Top Ten Songs by Queen

Queen was formed in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (Lead Singer/Piano/Guitar), Brian May (Guitar/piano/vocals) and Roger Taylor (Percussion/Synthesizer/Vocals) and in 1971 they added John Deacon (Bass/Rhythm Guitar) to complete the band. Queen originally didn’t see a lot of critical success, but today they are becoming more recognized as founders of hard rock, glam rock and assorted other subcategories of Rock and Roll.

They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in 2001, and in 2003 they became the fist (and only) band to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. They provided several songs for the movie “Highlander” (Starring Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert), the entire soundtrack for the movie “Flash Gordon” (one of the best “worst movies ever”) and their song “Bohemian Rhapsody” found a resurgence in popularity after being featured in the movie “Wayne’s World” but they are probably best known for their Stadium Anthems. In the 1990s tabloids were printing rumors filled with the allegation that Queen’s Freddie Mercury had AIDS and the claims were flatly denied, until November of 1991. A statement was made acknowledging that Freddie Mercury did have AIDS, and within 24 hours he died. After that Queen released one more album, and a number of compilation albums and basically only did live performances. In 2004, they announced they would become Queen + Paul Rogers and that they would go on tour. Paul Rogers was formerly the lead singer for several bands including Bad Company, and it was agreed that he would be featured with Queen and would not replacing the late Freddie Mercury.