Artist: Queen
Released: 1974
Genres: Rock music, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Progressive rock music
Queen II is the second album by British rock group Queen . It was published in 1974 and produced by Queen , Roy Thomas Baker, and Robin Geoffrey Cable. The album was recorded from August 1973 at Trident Studios.
Unlike other Queen albums, this album has a different side label. The first side is called the “White Side”. The second side is called the “Black Side”. This album includes a full version of the song “Seven Seas of Rhye” which was on the previous album, Queen , and is the only single on this album.
This album was recorded in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Queen Lyrics
“The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke”
The fairy folk have gathered round the new moon shine
To see the feller crack a nut at night’s noon time
To swing his axe he swears, as it climbs he dares
To deliver…
The Master-Stroke
Ploughman, “Waggoner Will”, and types
Politician with senatorial pipe – he’s a dilly-dally-o
Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown
And a satyr peers under lady’s gown, dirty fellow
What a dirty laddio
Tatterdemalion and a junketer
There’s a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter – he’s my hero
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow “can we see the Master-Stroke”
What a quaere fellow
Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy
Waiting to hear the sound
And the arch-magician presides
He is the leader
Oberon and titania watched by a harridan
Mab is the queen and there’s a good apothecary-man
Come to say hello
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow
What a quaere fellow
The ostler stares with hands on his knees
Come on Mr. Feller, crack it open if you please