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- Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody” All hail the, er, king and forever champion, a concept album wrapped up into one six-minute Queen song and the original Carpool Karaoke classic thanks to Wayne’s World.
- Queen feat. David Bowie – “Under Pressure” Lots of high-profile rock collaborations fall on their face, but Queen with David Bowie was undeniable. Just ask Vanilla Ice…
- Queen – “We Will Rock You” Short (2:02), sweet, to the point and the most famous one-two-THREE! beat in rock, and probably pop music, history. A top five sports staple along with “We Are the Champions” and a catalyst for one of the best opening segments in Cheers‘ storied TV history.
- Queen – “Fat Bottomed Girls” Queen’s celebration of the prominent posterior came with a wink from the opening chorus and kept through Mercury’s command to “get on your bikes and ride!”
Name of song, year recorded, writer (s), lead vocalist, intended release and notes. This song was played live in 1970, 1973, 1975 and 1976 and was recorded in studio, but was never released.
TitleOriginal ReleaseYearWriter (s)1975May"Action This Day"1982Taylor"All Dead, All Dead"1977May"All God's People"1991Queen/ Mike Moran (Mercury/Moran)- Tom Eames
- 'Flash' Queen - Flash (Official Video) Queen were hired to produce the soundtrack for the 1980 movie adaptation of the Flash Gordon comics. The song was the only single from the soundtrack, and features clips from the film including Brian Blessed's iconic line "Gordon's alive?".
- 'Innuendo' Queen - Innuendo (Official Video) This song was Queen’s longest single, even surpassing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by 35 seconds. If anything, it's even more barmy than 'BoRap', as it features a flamenco guitar section by Yes guitarist Steve Howe and Brian May, an operatic interlude and sections of hard rock, in addition to lyrics inspired by Freddie Mercury’s illness.
- 'Bicycle Race' Queen - Bicycle Race (Official Video) This is exactly the kind of song that would be considered a novelty song, had it not been for Queen recording it.
- 'Heaven for Everyone' Queen - Heaven For Everyone (Official Video) Roger Taylor first wrote this song for his side-project band The Cross in 1988, with Freddie Mercury appearing as a guest vocalist.
- I Was Born To Love You (Made In Heaven, 1995) Originally a Freddie Mercury solo track recorded during one of Queen's creative hiatuses, his disco-tastic version was given the rock treatment by May, Deacon and Taylor on Queen's final album, completed and released following Mercury's death.
- Stone Cold Crazy (Sheer Heart Attack, 1974) The furious Stone Cold Crazy – an influence on the future members of Metallica, and hence a cornerstone of the thrash metal movement – is as close to true heavy metal as Queen ever came.
- Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) (A Day At The Races, 1976) A Day At The Races' piano-driven finale, this track was written by May as a gesture towards the band's dedicated Japanese fanbase.
- I’m In Love With My Car (A Night At The Opera, 1975) Roger Taylor didn’t have his own hit song until Radio Ga Ga in 1984, but he certainly made a few quid out of the one he wrote for A Night At The Opera.
- Father to Son
- Innuendo
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- I Want to Break Free
- A Kind of Magic
- Tie Your Mother Down
- One Vision
- I Want It All
- You’Re My Best Friend
- Hammer to Fall
There were some fine songs on Queen II, including “Seven Seas Of Rhye” and “Ogre Battle,” but the standout track on the band’s second album is “Father To Son,” which was written by Brian May and features his trademark sizzling guitar work alongside some deft piano playing from Freddie Mercury. This power ballad, which has some edgy lyrics about the...
“Innuendo” was the lead single from the album of the same name (and the last album that Freddie Mercury worked on before his death, in 1991). The song, which went straight to No.1 in the UK, began life as a jam session in Switzerland, when Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass player John Deacon played around with a beat. Mercury and Taylor adde...
Queen pushed the boundaries with some of the songs on 1978’s Jazz. “Fat Bottomed Girls,” a bluesy rock romp, is sung with gusto by Mercury and proved to be a natural crowd-pleaser. The song was released as single accompanying “Bicycle Race,” which featured a controversial video of naked models riding round Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium. “Bicycle Race...
John Deacon’s catchy pop song “I Want To Break Free” was caught in a controversy surrounding its promotional video. All the band members dressed in drag for the clip, a concept proposed by Taylor to parody the long-running British television soap series Coronation Street. May said they were hit by an unexpected backlash in the US that included MTV ...
“A Kind of Magic” was issued as a single ahead of the album of the same name and demonstrated that Roger Taylor was on a hot streak of writing, following “Radio Ga Ga” a year earlier and “Don’t Lose Your Head” (also for the A Kind Of Magic album). The catchy hit was penned for the soundtrack of the movie Highlander (the line “It’s a kind of magic” ...
Brian May wrote numerous interesting songs for Queen – John Deacon said his favorite was the funky “Dragon Attack” – and one of the most popular was “Tie Your Mother Down.” Queen were well on their way to becoming one of the biggest rock bands in the world when they recorded their fifth album, A Day At The Races (which, like A Night At The Opera, w...
Among the strong offerings on A Kind Of Magicwere the title track and the songs “Who Wants To Live Forever” and “Friends Will Be Friends.” But what marked the album as a true return to form was the song “One Vision,” which bubbles with the confidence and shows the renewed unity the band had following their Live Aid triumph in July 1985. “One Vision...
Brian May’s marriage had broken up and he was in a relationship with actress Anita Dobson when he wrote “I Want It All” in 1989.EastEndersstar Dobson used to say, “I want it all and I want it now,” and May wrote a powerful anthem around those words. The song seemed to capture the greed and ambition of some sections of the country in the 80s. May si...
The sublime love song “You’re My Best Friend,” written by Deacon for his wife, Veronica Tetzlaff, was a chart hit in 1976. Deacon played a Wurlitzer electric piano on the recording, despite Mercury quipping that it was “a horrible instrument”. After Mercury’s death, Deacon moved out of the public spotlight and continued to live a quiet life with hi...
“Hammer To Fall” was the third song Queen performed at their stunning Live Aid concert. The powerful rocker, written by guitarist Brian May during a time of renewed Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and an America led by Ronald Reagan, references nuclear tensions with a line about growing up “in the shadow of the mushroom cloud.”
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Formed in 1970, Queen was a British rock band whose classic line-up consisted of Freddie Mercury on lead vocals and piano, Brian May on lead guitar, Roger Taylor on drums, and John Deacon on bass.
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