hit offered a concise take of its unique virtues, from melodic irresistibility to soaring harmonics and May’s lyrical guitar style. The opening track from A Day at the Races supports the latter. Others favor the face-melting, hard-rockin’ side. In some ways the definitive Queen song, from its balladic verses to its anthemic chorus, “Champions” has an eternal lock on sports stadium playlists and enjoys the (wholly believable) distinction as the catchiest song in the history of popular music according to a 2011 scientific study in the U.K.
Queen – “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”Ī gem from the kitchen sink that was The Game, letting Queen get its rockabilly on from Mercury’s Elvis-isms to May’s hot James Burton licks.
If you make it through the 2:52 mark of this 1976 single without feeling uplifted and a little bit giddy, you seriously have no heart.Ĩ. Props to Metallica for acknowledging who helped show them how it was done. Punk and thrash metal were in their nascent stages when Queen unleashed this beast on Sheer Heart Attack. The stacked, falsetto-flaunting vocals and ebb-and-flow construction is an important precursor to “Bohemian Rhapsody” on the very next album. This Roger Taylor-sung glam reminiscence about restless youth kicked off a Sheer Heart Attack suite that also included “Flick of the Wrist” and “Lily of the Valley.”Įven by this early stage of Queen’s career, we knew the group could get a little over the top. See more: ABBA | Allman Brothers | Bee Gees | Bob Dylan | Bon Jovi | Def Leppard | Eagles | Elton John | Foreigner | Michael Jackson | Motley Crue | Pink Floyd | Poison | Steely Dan | Steve Miller Band | Sting | Supertramp | Tom Petty It’s not an easy task, but here are our picks for the 20 best Queen songs. May once asked, in song, “Who wants to live forever?” and his group has created music that most certainly will. Forty-five years on, Queen’s kind of magic endures via a variety of forms - reissues, stage musicals, movies and TV shows and at just about every sports event in the world, not to mention Brian May and Roger Taylor’s touring situation with Adam Lambert.
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