The Beatles and their influence on Queen

The Beatles were one of the largest influences on not only rock and roll, but music as a whole. The Beatles pioneered several of the most important recording techniques ever, and in that is looping. In their song, "Tomorrow Never Knows" they record one phrase of Ringo's playing and loop it throughout their entire song. One band who uses this technique is the 1970's band Queen. Queen, led by Freddie Mercury, uses looping in many of their works, almost to a point of excess. One really good example of this is "The Prophet's Song" from the album, A Night at the Opera. In this, Freddie goes a cappella for the middle portion of the song, in which he loops his on vocals over and over again, singing in descending cadences with himself. This produces a very interesting effect on the overall tone of the song, as it comes back with guitar, drums and backing vocals. This song, and many of Queen's other songs would be very different (or just not exist) had The Beatles never used this technique of recording.