Queen + somebody = notQueen
After the Beatles/Wings, when I was a kid Queen was my fav band. Those were the days you had to defend them “Isn’t their singer a homo or something?” plus their somewhat twee offerings like Millionaire’s Waltz or My Melancholy Blues or Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy or In Only Seven Days or Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon or Lap of the Gods 2 (all these invariably by Freddie, but it gave the band depth and class) by playing Now I’m Here or Tie Your Mother or White Man or Stone Cold Crazy or in latter days Hammer to Fall or Hitman for your friends to prove Queen really could rock in a very unique and cool way with as much musicianship as other prog-rock bands. They kind of lost me during Hot Spaces and were never really as good again, but I followed the band right up to Innuendo.
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