What their earliest albums lacked was a big single, but plenty were on the way. "Killer Queen" became Queen's first-ever U.S.

One of Brian May's most iconic guitar performances almost didn't make it on to one of Queen's most popular tracks.

But when Queen recorded Don’t Stop Me Now for their 1978 album Jazz, May found himself sidelined by singer Freddie Mercury, who wrote the song and had very definite ideas about how it should sound.

In 1995, four years after the death of Queen singer Freddie Mercury, the band’s final studio album was released. Made In Heaven was comprised of tracks recorded in the last months of Mercury’s ...

"Bohemian Rhapsody" was a song long in the making, but it officially kicked into gear in the summer of 1975, when Freddie Mercury began writing it as an operatic piece titled, "Real Life." ...

May said that when recording his guitar solo for A Winter’s Tale, he imagined that Mercury was with him. “Freddie wrote the song in Montreux,” May recalled, “in a little house on the lake ...