Queen’s Disco era in the USA.

They should have kept going with disco music... their disco singles were reaching higher in the charts than their rock singles in the USA.

The USA never turned their back on Queen because of their disco music! They turned their backs on Queen when they started releasing rock singles again!

During that time frame

Yea, but none of those songs aside from AOBTD are still played here. Even Radio Ga Ga is never played.

Hahaha OP, don't give Brian any ideas. We WILL BE broaching a new decade in a few years. Maybe a Q+A Disco Single. ..

Sorry in a few years time Queen wont be around and Lambert will be a forgotten embarrassment !

It’s funny I’m from the US and I know everyone always says they hate Hot Space but i don’t mind it really I actually find myself listening to that album a lot even tho I do prefer rock more than disco

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It’s funny I’m from the US and I know everyone always says they hate Hot Space but i don’t mind it really I actually find myself listening to that album a lot even tho I do prefer rock more than disco [/QUOTE]

Same. I'm a 59 year old living in Ohio. I prefer the disco side of Hot Space to the "rock side" because the disco side does what it's supposed to do, make me get up and boogie, and the rock side simply doesn't rock.

Me too. Im an 11 year old living in Ohio. and I prefer Body Language to every Queen song there is. Best song ever, even better than that piece of crap Bohemian Rhapsody.

i'm the average of both of your ages and i don't live in Ohio. i, too, love hot space. Maybe I should move :-)

That piece of crap BohRhap? Try playing it backwards. and slow it down by 44%. Then play it in a loop. It provides a great soundtrack to Dances With Wolves, Extended Cut. The craziest part is at about the 239th minute. Remember, you heard it here first!

Hot Space was a decent album and just Queen taking a different musical direction, but Freddie was correct to explore fresh ground.
What i dislike is some tracks on "Made in Heaven because they sound desperate and rushed and that last track is a waste of time and a rip off.

^^^ desperate and rushed" please explain.

Well some of the tracks have lost the Queen big production sound and the songs are rather depressing like "Mother Love" and "you dont fool me"
There is no fun in that album whatsoever, and what Brian & Roger was thinking with track 13 was totally shocking.
That pile of manure could have been replaced with other unreleased Queen tracks from other albums or there private home collections.
Brian says they spent 2 years on that album and he would never do that again, well i would'nt want him too because it was awful.
Decent tracks they have worked on are stuff like "Let me in your heart again" now that was a corker of a track.

Happy Star - Freddie exploring new ground or after the success of bites the dust Freddie thinking there is more money to be made with the disco direction, the perception appears to be the band lost their rock audience in America following this change in direction
and when the Break free video was shown it appears that was the final nail in the coffin.

In all honesty I don't think Break Free had much of a positive or negative Impact. The song was a non factor. Queen lost America due to the new direction with Hot Space. People forget that Bites The Dust was a huge song, but the rest of the album had plenty of traditional Queen songs like Play The Game and Save Me. Plus the album was a collection of very good songs....I think if The Hot Space songs were better It would be looked at in a better way. Made In Heaven I like. Of course they could have done it slightly differently and doesn't have any standout tracks, but I could say there is not one song I don't like on it...It has a nice flow from one song to the next.