Queen's unique 12 bar blues

[PrimedPixelMusic]

Iirc Queen effectively had a "never 100% repeat yourself" mindset. They always wanted verses to be slightly different and the song to feel like a story (in the sense that there's progression)

[AmiJo]

I grew up listening to Queen, I love them. Thank you Dave for deepening my knowledge as to why Queen songs are so wonderful.

[hjones]

ABBA used to do the same thing. Adding or dropping bars in different verses and choruses

[VallinSFAS]

You should check out "See What A Fool I've Been"!

[hannanathan]

There’s a fog upon L.A… and my friends have lost their way…

[EmreCanKorkmaz]

Those deviations might have something to do with Queen writing based on lyrics and structuring the songs thereafter, as opposed to fitting lyrics onto a rather 'regular' song structure.

[danguee]

It's not "the amount of bars" - it's "the *_number_* of