Queen is a heavy metal band that was founded in 1971 after guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, who was a member of different bands, decided to join the vocalist and pianist Freddie Mercury. Then some time later bassist John Deacon joined them, and in 1972 they signed with EMI Records. Their first single "Keep Yourself Alive" was released shortly afterwards, but did not sell well. Then the Queen their debut album came out in '73 by combining hard rock glam in her album.
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Until 1974 when they became a big band with a third album Sheer Heart Attack. Their album to number two in the UK and the album single "Killer Queen" became the band's most nge-Hit in the U.S.. They also began making a name for themselves, especially those from the early Mercury is always dressed in satin and when she appeared on stage and he was always full of attractive appearance on stage just like the play.
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A Night At The Opera is one of the albums released in 1975 that made them superstars. The album peaked at number five in the U.S., and in Britain occupies the number one position and being in that position for nine weeks. The album has a single musical composition that has a duration of singles like opera with seven minutes of "Bohemian Rhapsody", a mini opera written by Mercury. It is a rock opera that really sound like opera, even combined with a distinctive style guitar twang Hevy metal. With many a lilting vocals, drums are loud, mellow piano, making songs that are most preferred for their fans. But A Night At The Opera also has songs other great and all the band members helped write some of them including Deacon's "Your My Best Friend", which is perfect for Mercury's voice, and Taylor's heavy metal, lead vocals, drums pounding "I'm in Love With My Car ".
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The next album, A Day At The Races, was released in 1976 which exploded with a single, "Somebody To Love". Then the next album was released in '77 the album News of the World with a double single called "We Will Rock You" make it occupies the top ten in the charts, written by May, and Mercury "We Are The Champions". "Champions" is a song that pretty much brought the message and is still used as an anthem for the championship sports teams around the world. In 1978, Queen became more successful with the release of another album that Jazz has a double A hit single, "Fat bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race".
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Queen at the height of their popularity as they entered the decade of the 80s. The Game album was released in early 1980. This album contains four songs hit in the U.S. is, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," like an Elvis song, and that sounds a bit disco "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Play the Game". The song "Save Me" was also one of the singles from the album that exploded in the UK. Whatever the reason, this will be the last album Queen of the United States and indeed in the eighties as they seem to continue to fade in there. But back home in Britain will be the things that are still strong. "Under Pressure", recorded with David Bowie to be number one in Britain in 1981 and in '84 they were number two on the UK charts with "Radio Gaga". Then they played a great show at the Live Aid benefit concert in 1985. In '86, A Kind of Magic sold out in Britain and throughout Europe, but failed to sell at all in the United States. The same fate will happen to 1989's The Miracle. 1991's slightly better in the U.S., peaking at number 30.
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But in early 1991, the band was nearing the end of his career. Mercury was seriously ill with AIDS, even though the fans did not know at first. Then at the end of the news began to spread about the health of Mercury and on 22 November, he issued a statement confirming she was suffering from AIDS. He died just two days later. Members of Queen who are still alive and his friends to do one last gig Queen. It was held at London's Wembley Stadium on May 20, 1992, and television around the world. Featuring guest artists such as Bowie, Elton John, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Def Leppard and Guns N 'Roses, the concert raised Millions for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, which was established for AIDS awareness. Also at this time the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" was reissued to raise money for AIDS research projects, and soared to the top of the UK charts. The song also climbed to number 2 in the U.S. as they are shown in the movie Wayne's World.
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