Always did like Queen at the time i was a teenager. Radio Ga Ga, I want to break free, We will rock you and Bohemian Rhapsody (was 1 at the time of release) were my favorits. But i got older new music game alone and at school i go introduced to Rap and Housemusic. After The show must go on and Innuedo i got the interrest back in Queen but after i heard Freddie was sick i couldn't believe it.
And yes the death was a little part of the big interrest i have now in Queen but the most part is because of my childhoud. Seeing videoclips as I want to break free, Radio Ga Ga and Bohemian Rhapsody gets me back to a great time, but after seeing the wembley concert on video that was the time i slowly got a big fan that i am now.
Oke i don't have a collection as big as some of the queenzones on here but i'm getting there.
Michel
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Actually, I think a lot of younger people became fans not because of Freddie's death, but because of the inclusion of Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World. Nobody I went to school with knew who Queen or Freddie Mercury were before then but when that movie came everyone I knew suddenly owned a copy of Greatest Hits and Classic Queen. I think its often overlooked the impact that movie made stateside on album sales.
Not to mention all of the albums being re-released in '91. After being a fan for 14 years, I would hardly say I was a "new" fan. I couldn't help it that I was born too late to have seen Freddie live...:-S
That's true. I remember various Queen albums being in the top 50 Billboard for what seemed 2 or 3 years. I'm certain that Hollywood Records reissuing the albums in addition to Bohemian Rhapsody being on Wayne's World are solely responsible for their "comeback" in the United States. Without those two factors I think it would have never happened.
I became a fan in early 1991 after discovering the Innuendo album. I was well-versed in Queen by the time Fred passed away and Wayne's World hit. I was a popular source of Queen mix tapes on my college campus all through 1992.
I became a bigger fan around Waynes World, with the constant playing of bo rhap on MTV, but in a sence I was a casual fans since 1980, CLTCL-AOBTD-WWRY-WATC being played a lot. Esp AOBTD and WWRY, I knew the words, but never really got into the band, Live at Wembley really got me into Queen from casual to more informed, as for some reason I love the live sound more, and wembley was one of the better live cd's out there.
Music was a huge thing in my family, with my moms favorite bands, Pink floyd,LZ,GNR and my father with Beatles and other odd-end british bands from the 60's and my uncle who lived with us knee deep into rolling stones and the who and blondie, so I was always hearing Queen here and there.
Music was a huge thing in my family, with my moms favorite bands, Pink floyd,LZ,GNR and my father with Beatles and other odd-end british bands from the 60's and my uncle who lived with us knee deep into rolling stones and the who and blondie, so I was always hearing Queen here and there.
I discovered Queen post 1991, but that was not because i knew freddie was dead. I only found out he was dead about 3 years after i started listening to them (wasn't very knoweledgable on the subject back in those days...!)So i don't know where that puts me in this topic...
I myself was one of those who bcame a fan in '91....it was just all the coverage they were getting, after Freddie's death, and then seeing the Tribute concert.....(and even seeing Flash Gordon on TV around the same time!)
I'll admit this much , Waynes World did help me discover them so did Mtv and VH1, His death did make me want to study the group as a whole more and the music itself. But saying the death attracted the younger crowd to discover them is a touch much I think. The Aids virus is also something to point out . There was a big out cry with Kurt Cobains death as well but the young crowd didnt all exactly pick up and go buy Nirvana albums because it. I think young people make their own choices based on a specific taste period nothing makes them go out and buy specific music like that unless they like things similar. Queen had more than just waynes world to thank for their resurgance in the United states , you can also go on to thank the national football leauge and the national hockey league , Major League Baseball , and all other major pro and college and even highschool sports for that. Parents too believe it or not have influenced some younger teens to listen to classic rock as a whole as well. Anyhow , sorry for the ramble , just letting some tension out.
Actually, I think a lot of younger people became fans not because of Freddie's death, but because of the inclusion of Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World. Nobody I went to school with knew who Queen or Freddie Mercury were before then but when that movie came everyone I knew suddenly owned a copy of Greatest Hits and Classic Queen. I think its often overlooked the impact that movie made stateside on album sales.
I had never thought, but you're all right!, I'm "test" of your theory, and yes, Greatest Hits and Classic Queen was my first Queen albums; First time that I saw Champions Of The World where does Brian thanks to Mike Mayers for using BoRhap in his movie, I considered it humiliating "How somebody so big, thanks to somebody for using an enormous song in a mediocre movie?" now I uunderstand YOU opened my eyes,
Brian thanked to Mike for making known Queen music to new generations
It listened a little "tawdry" but so I see it
Thanks Mike! :)
At the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, Queen won Best Video From a Movie and Brian and Roger accepted the award. Brian was overcome with emotion and had tears in his eyes when he accepted the speech. Roger said a brief thank you and he loved the Wayne's World movie.
That's true. I remember various Queen albums being in the top 50 Billboard for what seemed 2 or 3 years. I'm certain that Hollywood Records reissuing the albums in addition to Bohemian Rhapsody being on Wayne's World are solely responsible for their "comeback" in the United States. Without those two factors I think it would have never happened.
Also, Innuendo was Queen's first Gold album in the US since The Works. Hollywood chose Headlong as the first single and it hit #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart prompting Innuendo to hit Gold status in April of 1991. The title cut was the second US single on rock radio and hit #17.
That's interesting....I had no idea that Headlong was such a hit stateside. I was only 13 at the time so I have very vague memories of what was on MTV and the radio. Thanks for pointing that out as I did not know that....
When Freddie died I didn't know him nor Queen, as a matter of fact I was not into music in 1991... I only started listening to music on a regular basis in 1993 when I was 13 years old... And my love to Queen was a result of Freddie Mercury's "Living on my own" single being released and hitting the charts in 1993...
As a matter of fact when that song hit the charts I didn't know that Freddie was dead, and when one of my friends told me that the singer of the song "living on my own" is actually dead I wouldn't believe him... How on earth can a dead man have a number one hit and shoot a music video for it and have an album too, I said!!! But then I got hit by reality when I heard them talking about Freddie on the radio and the causes of his death in 1991...
Gradually I started to purchase Queen albums, and felt that Queen's style in lyrics and music fitted my taste and eversince then Queen to me are the biggest band in the world!!!
So, actually it was a song that got me into Freddie and then Queen, I was too young to know a lot about Queen or Freddie when he died...
As a matter of fact when that song hit the charts I didn't know that Freddie was dead, and when one of my friends told me that the singer of the song "living on my own" is actually dead I wouldn't believe him... How on earth can a dead man have a number one hit and shoot a music video for it and have an album too, I said!!! But then I got hit by reality when I heard them talking about Freddie on the radio and the causes of his death in 1991...
Gradually I started to purchase Queen albums, and felt that Queen's style in lyrics and music fitted my taste and eversince then Queen to me are the biggest band in the world!!!
So, actually it was a song that got me into Freddie and then Queen, I was too young to know a lot about Queen or Freddie when he died...
I also became a fan in 1991, when i was 11 years old. All because MTV made a "QUEEN WEEKEND" after Freddie died and i watched it! My partents never liked that kind of music, so I had to find out which bands i like all by myself. (btw later they also became Queen fans *lol*)
In 1989 i first heard the song "Invisible man", loved it, but didn`t knew it was Queen singing it. Then i remember the MTV Adds vor "Innuendo" but dind't like it because it featured the title track which sounded strange to me at that time.
Then in November 1991 i heard at school, that Freddie has died. Later on the following weekend MTV dedicated the whole weekend to QUEEN.
They played all of their video clips and i loved every one. I recorded it on Video and watched it over and over again. Still got it on tape :) :)One week later i bought Innuendo and fell in love with Queen. I thought it was a wonderful album although i didn't like the title track that much (btw now i love it ;) )
Since that time i bought all the records, i think in 1992 i had all of them. I really love Queen, i could say they are the love of my life...in the Music world!!
In 1989 i first heard the song "Invisible man", loved it, but didn`t knew it was Queen singing it. Then i remember the MTV Adds vor "Innuendo" but dind't like it because it featured the title track which sounded strange to me at that time.
Then in November 1991 i heard at school, that Freddie has died. Later on the following weekend MTV dedicated the whole weekend to QUEEN.
They played all of their video clips and i loved every one. I recorded it on Video and watched it over and over again. Still got it on tape :) :)One week later i bought Innuendo and fell in love with Queen. I thought it was a wonderful album although i didn't like the title track that much (btw now i love it ;) )
Since that time i bought all the records, i think in 1992 i had all of them. I really love Queen, i could say they are the love of my life...in the Music world!!
Yeahh!!, Also I`m 1991 generation. Now that I remember, I don´t know if it was 1990 or 1991.
My brother brought the Greatest Hits 1 and as you well know, the first song is BohRap... it took only 7 minutes, and I became a queen fan.
Actually, when I started to listen queen, I didn´t know Freddie was death, I think it was one year later when I asked my brother if Queen had plans to make a new tour or something like that and he only said: Queen does not longer exist.. Freddie Mercury died", and I said something like: "$·%& I never will see them on stage.... but, maybe someday I`ll forget Queen..." Unfortunately in 2005 I`m still a queen lover.
My brother brought the Greatest Hits 1 and as you well know, the first song is BohRap... it took only 7 minutes, and I became a queen fan.
Actually, when I started to listen queen, I didn´t know Freddie was death, I think it was one year later when I asked my brother if Queen had plans to make a new tour or something like that and he only said: Queen does not longer exist.. Freddie Mercury died", and I said something like: "$·%& I never will see them on stage.... but, maybe someday I`ll forget Queen..." Unfortunately in 2005 I`m still a queen lover.