When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Delighted: Queen in The Netherlands in April 1982, having collected gold disc awards for the ...

Soon after Queen formed in London in 1971, the band played locally for nearly two years and taped much of its first album without a record deal. In early 1973, EMI signed the group and released that ...

Queen had an uncertain beginning in the ’70s, and then an uncertain ending. In between, they completed the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame resume. Like many first albums, 1973’s gold-selling ...

Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody was allegedly inspired by The Beach Boys’ groundbreaking harmonies and studio techniques on Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations.

Queen II, the British rock band's eponymous sophomore release, was largely misunderstood when it first came out in 1974.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Fifty years after the release of their eponymous debut album, Queen retains a space near the epicenter of pop culture. It’s not just that guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are preparing to ...

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