Help all hardcore Queen fans!

Hello. I am new to this website and the reason I joined is because I need help from the amazingly skilled Queen-fans and I thought that there cannot be a better place to ask my questions than here. Anyway, we were given a prodject on an artist or band from the 60's - 00's and I of course chose Queen. I am making a documentary-styled film but I have some questions I need answered before I can make it.
1.Who were the bands inspiration/idols (it can be a band/artist or genre)
2.What other band/artist took after the band (successors?)
3. In which way can you tell that they were active in the 70s-80's?

I am very thankful for any answers I can get or any links and sources!

AbbA, mud, fleetwood mac and Genesis.

1. Wikipedia
2. Wikipedia
3. Wikipedia

Kids today, they can't even copy their homework off the internet without help....

I have to do this entire prodject without wikipedia because 'its not a reliable source' so if you dont feel like helping then why comment?

Hi there.Great band to choose...all of them were heavily influenced by The Beatles,especially the white album.Freddie,Brian and Rog loved Jimi Hendrix,Led Zep and The Who.John liked lots of Disco/Funk stuff from the late seventies and early eighties,so Chic would be one.Freddie also admired Chopin and lots of classical music. Lots of bands have been influenced by them,they were THE arena/stadium band of the seventies/eighties.The Foo Fighters,Green Day,Bon Jovi to name a few

Sorry forgot the third part! The only way you knew of band's activities was through the radio,and shows like 'Top Of The Pops',with singles promotion.Hence the amount of singles released from an album,which helped the album,which then led by a tour.Then came a memorable video....Queen were pretty much everywhere from 1974-1986,and always came up with something different,fresh and exciting.Which to me,made them the best band of all time,

Thank you sooo much, I´ll be sure to put this in!

Go to a library and find books on Queen or even rock music in general. Or google "Queen influences".

You can even watch documentaries on YouTube. When I was your age I had to go to a video rental store and pay to rent a copy - if they had one ! You had to call in advance to see if they had it.

When I was a kid I couldn't post on a forum to learn about something. I had to research it myself. You kids have no idea how good you've got it.

Good luck with the project.

I am very aware of how lucky I am. I appreciate your answer and I have watched at least 4-5 documentaries but I dont feel like I have gotten the answer that I'm seaching for so I was hoping to get information from someone who maybe was lucky enough to be of age and got to see Freddie and the 'old Queen' live or have any helping information. Since I'm 'lucky' enough to be able to use the internet and forums to my help with my prodjects (almost every bit of my schoolwork is built around the internet and just because yours wasn't doesn't mean that mine isn't equally challenging, it just means that I have to go through hours of reading and evluating every single source because of how much false information there is out there) then I feel like I should use it as much as possible. Thank you for your answer, I'll be sure to watch more documentaries.

Im not looking for someone to do my prodject for me, Im just stuck on these last questions out of 20 I've already answered and I want other peoples inputs and opinions to inspire me. I really want this prodject to be great like the band it's about.

Not exhaustive answers.

1.Who were the bands inspiration/idols (it can be a band/artist or genre)

Freddie Mercury's idol was Jimi Hendrix in his youth. He was also fan of Robert Plant, Aretha Franklin, Montserrat Caballe.
One of Brian May's idols and inspirations was Lonnie Donegan.
John Deacon has always been a fan of funk, soul and Tamla Motown releases.
Roger Taylor was a huge fan of the Beatles (indeed all the band members were, afaik).

2.What other band/artist took after the band (successors?)

again, not exhaustive list: Guns and Roses, The Darkness, Foo Fighters, Muse, Mika...

3. In which way can you tell that they were active in the 70s-80's?
I don't really catch the question but i'll try to answer. Queen were VERY active from 1973 to 1982 (1 or 2 albums each year (only exception 1979 where there released nevertheless a live album, Live Killers and 1981 where they nevertheless released their first Greatest Hits), several tours each year). At the end of 1982, Hot Space fail and tensions within the band made them much less active as Queen but more as solo artists. Between 1982 and 1991, only four Queen albums: The Works (1984), A Kind Of Magic (1986), The Miracle (1989), Innuendo (1991) and only 1984-1985-1986 active as a live band (with much less concerts than during the 70ies). Last show in August 1986 and then Freddie's health excluded any live show.

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I am very aware of how lucky I am. I appreciate your answer and I have watched at least 4-5 documentaries but I dont feel like I have gotten the answer that I'm seaching for so I was hoping to get information from someone who maybe was lucky enough to be of age and got to see Freddie and the 'old Queen' live or have any helping information. Since I'm 'lucky' enough to be able to use the internet and forums to my help with my prodjects (almost every bit of my schoolwork is built around the internet and just because yours wasn't doesn't mean that mine isn't equally challenging, it just means that I have to go through hours of reading and evluating every single source because of how much false information there is out there) then I feel like I should use it as much as possible. Thank you for your answer, I'll be sure to watch more documentaries.[/QUOTE]

Cool - thanks for your reasoned response.

This is from the "Classic Albums" documentary for A Night At The Opera that came out in 2005. Brian May talks about the Temperance Seven here, who influenced him to create the brilliance that is the end of Good Company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsOP3TF-XY

Cream and The Shadows were a big deal to him too.

Liza Minnelli's cabaret performance style was hugely influential on Mercury, and Aretha Franklin was his favourite singer.

But the two biggest influences on Queen as a whole certainly were (at least in the early days) Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. Hendrix completely changed the way the guitar was played, and Mercury was greatly influenced by him too. But the Beatles changed the scope of rock music and popular culture in a way that no single entertainer has influenced an artistic movement since. The Beatles were the blueprint for decades of artists that came after them, including Queen.

Thanks for really direct and increadibly well-sourced info, I'll be sure to put this in! I have of course heard of all the names that inspired Queen like Hendrix and Minelli and Plant but your info sure made it much more easy to understand what they brought to the table and HOW they acually made an impact on them so I'm very thankful for you input!

Hi a few influences have not been listed yet (I think): Led Zeppelin in general, particularly John Bonham on Roger, but also Mitch MItchell from the Jimi Hendrix band, GInger Baker from Cream and Keith Moon. Also for Brian and Roger, The Who (the big crashing chords into Father to Son, or particularly the big opening part of Now I'm Here). Brian has also mentioned a number of times about his debt to Jeff Beck, and to Mantovani records (in respect of the guitar parts on Killer Queen).

Freddie liked Chopin. Here he said about it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNea4AdQx7g
Cliff Richard
And George Michael - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdb6Hz8YY0

Brian likes some classical music too, like Gustav Holst - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPhD9G-Q3P8

Roger likes David Bowie. His solo music is somewhat influenced by Bowie (like "Journey's End") and one of his favourite queen song is Under Pressure - http://twitter.com/officialrmt/status/686509455278780417

John likes Chris Squire - http://brianmay.com/john/gtrsep99/gtrsep99.html

Also they liked Michael Jackson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_rNEO-41O8