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  • Artist: Queen
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1994, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009
  • UPC: 4988006818187
  • Item Number: MSI681818
  • Release date: 05/15/2011
  • 1. Flash's Theme
  • 2. In the Space Capsule (The Love Theme)
  • 3. Ming's Theme (In Court of Ming the Merciless)
  • 4. Ring (Hypnotic Seduction of Dale)
  • 5. Football Fight
  • 6. In the Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise)
  • 7. Execution of Flash
  • 8. Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash)
  • 9. Arboria (Planet of the Tree Men)
  • 10. Escape from the Swamp
  • 11. Flash to the Rescue
  • 12. Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawk Men)
  • 13. Battle Theme
  • 14. Wedding March
  • 15. Marriage of Dale and Ming (And Flash Approaching)
  • 16. Crash Dive on Mingo City
  • 17. Flash's Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations)
  • 18. Hero
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Flash Gordon by Queen on CD


While writing and recording The Game, Queen were asked by renowned movie director Dino DeLaurentis to provide the soundtrack for his upcoming sci-fi epic Flash Gordon. The band accepted and promptly began working on both albums simultaneously. Although at first many fans criticized Flash Gordon since it was issued as an official Queen release rather than a motion picture soundtrack, it has proven to be one of rock's better motion picture soundtracks over the years. The majority of the music is instrumental, with dialogue from the movie in place of Freddie Mercury's singing (only two tracks contain lyrics), but the songwriting is still unmistakably Queen. Highlights abound, such as "Football Fight," "Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawkmen)," "The Wedding March," and the heavy metal roar of "Battle Theme." But it was the two more conventional songs that were the album's two best tracks -- the anthemic U.K. Top Ten hit "Flash's Theme" and the woefully underrated rocker "The Hero." With Queen involved, Flash Gordon is certainly not your average, predictable soundtrack. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
  • Artist: Queen
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1994, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009
  • UPC: 4988006818187
  • Item Number: MSI681818
  • Release date: 05/15/2011
  • Label: EMI Europe Generic, EMI Music Distribution, Fontana'Hollywood, Hollywood Records, Toshiba, Toshiba EMI, Virgin Records
  • Genre: Rock
  • Style: Album Rock, Arena Rock, Art Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Glam Rock, Hard Rock
  • Album Time: 35:10
  • Album Type: Soundtrack, Lyrics are included with the album
  • Group Disbanded: 1995

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  • Flash Gordon Queen CD
Flash Gordon Queen CD

Editorial Reviews

A director treads a precarious artistic line when setting out to consciously make a campy film. How exactly does one take seriously a film that asks not to be taken seriously? Mike Hodges answers that question in Flash Gordon. Near the end of this film, Dale Arden announces to Flash, while he's in the middle of a possibly fatal fistfight, "Flash, I love you but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!" That line does a good job of encapsulating the movie's goofy charm. Full of bright primary colors and sets that manage to look simultaneously ostentatious and cheap, Flash Gordon looks like a comic strip. Skyscapes look like matte paintings (because they are) and the costumes, while seemingly outrageous, fit right into this world. With this much eye candy, the story itself hardly matters. Luckily, the filmmakers take their narrative cue from the serials of the '30s and present a breathless, cliffhanger-filled tale of last-second escapes, thrilling fights, and heroic adventures, all delivered with tongue firmly planted in cheek. All this and Queen, too. What's not to love? Just when you think they can't possibly squeeze in another great visual joke, the Hawkmen, with whom Flash has defeated Ming the Merciless, show their gratitude to our hero by flying in a formation that reads "thanks." They then disband and reform in a pattern that reads "Flash." Such sublime silliness is what brings the film's cult audience back time after time. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide