How did you *get into* Queen?

I have a long story..When I was a kid, my neighbour had some Queen disks and I still dont know why I borowed some of her disks :D So my sister copied them to the computer: Bicycle Race, Flash and I want it all, but I didnt listen to. Then my sis played Bicycle race on the stereo then I started to love it :D But I only listened to it when I didnt have anything to do. I had a friend who liked Queen..and we sometimes talk about Bicycle race and Flash, and the only thing he told me was "uncle" Freddie died of AIDS =D. I also watched Small Soldiers movie much, then another one bites the dust came to my sister's ears. Then she told me what the songs's name, then played it on the stereo.
When it was 2 years ago, some friends of mine often sang: We will we will **** you! to insult someone. Then I tried to sing some other words that I remembered (because my sys played Five-WWRY on stereo before) but it sounded nonsense. They said: You sing it incorrectly! So I thought "they only know those words..why don't I know the whole REAL lyric?". When I listened to a mixed-content disk, I suddenly found out that the 100th song was WWRY :D. Then I tried to *write* the lyric myself. It wasn't correct but it sounded something like the correct one. Then I sang it with my friends. Then I searched for the correct lyric.
On that disk, there were some other Queen songs, and I was surprised because it had AOBTD. So I listened to it much...then the other songs...then all Queen songs (on the disk), then even bought another mixed-content disk for the other Queen songs..until NOW =D

I heard ABTD on the radio and had my Mom drive me down to the record store to buy The Game. I was 10.

But I'm curious, and please don't take offense, how old are you? You said when you were a kid, my sister copied the "disks" onto the computer. That couldn't have been too long ago. Plus, with all the smiley faces and your verbiage, it sounds like not a lot of time has passed. Especially if only two years ago you were singing WWRY to other kids as an insult.

I'm just worried. You also listed your favorite beverage as Heineken.

I liked the songs.

Live Aid helped.

no one in their right mind drinks heineken.i brew a stronger cup of tea than that crap!

back on topic:
i saw the video for bohemian rhapsody on the christmas edition of "top of the pops" in 1975 when i was "knee high to a grasshopper" and became a fan right there and then.got my mother to buy the album and drove her mad playing Queen albums until i converted her to the cause too.
unfortunately,she wasnt so keen when i went through my punk phase and my ultravox/new romantics phase and threatened to put me in a home when i went through my yoko ono phase.she gave up all hope with me when i went through my sigue sigue sputnik phase and excepted the fact that i was beyond all reasoning ;-]
oh happy days!

I think it may have been a few years ago (Possibly 2003?) when I happened to walk into the sitting room where my grandma was watching a documentary about Queen, and I was sort of walking in and out catching bits of it, then they showed a clip of Freddie and I remember saying "Is that Freddie Mercury? My god he's ugly." And then I promptly fell in love and the next thing I knew I had the albums.

I saw Freddie in tights and the rest was history.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color=007788>?Freya? wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
my grandma was watching a documentary about Queen[/QUOTE]

So we are officially becoming known as "Oldies" now, eh?

I was really little when I first heard WWRY I always asked my dad who it was but I could never remember, and of course there was We are the Champions played at the super bowl, You're my Best Friend & Don't Stop Me Now in Shaun of the Dead,Everyone knew Bohemian Rhapsody. But last Christmas my dad got me Live At Wembley on dvd and thats when it really took off, but I've always loved Queen.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Micrówave wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color=007788>?Freya? wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
my grandma was watching a documentary about Queen[/QUOTE]

So we are officially becoming known as "Oldies" now, eh?[/QUOTE]

maybe we should be called FOGS?
Freddies Old Gits ;-]

I heard Somebody to Love, bought Greatest Hits, got all the albums because I came to the realization that I indeed loved the music, and...now I'm here.

My older brother took me to see Queen in 1982.

fatty.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]fatty wrote: [/QUOTENAME]My older brother took me to see Queen in 1982.

fatty.[/QUOTE]

...what's the punchline?

I don't know if I can handle a serious response from fatty! Where's the punchline?!?!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Lester Burnham wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]fatty wrote: [/QUOTENAME]My older brother took me to see Queen in 1982.

fatty.[/QUOTE]

...what's the punchline?

I don't know if I can handle a serious response from fatty! Where's the punchline?!?![/QUOTE]

It must be one of those hidden jokes. Try rearranging the words and see if you come up with anything.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]PieterMC wrote: [/QUOTENAME]It must be one of those hidden jokes. Try rearranging the words and see if you come up with anything.[/QUOTE]

That might be it. Let's see...

My 1,982 older fatty Queens took me to see brother... in.

...haha?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=FF0033 face=symbol>Freddie wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I saw Freddie in tights and the rest was history.[/QUOTE]


Same for me!!!!!