One Vision

November 4, 1985

One Vision is a song of the band Queen, released in 1985 as a single in 1986 on the album A Kind of Magic. It was created after a Live Aid performance and was written by Roger Taylor, but revised by all four band members, and was the first independently developed in cooperation of all members piece of tape.

One vision was ever included in all concerts of the Magic Tour 1986 as opening song.

In the official video a comparison of the " queen image " in 1971 and 1986 is made in the opening credits. So the song goes back, on the hit Bohemian Rhapsody (1975).

Style

According to Mark Blake was One Vision with "his synthesizer fanfare, radio -friendly chorus and heavy metal guitar riff " place for all facets of the style of Queen.

Laibach version

In 1987, an adaptation of the Slovenian band Laibach with German text and the title Birth of a Nation on the album Opus Dei and as a 12 " single.

Original text of Queen ( excerpt):

Laibach text ( extract):

The band " drilled with all seriousness the game with the fascination with, exerts the aesthetics of fascism ," the text, however, was " merely translated into German " and revised subtle. The " multiple use of the German language and German names" in the works of Ljubljana and other artists of the NSK " is due to the specific evocative quality of this language, which decided on non-native speakers, choppy, dominant and frightening acts and automatically deep in the history and anchored in the unconscious trauma activated. With the activation of the Germanic trauma and the undifferentiated, unidentifiable, passive and filled with nightmares dream of Slavism is activated ". Compared to the original only a few textual changes were made. El_Nico from the online magazine Nonpop called Laibach version as " willful [n ] forerunner of the Military - Pop ".