When was the First Time You Heard Queen and What were your Impressions

I grew up in Britain so I don't remember the first time I heard Queen - they were too embedded in the cultural consciousness.  It was more that I became AWARE of them.  This was when I was 5 and Freddie died.  I thought he'd died and gone to hell for killing someone (bo rhap lyrics) and the video for Bohemian Rhapsody made me really, really scared.  Yet, even at that tender age, I knew they were awesome, especially Brians hair.

I was in 1st grade and heard bo rhap on the radio.  opera section only.  i was totally freaked.  now, i love queen.

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[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]

I just remember thinking "what a bunch of awful poofs".
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[/QUOTE] (My actual answer is - I dunno I was about 4 and we were all jazzed with our new CD player because we had new copies of Jesus Christ Superstar, War of the Worlds, and Queen's Greatest Hits.  That was a hell of a Christmas). [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

Jesus Christ Superstar ROCKS! I ruined The Neighborhood play/movie by refusing to dance, "seriously," during my scene, despite my, "director's," instructions. It was 1974, and I was ten. Dancing was for hippies.
 
That was also My Year Of Discovering Queen.

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[b]Angeline wrote: [/b]

I grew up in Britain so I don't remember the first time I heard Queen - they were too embedded in the cultural consciousness.  It was more that I became AWARE of them. [/QUOTE]

such a good way of putting it.  I don't remember exactly when I FIRST heard Queen.  I was born in 1980 and my mum has told me that when The Works came out in 1984, I used to run around in a vest with a broomstick pretending to be Freddie singing I Want To Break Free.  In 1991, when he died, I was aware of who he was but could not put name to my previous (if it is true...) actions.  In 1995, when Made In Heaven came out, my mate told me how cool Queen were and that I should listen to that album.  It was beautiful, IMO.  Funnily enough, that same night Channel 4 was showing Live At Wembley.  I was hooked from then on, but was naive not to realise that the "new" songs I was hearing were actually Queen.  How the fuck could I not know that Bo Rhap, A Kind Of Magic, Another One Bites The Dust etc were by Queen?  I remember liking those songs, but never knew who performed them.  But anyway, I digress, it was MIH that I first noticed Queen and the title track in particular made me want more!  They are truly the greatest band I have EVER heard, and although I have quite an eclectic taste, I always end up coming back "home" to Queen.

The first time I heard Queen, I think I was 6 years old; & I heard the 'Rick Rubin remix' of "We Will Rock You." I didn't know what to think of it...and my friend said, "they play part of the real version of this song in baseball & football games." I kind of forgot about it...then two years later another chum had their U.S. Greatest Hits & played it at an end of the year school party during the last day of classes. My reaction then was, "This is great! Why haven't I heard this before?!"

I was only 5 when Bohemian Rhapsody came out, but I remember it well as my elder brother bought the single.  I got to know more about them when he bought the News Of The World LP. I used to study the cover for hours as a 7 year old and listened to it quite a bit. It wasn't until a few years later when we were on a family holiday that I found a copy of Live Killers in a second hand record store and bought it. Never looked back since then. I think I was 10 or 11 at that time! I'm now 39!

1974,seven seas of rye,top of the pops,been a fan ever since.
jesus,thats thirty five years,i suddenly feel very old!!