They were a pretentious little band were Queen, so full of their own charm and whimsy, so preoccupied with their image, and yet so adept at churning out wonderful rock music and marvellous singles. The camp nine minute epic opera Bohemian Rhapsody was bizarre and yet so popular. They had those other early classics like Seven Seas of Rhye, Killer Queen, We Will Rock You - heady stuff, hey? Freddie Mercury was the fey frontman, eventually taken by AIDS, and without himn, the band are surprisingly faceless. Drummer Roger Taylor was a force to be reckoned with, but Brian May and John Deacon were so god awfully dull people. That shouldn't detract from the stupendous body of work that Queen left with us, and this album is packed with the stuff - epic wonderful pop rock music. Everyone should have at least one Queen album in their set and this is as good a choice as any.
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I don't think it's fair to say that Queen were nothing without Freddie - Brian May is an excellent guitarist in my opinion and unlike Roger Taylor at least he managed to produce a solo album
jackie27 08.01.2001 10:16
This is almost exactly right - I don't think they were that pretentious
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