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The life of Mercury
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And so it began...
The band's first single, quite different than their later works, didn't quite reach the heights the musicians had hoped it would. Their first studio album was relased seven days later and received minimal attention from both public and critics. -
The pillar of grandious rock
Combining heavy rock sound and art rock sensibility the group propells themsleves to the first place in the charts. The group establishes not only their style and sound but also their trademark cover photo. -
Topping the charts
Queen releases their second album for the year. Its first single Killer Queen ranks no. 2 in the British pop-rock charts. more importantly it becomes the band's first hit in USA. -
Bohemian Rhapsody
The group's fourth album brings to the world their first number one hit in UK, and their best selling single in the world. The album went platinum and is peaked at no. 4 on the Billboard 200. -
Free
Queen performs for free in Hyde Park. This is one of their most famous concerts. -
The Sequel
Queen releases what many people deam a sequel to A Night At The Opera. This album has similar feel and look. It's biggest hit is Somebody to Love for which Mercury, May and Taylor multi-track ther voices to create a gospel feel. -
News of the World
Containing Queen's all time hits We will rock you and We are the champions. This album is a shift towards more mainstream sound, it receives mixed reviewes, but the group was later praised for sounding good even when mocking other bands. -
Queen's Jazz
The seventh studio album for the group includes hits like Don't stop me now, and is the first of the groups albums to be recorded outside of Britain for tax reasons. -
Number One on US
The Game may be the group's eight album but is the first to reach number one palce in America. Includes songs such as Another one bites the dust and Crazy little thing called love. It has sold over four million copies up to date making it one of Queen's best selling albums. -
Flash
The bands first soundtrack album cointaing songs for the movie Flash Gordon. -
Ten
Queen's tenth album makes a notable shift towards dance music, which made the group's devoted fans quite unhappy. The reason for the change in style was the success of similar singles. The group worked alongside David Bowie to create Under Pressure, their second number one hit. -
Back to Basics
The Works is eleventh album released by the band. Queen is returning to their tried and true style of progressive and futuristic sound. Radio Ga Ga is teh first song of this album. -
A Kind of Magic
This is the last album by the group that was supported by a tour. It reached #1 in UK selling 100,000 coupies in its first week. -
MIracle
This album peaked at numbre 1 in UK, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. -
Innuendo
The final studio album to be released in Freddie Mercury's lifetime and is the last to be composed entirely of new material. nnuendo is in some sense a return to Queen's roots with harder rock sound, complex musical composition, and strong vocals from Mercury ranging over four octaves. -
And so it ended
Made in Heaven is the fifteenth and final studio album by British rock band Queen. After Freddie Mercury's death, bass player John Deacon, drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May worked with vocal and piano parts that Mercury recorded before his death, adding fresh instrumentation to the recordings. It has gone platinum four times.
