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Queen’s Marquee Launch Of ‘73
Queen have been a worldwide rock institution for so long that it’s strange to think of the day that EMI Records launched them, but that date was 42 years ago exactly. After signing with the label in...
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Queen Make Their US Live Debut
It was full speed ahead for Queen exactly 41 years ago. In the UK, they were enjoying their first hit as ‘Seven Seas Of Rhye’ reached its No. 10 peak, while the top five success of the ‘Queen II’ album...
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Queen Arrive At Wembley
Queen roared through Europe In the spring of 1978 in support of their sixth studio album ‘News Of The World.’ By the time they arrived back in London, exactly 37 years ago, they reached a new...
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Mamma Mia, Here ABBA Go Again
In 1976, ABBA were expanding in all directions, and exactly 39 years ago they took their next step in the American market. On the Billboard Hot 100 for May 22, as Wings flew to No. 1 with ‘Silly Love...
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The Ricky Nelson Hit Covered By Creedence, Led Zep & Queen
As Rick(y) Nelson celebrated his 21st birthday in 1961 with a new hit single and album (described in our u-Byte of May 29), ‘Hello Mary Lou’ — technically the B-side of the chart-topping ‘Travelin’...
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The Queen Of Beers
Queen are launching their own beer — and it’s a Bohemian Czech lager in honour of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ The rock giants have announced the arrival of their Bohemian Rhapsody lager to mark the 40th...
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Announcing ‘Queen: The Studio Collection’
The peerless Queen catalogue will make its triumphant return to vinyl, the format in which their millions of listeners first heard them, in September. Together with Universal Music, the band today...
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Ten Classic Brian May Solos
“The best solos are something which you can sing as well as the melody line,” says Brian May, who turns 68 today (July 19). “The kind of solos I enjoy are where there's a line which reflects the melody...
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Leslie West Announces May, Frampton As Album Guests
Mountain vocalist, guitarist and co-founder Leslie West has announced that both Brian May and Peter Frampton will guest on his new album. The record, to be titled ‘Soundcheck,’ is due later in the year...
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Freddie Mercury’s Only UK Solo No. 1
It’s bizarre to think of such an ultimately iconic figure in music as Freddie Mercury releasing singles that weren’t hits, but such was sometimes the case in the mid-1980s. During that period in which...
View ArticleFreddie Mercury’s Official Birthday Party 2015
Saturday September 5th 2015 saw fans from over 30 countries flock to Montreux in Switzerland to celebrate what would have been Freddie Mercury's 69th birthday. Check out the pictures from the night in...
View ArticleNo Pressure: Roger Taylor Jams With Foo Fighters
For their first UK gig since frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg in June, Foo Fighters brought rock legends Roger Taylor and John Paul Jones onstage, forming what Grohl called a “superdupergroup”. With...
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Damage, Drink: Metallica Beer Raises The Bar
Fans of Metallica will soon be able to crack open a cold one courtesy of their favourite group, as the heavy metal legends have teamed with Budweiser to release their own beer – albeit only in Canada....
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Look At Them Yo-Yos! Straits Rule The Hot 100
In Dire Straits’ perfect storm of 1985, this was the week that they added singles supremacy to their spectacular success on album as as a live attraction. 30 years ago this week, ‘Money For Nothing’...
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Royal Flush: Queen’s ‘A Night At The Odeon’
By the end of 1975, Queen were riding high with their greatest album success to date (released in November, A Night At The Opera was well on its way to going platinum in the UK, topping the UK album...
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Bohemian Rhapsody At The Odeon, 1975
Among the many show-stopping moments on Queen’s forthcoming A Night At The Odeon DVD is this spine-tingling rendition of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. Building from Freddie Mercury’s piano-and-vocal intro into...
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: We’re Not Worthy!
Recorded in six different studios, incorporating hard rock, opera and emotive balladry, and with lyrics that Freddie Mercury had been working on since the 60s, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’’s gestation was...
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Gold: Tony Hadley’s Best Of The 80s
As frontman of Spandau Ballet and host of Absolute Radio’s Tony Hadley’s 80s Party, Tony Hadley is an authority on all things 80s. But though he made his name with the New Romantic icons he’s most...
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Queen Named Living Legends At Classic Rock Roll Of Honour
Queen won the Living Legend Award and there were victories for Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Joe Satriani among others, at last night's (12) Classic Rock Roll Of Honour in association...
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Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ Begins Its Reign
The record that is recognised by the Officlal Charts Company as the bestselling artist album of all time in the UK, Queen's first Greatest Hits collection, began its reign on this date 34 years ago. A...
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