Queen is an English rock band formed in London in 1970. Their classic line-up is Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (lead guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals )), and John Deacon (bass guitar). Her early works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually turned to more conventional and radio-friendly work by combining more styles, such as rock and pop rock arenas, into their music.
Before forming the Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor have played together in Smile. Mercury, later known by its birth name, Farrokh "Freddie" Bulsara, is a fan of Smiles and encourages them to experiment with more complex recording techniques and stages. Mercury merged in 1970, suggested the name "Queen", and adopted a familiar stage name. Deacons were recruited before the band recorded their debut album in 1973. The first Queen charted in the UK with their second album, Queen II , in 1974, but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack. later that year and A Night at the Opera in 1975 that brought them international success. The latter featured "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK for nine weeks and also helped popularize music videos.
The 1977 band's News of the World album contains "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions", which has become the national anthem at the sporting event. In the early 1980s, Queen was one of the biggest rock bands in the world. "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980) became their best-selling single, while their 1981 compilation album Greatest Hits was the best-selling album in the UK and certified eight times platinum in the US. Their performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert has been ranked top in rock history by various music publications. The last concert featuring their classic line - the last live show of Mercury - took place in Knebworth, England in August 1986. In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia, AIDS complications, and Deacon retired in 1997. May and Taylor have performed under the name Queen with Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert as vocalist on the tour since then.
Estimated number of sales of their recordings from 150 million to 300 million records, making them one of the best selling music artists in the world. The Queen received an Extraordinary Contribution to the British Music Awards from the British Phonographic Industry in 1990. They were inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Each Queen member has composed several hit singles, and all four band members were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Fame in 2003. In 2005 the band received Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors, and in 2018 they were awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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1968-1974: Hari-hari awal
In 1968, guitarist Brian May, a student at Imperial College London, and bassist Tim Staffell decided to form a band. Can place ads on the college announcement board for drummer "Mitch Mitchell/Ginger Baker type"; Roger Taylor, a young dentist, auditioned and got the job. The group calls themselves Smiles.
While attending Ealing Art College, Team Staffell befriended Farrokh Bulsara, a student who had assumed Freddie's English name. Bulsara felt that he and the band had the same tastes and soon became a big fan of Smile. In 1970, after Staffell went to join the band Humpy Bong, the remaining Smile members, encouraged by Bulsara, changed their name to "Queen" and performed their first appearance on July 18th. The band has a number of bass players during this period that are incompatible with the band's chemistry. Only in February 1971 they settled on John Deacon and started practicing for their first album. They recorded four of their own songs, "Wild", "Keep Yourself Alive", "The Night Comes Down" and "Jesus", for demo tape; no record company is interested. It was also around this time that Freddie changed his family name to "Mercury", inspired by the line "Mother Mercury, see what they have done to me" in the song "My Fairy King". On July 2, 1971, the Queen played their first show in the classic Mercury lineup, May, Taylor, and Deacon at a Surrey college outside London.
After attending art lectures, Mercury also designed the Queen's logo, called the Queen crest, shortly before the release of the band's first album. The logo combines the zodiac signs of the four members: two lions to Leo (Deacon and Taylor), crabs for Cancer (May), and two fairies for Virgo (Mercury). The lions hugged the letter Q, the crab resting on top of the letter with a flame rising just above it, and each of the fairies took cover under the lion. There is also a crown inside Q and the entire logo is overshadowed by a very large phoenix. All symbols bear a resemblance to the emblem of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of England, especially with the support of lions. The original logo, as found on the back side of the band's first album cover, is a simple line drawing. Later, the arm features a more complicated version of the color logo.
In 1972, Queen held a discussion with Trident Studios after being seen in De La Lane Studios by John Anthony. After this discussion, Norman Sheffield offered the band a management deal under Neptune Productions, a subsidiary of Trident, to manage the band and allow them to use the Trident facility to record new material, while management searched for record labels to sign the Queen.. This is suitable for both parties, when Trident expands into management, and under the agreement, Queen can utilize the high-tech recording facility used by other musicians like the Beatles and Elton John to produce new material.
In 1973, Queen signed a contract with Trident/EMI. In July of that year, they released their debut album, an effort influenced by heavy metal and progressive rock. The album was well received by critics; Gordon Fletcher of Rolling Stone calls it "extraordinary", and Chicago the Daily Herald calls it "debut above average". However, it attracted a bit of mainstream attention, and the main single "Keep Yourself Alive" sold poorly. Retrospectively, this is called the pinnacle of the album, and in 2008 Rolling Stone ranked 31st in "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time", describing it as "the overall value of a crafted riff album. song ". The album is certified gold in the UK and USA.
The second LP group, Queen II , was released in 1974, and featured a picture of rock photographer Mick Rock on the cover. This image will be used as the basis for the production of the music video "Bohemian Rhapsody" 1975. The album reached number five on the UK album chart and became the first Queen album to be mapped in the UK. Freddie Mercury's single "Seven Seas of Rhye" reached number ten in the UK, giving their band their first hit. This album is the first real evidence for the typical band-lined sound, and features complex long instrumental parts, fantasy-themed lyrics, and musical skills. In addition to the single, the album also included the song "The March of the Black Queen", a six-minute epic that lacked a choir. The Daily Vault describes the number as "threatening". Critical reactions are mixed; Winnipeg Free Press , when praising the band's debut album, describes Queen II as "too much manufactured monstrosity". Allmusic has described this album as a favorite amongst hardcore band fans, and this is the first of three Queen albums featured in the book 1001 You Must Hear Before You Die album.
1974-1976: Sheer Heart Attack to A Night at the Opera
In May 1974, a month into the opening of the band's first US tour for Mott the Hoople, Brian May fainted and was diagnosed with hepatitis, forcing the cancellation of the remaining dates. While recovering, May was initially absent when the band started working on their third album, but he was back in the middle of the recording process. Released in 1974, Sheer Heart Attack reached number two in the United Kingdom, selling well across Europe, and going to gold in the United States. It gave the band their first real experience of their international success, and became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. The album experimented with various musical genres, including British music hall, heavy metal, ballads, ragtime, and Caribbean. At this point, the Queen began to move away from the progressive tendencies of their first two releases into a more radio-friendly, song-oriented style. Sheer Heart Attack introduces a new sound and melody pattern that will be refined on the next album, A Night at the Opera .
The single "Killer Queen" of Sheer Heart Attack reached number two on the UK charts, and became their first US hit, reaching number 12 on Billboard Hot 100. It combines camp, vaudeville, and the English music hall with May's guitar skills. The album's second single, "Now I'm Here", a more traditional hard rock composition, is an eleven hit number in the UK, while the high-speed rock "Stone Cold Crazy" rocker featuring May uptempo riffs is the precursor to speeding metal. In recent years, the album has received praise from music publications: In 2006, Classic Rock placed it at number 28 in the "100 Greatest British Rock Albums", and in 2007, Mojo rated it No.88 in "100 World Changing Records". This is also the second album of three Queen albums featured in the 1001 Album You Should List Before You Die .
In January 1975, the band went on a world tour with each member in a costume made by Zandra Rhodes and accompanied by light banks and securities. They toured the US as headliners, and played in Canada for the first time, after which they played in seven Japanese cities from mid-April to early May. In September, after a fierce split with Trident, the band negotiated themselves out of their Trident Studios contract and sought out new management. One option they consider is an offer from Led Zeppelin's manager, Peter Grant. Grant wants them to sign a contract with Led Zeppelin's own production company, Swan Song Records. The band found the contract unacceptable and instead contacted Elton John's manager, John Reid, who accepted the position.
In late 1975, Queen recorded and released A Night at the Opera, taking her name from the popular Marx Brothers movie. At that time, this was the most expensive album ever produced. Like its predecessor, the album features a variety of musical styles and experiments with stereo sound. In "The Prophet's Song", the epic eight minutes, the middle section is a canon, with simple phrases plated to create a choir sound. Mercury written ballad, "Love of My Life", featuring harps and vocal harmonies are too many. The album was very successful in the UK, and went triple platinum in the United States. The British public voted it the 13th greatest album of all time in the 2004 Channel 4 poll. It also ranked high in international polls; in Guinness polls around the world, it was voted the 19th greatest of all time, while the ABC poll saw Australia's public vote as the 28th largest of all time. A Night at the Opera has often appeared on the list of "greatest albums" that reflect the opinions of critics. Among other awards, it was ranked 16th in the "Q Magazine's " 50 Best Britishs Ever "Album in 2004, and number 11 on Rolling Stone's The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time "as it was featured in their Mexican edition in 2004. It was also placed in No. 230 on the magazine list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" at Rolling Stooler in 2003. One Night in Opera is the third and final Queen album to be featured in the 1001 Album You Must Listen Before You Die .
The album also featured the hit single "Bohemian Rhapsody", which is number one in the UK for nine weeks. Mercury's closest friend and adviser, London Capital DJ Kenny Everett's radio, played an important role in providing a single exposure. This is the third best-selling single of all time in England, only surpassed by Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997", and is the UK's best-selling commercial single. It also reached number nine in the United States (the 1992 re-release reached number two on Hot 100's Billboard for five weeks). It is the only one who ever sold a million copies on two separate occasions, and became number one Christmas twice in the UK, the only one ever doing it. "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been chosen many times as the best song of all time. The band decided to make a video to help go with Triton single and hired, a subsidiary of the former management company Trident Studios, using new technology to make videos; the result is generally regarded as the first "true" music video ever produced, and popularized the media. Although other bands, including The Beatles, have made short promotional films or video tracks before, most of them are specifically made to be aired on certain television shows. About the influence of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Rolling Stone states: "The effect can not be overstated, practically creating a music video seven years before MTV airs." Ranking 31st in the list of 50 key events in rock history, The Guardian states that this ensures "the video will become a compulsory tool in music marketing". The first track of the album "Death on Two Legs" is said to have been written by Mercury about Norman Sheffield and former management at Trident who helped make the video so popular because the band went bust despite the success of the previous album. The second single from the album, "You're My Best Friend", the second song composed by John Deacon, and his first single, reached number sixteen in the United States and later became Top Ten worldwide. Band A Night at the Opera Tour began in November 1975, and covered Europe, the United States, Japan, and Australia.
1976-1979: A Day at the Races for Killer Direct
In 1976, the Queen returned to A Day at the Races studio recording, which is often regarded as a sequel album for A Night at the Opera . This again borrowed the name of Marx Brothers movie, and its cover is similar to A Night at the Opera , a variation on the same Queen Crest. The best known of Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, invited the Queen to visit her at her home in Los Angeles in March 1977; there's a band who thanked me personally, and did "'39" a cappella . Musically, A Day at the Races is good by fans and critics, a powerful effort, reaching number one in the UK and Japan, and number five in the US. The big hit on this album is "Somebody to Love", a gospel-inspired song in which Mercury, May, and Taylor track many of their sounds to create a 100-gospel sound choir. The song went to number two in England, and number thirteen in the US. The album also featured one of the band's toughest songs, May's "Tie Your Mother Down", which became the staple of their live performances.
During 1976, Queen played one of the most famous performances, a free concert at Hyde Park, London. A concert hosted by businessman Richard Branson, it made a record of attendance with 150,000 confirmed people in the audience. On December 1, 1976, the Queen was a targeted guest at the London Today program, but they were withdrawn at the last minute, who saw her replacement at the event, EMI labeling the Sex Pistols, giving a laden interview haphazardly known as Bill Grundy. During A Day at the Races Tour in 1977, Queen performed a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, New York, in February, and Earls Court, London, in June.
The band's sixth studio album News of the World was released in 1977, which has been four times platinum in the United States, and twice in the UK. The album contains many songs made specifically for live performances, including two of the most recognizable rock songs, "We Will Rock You" and the rock ballad "We Are the Champions", both of which became an international sports anthem, and the last reached number four in the US. Queen started the News of the World Tour in October 1977, and Robert Hilburn of Los Angeles Times called this concert tour "the most spectacular and dazzling spectacular show".
In 1978, the band released Jazz , which reached number two in the UK and number six on Billboard 200 in the US. The album included the hit single "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race" on two-sided footage. The Queen hired Wimbledon Stadium for a day to shoot a video, with 65 female models hired to hold a nude bike race. Album reviews in recent years have been more profitable. Another important song from Jazz , "Do not Stop Me Now", provides another example of the vibrant vocal harmonies of the band.
In 1978, the Queen toured the United States and Canada, and spent most of his 1979 tour in Europe and Japan. They released their first live album, Live Killers , in 1979; it went platinum twice in the US. Queen also released her highly successful single "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", a rockabilly-inspired song made in Elvis Presley style. The song is in the top 10 in many countries, occupying the Australian ARIA Charts for seven consecutive weeks, and is the number one first single in the United States where he occupied the Hot 100 Billboard for four weeks. After writing a song on the guitar and playing the rhythm on the recording, Mercury plays a rhythm guitar while performing the song directly, which is the first time he played guitar at the concert. In December 1979, the Queen played the opening night at the Concert for the People of Kampuchea in London, after receiving a request by the organizer of the show Paul McCartney.
1980-1984: Games to Works
Queen started their 1980s career with The Game . It featured singles "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust", both reaching number one in the US. After attending the Queen's concert in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson suggested to Mercury backstage that "Another One Bites the Dust" will be released as a single, and in October 1980 spent three weeks at number one. The album occupied Billboard 200 for five weeks, and sold over four million copies in the US. It was also the first appearance of the synthesizer on the Queen album. Until now, their album featured "No Synthesisers!" Typical! note arm. This record was widely assumed to reflect the anti-synth, pro- "hard" stance by the band, but was later revealed by producer Roy Thomas Baker in an attempt to clarify that the album's multi-layered solos were made with guitars instead of synths, keep assuming at the time. In September 1980, the Queen performed three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden. In 1980, Queen also released the soundtrack they recorded for Flash Gordon. At the 1981 American Music Awards in January, "Another One Bites the Dust" won the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single, and Queen was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group.
In February 1981, the Queen traveled to South America as part of The Game Tour, and became the first major rock band to play in the Latin American stadium. The tour included five shows in Argentina, one of which drew the biggest single concert crowd in Argentine history with a 300,000 audience in Buenos Aires and two concerts at Morumbi Stadium in SÃÆ'Â £ Paulo, Brazil, where they played for an audience of over 131,000 at night first (then most audiences for one band anywhere in the world) and over 120,000 people the next night. In October of the same year, the Queen performed for more than 150,000 fans on October 9 at Monterrey (Estadio Universitario) and 17 and 18 in Puebla (Estadio Zaragoza), Mexico. On November 24 and 25, the Queen played two nights at Montreal Forum, Quebec, Canada. One of Mercury's most famous performances of The Game 'last song, "Save Me", takes place in Montreal, and the concert is recorded on a live album, Queen Rock Montreal .
Queen worked with David Bowie on single "Under Pressure". The first collaboration with other artists was spontaneous, as Bowie happened to stop by the studio while the Queen was recording. Upon its release, the song was very successful, reaching number one in the UK and featuring at number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s.
In October of that year, Queen released their first compilation album, titled Greatest Hits, which showcased group highlights from 1974 to 1981. It was the best-selling album in the history of the British Chart, and has spent 450 weeks. in the UK Album Album. The album is certified eight times platinum in the United States, and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide. Taylor became the band's first member to release her own solo album in 1981, titled Fun in Space .
In 1982, the band released the album Hot Space, a departure from their trademark seven-legged voice, this time being a mixture of rock, pop rock, dance, funk, and R & B. Most of the albums were recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in band history, and Taylor and Mei bemoaned new voices, with both very critical of the influence of Mercury's personal manager Paul Prenter on the singer. May is also spicy Prenter, who was Mercury's manager from the early 1980s to 1984, for ignoring the importance of radio stations, such as the US network, and their vital relationship between the artist and the community, and for denying them access. to Mercury. The Q magazine will list Hot Space as one of the top fifteen albums in which the big plays lose their plot. On September 14 and 15, 1982, the band performed their last two shows in the US with Mercury on lead vocals, the concerts being held at the Forum in Inglewood, California. The band quit North American tours after their Hot Space Tour, as their success there has diminished, although they will be appearing on American television for the only time during the premiere screening of Saturday Night Live on October 25 September of the same year; it became the band's last public appearance in North America before the death of their frontman. The Queen left Elektra Records, labeled them in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and signed a contract with EMI/Capitol Records.
After working for more than ten years, the Queen decided that they would not perform live in 1983. During this time, they recorded a new album at Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles and Musicland Studios, Munich, and several band members explored a side project and solo work. Taylor released his second solo album, Strange Frontier . May released a mini-album, Star Fleet Project , in collaboration with Eddie Van Halen.
In February 1984, Queen released their eleventh studio album, The Works , which included the successful singles "Radio Ga Ga", "Hammer to Fall" and "I Want to Break Free". Despite the hit singles, the album failed to take place in the US, while in the UK he won a triple platinum and remained on the album chart for two years.
That year, Queen started The Works Tour, her first tour to feature keyboardist Spike Edney as an extra live musician. The tour features nine dates sold in October in Bophuthatswana, South Africa, in the arena in Sun City. After returning to England, they became the target of anger, having played in South Africa during the height of apartheid and violated the efforts of the world divestment and the UN cultural boycott. The band responded to criticism by stating that they were playing music for fans in South Africa, and they also stressed that the concert was played before the audience was integrated. The Queen was donated to the school for deaf and blind as a philanthropic act but was fined by the British Musicians Union and placed on a blacklisted artist of the United Nations.
1985-1988: Live Aid and subsequent years
In January 1985, the band held two nights of the first Rock Festival in Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and played in front of over 300,000 people every night. The Boston Globe describes it as a "mesmerizing show". Highlights from both nights were released on VHS under the title Queen: Live in Rio , and then aired on MTV in the US. In April and May 1985, Queen completed the Work Tour with sold-out shows in Australia and Japan.
At Live Aid, held at Wembley on July 13, 1985, in front of the largest ever TV audience, 1.9 billion, the Queen performed some of their biggest hits, where stadium audiences sold out 72,000 people clapping, singing and swaying in unison. The organizers of the show, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, other musicians like Elton John, Cliff Richard and Dave Grohl, and music journalists writing for BBC, CNN, Rolling Stone, MTV, The Telegraph among others, stating that the Queen stole the show. The industry poll in 2005 put it as the biggest rock show of all time. Mercury, an ongoing note during the acappella section became known as "The Note Heard Round the World".
When interviewed for Mojo magazine, the band said the most amazing sight on Live Aid was watching the audience clap their hands to "Radio Ga Ga". Brian May stated: "I've never seen anything like it in my life and it's not counted.We understand our audience and play for them but it was one of those weird accidents because of (the music) video.I remember thinking 'oh great, they have take it 'and then I think' this is not a queen's audience 'This is a general audience who has bought tickets even before they know we are on the bill And they all do it "How do they know? Nobody told them to do it. "
The band, now revitalized by the response to Live Aid - a "shot in the arm" Roger Taylor called it, - and the next increase in record sales, which ended in 1985 with the release of a single "Vision" single, which is the third time after "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Under Pressure (with David Bowie)" that the four band members received a writing credit for one song. Also, a set of limited edition boxes containing all of Queen's albums until now were released under the title The Complete Works . This package includes previously unreleased material, especially the single non-album Queen Christmas 1984, entitled "Thank God It's Christmas".
In early 1986, Queen recorded the album A Kind of Magic , containing some rework songs written for the Highlander fantasy action movie . The album was very successful, resulting in a series of hits, including the title track, "A Kind of Magic". Also mapped from the album's "Who Wants to Live Forever", featuring "Friends Will Be Friends", and the de facto theme of Highlander , "Prince of the Universe".
In the summer of 1986, the Queen went on their last tour with Freddie Mercury. The tour sold out to support the A Kind of Magic , once again they rented Spike Edney. The highlight of the Magic Tour is at Wembley Stadium in London and produces a live double album, Queen at Wembley , released on CD and as a live concert of VHS/DVD, which has earned five times platinum in the US. and four times platinum in the UK. The Queen can not order Wembley for the third night, but they play at Knebworth Park. The show sold out within two hours and over 120,000 fans packed the park for what was the Queen's last live show with Mercury. The Queen embarked on a tour at the Sunda RÃÆ'  ¥ stadium in Stockholm, Sweden, and during the band's tour performed a concert at Slane Castle, Ireland, in front of 95,000 spectators, who broke the venue attendance record. The band also played behind the Iron Curtain when they appeared to a crowd of 80,000 at the NÃÆ'  © base in Budapest, in what was one of the biggest rock concerts ever held in Eastern Europe. More than a million people saw Queen on tour - 400,000 in the UK alone, a record at the time.
After working on various solo projects during 1988 (including Mercury's partnership with Montserrat Caballà ©  ©, Barcelona ), the band released The Miracle in 1989. The album went on >> A Kind of Magic , using pop-rock sounds mixed with some weight figures. It spawned European hits "I Want All", "Breakthru", "The Invisible Man", "Scandal", and "The Miracle". The Miracle is also beginning to change the direction of Queen's songwriting philosophy. Since the beginning of the band, almost all songs have been written by and credited to one member, with other members adding a minimum. With The Miracle , songwriting became more collaborative, and they vowed to credit the final product only to Queen as a group.
1988-1992: Mercury : illness, death, and rewards
After fans saw Mercury's increasingly emaciated appearance in 1988, the media reported that Mercury was seriously ill, with AIDS often mentioned as a possible illness. Mercury firmly denied it, insisting that he was just "exhausted" and too busy to give interviews; he is now 42 years old and has been involved in music for almost two decades. Mercury had actually been diagnosed as HIV positive during 1987, but it did not make the disease public and denied that anything was wrong. Apart from Mercury's disease, the band decided to continue making albums, starting with The Miracle (released in summer 1989) and continuing with Innuendo (released in early 1991). Despite his deteriorating health, the lead singer continues to contribute. For the last two albums made while Mercury was alive, the band praised all the songs for Queen, rather than certain members of the group, freeing them from internal conflicts and differences. In 1990, the Queen terminated their contract with Capitol and signed with Disney's Hollywood Records, which has since been the owner of the group's music catalog in the United States and Canada. In February of that year, Mercury made his final public appearance when he joined the rest of Queen to collect Brit Award for Extraordinary Contribution to British Music. Throughout the 1990s, media reports insisted that Mercury was seriously ill, but the singer continued to deny that these reports were true.
Innuendo was released in early 1991 with hit number 1 UK and other charting singles released later this year, including "The Show Must Go On". The song, released as a pioneer for Greatest Hits II in October 1991, featured recordings of the Queen's showcase between 1981 and 1989, and along with the lyrics, it continues to trigger media reports that Mercury is dying, though this is officially rejected. Mercury became increasingly ill and was barely able to walk when the band recorded "The Show Must Go On" in 1990. Because of this, May has concerns about whether he is physically able to sing it. Given the success of Mercury's performance in May stated; "He came in and killed him, completely tearing the vowel". The rest of the band was ready to record when Mercury felt able to come to the studio, for an hour or two at a time. May says about Mercury: "He just keeps saying 'Write me more Write me I want to sing this and do it and when I go you can finish it.' He is not afraid, really. "The band's second greatest hits compilation, Greatest Hits II, was followed in October 1991, which is the eighth best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold 16 million copies worldwide.
On November 23, 1991, in a prepared statement made on his deathbed, Mercury confirmed that he had AIDS. Within 24 hours of statements, he died of bronchial pneumonia, which was brought in as an AIDS complication. His funeral service on November 27th at Kensal Green, West London is private, and held in accordance with Zoroastrian religious beliefs from his family. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was re-released as a single shortly after Mercury's death, with "This Are the Days of Our Lives" as a double A-side. The music video for "This Are the Days of Our Lives" contains the last scene of Mercury in front of the camera. The song was featured at the beginning of the year on the album Innuendo , and a video for it was recorded in May 1991 (which proved to be Mercury's last work with the Queen). The single went to number one in Britain, remaining there for five weeks - the only recording to the top of the charts twice and the only one to be number one in four different years (1975, 1976, 1991, and 1992 ). The initial results of the single - about Ã, Â £ 1,000,000 - donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust, an AIDS charity.
Queen's popularity was stimulated in North America when "Bohemian Rhapsody" was featured in the 1992 comedy film Wayne's World. The inclusion helped the song reach number two on Hot 100's Billboard for five weeks in 1992 (including a 1976 chart chart, fixed in Hot 100 for a combined 41 weeks), and won the MTV Award at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. The Queen Queen's compilation album also reached number four on Billboard 200, and was certified three times platinum in the US. Wayne's World Video is used to create a new music video for "Bohemian Rhapsody", where band and management are happy.
On April 20, 1992, the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was held at London's Wembley Stadium for a crowd of 72,000 people. Perpetrators, including Def Leppard, Robert Plant, Guns N 'Roses, Elton John, David Bowie, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Seal, Extreme, and Metallica featuring various Queen songs along with three remaining Queen members (and Spike Edney.) Concerts listed on the Guinness Book of Records as "The biggest rock charity concert", as it is broadcast to over 1.2 billion viewers worldwide, and collected over Ã, Â £ 20,000,000 for the AIDS charity.
1995-2003: Made in Heaven to 46664 Concert
Her last album featuring Mercury, titled Made in Heaven , was finally released in 1995, four years after her death. Featuring songs such as "Too Much Love Will Kill You" and "Heaven for Everyone", the song was made from Mercury's last recording in 1991, the remaining material from previous studio albums and material re-created from May, Taylor, and solo Mercury. album. The album also featured the song "Mother Love", the last vocal recording made by Mercury, which he completed by using a drum machine, in which May, Taylor and Deacon later added the instrumental track. After finishing the second verse from the back, Mercury had told the band that he "did not feel great" and stated, "I'll finish it when I come back, next time"; However, he never made it back to the studio, so Mei later recorded the last stanza of the song. Both stages of recording, before and after Mercury's death, were completed in the band studio in Montreux, Switzerland. This album reached No. 1 in the UK after it was released, their ninth number one album, and sold 20 million copies worldwide. On 25 November 1996, a Mercury statue was unveiled in Montreux overlooking Lake Geneva, nearly five years after his death.
In 1997, Queen returned to the studio to record "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)", a song dedicated to Mercury and all who died too soon. It was released as a bonus song on the Queen Rocks compilation album later that year. In January 1997, Ratu performed "The Show Must Go On" live with Elton John and BÃÆ' Â © Jart Ballet in Paris on the night of Mercury's memorial, and it marks the last appearance and public appearance of John Deacon, who chose to retire. The Paris concert was only the second time the Queen played directly since Mercury's death, prompting Elton John to urge them to perform again.
Brian May and Roger Taylor performed together at several award ceremonies and charity concerts, sharing vocals with various guest singers. During this time, they were billed as Queen followed by the guest singer's name. In 1998, the duo appeared in Luciano Pavarotti's lucrative concert with May featuring "Too Much Love Will Kill You" with Pavarotti, then playing "Radio Ga Ga", "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" with Zucchero. They returned to perform at the Pavarotti charity concert in Modena, Italy in May 2003. Some guest singers recorded a new version of Queen's song under the name Queen, such as Robbie Williams who provided vocals for "Kami". Is Champions "for the soundtrack of A Knight's Tale (2001).
In 1999, the album Greatest Hits III was released. It featured, among other things, "Queen Wyclef Jean" on the rap version of "Another One Bites the Dust". The live version of "Somebody to Love" by George Michael and the live version of "The Show Must Go On" with Elton John is also featured in this album. At this point, Queen's record sales are so numerous that they become the second best-selling artist in the UK of all time, behind The Beatles. On October 18, 2002, Queen was awarded a star of 2,207 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for their work in the music industry, located at 6358 Hollywood Blvd. On November 29, 2003, May and Taylor performed at the 46664 Concert hosted by Nelson Mandela at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. May and Taylor spent time at Mandela's house, discussing how African issues can be approached, and two years later the band was made ambassador for the 46664 cause.
2004-2009: Queen Paul Rodgers
At the end of 2004, May and Taylor announced that they would reunite and return to the tour in 2005 with Paul Rodgers (founder and former vocalist of Free and Bad Company). Brian May's website also states that Rodgers will be "featured with" Queen as "Queen Paul Rodgers" instead of replacing Mercury. The retired John Deacon will not participate. In November 2004, Queen was one of the first pioneers into the UK Music Hall of Fame, and the award ceremony was the first event in which Rodgers joined May and Taylor as vocalist.
Between 2005 and 2006, Queen Paul Rodgers embarked on a world tour, which was the first time the Queen toured since their last tour with Freddie Mercury in 1986. Drummer band Roger Taylor commented; "We never thought we were going on another tour, Paul [Rodgers] came by chance and we seemed to have chemistry, Paul was just a great singer, he was not trying to be Freddie." The first leg was in Europe, the second in Japan, and the third in the US in 2006. Ratu received the first VH1 Rock Award at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 25, 2006. Foo fighters paid tribute to the band in performing "Tie Your Mother Down "to open the ceremony before joining the stage by May, Taylor, and Paul Rodgers, who played a selection of Queen hits.
On August 15, 2006, Brian May confirmed through his fan and club's website that Queen Paul Rodgers would begin producing their first studio album starting in October, to be recorded in "secret locations". Queen Paul Rodgers performed at Nelson Mandela's 90th Anniversary at Hyde Park, London on 27 June 2008, to commemorate the ninth anniversary of Mandela, and once again promote awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The first Queen Paul Rodgers album, titled The Cosmos Rocks , was released in Europe on September 12, 2008 and in the United States on October 28, 2008. Following the album's release, the band resumed touring through Europe, opening in Kharkiv's Freedom Square in front of 350,000 Ukrainian fans. The Kharkiv concert was later released on DVD. The tour then moved to Russia, and the band performed two sold-out shows at the Moscow Arena. After completing the first leg of an extensive European tour, which saw the band play 15 sold-out dates in nine countries, UK tour tickets were sold out in 90 minutes for sale and included three London dates, the first being The O2 on October 13th. The last round of the tour took place in South America, and included a sold-out concert at Estadio JosÃÆ'Â © Amalfitani, Buenos Aires.
Queen and Paul Rodgers officially split up without hostility on May 12, 2009. Rodgers states: "My arrangement with [Queen] is similar to my arrangement with Jimmy [Page] at The Firm in that it was never meant to be a permanent arrangement". Rodgers did not rule out working with Queen again.
2009-2011: Departing from EMI, 40th anniversary
On May 20, 2009, May and Taylor performed "We Are the Champions" live in the season finale of American Idol with the winner of Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert giving the vocal duet. In mid-2009, after the breakup of Queen Paul Rodgers, Queen's online website announced the latest greatest hits compilation named Absolute Greatest . The album was released on November 16 and peaked at number 3 on the official UK Chart. The album contains 20 of Queen's biggest hits covering their entire career and is released in four different formats: single disc, double disc (with commentary), dual discs with feature book, and vinyl recordings. Prior to its release, Queen ran an online competition to guess the playlist as a promotion for the album.
On October 30, 2009, Mei wrote a fanclub letter on his website stating that the Queen has no intention of touring in 2010 but there is a possibility of performance. He was quoted as saying, "The biggest debate, though, is always about when we will play together as Queen.At this time, despite the many rumors that are out there, we have no plans for touring in 2010. The good news, however, is that Roger and I have a closer understanding today - personally and professionally... and all ideas are carefully considered Music is never far from us When I write, there is something important, a one-time performance offered, in the United States , and it remains to be decided whether we will accept this particular challenge.Every day, the door seems to be open, and every day, we interact, perhaps more than ever, with the outside world.This is an exciting transition in Rock music and in 'The Business. "It was good that his beat was still beating.On November 15, 2009, May and Taylor performed" Bohemian Rhapsody "live on the British TV show The X Factor > with the finalists.
On May 7, 2010, May and Taylor announced that they were out of their record label, EMI, after nearly 40 years. On August 20, 2010, Queen's manager Jim Beach released a Newsletter stating that the band had signed a new contract with Universal Music. During an interview for HARDtalk on the BBC on September 22, May confirmed that the band's new agreement with Island Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. For the first time since the late 1980s, the Queen's catalog will have the same distributors worldwide, because their current North American label - Hollywood Records - is currently distributed by Universal (for a time in the late 1980s, the Queen was in EMI- owned Capitol Records in the US).
On March 14, 2011, which marked the band's 40th anniversary, the first five albums of the Queen were re-released in the UK and some other areas as deluxe deluxe editions (US version released on May 17). The five albums of Queen's second re-catalog were released worldwide on June 27, with the exception of the US and Canada (27 September). The last five were released in the UK on September 5th.
In May 2011, Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell noted that Queen is currently stalking their former and current bassist Chris Chaney to join the band. Farrell stated: "I have to keep Chris away from Queen, who wants it and they will not get it unless we do not do anything then they can have it." That same month, Paul Rodgers stated he will tour with Queen again in the near future. At the 2011 Broadcast Music, Incorporated (BMI) Awards held in London on October 4, the Queen received the BMI Icon Award in recognition of their success in the US. At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 on November 6, the Queen received the Global Icons Award, which Katy Perry presented to Brian May. The Queen closed the award ceremony, with Adam Lambert on vocals, performing "The Show Must Go On", "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions". The collaboration gained a positive response from fans and critics, who generated speculation about future projects together.
2011-present: Queen Adam Lambert , Queen Forever
On April 25 and 26, May and Taylor appeared in the eleventh series of American Idol at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles performing a Queen's Medley with six finalists at the first show, and the following day performing "Somebody to Love" with the band 'Queen Extravaganza'. Queen was scheduled to be the Sonisphere headline at Knebworth on July 7, 2012 with Adam Lambert before the festival was canceled. The Queen's last concert with Freddie Mercury was at Knebworth in 1986. Brian May commented, "It's a worthy challenge for us, and I'm sure Adam will meet with Freddie's approval." The Queen expressed her disappointment at the cancellation and issued a statement that they were looking for another place. Queen Adam Lambert played two shows at Hammersmith Apollo, London on 11 and 12 July 2012. Both shows were sold out in 24 hours of tickets to be sold open. The third London date is scheduled for July 14th. On June 30, Queen Lambert performs in Kiev, Ukraine at a joint concert with Elton John for the Antinna Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation. The queen also performed with Lambert on July 3, 2012 at the Moscow Olympic Stadium, and on July 7, 2012 at the Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland.
On August 12, 2012, Queen appeared at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The performance at London's Olympic Stadium opened with a special remastered Mercury video clip on stage calling and routine response during their 1986 concert at Wembley Stadium. After this, May performed part of the "Brighton Rock" solo before joining Taylor and solo artist Jessie J for "We Will Rock You".
On 20 September 2013, Queen Adam Lambert performed at iHeartRadio Music Festival at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Queen Adam Lambert toured North America in Summer 2014 and Australia and New Zealand in August/September 2014. In an interview with Rolling Stone, May and Taylor said that although the tour with Lambert was limited , they are open to him to become an official member, and cut new material with him.
In November 2014, Queen released a new album Queen Forever . The album was largely a compilation of previously released material but featured three new Queen songs featuring vocals from Mercury with backing added by surviving Queen members. One new song, "There Should Be More Than This", is a duet between Mercury and Michael Jackson.
In 2016, the group started all of Europe and Asia on the 1992 Adam Lambert Summer Tour 2016. This included closing the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK on June 12 where they performed "Who Wants to Live Forever" in tribute to mass casualty casualties at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida the day before. On September 12 they performed at Park Hayarkon in Tel-Aviv, Israel for the first time in front of 58,000 people. As part of Adam Lambert Queen Tour 2017-2018, the band toured North America in the summer of 2017, a European tour in late 2017, before playing in Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2018.
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Music styles and influences
The Queen drew the artistic influence of the British rock acts of the 1960s and early 1970s, such as The Beatles, Kinks, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Who, Black Sabbath, Slade, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Genesis, and Yes, in addition to American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, with Mercury also inspired by gospel singer Aretha Franklin. Perhaps calling the Beatles "our bible in the way they use the studio and they paint the images and the use of incredible harmony." In the early 1970s, Queen music has been characterized as "Led Zeppelin meets Yes" due to a combination of "extreme acoustic guitar/electric guitar and epic fantasy-inspired multi-part song".
The Queen composed music that drew inspiration from many different genres of music, often with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. The genres they associate include progressive rock, rock symphonies, rock art, glam rock, hard rock, heavy metal, pop rock, and psychedelic rock. Queen also wrote songs inspired by various musical styles that are not normally associated with rock groups, such as opera, music hall, folk music, gospel, ragtime, and dance/disco. Their 1980 single "Another One Bites the Dust" became a major hit in the funk rock genre. Some of Queen's songs were written with audience participation in mind, such as "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions". Similarly, "Radio Ga Ga" became a direct favorite as it will have "the crowds clapping as they were in the Nuremberg rally".
In 1963, Brian May and his father built their distinctive guitar, Red Special, which was deliberately designed for feedback. Sonic's experiment relies heavily on Queen's songs. The distinctive characteristic of Queen music is the vocal harmony that usually consists of May, Mercury, and Taylor sounds best heard on A Night at the Opera and A Day in the Racing studio album. Some of the basic work for sound development can be attributed to producer Roy Thomas Baker and engineer Mike Stone. In addition to vocal harmony, the Queen is also known for its multi-tracking sound to mimic the sound of a large choir through overdubs. For example, according to Brian May, there are over 180 vocal overdubs in "Bohemian Rhapsody". The band's vocal structure has been compared with Beach Boys, but May states they are not "a lot of influence".
David Mallet directed a number of their music videos, some of them using footage from classic films: "Under Pressure" incorporating the silent film of the 1920s, Sergei Eisenstein Battleship Potemkin and FW Murnau's Nosferatu , the 1984 video for "Radio Ga Ga" includes footage from Fritz Lang Metropolis (1927), while the 1995 video "Heaven for Everyone" shows footage from Georges MÃÆ'Ã… © liÃÆ'¨s' A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). The first part of Mallet's music video for "I Want to Break Free" forged the famous British soap opera Coronation Street . The music video for "Innuendo" combines stop motion animation with rotoscoping and the band members appear as illustrations and pictures taken from Queen's previous music video on the cinema screen in the same way as in the Nineteen Eighty-Four English Movie.
Legacy
In 2002, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted the "UK's favorite hit of all time" in a poll by the Guinness World Records of the British Hit Singles Book . In 2004, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Many scholars regard the breakthrough "Bohemian Rhapsody" music video, credited it with popularizing the media. The rock historian Paul Fowles stated that the song "is widely credited as the first global single hit where the accompanying video is at the center of the marketing strategy". It has been hailed as launching the age of MTV. Recognized for their rock stadium, in 2005 an industry poll ranked Queen performance at Live Aid in 1985 as the best live action in history. In 2007, they were also voted the greatest British band in history by BBC Radio 2 listeners.
In 2005, according to Guinness Book of World Records , Queen's albums have spent a total of 1,322 weeks (twenty six) in the UK Album Charts, more than any other musical action. Also in 2005, with the release of their live album with Paul Rodgers, Queen moved into third place on the list of actions with the most time spent on the UK charts.
In 2006, the Greatest Hits album was the best-selling album of all time in the history of the British Chart, with sales of 5,407,587 copies, over 604,295 more than its nearest competitor, The Beatles' Sgt. Lost Pepper Club Band. Their Greatest Hits II album is the seventh best seller, with sales of 3,746,404 copies.
The band has released a total of eighteen number one albums, eighteen number one singles, and ten number one DVDs worldwide, making them one of the best selling music artists in the world. Queen has sold more than 150 million records, with some estimates of over 300 million records worldwide, including 34.5 million albums in the US in 2004. Inaugurated as Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, the band is the only a group where each member has composed more than one chart-topping single, and the four members were inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2009, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" were inducted into the Grammy Hall. Fame, and the latter was voted the world's favorite song in Sony Ericsson's 2005 global music poll. The band received Ivor Novello Awards for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, in 1987, and Outstanding Song Collection, in 2005, from the British Academy of Songwriters , Composers, and Authors. In 2018 they are presented Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Queen is one of the most popular bands, according to Nick Weymouth, who runs the band's official website. A 2001 survey found 12,225 websites dedicated to pirated Queen, the highest number for any band. Pirated recordings have contributed to the band's popularity in certain countries where Western music is censored, like Iran. In a project called Queen: The Top 100 Bootlegs , many of which have been officially available for download at a nominal fee from the Queen's website, with an entrance advantage to the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Rolling Stone placed Queen 52 on the "100 Greatest Artist of All Time" list, while Mercury ranked as the 18th greatest singer, and May is the twenty-sixth greatest guitarist. Queen was crowned 13 on the list of 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock VH1, and in 2010 was ranked 17th in the list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time VH1. In 2012, Gigwise readers refer to Queen as the best band for 60 years.
Influence
Queen has been recognized to have contributed significantly to such genres as hard rock, and heavy metal, among others. Therefore, the band has been cited as influenced by many other musicians. In addition, like their music, the bands and artists that have been claimed to be influenced by the Queen and have expressed their admiration vary, covering generations, countries and genres, including heavy metals: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Dream Theater, Trivium , Megadeth, Anthrax, No More Faith, Melvin, Slipknot and Anger Against Machine; hard rock: Guns N 'Roses, Def Leppard, Van Halen, MÃÆ'¶tley CrÃÆ'¼e, Steve Vai, the Cult, the Darkness, Kid Rock and Foo Fighters; alternative rock: Nirvana, Radiohead, Trent Reznor, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Flaming Lips, and The Smashing Pumpkins; surprise stone: Marilyn Manson; pop rock: Meat Loaf, The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Panic! in Disco; and pop: Michael Jackson, George Michael, Robbie Williams, Adele, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kesha, Grimes, and Psy.
In the early 1970s, the Queen helped spur the evolution of the heavy metal genre by removing most of its blues influences. The Queen's 1974 song "Stone Cold Crazy" has been cited as a precursor of speed metal. Metallica recorded the cover version of "Stone Cold Crazy", which first appeared on 1990's Elastica's 40th Anniversary album, and won the second Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1991. Thom Yorke of Radiohead received his first guitar at the age of 7, encouraged after seeing Brian May in the Queen's concert broadcast. At the age of 10, Yorke made his own guitar, trying to imitate what May had done with his Special Red, but he was not satisfied with the results. Furthermore, the Queen was one of the first influences in Radiohead music.
In other media
Musical theater
In May 2002, a musical or "rock drama" based on Queen's songs, titled We Will Rock You, opened at the Dominion Theater in London's West End. The musical is written by British comedian and author Ben Elton in collaboration with Brian May and Roger Taylor, and is produced by Robert De Niro. It has since been staged in many cities around the world. The music launch coincided with the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. As part of the Jubilee celebration, Brian May features a guitar solo "God Save the Queen", which is featured on Queen's A Night at the Opera , from the roof of Buckingham Palace. The recording of the show is used as a video for the song in the 30th Anniversary DVD edition of A Night at the Opera . After the premiere of Las Vegas on September 8, 2004, Queen was inducted into Hollywood RockWalk on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
The original London production is scheduled to close on Saturday, October 7, 2006, at the Dominion Theater, but due to public demand, the show lasts until May 2014. We Will Rock You has been the longest musical ever running in the main theater This London, overtaking previous record holder, musical Grease . Brian May stated in 2008 that they are considering writing a sequel to We Will Rock You . The musical toured England in 2009, playing at the Manchester Palace Theater, the Sunderland Kingdom, the Birmingham Hippodrome, the Bristol Hippodrome, and the Edinburgh Playhouse.
Sean Bovim created "Queen at the Ballet", an award for Mercury, which uses Queen's music as the soundtrack for dancers, who interpret the stories behind songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga and Killer Queen. Queen's music also appeared in the production of Off-Broadway Power Balladz, especially the song "We Are the Champions", with two show shows that believed the song was "the pinnacle of artistic achievement of its time".
Digital sphere
In conjunction with Electronic Arts, Queen released the computer game Queen: The eYe in 1998. The music itself - a song from Queen's extensive catalog, in many cases remixed into a new instrumental version - is generally well received , but the game experience is hampered by a bad game. Adding a problem is a very long development time, producing graphical elements that are already looking obsolete at the time of release.
Under the supervision of May and Taylor, many restoration projects have taken place involving Queen's long audio and video catalog. DVD releases from their 1986 Wembley concert (titled Live at Wembley Stadium ), Milton Keynes concert 1982 ( Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl ), and two Greatest Video Hits (Volumes 1 and 2, covering the 1970s and 1980s) have seen remix band music into 5.1 surround sound and DTS. So far, only two band albums, A Night at the
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