Freddie Mercury

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The cover of Classic Rock 359, featuring Queen
Brian May and Roger Taylor on Freddie Mercury's Last Stand - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

By Siân Llewellyn Published

Also in Classic Rock 359: Greta Van Fleet, Manic Street Preachers, Dave Hill, Rick Wakeman, Hannah Wicklund, Dolly Parton, Anthrax, Pearl Jam, The Temperance Movement, Tom Morello, Little Angels, Ian McCulloch and more

Magazines
Queen standing outside their dressing room
Watch Queen play Crazy Little Thing Called Love just two weeks before Freddie Mercury's final show

By Fraser Lewry Published

Crazy Little Thing Called Love comes from the restored concert movie Queen: Budapest, currently showing in cinemas worldwide

Bands & Artists
Queen plays Knebworth, the last concert on the Magic Tour on August 09, 1986
Brian May recalls the moment he learned that Freddie Mercury had played his final Queen gig

By Paul Brannigan Published

"I’m thinking maybe 50 years is enough" says Brian May, revealing that Queen's touring days are over

Bands & Artists
Freddie Mercury singing in a backstage portakabin
Watch a giddy Freddie Mercury warm up before his last ever show with Queen

By Fraser Lewry Published

Watch rare film of Freddie Mercury doing vocal exercises before his final show with Queen at Knebworth in 1986

Concerts & Shows
Samantha Fox and Freddie Mercury
The wild 1986 party where Queen teamed up with Samantha Fox and Gary Glitter to entertain 500 celebrity friends

By Paul Brannigan Published

In July '86, billed as Dicky Hart and The Pacemakers, Queen played one of the most star-studded gigs of their career in a London club

Bands & Artists
Queen’s Freddie Mercury on the set of the video for I’m Going Slightly Mad
The tragedy and triumph of Queen’s final album and Freddie Mercury’s last goodbye

By Henry Yates Published

How Queen made Innuendo and Made In Heaven against the odds

Bands & Artists
Queen in 1975, studio portrait
How Freddie Mercury's "fevered brain" conjured up Queen's biggest song

By Classic Rock Magazine Published

Queen's record company didn't want to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single, but history has proved them wrong several times

Tracks & Singles
Freddie Mercury onstage, 1986
"We like going places where it's a challenge." How Queen helped tear down the Iron Curtain

By Mark Blake Published

In July 1986, Queen became the first band to play a stadium show in the communist Eastern Bloc. Cue armed soldiers and genital-related insults

Bands & Artists
Queen in Freddie Mercury's flat, Holland Road, West Kensington, London in early 1974.
"My god, we were such impatient boys." How a David Bowie screw-up and some dramatic miming on British TV helped Queen secure their first hit single

By Paul Brannigan Published

The story behind Queen's first Top 10 single

Bands & Artists
Queen in 1975, studio portrait
Queen Quiz: How much do you know about A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races?

By Fraser Lewry Published

Test your knowledge of A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races, the twin pillars of Queen's imperial phase

Bands & Artists
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