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In a zone of their own beyond parody and the sober boundaries of civilized society, Queen plowed a pomp-glam-bizarre-rock path into the 1980s. If excess was good, exaggeration was better, and Queen, like a dolled-up dowager on speed, made display an ...more

In a zone of their own beyond parody and the sober boundaries of civilized society, Queen plowed a pomp-glam-bizarre-rock path into the 1980s. If excess was good, exaggeration was better, and Queen, like a dolled-up dowager on speed, made display an integral part of their performances. Formed in 1971 with members from Wreckage and Smile, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor respectively, the soon-to-be-Queen added bassist John Deacon and released Queen-the-album in '73. There followed success on both sides of the Atlantic and fans from both the camp and campus wings of popular taste. "Bohemian Rhapsody," from A Night At the Opera in '75, may be Queen's most identifiable single, but "We are the Champions" and "We Will Rock You" are close behind and conjure up all the over the top, stunt-studded dips into decadence for which the band was famous. Especially delicious to Queen cognoscenti is the fact that "Champions," a favorite of the victorious everywhere, is a gay anthem. Undaunted by waning popularity in the mid-'80s, Queen turned to foreign fans and built a name for themselves in Latin America, Africa and Asia, biding their time 'til Innuendo hit it big in Europe in '91. Freddie didn't live long enough to enjoy the new wave of adulation; he died on November 24, 1991, a victim of AIDS. A memorial concert at Wembley Stadium the following spring, the movie Wayne's World and the 1995 album Made in Heaven that featured his bandmates doing backup vocals for tracks Mercury recorded before his death kept Queen before the public until the inevitable boxed sets of earlier work were released in the late '90s. Of course, any hockey and most football games continue to provide snippets of the band's sly repertoire for committed fans and the unsuspecting....less