10 Songs About How The Music Business Sucks

Once the glam rock explosion started to sweep across Britain, Queen were quickly turning into a band worthy enough to have a royal name like that. After making some amazing progressive rock music on some of their early material, Sheer Heart Attack was where everything started to click, stretching things out on Brighton Rock and notching up their first massive single with Killer Queen. As the money started rolling in, the band found themselves broke and seething with anger at their manager.

According to their contract, most of their money was actually going exclusively to their manager Norman Sheffield and their label, which the band ran away from when signing John Reid on as their new manager. As they went into the studio to cut their new album a Night at the Opera though, Freddie Mercury was not done letting out his anger, opening the album with the diss track Death on Two Legs, taking Sheffield to task for stealing from them and how they think he is the scum of the Earth.

For all of the showmanship that comes with a song like this, Freddie was never mincing his words in this song either, asking if stabbing them in the back was originally part of their deal and calling him the king of the sleaze halfway through the song. It would take a few more months before all of the legal documents were done with, but after this song, Norman Sheffield could pretty much kiss any future with Queen goodbye.