Queen (band)

Freddy Mercury, who was the lead singer of Queen, always played piano in his songs. So it is Freddy Mercury.

Former Queen bass guitarist John Deacon is 65 years old (birthdate: August 19, 1951).

Roger Meddows-Taylor was born on Tuesday, 26th July 1949 to parents Michael and Winifred. He met the Queen Mother aged only six days old, and lived in Norfolk until his younger sister Clare was born, when his family moved to Truro in Cornwall. He attended Truro School as a day boy, and showed academic promise. When he was 18, he began education at London Hospital Medical College, training as a dentist. He became disaffected with the idea, and switched to biology, obtaining a B.Sc. He joined Brian May, Tim Staffell and Chris Smith's band, Smile as the drummer and backing vocalist. Brian May advertised a 'Ginger Baker/ Mitch Mitchell type drummer', and Taylor got the job after an audition.

A young Farrokh 'Freddie' Bulsara (later Freddie Mercury) was waiting in the wings, an avid follower of Smile. In 1970, Tim Staffell left the band, leaving Taylor and May without a lead singer. They tried Freddie and employed him as lead singer of the new band, which they called Queen. They began with bassist Mike Grose and second bassist Barry Mitchell. Mitchell left in January 1971, and Grose followed. Doug Ewood Bogie served as bassist in February 1971, but was replaced by the traditional bassist John Deacon on March 1st 1971.

Queen received their first taste of fame with the song 'Seven Seas of Rhye' promoted with an appearance on Top of the Pops in 1974; it reached #10 in the charts. They achieved their first #1 single with the blockbuster Bohemian Rhapsody, a six-minute, three sectioned masterpiece with no chorus, Taylor contributing the famous gong hit at the end of the song, in 1975. They performed a free concert at Hyde Park in September 1976 to an audience of over 150,000 people, one of them being Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters, a sort-of hero's homecoming after a victorious stint in Japan.

Taylor met organiser and promoter Richard Branson's PR, Dominique Beyrand, who was French. This began a twelve-year relationship with Dominique, which produced two children, Felix Luther (born 22nd May 1980) and Rory Eleanor (born 29th May 1986), before marrying on 3rd January 1988. They separated 25 days later, after she found out he had been cheating on her with a model, Deborah Leng, who can be seen in the video for Queen's 1989 single, Breakthru. Beyrand and Taylor didn't properly divorce until 2010, when his relationship with Leng had been over for eight years. Debbie and Roger had three children together, and a sex tape.

Freddie Mercury died from AIDS in 1991, and Taylor emotionally told the story in a BBC4 documentary celebrating Queen's 40th anniversary, about how he was on the way to see Freddie for what probably would have been the last time, and receiving a phone call from Mercury's personal assistant Peter 'Phoebe' Freestone, informing him he had died.

May and Taylor still perform together, staying firm friends after their 45 years of knowing each other, a friendship you have to admire.

Yes. He died From Aids.

This is actually rather disputed. There are parts of it which are very balladic but then it goes pretty wierd. I would class it as a ballad because many of the sctions feel like this. If it helps think of it as a ballad with a queen twist :P

Queen, the band.

Bohemian Rhapsody is a song - you don't measure height for songs.

Jazz - Queen album - was created on 1978-11-10.

Season 1, the final episode of the season. It was sung by Vocal Adrenaline while Quinn was having her baby.

John Deacon decided not to rejoin Roger Taylor and Brian May in their live tours. Instead he relaxes in the comfort of his own home and with his family.

It smbolizes the Leo birthdays mother

no he died from aids

Because at that time Freddie was too ill and weak to be able to sing it.

It is named Queen becase of the fact that Freddie Mercry liked it and so did the others! :-)

yea he has :) Im not sure of their names, i think one is called 'Back to the light' but after the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991, he did tour as a solo artist.

One of his most famous songs as a solo artist is 'Driven By You' which was used on a Ford advert in the early 1990's

the 80s

1. brian may queen guitarist!!

Flash Gordon.

yes, it is queens most famous song!

The question as to whether it is a ballad could be disputed- due to the smooth opening i would say it is, even if it does go a bit wierd near the end :P

Roger taylor is alive, John Deacon died in 1997.

Roger Taylor is 59 years old.

Bohemian Rhapsody is a very metaphorical work, focusing upon good and evil, masculine and feminine, the need for absolution of one's sins, and the fate of one's soul after death.

It focuses upon a poor young man from a deprived background who shoots a man dead, probably to rob him, and laments to his mother that he is now facing the death penalty. He is executed, after which various factions from the worlds of good and evil fight for possession of his soul. Galileo is mentioned as representing one of the 'good' factions- kindly, wise, paternal, and a genuis of the most positive kind.

The song also mentions the character Scaramouche from the old Italian Comedia del 'Arte, who is a metaphor for one of the 'negative' factions', being selfish, irresponsible, uncaring and debauched. the Tate of the man's soul is ambiguous, but you are left with the impression that although he is innocent in many ways, he has a wilyness about him.

There is an entire page on Wikipedia devoted to 'Bohemian Rhapsody', which can give you the full story of the song.

Freddie mercury

Yes Brian has three children;

Jimmy May

Louisa May

and

Emily Ruth May