Tag: Queen

Who knows where inspiration comes from? It’s a mystery that people have been trying to figure out since the dawn of time. The act of ideas hitting from nowhere is an amazing phenomenon. Within a split second, a lightning strike of genius hits an artist, and the rest is history. Freddie Mercury knew that feeling […]

Freddie Mercury passed away over three decades ago. As the charismatic frontman of Queen, his remarkable vocal range won the hearts and minds of fans around the world throughout the 1970s and ’80s, yet his presence seems just as potent today. For this, we have an enduring fanbase, Brian May and Roger Taylor’s tenacity and […]

It was his last public appearance. And maybe I knew it. Freddie Mercury was holding in his hands the award he had just received by Queen at the Brit Awards, on February 18, 1990, for his contribution to British music. He didn’t step to the front of the band – joined by Brian May on […]

I can imagine that, for some, the Queen jukebox musical ‘We Will Rock You’ was an unforgivable sellout move. The moment when the band became the brand, peddling shlocky sci-fi, panto-level jokes and characters called things like Scaramouche, Galileo Figaro and the Killer Queen. I think it’s fair to say that the people scandalised by […]

22 June 1979 – Queen released their first Live album in the UK, “Live Killers” and this was also their first double vinyl. It was recorded over the span of three months during their European leg of the ‘Jazz’ tour (January to March 1979). The album was self-produced by the band and was their first […]

For many fans, critics, and musicians, the answer is a resounding yes—and it’s not hard to see why. Freddie wasn’t just a singer; he was a showman, a songwriter, and a force of nature who could captivate an entire stadium with a glance or a gesture. His vocal range, spanning over four octaves, allowed him […]