I don't know if the little friends here are familiar with "queen", but you are now following the slogan of the fungus - oh, tom, pop, tom, tom, tom, tom.
Unconsciously, did you start stomping and clapping your hands, and familiar music sounded in your ears?
That's right, the fungus is talking about the well-known "We Will Rock You", which, along with the other "We Are the Champions", is a sports event "anthem" and is two of Queen's most widely sung works. Even if you're not familiar with Queen, you can hum two sentences casually.
This year marks Queen's 50th anniversary.
Last week, band guitarist Brian May re-released his 1992 debut solo album, Back to the Light, dedicated to the ever-great Band Queen and to the late lead singer and eternal best friend Freddie Mercury.
专辑《back to the light》
Queen, which has been brilliant for more than 20 years since the 1970s, is still a holy light in the hearts of countless fans.
There are three things you have to know about them.
1. The band that goes to the altar
and controversial lead singer
In 1971, in London, England, Queen's four-member lineup was officially formed — drummer Roger Taylor, guitarist Brian May, bassist Johndeacon, and lead singer Freddie Mercury.
The band did not stir up much in its early days, and it was not until 1974, when Queen performed on the BBC, that it became famous.
In 1975, with the birth of the divine album "A Night at the Opera", the band's creative talent and performance ability were revealed, creating classic songs including "bohemian rhapsody" and "love of my life", combining gorgeous rock, avant-garde rock, classical music, and heavy metal.
The album finished fourth on the US Billboard Albums Chart and topped the UK Pop Albums Chart for four consecutive weeks. As of the end of 2018, the album was the most streamed of 20th-century songs, with 1.6 billion singles played.
To this day, we are still amazed by the complex song structure of "Bohemian Rhapsody", and also by the low chants and deep feelings in "Love of a Lifetime".
For the legendary band, lead singer Freddie Mercury's numerous labels may be even more striking.
From the initial discriminated immigration status, conspicuous tooth decay, to fame after being scolded, ridiculed for homosexuality, and later accused of private life chaos, infected with AIDS...
With his flawless stage performances, intense personal style, and charismatic creative talent, Fred shuts the mouths of these people again and again.
Tights, white vests, red scarves, windy walking positions... It's hard to believe he's here to sing and not to dance aerobics. Fred is always confident on stage and is a natural king. "I'm not going to be a star, I'm going to be a legend."
Regardless of the outside world's voices, he has always longed to embrace love. For music and love, he always had a desperate obsession.
For his girlfriend Mary, who accompanied him through the most difficult time in the early days of his career, he could not bear to cheat and seriously told her that he was gay.
These two affectionate lovers of yesterday tolerated and understood each other and became the most important relatives in each other's lives, and Fred always regarded Mary as his legal wife.
Mary Austin and Fred
Mary said to Fred after coming out of the closet with tears, your life will be extremely difficult.
Yes, Fred's pursuit of love is not so easy. How many people only love his money and fame, and the rock star in the eyes of outsiders is actually as simple as a child, so that he is used by adulterers.
Once because of the credulity of the manager Paul Prent, eventually the crowd rebelled. After the relationship between the two fell apart, Paul made the matter of Fred's homosexuality public and exaggerated it more, which became the last straw that crushed Fred's spiritual world.
This rock 'n' roll uncle is actually a cat slave
He once lamented: "Even if you are loved by thousands of people, you are still the loneliest person in the world, and few people can understand... Because you don't seem to lack anything. ”
He throws lavish parties, he flaunts his old achievements... After the grand hustle and bustle, the only person who can talk is his former wife, Mary.
Fred and the last love of his life, Jim Hatton
2, have to say bohemian rhapsody
and "Save Lives" concert
In 2019, with the release of the biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody" in China, the story of this legendary band was known to more and more people.
As a biographical musical film, "Bohemian Rhapsody" created a box office miracle and won four awards at the Oscars that year. The film's final restoration of the 1985 world-shattering "live aid" star concert is even more breathtaking.
It was at this concert that Queen, once on the verge of disintegration, rehabilitated and returned to the pinnacle of the music world with a 20-minute performance that is still acclaimed to this day.
The "Save Lives" concert held on July 13, 1985, was a major event in the world music industry, telling a story of "music changing the world".
It was a 16-hour mega concert featuring heavyweights such as David Bowie, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Madonna, and others to raise money for the Great Famine in Ethiopia, Africa.
The concert was held simultaneously in London, England and Philadelphia, USA, gathering more than 70,000 people, and the global TV audience reached 1.9 billion people, making it the largest rock concert in history, raising a total of $50 million, all of which was used to assist refugees in African countries.
At the end of the concert, all the singers took the stage together and sang "We are the world" in unison.
For the first time, people realized that the power of music was so great that it influenced the well-known "Tomorrow Will Be Better" star concert in China.
The mid-1980s became a world of rock' roll, love and peace, and 1986 became the International Year of Peace.
In this concert, Queen played the stage interaction to the extreme, 100,000 people uniformly waved fists, clapped hands, chorus, the scene is spectacular, shocking, so far no one can surpass.
The film "Bohemian Rhapsody" ends with a performance that was so important to Queen. When Fred, wearing a white tank top and tight pants, walked out confidently, sat down at the piano, and played the first note, we knew — Fred was back, Queen was back!
3. Back to Brian May:
Physicist in the music circle
This year marks Queen's 50th anniversary.
Brian May re-released her debut solo album, Back to the Light, in honor of Queen, saying, "I miss Fred all the time. ”
In 1991, with the death of lead singer Fred from AIDS and the retirement of bassist Deacon, queen was forced to disband.
"After Fred's death, I couldn't believe it for a long time, and maybe I haven't fully accepted it to this day. I can't stand the thought of him being held in that pitch-black place..."
Brian May and Fred are both teammates and close friends who support each other.
At a 1989 dinner party between the band and his family, Fred told his friend that he had AIDS and that he had no time left, and he showed his teammates the wounds he had been bleeding from and could not heal, and said to Brian, "I'm sorry to make you see something very uncomfortable." ”
Brian said, "I didn't feel uncomfortable, I just felt sorry for the immense pain you had suffered." ”
Today, Queen is gone, but the legends about them have never gone away.
Brian May is affectionately known as "Dr. May" because of his other identity as an astrophysicist.
The long hair that has remained unchanged for thousands of years is quite like Einstein did not have
Between 1970 and 1974, when he was a Ph.D. student at Imperial College, he studied the reflected light of interplanetary dust and the speed of dust from the planets of the Solar System.
After the dissolution of Queen, Dr. May returned to the scientific community and continued to study astronomy at Imperial College as a visiting scholar, and in recognition of Dr. May's contributions to astronomy, an asteroid in 2008 was named "52665 brianmay".
Now we can still see Dr. May active on social media platforms.
Some time ago, when the United Kingdom announced the full unblocking and passive response to the epidemic, Dr. May accused Boris Johnson of handling the crisis on his personal account as a "catastrophic mistake" and called on everyone to wear a mask.
"Everyone's life matters." He said.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the powerlessness of experiencing the death of a close friend that the rock star has more iron man tenderness and reverence for life.
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ref:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/05/brian-may-i-never-have-a-single-day-without-thinking-about-freddie
https://m.sohu.com/a/114105512_489486
https://mbd.baidu.com/newspage/data/landingsuper?context=%7b%22nid%22%3a%22news_8864656338009403904%22%7d&n_type=-1&p_from=-1
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