I looked for one, but could not find a current or relevant thread.
So here it is - the thread for Queen fans to discuss the greatest band ever, share links to videos and pictures, discuss all things old and new.
Discussion etc. also accepted on the following:

Brian May solo
Roger Taylor solo
Freddie Mercury solo
John Deacon (where is he now?) + solo
The Cross
Queen + Paul Rodgers
Spike Edney's SS Band

This is the place to come if you have 'holes' in your knowledge and want answers, if you want to just ramble about how Queen have affected your life, share rare information or clips with us etc. etc.

I will start, I am 34 and have loved Queen since watching a 3 hr (pirated) video tape in 1985.
The tape had Greatest Flix, The Works video E.P and We Will Rock You concert (now Rock Montreal) on it, and at the tender age of 9, I was transfixed, and BEGGED my dad to put it straight back on again.
I watched it over and over and over for years, until when I was 13 I was able to start buying cassettes, starting with Sheer Heart Attack.
That was how it began for me.

These are some of my favourite songs:

Sleeping on the Sidewalk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhsBg6EKT-4

Brighton Rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUKi3_QntE


Save Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2alq9Q11w6U


More to follow

they have a new remastered greatest hits out next week, according to iTunes.

Yes - 'Absolute Greatest'
20 songs, for the first time bringing together the 'best' (subjective) of their hits onto one disc.

I have pre-ordered the special 2 disc edition with the 54 page A4 book (cos I am one of THEM Queen fans) - well actually I have two on order so I can keep one in it's wrapper.
Disc two will contain Brian and Roger talking about each track, so for any big fans interested in information on the recording or stories of the songs, the two disc version is available without the book too.

I promise, that it the only product 'advertising' I will do in this thread

Just thought I would add my bit. I have been listening to Queen since their inception and wow now this.

Welcome all

Love Queen. Will be buying Absolute Greatest next week. I already have GH1,2 and 3 and the CD of A Night At The Opera.

Many fans are annoyed that UK No.1 single Innuendo isn't on the new compilation for timing reasons.

Yes, it is a rather contentious list to say the least.
Some feel that all the no.1s should be there, but it is not really a 'greatest hits' album, but is meant to be the 'best' of Queen.
Again - that comes down to opinion, but as Innuendo is all but forgotten in the public conscience I suppose they left it out for that reason.
No. 1 single inclusion would also then have to include Somebody to Love with George Michael (from the Freddie Mercury tribute concert) and We Will Rock You with 5ive.

I would not rule out a future 'no.1s' album similar to The Beatles one , which would include no.1s from around the world - so songs like A Kind Of Magic, Radio Ga Ga and WWRY.WATC etc. can be included - as they were not UK No.1s.

I am not sure that any 20 track collection on one disc would have pleased all the fans anyway tbh, and again, I would not even rule out a 'part 2' of Absolute Greatest either.

I'm 17. I remember my parents playing Bohemian Rhapsody when I was about 7. Really didn't like it because it wasn't Britney lol Sounds like a pathetic thing to say now. As time went on I began to appreciate their music (at that stage I still didn't like it, I just tolerated it , my parents were always saying 'they don't make 'em like this anymore', 'you'll appreciate this one day, blah blah'...When I was about 13, I gave in and I love 'em I'd never get tired of listening to their music now.

ah i see. i had no idea about it until i was browsing iTunes the other day, and happened to stumble across it as a pre-order

I love Queen and have done for most of my life thanks to a friend who got me hooked on them when I was about 9 or 10. I'm forty now! I prefer the early stuff, the first 5 or 6 albums.

Some favourites - I could listen to these on loop forever...

Doing All Right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3ZH_F-YnI

Great King Rat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ZxV...eature=related

The Night Comes Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1hRO...eature=related

Father To Son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_a2AJT1-6Y

Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke / Nevermore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73NdiH0cBk

Dear Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ewASF8WBQ

She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZRo2fYVBVY

The Prophet's Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_AxOqzetdE

Teo Torriate (Let us Cling Together)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTGSM3fZzGg

Who Needs You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A37cp95QXA

In Only Seven Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDvUBA7kCYs

Brighton Rock (from Live Killers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqkc8AYcGH8

Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AY9N04K5m4

"Lucy was high and so was I...." is that a reference to the Beatles song?

Best intro?
Death on 2 legs. Play it LOUD
Best album
Queen 2/ Night at the Opera. Cant decide

Been a massive fan of Queen since the beginning, saw them live 1st time at Bingley Hall, Stafford(or the cattle shed as it was known) I think it was 1978. I keep changing my choice of favourite song at the moment its 'Love of my life' and in the year of 39.

Freddie is King

Amazing band!!!

I cant even give favourite song as there is so much variety to choose from.

Milionaires waltz: superb, unusual and sublime.
Good company: The guitar work is umbeleivable, just stunning, every note is played by guitar or ukelelle banjo (minum the drums)
Teo torriatte: very powerfull emotional.
Show must go on: stunningly powerfull, emotional, and Freddie's voice sounding at his most powerful, despite him being in so much pain he could barely stand.
Mother love: The last song Freddie ever recorded, amazingly powerfull knowing it was the last thing he ever recorded, the last verse is Sung by Brian may as Freddie sadly passed away before it could be completed.


Unusual choices i know, but they are some of my favourite, of course i like Headlong, Borap, innuendo, we are the champions ect.

My least favourite hit is Radio GaGa.

I think it could well be.
There were many moments and songs through their career which could be seen as homages or nods towards influences of their's:

Beach Boys (Funny How Love Is):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARu_IkSqVKo


Elvis Presley (Crazy Little Thing Called Love):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrelPOP518g


Led Zepellin (Modern Times Rock n Roll):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgeKE4aQUgM


Noel Coward (Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVVvNLUjTU


George Formby (Good Company):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJgfvp59ExQ
This song has the MOST amazing guitar ensemble played in such a way to sound like a jazz band - absolutely one of the most innovative moments in the history of the guitar


There are lots more examples of whole songs, lyrics and magic moments within songs that demonstrate their influences and tributes.

I wanted to share some of my favourite Queen related songs - not by the four members we know and love to be Queen, but by one or more band member:


Queen + Paul Rodgers :
SMALL:


Brian May :
LOVE TOKEN:


Roger Taylor :
FUTURE MANAGEMENT:


Freddie Mercury:
Living On My Own:


The Cross:
Better Things:


Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe :
How Can I Go On:

First saw Queen in 1973 in Southend when they were the support for Mott The Hoople. Usually the support bands were not much to write home about but this lot were amazing. (Saw Lynyrd Skynyd a little while later as a support as well).

I rushed out to get their Queen album and played it continuously until the 2nd album came out a couple of months later. I remember being really impressed that the Sheer heart Attack album was released only a few months later - a far cry from these days when you have to wait a couple of years for the next release.

I hated Bohemian Rhapsody when it first came out and thought they had gone too far - but the B Side (I'm In Love With My Car) convinced me to buy A Night At The Opera.

After that I bought virtually every album as soon as it was released until Hot Space - a real disappointment - except Under Pressure.

Live Aid won me back big time and I bought The Works and loved it - A Return to form. After that I bought Kind Of Magic, The Miracle and Innuendo more as less as they were released.

I'm not a big fan of everything but I should reckon about 80% of the material.

Amazingly my favourite albums are still the first three followed by Innuendo, The Miracle, Kind Of Magic and The Works. I really think Freddie got better as time went on and even though he was ill for the last two albums they still contain some of his best performances.

Some of the things since Freddie passed awayI've not been to easy with, not sure the collabaration with Paul Rodgers was the right thing to do. But the memory of those official studio albums and the thrill of Queen, Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack at a time when Music had stagnated and a lot of my early heroes were disappearing by splitting up or by just disappearing up their own a***s is treasured memories.
Last edited by Urban Bassman : 14-11-2009 at 10:28

What a fantastic thread. I just did not know if you had seen the Sun Pics of Brian May and Taylor.
Pretty good.

Oh and finally Jamie got to meet his Hero Brian May he was brought up on Queen and loves them so good on him.

My favourite albums pretty much go like this:

Queen II
Queen / Sheer Heart Attack
News of the World
A Night At The Opera
Innuendo
A Day at the Races
The Game
Jazz
The Miracle
A Kind Of Magic
The Works
Flash
Made In Heaven.

I don't DISlike any of them, but some are obviously stronger than others.
When it comes to MIH, it was only the remakes of the solo songs that let me down. I prefer all of the originals by far, and would have preferred to hear some of the other unheard material - I refuse to believe that Queen do mot have tons of unfinished material lying around they could have worked on.

Saying that, these songs are amazing:

Mother Love:


You Don't Fool Me:


A Winter's Tale:

Google isn't being my friend, so I am asking here if anyone has any info.

From Sharon Osbourne's wikipedia page:
Osbourne also claimed to have worked briefly with Queen before being fired by Freddie Mercury.

And then I saw after Rhydian's STL performance that she stated that Freddie was a good friend of hers.

I cannot find anything about this, I have never ever seen her appear in a documentary.

So why was she fired? And was she really good friends with Freddie?

Fav Queen song?....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqADo-D3mQ

Queen thread = BRILL

Huge fan from the start and love everything they ever did, including this........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22oGInO-uo

Doesn't get mentioned much and I don't know why, anyone got any thoughts on it?

No question in my mind that Queen are among the greatest groups in British music history and I think it's great that Brian and Roger are keeping the brand alive.
I often think in the discussions about Queen the strengths of the 'other three members' apart from Freddie are ignored. Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon were all not only fantastic musicians but also great song writers - Brian in particular.
My favourite songs from each album are:-
Queen:- Liar
Queen II:- Sevens Seas of Rhye
Sheer Heart Attack:- Killer Queen
A Night At the Opera:- '39 and I'm In Love with my Car
A Day at the Races:- Somebody to Love
News of the World:- We Are the Champions and Sheer Heart Attack
Jazz:- More of That Jazz
The Game:- Another One Bites the Dust
Hot Space:- Las Palabros de Amor
The Works:- Hammer to Fall
A Kind of Magic:- A Kind of Magic
The Miracle:- Rain Must Fall and I Want It All
Innuendo:- These are the Days of Our Lives
Made In Heaven:- Heaven for Everyone

Both Roger and Brian have also done some excellent solo work, particularly Rogers Happiness album song 'Old Friends' and Brian's version of Too Much Love Will Kill You.

Never heard a thing about Sharon working with Queen tbh, but I suppose anything is possible.
I can imagine that Freddie would not have been too happy with someone so bossy being around though LOL.
Freddie, for all his faults, was a bit of a 'diva' really - stories of him sitting at a table, taking out a cigarette and having a whole bunch of lighters shoved in his face kind of thing,
The idea of someone like Sharon trying to dictate to Freddie what he should do etc. doesn't exactly fit with the image we have of him.