As far as legacy acts go, Queen does it well. It’s one of the great tragedies in music history just how quickly Freddie Mercury was taken from the world, but as his band continue their mission to spread his artistry, they treat his heritage with true respect and love. However, there are two songs that […]
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Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed that he loses sleep worrying about the current state of the world. In a new interview with the Radio Times, the Queen icon admitted, “I feel despondent about the world of humans.” He elaborated, “It keeps me awake at night. The cruelty, the ignorance, the lies, the rewriting of […]
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There is no easy way to predict whether a song will connect with the people to become a hit or fail to make the light of day, even for a talent like Queen’s Brian May. Just because everything flows smoothly in the studio doesn’t necessarily mean that it’ll translate to a recording that is worthy […]
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With Queen, drummer Roger Taylor has been responsible for creating some of the most memorable rock songs in history. Even though the band lost their leader, Freddie Mercury, over 30 years ago, Queen still sell a mammoth number of records annually and remains as relevant as ever today. Their immense back catalogue of hits speaks […]
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Recording their 1995 album Made In Heaven would have undoubtedly been a jarring experience for Queen. Freddie Mercury had sadly passed away four years earlier, leaving them with one final record in Innuendo. They would be left without his charismatic presence thereafter and surely a hole too gaping to even think about filling. It was […]
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Just like every other decade, the 1990s chart behemoths trigger intrigue to the forgotten smashes with equal fascination as the lauded gems of the era. The UK number one lost to time is made up of all kinds of things. Sometimes they’re just bad and haven’t stood the test of time; others are overshadowed by […]
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It’s hard to imagine any piece of rock and roll guitar history that Brian May hasn’t been able to master. Throughout Queen’s career, they made it a habit of trying on any style that suited the song they were making, and whether that was stadium rock, operatic tunes, or even the occasional rockabilly, May usually […]
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It took Queen two records to finally crack the sound they’d stake rock royalty with. Not that they were a completely different band. Frontman Freddie Mercury’s penchant for highfalutin lyrics still gleams with literate indulgence, proggy expanses shape their rock attack into hefty suits of classical loftiness, and glossy piano glides in with the same […]
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Working alongside Freddie Mercury in Queen for decades was never a chore for Brian May, who was consistently amazed by the magic his bandmate could cook up in the studio. The mercurial frontman operated on a different wavelength from his peers, with his risk-taking strategies propelling Queen to success. It is often forgotten that while […]
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Queen have always existed in cycles of cultural relevance. Few bands of their stature have drifted so fluidly between being canonised, dismissed, rediscovered, and reclaimed. At various points, they have been celebrated as stadium-conquering innovators, written off as bloated relics of excess, and later embraced again by younger audiences discovering their catalogue without the baggage […]
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