Artist: QUEEN
Album: FLASH GORDON (CD)

Release date: 1980
Media type: CD

Flash Gordon is a 1980 album by English rock band Queen. It is the soundtrack album to the science fiction movie Flash Gordon.

All but two of the tracks on the album ("Flash's Theme" and "The Hero") are instrumentals. The album makes extensive use of synthesizers, which had been employed by them for the first time on the previous album, 'The Game'.

"Flash's Theme" was the only single to be released from the album, under the title "Flash". It reached number 10 in the UK charts and number 42 in the US. The track is notable for its pounding, repetitive bassline and the camp humour of the snippets of dialogue from the movie that it contains. The last track, "The Hero", while an individual song, reprises the main motif from "Flash's Theme".

TRACKLIST:

"Flash's Theme" (May) * – 3:22
"In the Space Capsule (The Love Theme)" (Taylor) – 2:21
"Ming's Theme (In the Court of Ming the Merciless)" (Mercury) – 2:53
"The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction of Dale)" (Mercury) – 1:15
"Football Fight" (Mercury) – 1:29
"In the Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise)" (Taylor) – 2:26
"Execution of Flash" (Deacon) – 0:43
"The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash)" (Mercury) – 2:11

"Arboria (Planet of the Tree Men)[1]" (Deacon) – 1:41
"Escape from the Swamp" (Taylor) – 1:37
"Flash to the Rescue" (May) – 2:47
"Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawk Men)" (Mercury) – 1:15
"Battle Theme" (May) – 2:20
"The Wedding March" (Wagner arr. May) – 0:56
"Marriage of Dale and Ming (and Flash Approaching)" (May/Taylor) – 2:04
"Crash Dive on Mingo City" (May) – 0:46
"Flash's Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations)" (May) – 1:39
"The Hero" (May) – 3:31

LINE-UP:

John Deacon: bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer
Brian May: lead guitar, vocals, synthesizer, piano (on Flash's Theme & The Hero), organ (on The Wedding March)
Freddie Mercury: lead vocals, synthesizer
Roger Taylor: drums, timpani, vocals, synthesizer

Additional orchestral arrangements by Howard Blake