How were you first introduced to Queen?

Jan 1991 - first showing of Innuendo on Dutch Top 40 program.

I fucked the niece of that Trident death on two legs guy.
She was more the ‘Heat between my legs’ girl
That’s how I met the band.
There you go...

All hail to PAPA EMERITUS XIII !

Earliest memory is hearing Killer Queen on the radio, likely within months after it was released. I was young and bad at understanding song lyrics, and as I didn’t know the name of the song I called it the “Marie Antoinette song”. Makes me laugh now that I called it that.

Somehow this led to me buying Night at the Opera. I’m guessing this has to do with when I had money from my first job.

It's always beautiful hearing these stories. That rush of excitement making your own first purchase and the logic behind it.

My family was flagged down by what turned out to not be a man in distress, but rather a hitchhiker


We were beaten and pummeled and left in a basement while my


Oh wait, long story short. When i reached the highway i clawed into a diner and grabbed the phone to call the police. But the song i heard when i was on hold. It was playing in the diner.

Geez. I can hardly remember, but i think it was a Queen song .


Needless to say, i tried to forget those weeks. Therapy, drugs, alcohol, repeating the abuse, ... but it never worked.

Every time i hear Queen I'm that little boy aged 9 in the diner again

Ah, the memories

It's such a familiar tale.

some WHITE PRIVILEGE here no doubt, judging from the stories...and the expired honey.

I learned the violin and piano as a child l & I'd get up at 5am to practise, then I'd lie in a dark room with earphones on & my reward to myself was to listen to the radio for an hour before I had to go to school. It was interesting, but there was no music I LOVED. It was more just about discovery.

Then one morning this VOICE came out of the radio. I got chills. I felt it. Thus it was, as a kid I heard Heaven for Everyone. And that voice was THE one for me. I listened to and read everything I could about Queen and Freddie, I fantasised about having a time machine to take me back to the 1970's and I was well into my teens before I discovered there might actually be some good music being made my bands in current-times too.

This does also mean that my introduction to Queen was tied up in death too, which when I think about it might be the biggest difference to discovering Queen pre or post 1991??

in Jan. 1979 a friend of mine came back from a Queen concert and kept playing the Jazz album back and forth. Fell in love with FM's unique voice and the song Jealousy.
In the following months I got familiar with 70s Queen and in late 1980 finally saw the first Queen concert.