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“I’m thinking to myself, ‘Freddie Mercury is cooking me breakfast”: how Queen and James Bond turned Highlander into one of the great cult movies of the 80s
By Dave Everley published
Director Russell Mulchay looks back on the classic 80s movie Highlander and its Queen soundtrack

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody movie is no longer the biggest biopic of all time, thanks to the global box office success of Oppenheimer
By Liz Scarlett published
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer boots Bohemian Rhapsody out of the top spot as the highest-grossing biopic in history

"I realised what it was like to stand in Freddie's shoes, and it was not an easy gig": Paul Rodgers looks back on the challenge of fronting Queen
By Paul Brannigan last updated
No-one could ever replace the late, great Freddie Mercury, but Paul Rodgers made a damned good shift of it with Queen from 2004 to 2009

"You can get in a terrible mess if you play the wrong things": Watching Queen's Brian May discuss his Red Special guitar, his sixpence 'plectrums' and secret "tasty guitar techniques" in this rare British TV interview from 1976 is guitar nerd nirvana
By Paul Brannigan published
Back when television actually had music shows, Queen's Brian May was able to talk about his guitar technique in geeky detail on prime-time TV

"The potential for AI to cause evil is, obviously, incredibly huge... the whole thing is massively scary": Queen guitarist Brian May warns of dark days ahead for humanity
By Paul Brannigan published
Queen's Brian May has a vision of how an AI-dominated world could look in the future, and its not pretty

"I can't look... it's too sad": Queen's Brian May expresses dismay as Freddie Mercury's personal possessions go under the hammer in London, with his Bohemian Rhapsody video 'snake bangle' selling for £698,500
By Paul Brannigan published
As Freddie Mercury's garden door sells for over £400,000 at a London auction of his personal effects, Brian May admits that, for him, it's "too sad" to watch

Queen were poor. Their singer sounded like a "bleating sheep". Their music was greeted with indifference. But they believed in themselves, and their debut album would make the years of pain worthwhile
By Mark Blake published
One minute Queen were taking the bus and watching their Top Of The Pops performance in a shop window: the next they had the world at their feet

"Their collective dishonesty is beyond shameful. God help Britain": Queen's Brian May hits out at the UK government and Britain's right-wing press
By Paul Brannigan published
"The Tory Government and the Tory Press, are the WRONG PEOPLE to be in power" says Queen guitarist Brian May

"Can you believe that at Freddie Mercury's last concert, no one actually pressed record?": The story of the great showman's last stand
By Henry Yates published
On August 9th 1986, Freddie Mercury played with Queen for 120,000 fans at Knebworth Park. No one knew it would be his final show with the band

You can now view Freddie Mercury's stage costumes, photos, hand-written lyrics, the piano on which he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody and his silk kimono collection before they go under the hammer
By Paul Brannigan published
An exhibition of late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's possessions, titled Freddie Mercury, A World of His Own, is now open at Sotheby’s in London
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