During the 1980s, Queen ceased to be a big record seller in the U.S., but maintained its superstar status at home. In the '90s, following the death of Freddie Mercury, there...
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Queen's greatest-hits collections have contained different track listings throughout the world. In the band's native England they scored more hits than anywhere else, hence...
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Queen were never adverse to commercialism -- after all, Freddie Mercury made sure that he recorded a full album's worth of vocal tracks on his deathbed, so his colleagues...
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There was no way that Queen could top their 1975 masterpiece A Night at the Opera and its epic single "Bohemian Rhapsody," so they did the next best thing -- they recorded a...
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After a perplexing absence, Brian May's guitar returns, but there's not enough of it. Only a few memorable tracks, one of which is "Princes Of The Universe"--late night TV...
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By the release of 1986's A Kind of Magic, Queen's stature as a prominent rock band in the U.S. had slipped considerably, while in all other parts of the world (especially...
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Jazz has been unfairly slagged in some quarters as an inconsistent and unfocused record; granted, there's a bit of filler cluttering the second half, but as for the latter...
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The Queen Collector is of little use to anyone but a hardcore Queen fan, and even then its worth is debatable. Two of the discs, Classic Queen and Greatest Hits, have been...
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Queen's second album of 1974 (and third overall), Sheer Heart Attack, helped bridge the gap between the mystical heavy metal of their early years and the hard rock/pop...
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Following their massive 1986 European stadium tour for the A Kind of Magic album, Queen took an extended break. Rumors swirled about an impending breakup, but it turned out...
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Along with 1975's A Night at the Opera, Queen's 1980 chart-topper The Game is one of their best and most commercially successful records. But The Game was the polar opposite...
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Following the disappointing commercial performance of the dance-oriented Hot Space in 1982, Queen took 1983 off to get refocused and work on a follow-up that would put the...
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Just before Hollywood records re-mastered and re-released Queen's entire back catalogue in the early 90's, they issued a 5-track CD single, We Will Rock You/We Are the...
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Queen were straining at the boundaries of hard rock and heavy metal on Sheer Heart Attack, but they broke down all the barricades on A Night at the Opera, a self-consciously...
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Between 1973 and 1977, Queen recorded six sessions for the BBC, the first five during the initial flood of excitement that led up to the release of the stately Sheer Heart...
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Essentially, this 17-track album is a second-volume Queen's Greatest Hits, picking up the story from that album's 1981 release and taking it to the end of Queen's career....
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While writing and recording The Game, Queen were asked by renowned movie director Dino DeLaurentis to provide the soundtrack for his upcoming sci-fi epic Flash Gordon. The...
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This is going to take a little explaining. In 1981, when it was contracted to Elektra Records in the U.S., Queen released an album called Greatest Hits (Elektra 564), which...
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In which Queen get Gary Numan-ized. An utterly tepid album except for the astonishing, heartfelt collaboration with David Bowie, "Under Pressure," which is so good it...
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Because Queen took the better part of 1981 off to work on the follow-up to their big 1980 hit The Game, fans were confident that the band's next release would follow in...
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Unbeknownst to the public, Freddie Mercury had been diagnosed with the AIDS virus in the late '80s. Although his health weakened by the '90s, Mercury insisted that the band...
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As Queen's second live album, Live Magic might appear to be a bit unnecessary, but a closer look reveals that it's a better record than the previous Live Killers. Culled...
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By 1979, Queen was considered among rock's elite class, and rightfully so. With a string of hit albums, singles, and sold-out tours to their credit, the group was about to...
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The posthumously released, two-disc Live at Wembley proves once and for all that Queen was a superior live band, and like the Beatles, Stones, etc., had far too many hits to...
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Marked by more powerful mood swings, from the raw and forceful "Get Down, Make Love" to the anthemic (and very stadium-worthy) "We Will Rock You"/"We Are The Champions" to...
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By 1977, Queen had perfected and succeeded at several different musical styles -- heavy metal, glam, progressive, pop, ballads, and forays into genres not usually associated...
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Although it may not be up to par with such future classics as A Night at the Opera and The Game, Queen's 1973 self-titled debut is one of the most underrated hard rock...
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Queen's second album, 1974's Queen II, is their heaviest and also darkest release. Upset by the lashing the critics bestowed upon their underrated self-titled debut a year...
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The eight-CD Queen box set The Crown Jewels boasts remastered versions of the band's first eight studio albums (from 1973-1980) and a booklet that contains an essay by MTV...
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Queen's second album of 1974 (and third overall), Sheer Heart Attack, helped bridge the gap between the mystical heavy metal of their early years and the hard rock/pop...
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Queen were straining at the boundaries of hard rock and heavy metal on Sheer Heart Attack, but they broke down all the barricades on A Night at the Opera, a self-consciously...
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Pay attention, because this gets tricky. Very tricky. The first Queen Greatest Hits released in America was a 14-track LP that hit the stores in 1981. Several years later,...
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The posthumously released two-disc Live at Wembley '86 proves once and for all that Queen was a superior live band, and like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and others, had...
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Following the disappointing commercial performance of the dance-oriented Hot Space in 1982, Queen took 1983 off to get refocused and work on a follow-up that would put the...
more >
By the release of 1986's A Kind of Magic, Queen's stature as a prominent rock band in the U.S. had slipped considerably, while in all other parts of the world (especially...
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Queen's second album, 1974's Queen II, is their heaviest and also darkest release. Upset by the lashing the critics bestowed upon their underrated self-titled debut a year...
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The bowl in question in the title of Queen's 2004 release On Fire at the Bowl is the MK Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, a venue that Queen performed at on June 5, 1982. That...
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Although it may not be up to par with such future classics as A Night at the Opera and The Game, Queen's 1973 self-titled debut is one of the most underrated hard rock...
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