Did You Know...

Now Queen returns to the big stage with Paul Rodgers taking the place of the late Freddie Mercury. Tickets to Queen with Paul Rodgers on tour will be selling out fast, because time has only increased the band's popularity and a whole new generation of fans is waiting for their chance to experience the whimsical and passionate music of Queen.

Queen's music has elements of heavy metal, progressive rock, psychedelia and vaudevillian features that made their live concerts so impressive and exotic. The song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is an example of the epic storytelling and whimsical style of Queen's music. It also showed the versatile nature of Freddie Mercury's voice with its a capella parts and wild operatic vocal devices. They released the song in 1975 with a promotional video that became the first modern music video. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' became a hit all over again, thanks to Wayne, Garth, and friends' head-bobbing rendition in Mike Myers' 1992 movie, Wayne's World.

The original members of Queen were Freddie Mercury (piano and vocals), Brian May (guitars, piano and vocals), Roger Meadows-Taylor (drums, percussion and vocals), and John Deacon (bass guitar and rhythm guitar). They played together for a long time, releasing 17 albums as a band and 7 after the passing of their lead man. Freddie Mercury died at the age of 45 from AIDS in November of 1991. A benefit concert held in his honor featured many of the popular artists of the '80s and '90s who had been influenced by his music. In 2002, Queens's songs were featured as the theatrical material for a musical called 'We Will Rock You.'