God save the Queen: Mercury & band rising

Chicago Sun-Times | December 1, 2002| | Copyright

All right, so it's cheating a bit to address not one but two albums for the first entry in this column by Queen. But while the fourth and fifth releases by the revered British art-rockers and glam- popsters were separated by 121/2 months, the two discs shared more than similar cover art and titles lifted from movies by the Marx Brothers.

Singer Freddie Mercury said that, despite the gap in the release dates, many of the songs were initially conceived in the same period and intended to be part of an epic double album. The record company prevented that from happening, figuring that two separate ...

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