deleted user 30.08.2006 19:12 |
I discovered Queen while walking the track at a relay for life cancer research walk. I heard the song 'Another One Bites the Dust' and asked my friend, who was walking the track with me, what the song was called. I looked it up on itunes and I've been a fan ever since. That happened last year. Before I discoverd Queen my life lacked the gift of music. If you knew me you would think I've been obsessed for years! |
its_a_hard_life 26994 30.08.2006 19:52 |
To cut my LONG story on how I discovered Queen... I saw them on VH1 one day, Bohemian Rhapsody was the video and I was blown away. Then after the adverts came a 2 hour documentry on Queen. And till this day, I will always say that this documentry has been the best I've seen so far. I've seen quite alot of documentrys in my time of being a Queen fan but this one topped it all. |
7 seas of Rhye 30.08.2006 20:20 |
I was looking at my brother's CD collection and I found the Greatest Hits CD and I borrowed it without asking and never gave it back. I remember thinking, "Wow! This band's really good. I love the singer and the piano player." Then I saw a picture of Queen in the 70's and I thought Brian was Freddie and I was like, "oooohh, he's cute." Then I found out that the singer, piano player, and the cutie from the picture were all Freddie. That's when my obsession started. |
Gone. 30.08.2006 20:21 |
By my parents, who are DIE-HARD fans! xD xD xD *sarcasm* YEAH F-ING RIGHT! I discovered it all by my lonesome, 'bout *ponders* 5 years ago..(?) one day on Itunes... :( I listened to WATC, which I knew from the radio, then I started buying CDS. One by one, in order, till I had every single one. I couldn't stop myself from spending money on Queen. I didn't sleep and eat....I was a wreck. My parents hated my obsession, so they took my CD's and memorabilia away. I was sobbing and crying and throwing a fit. Then, one day, I decided to run away....and burn down the house...muahahahaha...*ehem* KIDDING. My collection grew, and I started buying rare stuff. That is my story. THE END. LOL! I was kidding about the 1st part btw... |
deleted user 30.08.2006 22:05 |
i had heard bohemian rhapsody numerous times, so i looked it up on the internet...and there was a tribute site that had freddie's quote "i'm just a musical prostitute, my dear!" which made me a)spew my tea everywhere and b)become a queen fan. |
L-R-TIGER1994 30.08.2006 22:09 |
I didn't discovered them,when I was born they were already discovered. |
deleted user 30.08.2006 22:58 |
I became a Queen fan nearly ten years ago when I heard WATC. |
hotspacerules 30.08.2006 23:10 |
1978 - 7 years old - my brother's "News of the world" LP - he put it aside for his Kiss albums, but I was enthralled by the kelly frears comic book artwork on the cover; i listened to the first song, and was hooked (i was young, didnt even know that wwry was a hit) |
The prophet's song 31.08.2006 01:20 |
Dad used to sing Queen songs to me when I was a baby :) Then I *borrowed* his Queen CD's as soon as I figured out how to use a cd player. |
willem-jan 8923 31.08.2006 03:11 |
I heard I want it all on the radio when it came out as a single, and decided to get "The Miracle". Then straight into Queen I (since that was the cheapest Queen CD in the store) |
deleted user 31.08.2006 05:13 |
Some years ago our English teacher showed us We Are The Campions. I knew the song already but I wanted to hear it again. I started looking for Queen CDs in the whole house until one day I found Greatest Hits I&II. I fell in love with Don't Stop Me Now and I became obsessed. Later I found Made In Heaven and Greatest Hits. |
Jerjo 31.08.2006 09:09 |
Jeez, I am way too old. In college, a guy down the hall kept playing the "Killer Queen" single over and over and over again. It infected my brain, I ended buying the "Sheer Heart Attack" album, thinking it would be just some decent pop. As soon as I heard those opening chords to "Brighton Rock" I knew I had found a new favorite band. |
Nathan 31.08.2006 09:25 |
Coming home from Flamingo Land listening to Headlong in 1999. |
Chris L ♣ 31.08.2006 09:52 |
Way, way, way back in high school (lets say early 80's). During lunch hour, our school's radio station would play music. I remember the first time I heard WWRY. Everyone was pounding the tables to the beat. I remember thinking, who is this group. I've been a fan ever since. |
zaiga 31.08.2006 09:53 |
Mrs.Freddie Mercury wrote: I discovered Queen while walking the track at a relay for life cancer research walk. I heard the song 'Another One Bites the Dust' and asked my friend, who was walking the track with me, what the song was called. I looked it up on itunes and I've been a fan ever since. That happened last year. Before I discoverd Queen my life lacked the gift of music. If you knew me you would think I've been obsessed for years!Without sarcasm, I want to say that that is a great story, that there are still people who become Queen fans after listening to a song that came out more than 25 years ago. It says something about the power and timelessness of Queen's music! |
zaiga 31.08.2006 10:01 |
I was born in 1978 and I'm a Queen fan for as long as I can remember. I think I became a fan when I heard Bohemian Rhapsody on my brother's tape when I was 5 or 6 years old. I played it over and over again. I was enthralled by the choir in the beginning, the beautiful melodies in the piano part, the weicked opera part and then the heavy metal part. It was just something that clicked in my young brain there and then. At that same time Queen performed at Live Aid, which I vaguely remember watching (I was 5 years!) and A Kind Of Magic was released around that time as well. I also remember watching Queen live footage, including a scene where Freddie falls backwards with two "fat bottomed girls" in his arms. Anyone know where that is from? Again, the pomp and theatrics of Queen made a huge impression on me. I conciously became a fan when I heard "Breakthru" on the radio. I also loved the other Miracle singles, and I remember watching "The Miracle" video, wishing I was that kid miming Freddie. By that time I also had Greatest Hits on tape, and played it over and over again. By then there was no turning back, I was a Queen fan! |
Good_Company50 31.08.2006 11:01 |
<font color="#FF00FF">its_a_hard_life wrote: To cut my LONG story on how I discovered Queen... I saw them on VH1 one day, Bohemian Rhapsody was the video and I was blown away. Then after the adverts came a 2 hour documentry on Queen. And till this day, I will always say that this documentry has been the best I've seen so far. I've seen quite alot of documentrys in my time of being a Queen fan but this one topped it all.Do you remember the name of the documentary? And whether it has ever been released on VHS or DVD? |
escuderodelareina 31.08.2006 11:13 |
i saw the scandal video, in 1989 in the tv.in that time i was 9 years old.17 years after, still i´m a big fan. |
Poo, again 31.08.2006 12:42 |
Queen? WTF? |
deleted user 31.08.2006 15:17 |
It was 2004 and I was watching a music channel when 'Somebody To Love' came on. Intrigued, I asked my parents who it was, and they said it was Queen. Shortly afterwards I saw more videos, and that was enough to convince me that this was my favourite band for life. I bought Greatest Hits and my collection took off from there. And that's how I became an avid fan. :) |
blues breaker 31.08.2006 16:30 |
1979 I WAS A BIG ELVIS FAN. I WAS 13 YEARS OLD HEARD CRAZY LITTLE THING WENT AND GOT THE SINGLE, PLAYED THE B SIDE[GOOD OLD DAYS OF VYNLE] "ROCK YOU" LIVE, BEEN HOOKED EVER SINCE |
deleted user 31.08.2006 16:46 |
My mom. Who I think became a Queen fan because of my Step-Dad. |
Grapes 31.08.2006 16:54 |
I was bored so I watched waynes world and I thought 'Whats this crap?' then my brother gave me the Greatest Hits CD's and I turned obsessed over night. |
QueenNewcastle 31.08.2006 17:10 |
my dad played them all the time when i was gowning up, and then i went off them when i was a teenager, then when i went to college, me mate started to play "Breakthru" in his car, and i hadnt heard it for years, so i downloaded it when i got in that night, then i download another one, then another one...... |
val 29467 03.09.2006 14:23 |
my twin has been listening Queen for ages, but I only really discoverd them when I saw Bohe Rhap in my music book, about a year ago. I listend to Queen a bit then, but when we came back from our holiday last october, i borrowed his greatest hits cd and kept playing GOFLB. As soon as we came home I bought an Mp3 player and put alot of Queen on it. I'm fan ever since |
Grapes 03.09.2006 14:33 |
val<font color=violet>lie wrote: my twin has been listening Queen for ages, but I only really discoverd them when I saw Bohe Rhap in my music book, about a year ago. I listend to Queen a bit then, but when we came back from our holiday last october, i borrowed his greatest hits cd and kept playing GOFLB. As soon as we came home I bought an Mp3 player and put alot of Queen on it. I'm fan ever sinceYay! your twin got you into Queen too :D twins are great.sad im not identicle :( |
Carol! the Musical 03.09.2006 14:33 |
Once, my dad went to Rio for work. He brought back 2 CDs. One was ANATO, the other was something by Sugar Ray. I started listening to Sugar Ray, and kinda ignored Queen. So later I heard the opera part of Bo Rhap, and thought, "Okay, that's weird.." But later, I kept listening more to it, and I became the fanatic I am today. And I'm glad to say that Sugar Ray was forgotten. :P |
Nevermind 03.09.2006 14:48 |
When I was 7 or 8 I went Xmas shopping in Wales and on the way there Greatest Hits 2 was playing in the car, this is my real first memory of Queen even though I probably had heard them before then and on the way back from holiday I turnt my CD player off because I wanted to get some sleep and The Show Must Go On was playing, I asked my parents who it was because the song was in the Moulin Rouge. I think the time I really discovered Queen was about last year when my CD player broke and I was getting fed up of my mum's Bob Marley tape so I decided to listen to her Queen tape, well one year on 5 DVD's and 22 CD's of them and still collecting. |
Rikke 03.09.2006 15:22 |
My friend was a great fan, so I askes my other fan for some tracks, and I absolutely fell in love with them :b I only had like three or four tracks, but I listened to them constantly, and thought the guitarplayer ROCKED! I didn't even know what they looked like. So I made some research and thought: "Oh my, he's (Brian) really cute!" It's only 2-3 months ago, but people think I've been a fan for several years :b I bought 5 cd's in one day - my first Queen-cd's. Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, The Game and Innuendo. Then I bought a couple of ep's, and well it grew.. still expanding my collection :b |
nevermore:) 33121 03.09.2006 15:29 |
My mom would always play the greatest hits cd in her car while I was growing up, and I always liked them. Then a couple years ago, I finally got the greatest hits cd for myself and i was hooked! |
Sergei. 03.09.2006 15:35 |
I discovered them in the Amazon, dancing around a fire and screaming like savages. |
deleted user 03.09.2006 15:47 |
VH1 were having like a Queen weekend or something and i saw Bo Rap and IWTBF was effing hilarious so i was Wicked..and then at the same time Jessie-Z got their GH1,2&3 so we used to blast it out in my dads car in my church's carpark! hehe..all the neighbours complained of course..*rolls eyes* xD |
its_a_hard_life 26994 03.09.2006 16:04 |
<font color="#33FFFF">Capt'JessicaSparow wrote: VH1 were having like a Queen weekend or something and i saw Bo Rap and IWTBF was effing hilarious so i was Wicked..and then at the same time Jessie-Z got their GH1,2&3 so we used to blast it out in my dads car in my church's carpark! hehe..all the neighbours complained of course..*rolls eyes* xD*rolls eyes too* I KNOWWW EFFING NEIGHBOURS!!! xD Everyone must LISTEN to the almighty QUEEN. I remember that too. I'm having flashbacks of it now. OMG... DEN DEN DEN DEN DEEEEEEEEEEEEEN DEN. :) |
zlatan 03.09.2006 16:44 |
i saw iwtbf in mtv and i fall in love |
Joeker 04.09.2006 00:51 |
I met John Deacon back in the grocery store by accident, and tried to get by and said excuse me, he then whipped out an already signed autograph...and said bugger off. I looked up John Deacon on wikipedia, then i found out he was a guy who played in that band that did we will rock you...then i found out it was queen so now im hooked |
RETROLOVE 04.09.2006 01:33 |
kingarthur wrote: I met John Deacon back in the grocery store by accident, and tried to get by and said excuse me, he then whipped out an already signed autograph...and said bugger off. I looked up John Deacon on wikipedia, then i found out he was a guy who played in that band that did we will rock you...then i found out it was queen so now im hookedLucky SOB you!!! What did he have in his basket? |
SilverShoes 04.09.2006 02:24 |
As best as I recall, I remember hearing We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions back in the late 70's. Definitely when we still lived at Ft Leonard Wood, so it would have had to have been before summer of 1980, and I'm betting we're going back at least to 79, if not 78. I think my brother had News Of The World, though I don't remember hearing any of the other songs on it. |
thenymphinyellow 04.09.2006 03:03 |
I kinda grew up with it! Your my best friend, killer queen, we will rock you, we are the champions and another one bites the dust were the ones that I distinctly remember from my child hood. but i didnt really get listening to them until my dad bought my mum the greatest hits DVD and well the rest is history! :D Hooroo! |
val 29467 04.09.2006 14:13 |
»Custard Pie« wrote:me and my brother aren't identical eitherval<font color=violet>lie wrote: my twin has been listening Queen for ages, but I only really discoverd them when I saw Bohe Rhap in my music book, about a year ago. I listend to Queen a bit then, but when we came back from our holiday last october, i borrowed his greatest hits cd and kept playing GOFLB. As soon as we came home I bought an Mp3 player and put alot of Queen on it. I'm fan ever sinceYay! your twin got you into Queen too :D twins are great.sad im not identicle :( |
deleted user 04.09.2006 15:55 |
I became a queen fan many years ago while listening to a tape of them in my dads car.Up until around 1998 - 2000 I think it was,I was only an admirere compared to how much I love them now.But what really really got me into them was a documentry on channel 4,it went on for ages but I loved every minute of it and it was then my love grew,awwwwwwww |
shanemcd 05.09.2006 08:29 |
My cousin used to play them all the time in the early 80's - I wasn't much into music then, but in 1991 when Freddie died I grew more interested and eventually got a copy of Queen II. After which I was hooked and started to get the other albums and started play the piano based songs also. |
LASPALABRASDEAMOR 05.09.2006 09:39 |
I tell you, in 1979,in lima, peru all the radios station played song like dont stop me now, someboby to love,i was 10 or 11 years old,from there i fall in love with queen,until to date,i remenber in the 80s year after year i was living waiting for a queen new album once i remenber i was ponched becouse i still money from my mother to get a new album hot space ha ha i learn to dont still money from my mother,and my mother learn that Queen was something serius to me ,so Happy birthday Freddie we all love you |
Queenluv4Life 12.10.2006 20:20 |
well im 12 and 4 years ago my mom bought greatest hits 1 and 2. i listened to borap and i loves it. i got the cd for myself and i learned the rest of the songs, and from that day i felt in lun with Queen |
BRYCE THE TROLL 12.10.2006 21:34 |
i first hird the song "Killer Queen" when playing rythim games on my friends ps2 (tiako drum master) i thought the track was okay but it wasn't till a month later i would like it. THE FUCKING GAME ONLY LET YOU PLAY HALF THE SONG, i didn't even relise this till i was uplate late listining to classic rock radio (FRANK: portland's no. 1 for classic rock) once i heard the full song I LOVED IT!! the next week just happend to be my birthday my dad took me to borders in bangor and i couldn't find a cd that bohrhap and killer queen on itthen i found greatist hits WWRY and i was SOLD |
Donna13 13.10.2006 09:01 |
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kagezan1313 13.10.2006 13:21 |
Well, they came to me in 1971 and signed with my company, Trident Records. I can tell you that as soon as they walked in the door, I could tell they were talented, but also desperate suckers. So I fleeced them in every sense of the word! Ha ha, I got them working for 50 quid a week if you can believe it, stored them all in some shithole in Kensington and sucked them dry. They didn't like me much, especially that fairy singer of theirs. Anyway, they left in breach of contract, which gave me pretty much all revenue from their next 5 albums. Then the fairy wrote a nasty little ditty about me, for which I got another load of money, and when all was said and done, they had padded my retirement fund. Anyway, nice chaps, it was a pleasure screwing..I mean doing business with them. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off for a drive in my vintage Rolls..the second one. Ta! -Norman Sheffield |
deleted user 13.10.2006 13:44 |
Ive always been a fan of queen and ive always been surrounded by there music as my mum is a fan but it was about 3/4 years ago and my mum and dad was watching Live at wembley on VH1 and i had nothing better to do so i took my quilt and i layed on the floor and i watched the concert the whole way through. I asked my mum like a millionn questions about them and by the end of the concert i knew about half of what i know now about Queen LOL. Ecer since then i have been a die hard fan- even more die hard then my mum!!! |
Peta 14.10.2006 11:28 |
zaiga wrote: I was born in 1978 and I'm a Queen fan for as long as I can remember. I think I became a fan when I heard Bohemian Rhapsody on my brother's tape when I was 5 or 6 years old. I played it over and over again. I was enthralled by the choir in the beginning, the beautiful melodies in the piano part, the weicked opera part and then the heavy metal part. It was just something that clicked in my young brain there and then. At that same time Queen performed at Live Aid, which I vaguely remember watching (I was 5 years!) and A Kind Of Magic was released around that time as well. I also remember watching Queen live footage, including a scene where Freddie falls backwards with two "fat bottomed girls" in his arms. Anyone know where that is from? Again, the pomp and theatrics of Queen made a huge impression on me. I conciously became a fan when I heard "Breakthru" on the radio. I also loved the other Miracle singles, and I remember watching "The Miracle" video, wishing I was that kid miming Freddie. By that time I also had Greatest Hits on tape, and played it over and over again. By then there was no turning back, I was a Queen fan!I was born in 1978 too but I discovered Queen in 1992. It´so sad that so late. It was a great time to discover them. |
RedEd 15.10.2006 18:48 |
My mum bought me the We Are the Champions / We Will Rock You single in 1977 when I was 6. I then got Greatest Hits for Christmas 4 years later, but I really got into them when my Dad had a Greatest Hits in the car a couple of years later, and I would insist on listening to it every time I was in the car. Just after that EMI were selling off the Queen vinyl back catalogue at a knockdown price (most albums were £3.99), and apart from going to watch Ayr United my earnings from my paper round all went on building up my Queen collection. John Menzies made a lot of money out of me in the mid eighties. |
QueenRocker 16.10.2006 20:33 |
I believe I first heard of Queen from either We Are the Champions or Bicycle Race...then I was randomly walking around a store thinking... 'What in the hell kind of a name is Queen for a group of guys?... I don't think I'd ever love that band' Then a year or two later...friend gets obsessed with Queen...friend lets me listen to different songs...friend gets me obsessed with Queen....well what do ya know? |
Poo, again 17.10.2006 09:15 |
I didn't discover Queen. Queen discovered me. |
banjokingbenice 17.10.2006 15:38 |
One day, aged 11, while my parents were away and I was looking through my dad's record collection, I found Jazz - I think the cover design attracted me. This was the start of my transition from The Radio 1 Rap Show and crappy dance music to rock and pop. Bicycle Race was the one song I knew instantly, and it started my fascination with now finding songs I heard as a child on TV or whatever. The Platinum Collection was one of the first cds I ever bought (along with The Deep Purple Collection). |
Queen-Obsessed 17.10.2006 16:37 |
My mom used to listen to it and so I have listened to it sine I was very little but I din't really start paying attention to it till a couple years ago |
Queen-Obsessed 17.10.2006 17:11 |
My mom used to listen to it all the time and so I grew up with it and then I really got into it a few years ago and now I'm a bit obsessed :P |
Taylor Nut 17.10.2006 22:36 |
<font color=pink>The Millionaire Waltz wrote: I didn't discover Queen. Queen discovered me.Ya got dat rigt m8. reel rigt. Queen rox!! |
Freddies Delilah 17.10.2006 22:53 |
I remember being really little... about seven or so, when my dad was working quite hard. When he was working, he'd always listen to music, and most of the time it was this CD with weird songs, something called 'Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon', and sweet songs, like 'You're My Best Friend'. I loved this music, and, at seven, had no idea who wrote it, and I didn't really care. There was also a song that was on our family computer - Bicycle Race. I loved that song, too, and had no idea the same people who wrote my dad's music wrote that song. Then one day, about two years ago, I was watching American Idol on TV, when one of the contestants 9my personal favourite, Constantine Maroulis) sang a song called 'Bohemian Rhapsody', by some guys called Queen (what a strange band name for MEN!!). I thought my dad had a Queen CD, so I asked him, and he gave me A Night At The Opera. It was the exact same CD he listened to when I was younger. Then I found out Bicycle Race was also by Queen. I was hooked. And you know what? At first, I didn't even know that WWRY and WATC were written by them. Haha, strange story, huh? |
Am Really Likes Poodles 14.12.2008 03:19 |
My father got me the Greatest Hits, and now I just love love love them! :P :) |
Farrokh Mercury 14.12.2008 04:31 |
Golly. It's been at least a year since this topic last came up....
I discovered Queen as a consequence of watching my fav music video on the DVD of my fav movie. That movie was none other than Highlander.
I am Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez... What more need I say..? |
dragon-fly 14.12.2008 10:47 |
Funny, I discovered Queen through Highlander too. First I saw the movie, than I read in the newspaper that music for Highlander performed by Queen. After that I bought a tape "Greatest Hits |||" (I could not get anything else). I kept it on my shelf for a mounth and after that time I tried to listen to it. And... I fell in love! |
littlekillerham 14.12.2008 12:03 |
Well, I heard Bo Rhap when i was in first grade and thought it was crazy. I also heard Another One Bites The Dust that year, and loved it. Those songs were part of car trips for years. Then, one day my little brother fell in love with We Will Rock You. I started to like We Are The Champions when my dad played it on greatst hits. Since then, I've been in love with Queen. |
Ms. Rebel 14.12.2008 14:44 |
One boy who I liked liked them. |
ITSM 14.12.2008 15:22 |
In 1992 my family and I were/was in Greece on a holiday, and my sister bought Greatest Hits and my brother Greatest Hits II, both on bootleg tapes. We listened to them a lot, but I kept most interest. So later they gave them to me. Happy happy! I have listened to Queen almost every day since then. 16 years... [img=/images/smiley/msn/regular_smile.gif][/img] |
pma 14.12.2008 16:36 |
I really dig my ultrafave singer Paul Rodgers' new backing band "Queen", but I'm yet to fully indulge into their career as backing musicians. However, I've heard great things about them, they sing about Fat bottoms and bodies to love. Surely not as good as Paul and his fabulous All Right Now, but relatively interesting (relatively interesting as in "Wake me up before you go go"-relatively interesting) I'll buy the PLatiNum Collection soon! |
April 15.12.2008 17:20 |
It was when I heard the line: Mama, i've just killed a man...Imagine I hadn't heard the song before though it was a great one. But it was when I paid real attention to it that I quickly started looking up every single Queen song and album and in a very short time I had them all.!!! |
queenizzy 17.12.2008 04:47 |
Well I was born in 1989, and I have a video of me as a baby singing "WWRY" haha, so I guess it's a sign that I would become a Queen fan one day. I was semi aware of their music growing up, like I knew some songs/hits, but oddly enough I didn't know that all those songs were from the same band. I saw some parts of the "Bo Rhap" video as a kid, and for some reason was kinda scared. If I did hear the name Queen, I didn't know much about them except that the lead singer was dead. To sum it up: I was familiar with the songs, but not so much with the band. Last year, my mom made me look up a song on YouTube that she liked called "Love of my life" and when I first heard it I thought, 'what a beautiful song.' My mom said that she had a crush on Freddie in the 80s. Then this year in August we got a karaoke set and I noticed there were many Queen songs. I wanted to learn "Bo Rhap" since I never really heard the song in its entirety. I looked it up and loved it. I also saw the Live Aid performance (of "Bo Rhap"/"Radio Ga ga") on YouTube and was very impressed! Not many bands (in my opinion) perform good live, or the record sounds better than the live performance, w/ Queen that wasn't the case. They were amazing live and I wish I saw them in concert. :( But anyways, after that I kept watching more of their performances on YouTube and I became a fan. Then for my 19th birthday I got 2 Queen CDs ("Greatest Hits" & "Classic Queen") and then 2 days later, I got "A Night at the Opera" and so far I've been listening to those CDs every single day. I plan to get more this Christmas (I want to collect them all), so I'm basically a new Queen fan... but better late than never! |
inu-liger 17.12.2008 05:02 |
Well, my Dad always watched hockey games a lot when I was younger, so I'd always hear the WWRY snippet being played in those games, and I never knew who sang that song, yet I wanted to hear the whole damn thing! So when it came time before my 11th birthday, my parents wanted to know what I wanted for my birthday..."Anything EXCEPT for Beatles" (I was a Beatles nut then!). Before that, I'd just asked my Dad who sang that We Will Rock You song in the hockey games, and he said "Queen". So I told them I want a Queen CD for my birthday. Rest is history, as they say :-P |
Brighton_Rocker 23.12.2008 17:38 |
Oh shit I heard We will rock you on the radio when i was a kid (this was just after it was released) and loved the composition of it (or therein lack of) . Then a few years later they did flash gordon, i was a huge fan of the Buster Crabb serials after that it was all gravy. |
CinnamonLicks 04.01.2009 20:40 |
I've been singing Queen since I was 4 years old sitting the in car driving around. Mostly I remember those moments when i was going to Galveston. I was obsessed with Bo Rhap especially. This 4 year old little curly haired hyper kid singing Bo Rhap at the top of her lungs in the back of a Toyota. It was a sight. :D |
steven 35638 04.01.2009 22:40 |
I heard We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio within the time span of only two or three days. I asked a few friends about those songs and who they were by, and when I was told they were all Queen songs I was automatically hooked. I went out and bought their Greatest Hits (Hollywood Records) at Best Buy and ever since I've been listening to them religously. It must be said that their music has also introduced me to many other artists, not to mention other genres of music. I've been a fan for about six years. |
Vali 05.01.2009 04:37 |
1984: I was 8 years old and used to spend most evenings in my dad's videostore, where he had always a big TV playing a tape with videoclips of the time; I remember getting stuck when watching the screen everytime the clips of Radio Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free were played ... the visuals, the music and ... Freddie ... above all, Freddie and his magnetic presence. From that moment, even being a 8 year old kid, I remember paying big attention to the music programs in the spanish TV when that band, Queen, was appearing from time to time .... with the above mentioned clips again and, oh holy grail, the first time I saw the Bo Rhap videoclip .... a-m-a-z-i-n-g .... 1986: AKOM is released; my older brother bought the tape; what a wonderful world !! Live Magic is released, my brother gets the tape again; YIHAAAA !!!! and then we started (well, in fact my mum did) buying all the tapes we could (Greatest Hits, The Works and Queen II were the following); and then, with my own money ;), the vinyls of Queen and Hot Space. The rest is a beautiful love story :) |
MamaQueen 05.01.2009 14:22 |
In 1979 in Argentina I went to a church camping trip, the guys were always playing WWRY. I liked it a lot. Then when I came back to the USA I bought Greatest Hits One and fell in love with Bohemian Rhapsody. After, I didn't listen to them for a long time. In 2001 I heard a song on the radio, went back to my mother's house, digged up the LP of GH1, and I've been a constant fan ever since. |
«¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» 05.01.2009 14:33 |
I was about 12 years old and My cousin Rhonda who was quite a bit older than me had the "News of the World" album and wanted me to have a listen to it. (Glad she did..you rock Rhonda!) She played me WWRY. I thought it was pretty cool!! Been a fan ever since. |
marvinp01 05.01.2009 16:36 |
my dad had Live Kilers when i was 6 or 7 i listened to it almost everyday, i was hooked. I eventually forgot about them, but everytime i saw Freddie Mercury on the Live Killers tour or on TV i was somehow intimidated while i was a little kid.But one day about 3 or 4 years ago, i was w/ my dad at Best Buy and the Wembley DVD just came out, he picked up a copy and asked me if it would be a good buy. So i was like Queen WTF? whatever, so he bought it and we watched when we came home.While I was watching it, everything came back to me like a kick in the nuts. I was like oHHHHHHHH!!!!! thats Queen!So im still trying to find the 2 Disc Live Killers at my house that ive been worshipping as a child. |