March 22nd, 2009 by admin

The Start of Queen Songs

In the dim and distant past, the rock band called Queen rose to fame.

This short article is dedicated to all who played those fantastic Songs by Queen. Freddie Mercury, Brain May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, which if I remember correctly was the bands line up in 1971.

While a little research revealed they had a grand total of 39 songs on vinyl records. Remember vynil?Black and round and when scratched went click. Of course the one that anyone worth their salt knows is Queen Bohemian Rhapsody. Other stand out songs, We Will Rock You, Killer Queen and Dont Stop Me Now.

The band started out at the end of the 1960's, finding their legs when Freddie Mercury started to front the band and sang lead. The album which seem to bring Queen recognition,was the album 'Sheer Heart Attack'.

History of the band. 1968/9 -1973. Brian May,Tim Staffell joined up with drummer Roger Taylor to form a band called 'Smile' and singed to Mercury Records that year. Tim Staffell was a student at Ealing Art Collage with Farrokh Bulsara. Tim introduced Farrohk to the band and he became a great fan. Tim left to join another band called Humpy Bong,with Farrohk - later changing his name to Freddie Mercury. They changed the name to "Queen". The band did not really settle, until John Deacon joined as bass player in February 1971. There was the quite normal period of time while the band gelled together and not until 1974 that the band hit mainstream success. The Queen 2 album witch reach number 5 in the album charts and had the lead single 'Seven Sea's of Rye'.

Big Time beckonds.

'Sheer Heart Attack' reach number 2 in the UK and sold well in Europe,going gold in US. Then the forth album 'A Night at The Opera' really put the band on the map. Queen songs from the album were of course the now legendary Bohemian Rhapsody and the amazing video which at the time was ground breaking visual effects. The rest they say, is history.

Sadly Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991 and John Deacon retired in 1997.