“If this band is our brightest hope for the future then we are committing rock n roll suicide” – Record Mirror review of QUEEN, 1974Read more
“Jimi Hendrix was just a beautiful man, a master showman and a dedicated musician. I would scour the country to see him…” – Freddie Mercury, lead singer of QueenRead more
“Eye of the Tiger” was written because Queen didn’t permit “Another One Bites the Dust” to be used in Rocky III.Read more
Queen’s 1974 album SHEER HEART ATTACK didn’t actually contain the band’s song of same name because they couldn’t complete the would-be title track before the album’s release. The song made it onto Queen’s album NEWS OF THE WORLD three years later.Read more
Rick Wakeman played the same 1898 piano on Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”, The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”.Read more
Queen’s Freddie Mercury once physically threw The Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious out of a recording studio.Read more
The band Queen wrote and recorded the soundtrack for both the Highlander movie and TV series.Read more
Queen’s song “Bring Back That Leroy Brown” from their 1974 hit album ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ was a long reference / lament about the death of Jim Croce a few months earlier.Read more
Queen and David Bowie’s collaborative smash hit single “Under Pressure” was largely the result of the two parties meeting by chance while recording in a Montreux, Switzerland studio.Read more
Queen is the only band in which every member has composed multiple #1 hit singles. All four members were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003.Read more
Queen guitarist Brian May was a teenager when he and his father built a guitar from an old fireplace mantle & a table. Named Red Special, May used this guitar almost exclusively throughout the band’s existence.Read more
Queen’s punchy guitar sound was/is partially the result of lead guitarist Brian May’s longstanding practice of using banjo strings on his guitar, which are thinner & bend easier.Read more
Queen’s 1975 album “A Night At The Opera” was the most expensive album ever produced at the time, costing the equivalent of about $470,000.Read more
“The King and Queen of Rock n Roll” Little Richard almost died in a car accident on Route 66 in California.Read more
