How did you discover the band queen?

I was born in 1978 and I'm a Queen fan for as long as I can remember. I think I became a fan when I heard Bohemian Rhapsody on my brother's tape when I was 5 or 6 years old. I played it over and over again. I was enthralled by the choir in the beginning, the beautiful melodies in the piano part, the weicked opera part and then the heavy metal part. It was just something that clicked in my young brain there and then.

At that same time Queen performed at Live Aid, which I vaguely remember watching (I was 5 years!) and A Kind Of Magic was released around that time as well. I also remember watching Queen live footage, including a scene where Freddie falls backwards with two "fat bottomed girls" in his arms. Anyone know where that is from? Again, the pomp and theatrics of Queen made a huge impression on me.

I conciously became a fan when I heard "Breakthru" on the radio. I also loved the other Miracle singles, and I remember watching "The Miracle" video, wishing I was that kid miming Freddie. By that time I also had Greatest Hits on tape, and played it over and over again. By then there was no turning back, I was a Queen fan!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="#FF00FF">its_a_hard_life wrote: [/QUOTENAME]To cut my LONG story on how I discovered Queen... I saw them on VH1 one day, Bohemian Rhapsody was the video and I was blown away. Then after the adverts came a 2 hour documentry on Queen. And till this day, I will always say that this documentry has been the best I've seen so far. I've seen quite alot of documentrys in my time of being a Queen fan but this one topped it all.

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Do you remember the name of the documentary? And whether it has ever been released on VHS or DVD?

i saw the scandal video, in 1989 in the tv.in that time i was 9 years old.17 years after, still i´m a big fan.

Queen? WTF?

It was 2004 and I was watching a music channel when 'Somebody To Love' came on. Intrigued, I asked my parents who it was, and they said it was Queen. Shortly afterwards I saw more videos, and that was enough to convince me that this was my favourite band for life. I bought Greatest Hits and my collection took off from there. And that's how I became an avid fan. :)

1979 I WAS A BIG ELVIS FAN. I WAS 13 YEARS OLD HEARD CRAZY LITTLE THING WENT AND GOT THE SINGLE, PLAYED THE B SIDE[GOOD OLD DAYS OF VYNLE] "ROCK YOU" LIVE, BEEN HOOKED EVER SINCE

My mom.

Who I think became a Queen fan because of my Step-Dad.

I was bored so I watched waynes world and I thought 'Whats this crap?' then my brother gave me the Greatest Hits CD's and I turned obsessed over night.

my dad played them all the time when i was gowning up, and then i went off them when i was a teenager, then when i went to college, me mate started to play "Breakthru" in his car, and i hadnt heard it for years, so i downloaded it when i got in that night, then i download another one, then another one......

my twin has been listening Queen for ages, but I only really discoverd them when I saw Bohe Rhap in my music book, about a year ago. I listend to Queen a bit then, but when we came back from our holiday last october, i borrowed his greatest hits cd and kept playing GOFLB. As soon as we came home I bought an Mp3 player and put alot of Queen on it. I'm fan ever since

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]val<font color=violet>lie wrote: [/QUOTENAME]my twin has been listening Queen for ages, but I only really discoverd them when I saw Bohe Rhap in my music book, about a year ago. I listend to Queen a bit then, but when we came back from our holiday last october, i borrowed his greatest hits cd and kept playing GOFLB. As soon as we came home I bought an Mp3 player and put alot of Queen on it. I'm fan ever since[/QUOTE]
Yay! your twin got you into Queen too :D
twins are great.sad im not identicle :(

Once, my dad went to Rio for work. He brought back 2 CDs. One was ANATO, the other was something by Sugar Ray. I started listening to Sugar Ray, and kinda ignored Queen. So later I heard the opera part of Bo Rhap, and thought, "Okay, that's weird.."

But later, I kept listening more to it, and I became the fanatic I am today. And I'm glad to say that Sugar Ray was forgotten. :P

When I was 7 or 8 I went Xmas shopping in Wales and on the way there Greatest Hits 2 was playing in the car, this is my real first memory of Queen even though I probably had heard them before then and on the way back from holiday I turnt my CD player off because I wanted to get some sleep and The Show Must Go On was playing, I asked my parents who it was because the song was in the Moulin Rouge. I think the time I really discovered Queen was about last year when my CD player broke and I was getting fed up of my mum's Bob Marley tape so I decided to listen to her Queen tape, well one year on 5 DVD's and 22 CD's of them and still collecting.

My friend was a great fan, so I askes my other fan for some tracks, and I absolutely fell in love with them :b I only had like three or four tracks, but I listened to them constantly, and thought the guitarplayer ROCKED! I didn't even know what they looked like.

So I made some research and thought: "Oh my, he's (Brian) really cute!"

It's only 2-3 months ago, but people think I've been a fan for several years :b

I bought 5 cd's in one day - my first Queen-cd's. Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, The Game and Innuendo.

Then I bought a couple of ep's, and well it grew.. still expanding my collection :b

My mom would always play the greatest hits cd in her car while I was growing up, and I always liked them. Then a couple years ago, I finally got the greatest hits cd for myself and i was hooked!