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Without Freddie the other three cannot even be described as ordinary.

are you serious? the drummer was pretty good and did most of the high note singing





he also wrote radio gaga

Despite having written Ladio Gaga, I also think his contributions are worthy.

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Huge Queen fan up to the Works. Queen live killers remains one of the greatest live records ever. With a kind of magic I lost them a little.

Freddy was the man.

As a huge Queen fan you should know how to spell his name

I love Queen, number 3 on my list of favourite bands. Freddie was outstanding. I discovered Queen, and this is embarrassing, in "Wayne´s world"... with the wonderful Bohemian Rhapsody. A bit later (?), it was Freddie´s Living on my own. I was in my early teens and it was only several years later that I listened more to Queen. Big fan now though.

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There is a concert video that shows up on Palladia of Queen in Montreal. It is very good. By the end of the show, except for a pair of short shorts, a trucker cap & a jaunty red kerchief Freddie is basically naked. Totally has the crowd in the palm of his hand. He was a master at that.

This rocks !!!

This whole concert is absolutely fantastic, except of this moment when Freddie walks on stage "dressed" as described above. I only managed to watch that once and I was really embarrased, not knowing where to look really. I mean Freddie, eventhough being gay, normaly behaved sort of "male" on stage (judging from the videos I have seen), but at that moment with those shorts, cap and kerchief on, he looked like a poor little gay prostitute. There is a commentary track of Brian and Roger on the DVD and if I remember correctly, they said something like that they were embarrased too. Again, speaking about music, this concert is fantastic and it is also the only concert of Queen captured on film with movie cameras, so the quality of picture is outstanding too.

Queen was always overrated, pretentious, pompous, shallow, lame, plastic and fake.
tedious and boring...

Flashback: Queen Steal the Show at Live Aid
Watch the band's triumphant 1985 set

Read more: [www.rollingstone.com]

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Flashback: Queen Steal the Show at Live Aid
Watch the band's triumphant 1985 set

Read more: [www.rollingstone.com]

Awesomenss... in only 20 minutes

Queen had a pretty tough task when they took the stage at Live Aid in July of 1985. This was arguably the biggest concert in rock history, featuring reunions of Led Zeppelin, the Who, Black Sabbath and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in addition to performances from pretty much every big name in rock. How could they possibly stand out? Freddie Mercury insisted to the press that the show wasn't any kind of competition, yet they slyly requested to go onstage at Wembley Stadium at 6:00 p.m., knowing viewership in England was likely to begin peaking around then.

They had their work cut out for them. "Money for Nothing" was the song of the summer, and Dire Straits had just played it with Sting before wrapping up with "Sultans of Swing." Their set was preceded by U2, who absolutely destroyed the place with a two-song set that culminated with a 12-minute version of "Bad." Queen also knew they were to be immediately followed by David Bowie, the first Who performance in three years and Elton John with special guest Wham!

Given 20 minutes, Mercury's band did everything possible to cram a full concert into it. They opened with an abbreviated "Bohemian Rhapsody" that went right into "Radio Ga Ga." Their newest single, "Hammer to Fall," came next, followed by "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and the finale of "We Will Rock You" into "We Are the Champions." Many bands were swallowed up by the enormous Wembley stage (on loan from Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA tour), but Mercury worked it like an absolute pro>>>>more [www.rollingstone.com]

The full Queen set at Live Aid July 1985

One of the best ever. Saw Queen in 1977 and 1979.

Queen was at their peak with The Game when I was 14, so their music knock me very strong. Also they came to Argentina (where i am from ) in 1981, so it was incredible, it was like a Queen fever here.

They were not chuck berry rock and rollers like the Stones or The Faces, but they knew very well how to write and play great rock songs. I will miss Freddie and Queen forever.

Fernando