Biography
Whatever the term apply to the Queen group is a cult, legendary, popular, - everyone will accurately reflect the attitude towards her fans and critics. The musical team has long become a classic, if you can say about the team that performs music in the style of hard and pop rock in combination with Glam and Jazz.History of creation
Thought "and not to create our group?" For the first time came to the heads of Students IMPERIAL College London Brian Harold Mea and Timothy Staffel. The newly new guys appropriated the name "1984", inspired by the anti-astope novel of George Orwell. In college on the announcement, the guys found themselves a drummer of Roger Medeza Taylor.
In October 1964, the musicians gave the first concert, and three years later, they managed to speak "on the heating" of the beginning and few people familiar to Jimmy Hendricks. The group then changed the name on smile and received a pass per scene with the famous Pink Floyd.
In 1969, the first serious contract was followed with a large recording label Mercury Records. "Smile" managed to release the Single Earth / Step on ME, which, however, remained unnoticed.
In the spring of 1970, Staffel left the team. I was looking for a replacement for a short time, I found it in the face of the neighbor Tim on the room of Farruha Bulsary. And since the group's composition was updated, friends began to think about a new name. The Grand Dance version was considered, then Rich Kids, but as a result, Farruh convinced everyone to take a good quality Queen name. Bulsar himself was called Freddie Mercury.
Freddie, besides what he sang well, turned out to be an excellent manager. He had a detailed idea of how to serve musical material, how to use the voices of all the participants and how to behave on the scene. In addition, Mercury as a graduate of the art college has come up with a company logo group.
Compound
Queen's main backbone at the dawn of the formation of a musical career was Frontman Freddie Mercury (he also played on the keyboard), guitarist Brian May, Roger Taylor was sitting behind the drums.Before the unification, the team of biography subsequently became the cult of each other was almost the same - everyone has been connected with music anyway. Brian took the guitar into his hands at 7 years old, and the tool made of fragments of furniture and a fireplace is not less known than its owner.
Roger began to play the guitar in the Bubblingover Boys school team, and it moved to the shock only in 1961. He performed in the Cousin Jacks group, she is Falcons. After her decay moved to Johnny QUALE & REACTION.
Freddie still at school made a team with friends called The Hectics and spoke on dancing and holidays. After moving to London sang in Liverpool IBEX and SOUR MILK SEA, then created his own Wreckage group.
The search for a bass guitarist in Queen was delayed for a year. At first they became Mike Brown from Johnny QUALE & REACTION, but after 4 months he left. Barry Mitchell came to replace him, with whom the band worked until January 1971. Then a couple of concerts with musicians played Doug Gods. And only the fourth attempt was crowned with success: John Dicon joined the team.
Before Queen John still a teenager gathered his first group The Opposition, and in the new team, as technically comrades, became responsible for the equipment. In the composition of the composition of the songs, all participants were engaged, but the wilderness is less than all.
However, all his compositions turned into 100% hits: I Want To Break Free », Another One Bites The Dust, You're My Best Friend. By the way, after the death of Mercury, John refused further creative activity and participation in Queen projects. Moreover, the bass guitarist condemned the remake of Hit We Are The Champions, performed by the remaining participants of the group in cooperation with Robbie Williams.
Music
In the summer of 1972, Queen made a demo-registration on the London de Lane Lea Studios, consisting of two songs: The Night Come House and Liar. Then, with the mediation of Trident concluded a contract and received the right to record a full-fledged album, but only at a time when the studio was free.
The guys had to be removed, as they continued to receive education and worked. The label put forward another condition: together with the Queen plate, write songs of other supervised "Di Len Lie" performers. By the end of the year, it was necessary to sign a contract with one of the world's largest global companies. Electric & Music Industries, release the debut single Keep Yourself Alive, and then - and the album.
Noticeable glory, like financial well-being, nor the song, nor the album Queen brought, although in the USA circulation records amounted to 150 thousand copies, the group began to go on tour abroad. After the musicians acted on the heating of the rock band Mott The Hoople, the team had his own army of fans.
The situation has changed with the album Queen II and the composition of Seven Seas of Rhye, which fell into the British top 5 and top 10, respectively. Classic hard rock replaced in a polyphony, some obstacle of the performance and POMP-Rock. Nevertheless, the record, conceptually divided into "black" and "white" part, has become the "heavy" in the discography of the group. Only on the homeland of the musicians the album has developed a circulation of 250 thousand copies.
World fame, and in the absence of advertising, brought the third "Studio" - Sheer Heart Attack, in which the first hit Killer Queen was recorded among others. Now Queen itself went to the overseas tour.
However, to the surprise of the press and fans, the group did not earn anything from sales of the album, moreover, a strange way was to have a recording company six-digit amounts. EMI tried to repay the scandal and allocated funds so that Queen would calculate with her "daughter" - Trident, but the entire group should again be returned.
As Roger and Brian were told, the exit remained alone - to record an epoch album, the further existence of the team depended on it. And the next single BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, considered by individual musical browsers with the best composition of the group, rises to the tops of the charts.
The radio stations initially refused to broadcast a six-minute song on Ether, risked only Freddie DJ family. Shot to the "Bohemian Rhapsodi" the roller is considered the progenitor of the clips industry. No less success awaits the general album a Night at the Opera, the most genre is diverse.
In the next a day at the races, in some part, he looked like her predecessor, for which he was unprecedented criticism, but the song from him somebody To Love became another hit. Pre-order, to the joy of managers, amounted to 500 thousand copies.
Together with the lather NEWS OF THE WORLD, the army of fans, by the time the millions that were calculated by millions, received two Queen hymn - the WE ARE CHAMPIONS compositions and We Will Rock You. The album first traced an unusual combination of a punk and a soloist vocal.
Jazz disk did not have anything with jazz, but also differed Motion Styles. The MustaPha Track, written Mercury, is a set of words imitating Arabic, some of them - MustaPha, Ibrahim - can be disassembled, and the rest are undeveloped. Fat Bottomed Girls and Bicycle Race songs caused a wave of public outrage, performers accused of immorality and almost in the spread of pornography.
Queen did not remain in debt and conducted an enchanting presentation with the participation of strippers, fighters, fire swallows. In 1981, the band recorded the soundtrack for the horror movie Dino de laurentis Flash Gordon. Under the same name came the 9th studio album.
European and American tops climbed Live Killers, The Works with an obvious sound of the electro. The clips for the track I Want To Break Free attracted a lot of attention, as the musicians starred in it in women's clothing.
Planner Hot Space Critics called disappointment and honored only a collaboration with David Bowie Under Pressure.
The basis of the album A Kind of Magic was the Soundtrack to the film "Highlander", and the disc itself, as well as touring in his honor, had so much popularity that a special edition of Queen at Wembley was published on the basis of this tour with a concert record at Wiembli Stadium 1986. It also includes interviews with members of the group, Funkam and a documentary on preparation for speeches. In the same year, the 30th single of the collective was released, written Mercury and Dicon, Friends Will Be Friends.
On August 9, 1986, Queen's speech was held in Nebuort Park. It was not special that it was the last concert of Magic Tour, and the fact that it was the last concert with Freddie Mercury.
With the solo album of the singer "Barcelona" the musical world became acquainted with the genre of the Crossover. In the record of Freddie's disk, I sang a duet with the opera diving Montserrat Caballe.
In 1991, Freddie's creative will see the light of The Show Must Go On Song.
After the death of the leader, the group works in Queen + format, participates in charitable events. To go over one scene with the world legend, he was honored for the honor of George Michael and Robbie Williams, David Bowie and Elton John. Within the framework of the tour with a gender of Rogers in 2008, Queen visited Russia, performing in Moscow, at the Olympic Stadium.
An interesting gift from the past fans received from Diario Ole in 2019. For the birthday of Freddie Mercury, the portal published a photo from the Queen tour in Argentina in 1981, where the leader of the Argentine national team of Diego Maradona joined the solser.
Queen now
Now the group continues the concert duty in various collaborations and keeps communications with fans in the official instagram account. The European Tour Queen and Adam Lambert, scheduled for 2020, did not take place due to restrictions due to a pandemic, but 400 thousand tickets were sold. Their owners did not remain with anything - in the spring of 2021, the promised concert was still announced. In the meantime, Queen could not tour, they laid out on their Youtyub-channel rollers from the past rounds, and also made a remake in gratitude to the doctors for the song You Are The Champions.In 2021, the team turned 50 years. In honor of this event, the British Mint has released a series of jubilee coins, on one side of which Elizabeth II is depicted, and to another - the tools of the group participants. Also for the event is timed to the output of the Queen Rock Tour computer game with characters in the form of legendary musicians.
Clips
- 1973 - Liar.
- 1975 - NOW I'm Here
- 1977 - Tie Your Mother Down
- 1978 - Spread Your Wings
- 1980 - PLAY THE GAME
- 1982 - Back Chat
- 1987 - Bohemian Rhapsody
- 1989 - Rare Live
- 1992 - We Will Rock You "/" We Are The Champions
- 1996 - Mother Love
Discography
- 1973 - Queen.
- 1974 - Queen II
- 1974 - Sheer Heart Attack
- 1975 - A Night At The Opera
- 1976 - A Day at The Races
- 1977 - NEWS OF THE WORLD
- 1978 - Jazz.
- 1980 - The Game
- 1980 - Flash Gordon
- 1982 - Hot Space
- 1984 - The Works
- 1986 - A Kind Of Magic
- 1989 - The Miracle
- 1991 - Innuendo.
- 1995 - Made in Heaven
- 1997 - Queen Rocks
- 2016 - ON AIR