Quotes related to 'Back Chat' from 'Hot Space' album

[rhythm guitar sound] That's because John played that. John has played a lot of rhythm stuff.

Brian May; Guitar Player magazine, January, 1983 #

To be honest, there wasn't going to be a guitar solo on there, ‘cause John Deacon, whose song it is, has gone perhaps more violently black than any of us, really. We had loads of arguments about this and what he was heading for on his tracks, really, was a total non-compromise situation, doing the black stuff as the R'n'B artist would do it, and no concessions to our methods at all, and I was trying to edge him a little bit back into the central path, and trying to get a bit of heaviness into it and a bit of the anger that rock music puts into it. So, it was just one night, I said, “look, let me go in there and see what I can do.” Because I didn't feel the song, as it stood, was aggressive enough, ‘cause it's [titled] Back Chat, it's supposed to be about people arguing.

Brian May; BBC Radio One, June 1982 #

John's song. Interesting, musically, I think, because John, of course, brought this very separate influence into the band. It turned out to be one of the great strengths, I think. You know, John really wasn't into heavy metal or the kind of stuff that Roger and I were into, Zeppelin or The Who or whatever. He was into funk stuff and he really, at certain times in our history, brought that influence back in very strongly. This track is very sort of sparse and funky, and it's got John playing this motif guitar, that's not me playing - although I'm probably miming it in the video.

Brian May; Greatest Video Hits II, 2003 #

This doesn't rate as one of my favourites at all. The best thing in this song is the percussion solo - but I would say that, wouldn't I? Nice guitar, there. I think we got sidetracked with the enormous success of Another One Bites the Dust down a route that wasn't really us. The guitars are the best thing in this one, and the percussion solo.

Roger Taylor; Greatest Video Hits II, 2003 #