How did you *get into* Queen?

I heard Killer Queen on the radio, when I was about eleven. Then, I listened to ANATO, on vinyl, in my friends brothers bedroom, a year or so later, and, I had never imagined that anyone could make a guitar sound like that. Brian's guitar, and, Freddie's voice were a magical combination that came along at a time when I still believed magic was possible.

Life got in the way, for many years, of my appreciation for music, however, recently, YouTube has helped me to rediscover Queen.

My aunt got me the Greatest Hits I & II set for Christmas 2005. The rest is history.

The weird thing is, two or three years before that, I saw an article in Cat Fancy (October 2003, I think) about Freddie Mercury. I remember feeling guilty because here was this guy that I didn't even know who he was, and I couldn't stop staring at the page. x_x

I need to find that magazine!

I was 16, riding around in a friend's light blue VW bug, snow on the ground and no heater in March of '74, smokin and burnin, twistin and turnin, listnin' to Queen II.

In May, sat in the back of a van from Michigan to Harrisburg, PA, with the promise of meeting fatty and one of his 1,982 queens (although there were about 1,983 of us in attendance that night....hmmmm).

Instead, I got more s-faced than Brian and Joe Perry, left the concert halfway through Mott's opening number, dislocated my spine and my lunch before waking up hours later in Ohio.

Didn't meet a lass that satisfied those sweet lady needs for many years later.....Never met fatty either, but the dream lives on.

I opened it up and got into its stomach

My grandma was a huge Queen fan and was getting rid of her record collection. She gave me Greatest hits 1 and Freddie's Mr Bad Guy. Never looked back since.

I was first got into Queen following a Birthday Party at one of my neighbours at Airport Camp in Belize in 1981, All us kids had the usual Jelly in ice cream, once we scoffed till we were almost sick we then settled down to watch Flash Gordon.
Rockstars is a very loose label/title nowadays handed out like confetti to emerging artists, but these guys along with a few others Beatles, Elvis etc are the real deal.
Rock on!!

While I have vague recollections of hearing We are the Champions and Bicycle Race on the radio, it was the release of Don't Stop Me Now as a single that got me hooked.

Jeez, music in the first half of 1979 was amazing, wasn't it?

I went to the recordstore for buying a beatlesrecord that was missing in my collection. That particular record I was looking for wasn't in the store at the moment so I bought Innuendo which I've heard from a teacher was a good record.. And then it went on....

i can't really remember but deep down inside of me some where was always a queen fan so lets start of at the start.

i can remember hearinng bohemian rhapsody when i was really young but i never knew who they were, and i can remember saying in the car how i loved the song & my twin sister thought i was a bit of a queer cause i wasn't even 10 years old at the time but i love a song like this.
then i can remember a guy called ben when i was about 9 in school bringing the greatest hit 1 & 2 too school & i can remember thinking what dumb name for a band then i fell in love with the song bicycle race but now i hate that song with a passion but anywho back to my story.
i took one of my mums tapes in with all her favourite songs on it so ben could tape the cds for me.(i'm such a freak i know lol)
when my found out i got queen taped over her music she could of killed me...
then all these kids would always sing "we will rock you" & "we are the champsions" i had no idea what they were singing or who the band was.
then i got into high i was a huge beatles fan at the stage dont ask me why but ben he also went too the same high school as me being a queen fan still.
the school band would always play a range of queen songs & i hated it i was so bored i just hated queen thinking the beatles were the best thing since slice bread.
i met my husband who was a huge queen fan when i was this dumb ass beatles fan at the time,i can remember him having the greatest hits album & we had this big fight one time & i broke the cd in half & he said why did u bloody do that for,and i said they suck the beatles are so much better blah blah blah...
then it was late 2004 i was watching australia idol and there was a singer on there called courtny murphy do he sang "some body too love" & i just fell in love with that song & graham had brought the cd again that i broke in half & i just kept on playing the song over & over again.
but then i just really forgot about queen & the beatles, the beatles had been long gone out of my life at this stage & i didn't really like any music.
then the true day came around when i became a queen fan i was at home when hubby was at work but we went married at this stage,i was just at home watching a music channel and the start of "i want too break free" came on & i have always loved that song & mind you i never knew who sang it, & when it said queen i went ape face cause i was not into this band one bit & i said to myself i hate this song now but that saturday i went down town & brought greatest hits 2 with it on it & just kept on playing it over & over again.
this was the time i had too tell everyone i've seen the light & i was a queen fan.
it was about the time around my wedding & i still didn't have a song for the day & i just said i want too walk down the aisle too i want too break free & alot of people wasnt too happy about this chose but it was my day so i had the song.
it wasn't til last year i wanted everything of queen i couldn't live without queen.
now i have 2 tattoos,all the albums,15+ dvds,almost 10 videos,10+ books,i have the freddie doll,i'm just a freak over this band i love them & now pretty much from how much i'm a freak over this band & i'm only 23 which isn't too bad & now my hubby hates them lol.
which ever other queen fans are out there please write too me i would love too hear from you guys.
supersexy_4_you@hotmail.com
heya_biatches@hotmail.com
kimberly_annetts@yahoo.com.au
k.heinjus@optusnet.com.au
so please e-mail me

I heared the Innuendo album. Loved it. Became a fan. Freddie died the next month. I was 8 years old.

@ i_wuv_my_freddie_fruit


I'm surprised to see you're 23... HAve you ever heard of interpunction?

or Heineken?

American Idol. D:

Then I borrowed my mom's Queen Greatest Hits tape and heard Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time. After that I had to have them. Like an addiction. I wish I still felt that way. I don't like them as much any more. :B

Maybe 3rd or 4th grade when my Dad brought home a bunch of CDs for us to listen to and I liked Queen best. :P

sheer heart attack given to me on my birthday by my sister


then an invitation to a night at the opera at the tower theatre in philly... cemented our relationship that night


simple as dat......