Queen Brief biography

The collapse of the Queen group appeared in the middle of the x, when the students Brian May and Tim Staffel decided to create a musical group called in honor of Orwell’s book “”. Soon, Roger Taylor, who became the third member of ", responded to their ads to search for the drummer." A few years later, the group renames itself in Smile. Around the same time, the group members get acquainted with Farukh Bulsara, who visited their rehearsals and was interested in their work.

During the year, their musical paths are on parallel lines. But at the beginning of the year, Staffel leaves the group and then Taylor and May invite Farukha to try to try the role of the vocalist, which was previously performed by Tim. The group of Queen, Freddie Mercury and the path to fame were one of the most important decisions in the history of rock music of the seventies.

Soon, the group changes the name to Queen, and Farukh changes the name to the stage pseudonym, which has become famous all over the world - Freddie Mercury. So the famous ligament appeared: the group of Queen - Freddie Mercury. For a long time, the Queen group could not get a sensible bassist into their ranks and only John Deacon joined them on an ongoing basis.

John became the very last link on the way to universal glory and the recognition of Queen. Freddie Mercury comes up with a logo for the group, in which the signs of the zodiac of all Queen participants are combined. In the year, after a two-year record, their 1st album with the prosaic name “Queen” appears on store shelves. At this time, the group of Queen is not only actively touring the UK and the nearest abroad in support of the debut album.

But it also actively records new material. In the year, they shoot at once with two albums that came close to the tops of the UK charts. At the same time, the first truly famous hit of the Killer Queen group was recorded. Queen: World success but real success was ahead. In the year, the 4th album Queen “A Night at the Opera” is released. He instantly became platinum and took the top line of the charts.

When recording this album, which, perhaps, became a crown in the career -career, each of its participants brought part of the material. But the main work was done by Brian and Freddy - both wrote 5 songs each. Brian came up with an arrangement of the British anthem, which subsequently sounded at the end of Queen, and Mercury came up with Love of My Life and one of the main hits of the Bohemian Rhapsody team, which became the visiting card of the group and yelled it at the level of popularity of Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

Following this group, Queen conducts successful tour, while winning the sympathy of the audience in distant Japan. The following albums continued to strengthen the positions of the group on the musical stage, and the hits poured from a cornucopia. It was during these years that two hymns were recorded, performed on many events to this day. The most scandalous album of the team comes out in the year.

Many of the songs were incomprehensible to critics, and the clip on the Bicycle Race was even forbidden to show on TV due to its pornographic, since it was present in it were several dozen naked girls on bicycles. Queen group: E and the change of image, if at the beginning of his career, the group used catchy concert dresses, looking in the style of Slade, then by the beginning of the eighties the musicians decided to grow up.

Queen refused bright clothes and everyone except Brian made their hair shorter. In X creativity of the team continued to develop at the intersection of many styles. As before, the group used in her work a mixture of classical rock, jazz, punk, Havi-metal and rhythm-n-Blue. In the year, the group Queen first used a synthesizer to record an album. In the same year, she recorded the soundtrack for the film Flash Gordon.

In the year, Queen releases a scandalous clip for the song I Want to Break Free, where all members of the group presented in women's clothing.

In the year, the album “A Kind of Magic” is released, based on the soundtrack to the series “Highlander”. The tour in his support was the most successful in the history of the group. In the same year, Queen became the first rock band to come up with a concert in the countries of the Soviet bloc in Hungary. This tour was the last for the original composition of the group. Queen: Freddie Mercury's disease and the disintegration of the group after a year in the press, rumors about Freddie Mercury's illness began to expand.

Up to a year, the group manages to release two albums that were promoted thanks to the singles and video clips, in which Mercury's progressive disease is clearly visible. His death caused a real boom to combat this terrible disease. The group did not stop after that - in the year a concert took place in the memory of Freddy, with the participation of world stage stars, including Metallica, David Bowie and others.

In the year there is a posthumous album consisting of records with Freddy made before his death, as well as solo compositions of the team participants. Shortly after his death, John Deacon also left Queen, motivating this by the fact that without Freddie Mercury it makes no sense to continue to speak.But Taylor and May continued to speak: in M, the musicians released the album along with the new vocalist Paul Rogers, with whom they successfully performed for several years.

After that, the group continued the performances, inviting different performers to the role of a vocalist, participating in many events, and even speaking at the closure of the Olympics in London in the year.