02-06-2003 – Frederick Post – Queen Symphony
Many classic rockers have been immortalized (or is it euthanized?) with symphonic renditions of their songs.
Read moreMany classic rockers have been immortalized (or is it euthanized?) with symphonic renditions of their songs.
Read moreA crowning year for Queen; more than a decade after Freddie Mercury’s death, Queen goes on and on. Is this band immortal?
Read moreAll right, so it’s cheating a bit to address not one but two albums for the first entry in this column by Queen.
Read moreQueen classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ top of the pops according to U.K. poll
Read moreA list of the Britain’s favourite 100 pop singles ever made has been compiled in Britain to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK charts.
Read moreQUEEN guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor will be performing in Los Angeles tonight at a special Fan Club party to celebrate their induction to the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
Read moreBritish rock band Queen has been honoured with a coveted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Read moreWith yet another Queen Greatest Hits flying off the shelves, the Quietus sat down to come up with a list and Spotify playlist of their lesser known brilliance
Read moreFew rock vocalists are as highly acclaimed as Freddie Mercury, who along with guitarist Brian May, percussionist Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon, left an indelible impression and lasting influence in the world of popular music as the band Queen.
Read moreA BBC poll found rock band Queen is considered the greatest British band ever. BBC radio polled British music lovers on Monday to rank five beloved UK groups, chosen in a previous selection from some thousands. Votes were submitted by e-mail, text message and telephone.
Read moreThe flamboyant rock group Queen upstaged the Beatles to win the title of “Greatest British Band of All Time” in a vote organized by BBC Radio.
Read moreQUEEN narrowly beat The Beatles yesterday in a poll to find the greatest British band of all time.
Read moreGary Mullen’s victory on Stars in Their Eyes led to a rip-roaring new career fronting a Queen tribute band, writes Mike Wade.
Read moreThe legendary band’s ‘Greatest Hits’ has sold more than any other album over the last 50 years, according to figures released by the official UK Charts.
Read moreIn an age where audiences are hungry for spectacular live entertainment, We Will Rock You feeds the imagination and stimulates the senses.
Read moreMcFly went straight to the top of the British singles chart on Sunday, with their version of Queen’s classic hit Don’t Stop Me Now.
Read moreThose are the questions being asked after Queen guitarist Brian May published a letter in the Ottawa Citizen last Thursday, claiming that a Canadian version of We Will Rock You would be opening at the Princess of Wales Theatre in 2007.
Read moreA generation of tweenies has grown up idolising a semi-naked and writhing Christina Aguilera, and manicured boy bands such as Busted. Few will remember their tunes in a few years.
Read moreQueen legends Brian May and Roger Taylor delighted 85,000 fans in London’s Hyde Park last night (June 17) by joining Foo Fighters on stage.
Read moreAnyone who can remember the autumn of 1975 will have an inkling of what eternity must feel like. Queen, then a middle-league pomp rock outfit, released a six-minute rock opera, Bohemian Rhapsody, that vaulted to the top of the charts and stayed there for nine weeks. It was the beginning of what became a legend, one that survived the death in 1991 of the band’s flamboyant singer, Freddie Mercury, at the age of 45.
Read moreThe Dubai Summer Surprises has announced a rock show — Queen It’s a Kinda Magic — to be held at the Madinat Jumerirah Arena on June 29 as part of its entertainment activities.
Read moreQueen’s Freddie Mercury is part of the modern inspiration behind the new repertoire of one of Wales’ best known male voice choirs. Morriston Orpheus Choir aims to reach new fans by introducing pop and rock songs to its repertoire.
Read moreAIDS charity the Nelson Mandela Foundation is to benefit from a sell-out musical on the life of Freddie Mercury.
Read moreThat’s right, weeks after many people predicted he would be banished from the fifth season of “American Idol,” Bucky Covington is gone.
Read moreThe mighty legacy of rock band Queen is brought back to the fore for a fresh hearing in Stone Cold Classics, a new CD collection of 12 of the band’s biggest hits and timeless rock classics, with the additional bonus of two new live tracks performed by Queen + Paul Rodgers, recorded during their first tour together.
Read moreAfter a performance before 30 million American Idol viewers each week, a rehearsal in front of a few dozen might seem like a yawner.
Read moreMy clock/radio alarm sounded to wake me up for school and WPLJ’s Jim Kerr played a song called “Killer Queen,” by a group I’d never heard of.
Read moreThe pomp and circumstance of Queen’s recordings and live act were embodied in the outrageously camp theatrics of the satin-clad Mercury, who was swiftly emerging as one of rock’s most notable and hardest partying showmen during the mid-70s. 1975 was to prove a watershed in the band’s career.
Read morePig Iron’s homage to Brit-rock band Queen, “Mission to Mercury,” began as a show about techies running sound for a band, and became what the Philly experimental company is billing as a “cabaret ballet” based on the songs of Freddie Mercury and Brian May.
Read moreMADONNA went from Queen of pop to Queen frontman when she watched London musical We Will Rock You disguised as Freddie Mercury.
Read moreHe was Freddie Mercury, the band was Queen … and they were the Royalty of the 1980s pop scene.
Read moreEVEN THE MAN who produced the song once called it “basically a joke. We never stopped laughing.” But because millions of fans still listen to and love the super-rococo rock hit “Bohemian Rhapsody,” it’s hard not to take it all deadly serious.
Read moreNo-one quite knew how to take Queen in the 1970s with singer Freddie Mercury’s histrionics and their catchy, poppy tunes, almost making them a rock group parody.
Read moreMusic Video Distributors has just released the “Queen: Under Review 1973-1980” DVD. [NOTE: QUEEN’s representatives have contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET to inform us that this is “an entirely unofficial product that is not endorsed in any way by our clients.”]
Read moreBillboard.com is reporting that QUEEN’s 1975 album “A Night at the Opera” will arrive in a 30th anniversary collector’s edition Nov. 22 via Hollywood Records. The original CD, best known for “Bohemian Rhapsody”, features remastered audio.
Read moreALEX Kapranos has revealed a dark secret that inspired Franz Ferdinand’s new album – his deep love for pomp rockers Queen.
Read moreGary Mullen will never win any beauty contests – but the competition which really mattered for the skinny singer was when he came first in Stars In Their Eyes.
Read moreTwenty years after they stole the show at the original Live Aid concert, and 14 years after the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen have been crowned the most popular UK band of all time.
Read moreROBBIE Williams will conjure up the spirit of Freddie Mercury at tomorrow’s Live 8 concert in Hyde Park by performing the classic Queen hit We Will Rock You.
Read moreHad you taken a whirl around the radio dial back in the late ’70s and early ’80s it’s quite likely you would have heard any one of these Queen tunes emanating from your speakers.
Read moreI REMEMBER the first Queen album my brother bought. It was News of the World, featuring the famous Frank Kelly Freas robot painting cover art. That’s Frank Kelly Freas, not Frank Kelly, who plays Father Jack on the TV show Father Ted. Drink, girls, feck. Etc.
Read moreSATURDAY night, ITV1. We’re halfway through Queenmania and Toyah Willcox is on stage singing Don’t Stop Me Now.
Read moreTickets for Queen musical on sale Saturday Yomiuri We Will Rock You, London’s hit musical by Queen and scriptwriter Ben
Read morePop icon Robbie Williams came close to stepping into Freddie Mercury’s shoes as Queen’s lead vocalist.
Read moreWorld Entertainment News Network is reporting that QUEEN will grant Georgian-born singer Katie Melua’s childhood dream when they perform together at Nelson Mandela’s South African AIDS charity concert later this month.
Read moreTHE FIRST ROCK group to have its music officially authorized for sale by Iran’s ruling mullahs is, of all acts, Queen. The band, popular in the 1970s and early ’80s, was fronted by the late Freddie Mercury, a gay icon who died of AIDS in 1991.
Read moreQUEEN drummer Roger Taylor has backed Elton John’s “miming” attack on Madonna by claiming it was the world’s worst-kept secret.
Read moreSurviving QUEEN members Brian May and Roger Taylor were inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk on Wednesday (Sept. 8) following the Las Vegas premiere of the musical “We Will Rock You”, a rock theatrical stage show featuring 20 of QUEEN’s greatest hits.
Read moreWe Will Rock You is a boisterous ode to the music of Queen and has been a hit in London for the past two years. Despite the success of Mamma Mia! on Broadway — an ode to the music of ABBA — the show is skipping the Great White Way to make its American debut on the Las Vegas strip at the Paris Hotel.
Read moreThe song “Bohemian Rhapsody,” campy upon its release in 1974 (yet cemented as a monument for a different generation by “Wayne’s World”), is the inspiration of “We Will Rock You,” the all-Queen musical imported, in an altered form, from London.
Read moreQueen’s latest throne: a theater show in Vegas Queen was the supreme ’70s glam rock art band. The kings of
Read moreRock band Queen, fronted by gay icon Freddie Mercury, has become the first rock act to receive an official seal
Read moreScaramouch, will you do the fandango in Vegas? QUEEN’S Stage show musical “We will Rock You,” which has been playing
Read moreBy Tamara Conniff Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Queen is getting ready to rock Las Vegas The legendary
Read moreFinally. Finally, finally, finally the Queen rock musical is landing on North American shores and ABBA can go back to
Read moreHER dad might have been the 6th Marquess of Bristol, but when it comes to true nobility, it seems Isabella
Read moreQueen is ready to rock Paris. That’s Paris, Las Vegas, where “We Will Rock You,” London’s hit musical based on
Read moreQUEEN fan Tim Walker bought a guitar signed by Brian May – then accidentally rubbed out the superstar’s autograph the
Read moreThe QUEEN classic “We Will Rock You” has been made into — of all things — a Pepsi commercial with
Read moreAustralian singer John Farnham has reportedly been asked to join rock legends QUEEN. The Daily Telegraph reported Farnham had been
Read moreFans may dig more serious ‘Queen Symphony’ Many classic rockers have been immortalized (or is it euthanized?) with symphonic renditions
Read moreA crowning year for Queen; more than a decade after Freddie Mercury’s death, Queen goes on and on. Is this
Read moreGod save the Queen: Mercury & band rising All right, so it’s cheating a bit to address not one but
Read moreQueen classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ top of the pops according to U.K. poll “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen’s rousing rock classic, has been
Read moreA list of the Britain’s favourite 100 pop singles ever made has been compiled in Britain to mark the 50th
Read moreQUEEN guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor will be performing in Los Angeles tonight at a special Fan Club
Read moreBritish rock band Queen has been honoured with a coveted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star marks
Read moreLegendary rock group QUEEN — John Deacon, Brian May, Roger Taylor and the late Freddie Mercury — will be honored
Read moreQueen’s loyal subjects: London loves We Will Rock You, a ditsy musical based on songs by Queen. But will it
Read morePast-their-prime pop stars turn to musicals to keep the beat alive Where do old pop stars go when the rocking
Read moreBritish rock band Queen’s enduring hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been named the nation’s favourite single of all time. The song
Read moreHas Robert De Niro lost his mind? Or just his good taste? First, the most methody of method actors agreed
Read moreBBC Sessions Between February 1974 and October 1977, Queen recorded six radio sessions for the BBC. The first and third
Read moreGuitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor recruited a number of helpers to celebrate Holland’s National Queensday… QUEEN reformed for
Read moreRobbie Williams has rediscovered the colour of adrenalin. It’s brown. Apparently. According to the Daily Star today (April 30), colour-conscious
Read moreBlobby ruined our song – he’s no Freddie, says Queen bassist John Deacon QUEEN’S John Deacon has blasted Blobby Williams
Read moreSurviving Queen Members Mulling Reunion, Guitarist May Says Queen, who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Read moreLONDON, England — British rock band Queen are amongst a list of musicians lined up for the prestigious Rock and
Read moreScaramouche! ‘Queen: The Musical’? Bohemian Rhapsody.” “Killer Queen.” “We Are the Champions.” Are these Queen songs not the perfect marriage
Read moreLate rock singer Freddie Mercury and the music of his band Queen are celebrated in a new ballet which opened
Read moreThe music of Queen will come to the London ballet stage in September when a tribute to Freddie Mercury opens
Read moreA new video featuring David Bowie and the late Freddie Mercury is set to mark World Aids Day on 1
Read moreThe surviving members of the rock group Queen are planning to reform for a new album, eight years after the
Read moreQueen To Reform For Album Sessions, Avoids Naming New Singer Long live the Queen? According to Britain’s Press Association, Queen
Read moreThere’s no denying that Queen was responsible for many instantly recognizable, enigmatic hits that intrigued audiences worldwide. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is
Read moreA ballet set to Queen songs? What could be more obvious? As it prepares to open in Ireland, Arminta Wallace
Read moreMercury’s Memory Is Rising With New Single The surviving members of Queen reunited earlier this year to record a new
Read moreQUEEN LIVE IN THE EIGHTIES Many of this year’s anniversaries – Lennon, Hendrix, Joplin – are commemorative, so it’s a
Read moreDR = David Richards Q: Was A Winters Tale the last song Freddie wrote for Made In Heaven? DR: A
Read moreby Adam Sweeting Queen were never a run of the mill pop group. The guitarist Brian May studied to be
Read moreOne-Hour Documentary Spotlights Group Rock Band Queen – Back With a Vengence Say they’re great. Say they’re awful. Say they’re
Read moreNever a band to do things half-heartedly, Queen is celebrating its 20th anniversary in an unusually regal manner. The long-lived
Read moreQUEEN BACK CATALOG SUFFERS A ROYAL DELAY British art-rockers Queen have signed with Disney’s new Hollywood Records, touching off speculation
Read moreQueen – Live in the Seventies Early in their career, Queen established a reputation for being a dynamite live band.
Read moreThree men from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, were remanded in custody until August 21 by magistrates at Stevenage yesterday accused of the
Read more“Hot Space,” the title of Queen’s latest album, is as good a description as any of the sound achieved both
Read moreGold Record Given To Queen Before Album Goes on Sale Queen was presented with a gold record in Britain for
Read moreWhile “A Night at the Opera,” Queen’s latest album, threatens the number one slot on record charts, one hears more
Read moreThis is an extract from an article that talked about the latest music news. While “A Night at the Opera,”
Read moreQueen looks set to reign like Zeppelin—explosively There’s something to be said in rock ‘n’ roll for the magic of
Read moreThis article also ran in the The News Journal (Mansfield, OH, 03-21-1976) under the headline “Queen Next Supergroup?” It was
Read moreBritish rock quartet known for black-white garb The British rock quartet Queen is touring around America and for those who
Read moreQueen, the British band whose latest album is “A Night at the Opera” will perform in concert at 8 p.m.
Read moreQUEEN HIT THE TOP: After reaching the No. 2 spot with their single “Killer Queen,” a year ago, pop group
Read moreby Larry Stevens QUEEN is a rarity among the groups to emerge in the past few years, a heavy metal
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