"Stone Cold Crazy" from 'Sheer Heart Attack' by Queen/Hollywood Records

Harry Cody: Brian May. If he had been burning guitars onstage and twirling them around his body, he would be one of the all-time legends that even my father had heard of. Unfortunately he seems to be kind of reserved. Every guitar player knows who Brian May is. Everybody know what he has contributed. He's got the greatest sound and the greatest vibrato. He added much needed class to the '70s.

What can I say, I grew up on this stuff. It's great. I can't answer for what made me like it at the time. It just excited me and now when I analyze it, it's that he has a stronger vibrato than practically anyone from that period that I listened to. I wasn't into Eric Clapton, so I can't tell about that side. His multi-layered guitars, that weren't to be found on this song, were outstanding. He was so far ahead of his time as far as that goes.

This song was one of my favorites back then, because it was a hard rocker, and it still holds up. On that album, 'Sheer Heart Attack', there was "Brighton Rock" and this song really hit home. Then I'd listen to 'Killer Queen' for just major guitar orgasm multi-layered stuff.

John Stix