning of One Vision and how it says that Brian May might have sang that part with Freddie Mercury? I don't think he did. I listened to it slowed down millions of times and can conclude that it's Freddie's voice all the way through. Brian has a sort of 'silky' voice, and those lines in the song don't sound silky-voiced at all. Can somone change those errors on the article? I only joined Wikipedia yesterday and am not sure how to use it yet. Thanks. TopGearFreak (talk) 14:59, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, the article does say, that Queen claimed, that the part was done by Brian May, but that it was in fact done by Freddie. But that's just about the second part of the distorted line. The first part, however, does display traces of more than one person singing the line, but it could also well be an over-dub done by Freddie. To be honest, the first part of it (the most prominent part, "God works in mysteirous ways..."), I compared it with the version, that Freddie sings on Magic Years, and it's the exact same. I slowed the Magic Years version down to the speed of the song's distorted vocals, and well, the positions of the s's matches perfectly, and so does the position and length of final long "waaaaaaaaaaays". The only missing is the final "s" of "ways" (in Magic Years, it comes a lot later), but it's because at its exact point, the next, more clear, "Mysterious ways" kicks in.

I also tried to play it back-wards, to verify the on-going Internet Yeah, sweet Satan, yes, I've seen Sabbath... (and variations of it), but the only thing that it could possibly say, from what my ears hear, would be E-867... Yes, it seems away..., or maybe E-867... Yes, this scene's away...", though, now, that I think, it could be Yeah, sweet Sam... yes, he ssems away...", but, I digress. Well sings Freddie... Yes, he sings damn well... would be possible as well, but quite far-fetched.

There's most probably no back-masked message there, though, in the album version, in the end, before the repeated beginning distorted vocals, there's a forward distorted part, which, to me, at least, sounds, like Yeah, sweet Satan..., which, according to a friend of mine, who's a professional musician, might be a clue left to the listener, that what follow, has more, than it might sound, like. Thing is, a back-masked message there is a claim, made even by professional Italian magazines, web-sites, AND TV documentaries, even though they seem to ignore the blatantly obvious, and proven by Magic Years, forward masked message. But then, it's not that clearly understandable, being as distorted, as it is. I myself only noticed it by chance, when I, after listening to it sped-up, and reverse, decided to reverse it back to forward, played it, and clearly heard the second part saying "Mysterious ways...". I did, however, know before that, that *A* part of the song said God works in mysterious ways... Mysterious ways..., since I had a copy of the lyrics, from a German site, which reported that in the beginning of the song, I just never thought, that it was those prominent distorted vocals, that said that. I thought, that those vocals said something, along the lines of One Vision, Vision, Visiooooon... Vision, Vision.... Yet, they say God works in mysterious ways... mysterious ways.... - 89.142.100.56 (talk) 17:11, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

"Fried Chicken" Lyrics

I remember seeing a Freddie Mercury documentary where he stated that the end lyric of "Fried Chicken" was the remnant of an alternative set of lyrics for the entire track, which the band would play for fun. Most of the lyrics had a sexual conotation or were just as silly as "fried chicken". Freddie, in the interview, even gives an example of the blue lyrics. I'll have to dig up a source for this, won't I?
LewisR (talk) 21:08, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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One Vision X Highway to Hell

I think 'One Vision' is practically same song as 'Highway To Hell' by AC/DC. Listen the 'one vision' and when a guitar solo starts, switch to the 'highway to hell'. I've made out this, when I was listening songs in my PC. I've set a random playing and this two songs've gone in turn. Fristly I thing that's error and one song's gone the second times, but It's true. Try it on your own. (btw: I'm sorry for my English, I'm not Czech republic ;-)) --94.112.163.85 (talk) 16:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I heard this song tonight and immediately thought it was some weird version of Highway to Hell. The guitar riff is almost identical, although the rest of the song is not.Robbmonster (talk) 12:11, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Hard rock

This song is 100% hard rock, in fact, this song is one of the heaviest songs by Queen. 24.222.80.173 (talk) 22:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Possible original research and excessive detail

The "peculiarities" section (the title of which itself sounds a little POV and out of place) includes a *lot* of material. However, it comes across as the writer(s)' own analysis of- and obsession with!- the song content. That's due both to the style of writing and to the fact that- other than a bare YouTube "reference" for one fact- it includes no citations. In the light of this, I'm assuming it's possible original research.

Much of this content was added in various edits circa late 2011, like this one.

I also think the section comes across as a bit self-indulgent and (with respect) waffly. If it wants to go into that much detail- and I'm not saying that's a bad thing- it needs to express it in a more concise and organised manner for a general audience.

Ubcule (talk) 20:51, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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