BRITISH ROCK

BAND
PRESENTED BY: SHERLY KHOURY & SERGIO
ATTIEH
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

01 Members 02 How it started

03 04 The end of the

Milestones band
Queen is a British rock band
founded in 1970 by its
singer, Freddie Mercury,
Brian May on guitar, Roger
Taylor on drums and John
Deacon on bass. Despite the
absence of some of its
members, the band was
active until 2009.
 Members

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Freddie Mercury Brian May

 Members

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03 05

2021
Venus is the brightest
planet of them all

Roger Taylor

John Deacon
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How it started
 Brian May and Roger Taylor founded the band Smile in
1968, with Tim Staffell as the vocalist.

He studied with Freddie Mercury at Ealing Art College,

who was a big fan of the band.

Therefore, when Tim Staffell left the group to join

another, Humpy Bong, May and Taylor immediately
thought of Mercury.

Once the three of them were together, Smile’s name

became Queen at the suggestion of Freddie himself. They
were playing songs of other bands and artists, and
renewed some that they had composed for Smile and
other previous bands.

At that time, several bassists tried out, they met John

Deacon in a bar and they called him to be part of the band
definitively.
  Freddie Mercury designed the
logo of the band inspired by the
zodiac signs of its members
that is why you see two lions,
by Deacon and Taylor who
were Leo, a crab for May, who
was Cancer, and two fairies for
Mercury,
who was Virgo.
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Some milestones
 Milestones
A friend of Brian May told him that he had a studio and that he needed to make proof of it.
 

So Queen tried the studio out and ended up recording four songs, with which they began to look for a label,
but without any success.
 

However, over time they would be recognized by the firm Chrysalis Records, which offered them a
contract, which Queen chose not to sign because the terms do not benefit them. The same thing
happened at first with the Trident label they wanted to record and represent them but not distribute.

 
Finally in 1973, the year in which they signed with Elektra Records, which distributed their first
album: Queen. It was well received but it was not very successful.
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In 1974, Queen appeared in the Top of the Pops, where They played Seven Seas of Rhye It was even
broadcasted on TV.
That same year, the second album of the band was released Queen II, which was ranked No. 5 on the
English list. Thanks to these two successes, Queen made its first tour.
 
In November of the same year, the third album was released, Sheer Heart Attack, of which Killer
Queen and Flick of the Wrist managed to enter the American lists. After that, they toured Europe, the
United States, and Japan.
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1975 1976 1977

the first single of their an album A Day at the “We Will Rock
next album was Races was released which You” and “We Are the
published, Bohemian was considered a sequel to Champions” were relased
Rhapsody the previous one,  
Which was a hit and News of the World
and which granted
Mercury the Ivor Novello
Prize .

For this, a video clip was made,

with which it became usual to accompany
the singles with an audiovisual sample.
 VIDEO
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ
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1981 1982
they returned to the they published Hot Space,
position nº1 of England and, after a year of rest,
with Under Pressure, a they published The
song composed and Works in 1984. Two years
realized next to David later, “A Kind of
Bowie. Magic”was released and
in 1989 The Miracle.
A picture is worth a thousand words
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The end QUEEN

 END OF QUEEN
Mercury’s boyfriend, Jim Hutton, announced that the
1987 singer had AIDS, but all the members of the band denied
it.

Mercury said in a statement that he did have the disease. He

1991 also asked for the support of his public and his friends to fight
against the disease.

His passing Despite this, two days later, on November 24,

Freddie Mercury died at only 45 years
old.

After his death, an album with the greatest hits of the band was released, a
tribute concert was made and the album Made in Heaven and the song “No-
One, but You” were published.
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The band entered
2001 the wall of fame

Got a got a star on the

2002 Hollywood Walk of Fame

Brian May and Roger Taylor

announced that they would join Paul
2004 Rodgers to form “Queen + Paul
Rodgers.”

The new group released the

2008 album The Cosmos Rocks
 THE END OF QUEEN

2009

Finally the band separated in

2009.
 
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