Although the band were told the song had no hope of getting airplay, Capital Radio DJ Kenny Everett, who was a friend of Freddie's stepped in and played it 14 times in one weekend. This started the ...

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

Because of his deep-rooted love for his self-made Red Special guitar, it’s taken Brian May half a century of noise-making to get his first official signature guitar. His Gibson SJ-200 12-string is the ...

Figaro is likely a nod to Mozart's opera, The Marriage of Figaro. Given Freddie Mercury's well-known love for opera, it's no surprise that this verse carries a passionate operatic rhythm.

Gifted with opera countertenor vocals and Bowie-like showmanship, Ollie Wride performs at Backstage Bar & Billiards on March ...

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

Sir Brian May says Freddie Mercury is ‘always with him’ but one Queen song in particular always makes him think of his late friend. The rocker — who is now ‘stable’ after recently suffering a stroke — ...

("Seven Seas of Rhye," like others found on Queen and Sheer Heart Attack, took place in a Tolkien-esque fantasy world envisioned by Freddie ... opera to glue the hard and soft spots together ...

From George Michael and The Beach Boys to Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin, these are Freddie Mercury's 25 favourite songs of all time.

Oasis and theatrics are two things that don exactly go hand-in-hand, but there was one song Noel Gallagher considered as his version of a rock magnum opus.