One boy who I liked liked them.
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In 1992 my family and I were/was in Greece on a holiday, and my sister bought Greatest Hits and my brother Greatest Hits II, both on bootleg tapes.
We listened to them a lot, but I kept most interest. So later they gave them to me. Happy happy!
I have listened to Queen almost every day since then. 16 years... [img=/images/smiley/msn/regular_smile.gif][/img]
We listened to them a lot, but I kept most interest. So later they gave them to me. Happy happy!
I have listened to Queen almost every day since then. 16 years... [img=/images/smiley/msn/regular_smile.gif][/img]
I really dig my ultrafave singer Paul Rodgers' new backing band "Queen", but I'm yet to fully indulge into their career as backing musicians. However, I've heard great things about them, they sing about Fat bottoms and bodies to love. Surely not as good as Paul and his fabulous All Right Now, but relatively interesting (relatively interesting as in "Wake me up before you go go"-relatively interesting) I'll buy the PLatiNum Collection soon!
It was when I heard the line: Mama, i`ve just killed a man...Imagine I hadn`t heard the song before though it was a great one. But it was when I paid real attention to it that I quickly started looking up every single Queen song and album and in a very short time I had them all.!!!
Well I was born in 1989, and I have a video of me as a baby singing "WWRY" haha, so I guess it's a sign that I would become a Queen fan one day.
I was semi aware of their music growing up, like I knew some songs/hits, but oddly enough I didn't know that[i] all [/i] those songs were from the same band. I saw some parts of the "Bo Rhap" video as a kid, and for some reason was kinda scared.
If I did hear the name Queen, I didn't know much about them except that the lead singer was dead. To sum it up: I was familiar with the songs, but not so much with the band.
Last year, my mom made me look up a song on YouTube that she liked called "Love of my life" and when I first heard it I thought, 'what a beautiful song.' My mom said that she had a crush on Freddie in the 80s.
Then this year in August we got a karaoke set and I noticed there were many Queen songs. I wanted to learn "Bo Rhap" since I never really heard the song in its entirety. I looked it up and loved it. I also saw the Live Aid performance (of "Bo Rhap"/"Radio Ga ga") on YouTube and was very impressed! Not many bands (in my opinion) perform good live, or the record sounds better than the live performance, w/ Queen that wasn't the case. They were amazing live and I wish I saw them in concert. :(
But anyways, after that I kept watching more of their performances on YouTube and I became a fan. Then for my 19th birthday I got 2 Queen CDs ("Greatest Hits" & "Classic Queen") and then 2 days later, I got "A Night at the Opera" and so far I've been listening to those CDs every single day. I plan to get more this Christmas (I want to collect them all), so I'm basically a new Queen fan... but better late than never!
I was semi aware of their music growing up, like I knew some songs/hits, but oddly enough I didn't know that[i] all [/i] those songs were from the same band. I saw some parts of the "Bo Rhap" video as a kid, and for some reason was kinda scared.
If I did hear the name Queen, I didn't know much about them except that the lead singer was dead. To sum it up: I was familiar with the songs, but not so much with the band.
Last year, my mom made me look up a song on YouTube that she liked called "Love of my life" and when I first heard it I thought, 'what a beautiful song.' My mom said that she had a crush on Freddie in the 80s.
Then this year in August we got a karaoke set and I noticed there were many Queen songs. I wanted to learn "Bo Rhap" since I never really heard the song in its entirety. I looked it up and loved it. I also saw the Live Aid performance (of "Bo Rhap"/"Radio Ga ga") on YouTube and was very impressed! Not many bands (in my opinion) perform good live, or the record sounds better than the live performance, w/ Queen that wasn't the case. They were amazing live and I wish I saw them in concert. :(
But anyways, after that I kept watching more of their performances on YouTube and I became a fan. Then for my 19th birthday I got 2 Queen CDs ("Greatest Hits" & "Classic Queen") and then 2 days later, I got "A Night at the Opera" and so far I've been listening to those CDs every single day. I plan to get more this Christmas (I want to collect them all), so I'm basically a new Queen fan... but better late than never!
Well, my Dad always watched hockey games a lot when I was younger, so I'd always hear the WWRY snippet being played in those games, and I never knew who sang that song, yet I wanted to hear the whole damn thing!
So when it came time before my 11th birthday, my parents wanted to know what I wanted for my birthday..."Anything EXCEPT for Beatles" (I was a Beatles nut then!). Before that, I'd just asked my Dad who sang that We Will Rock You song in the hockey games, and he said "Queen". So I told them I want a Queen CD for my birthday.
Rest is history, as they say :-P
So when it came time before my 11th birthday, my parents wanted to know what I wanted for my birthday..."Anything EXCEPT for Beatles" (I was a Beatles nut then!). Before that, I'd just asked my Dad who sang that We Will Rock You song in the hockey games, and he said "Queen". So I told them I want a Queen CD for my birthday.
Rest is history, as they say :-P
Oh shit I heard We will rock you on the radio when i was a kid (this was just after it was released) and loved the composition of it (or therein lack of) . Then a few years later they did flash gordon, i was a huge fan of the Buster Crabb serials after that it was all gravy.
I've been singing Queen since I was 4 years old sitting the in car driving around. Mostly I remember those moments when i was going to Galveston. I was obsessed with Bo Rhap especially.
This 4 year old little curly haired hyper kid singing Bo Rhap at the top of her lungs in the back of a Toyota.
It was a sight. :D
This 4 year old little curly haired hyper kid singing Bo Rhap at the top of her lungs in the back of a Toyota.
It was a sight. :D
I heard We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio within the time span of only two or three days. I asked a few friends about those songs and who they were by, and when I was told they were all Queen songs I was automatically hooked. I went out and bought their Greatest Hits (Hollywood Records) at Best Buy and ever since I've been listening to them religously. It must be said that their music has also introduced me to many other artists, not to mention other genres of music. I've been a fan for about six years.
1984:
I was 8 years old and used to spend most evenings in my dad´s videostore, where he had always a big TV playing a tape with videoclips of the time; I remember getting stuck when watching the screen everytime the clips of Radio Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free were played ... the visuals, the music and ... Freddie ... above all, Freddie and his magnetic presence.
From that moment, even being a 8 year old kid, I remember paying big attention to the music programs in the spanish TV when that band, Queen, was appearing from time to time .... with the above mentioned clips again and, oh holy grail, the first time I saw the Bo Rhap videoclip .... a-m-a-z-i-n-g ....
1986: AKOM is released; my older brother bought the tape; what a wonderful world !! Live Magic is released, my brother gets the tape again; YIHAAAA !!!! and then we started (well, in fact my mum did) buying all the tapes we could (Greatest Hits, The Works and Queen II were the following); and then, with my own money ;), the vinyls of Queen and Hot Space.
The rest is a beautiful love story :)
I was 8 years old and used to spend most evenings in my dad´s videostore, where he had always a big TV playing a tape with videoclips of the time; I remember getting stuck when watching the screen everytime the clips of Radio Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free were played ... the visuals, the music and ... Freddie ... above all, Freddie and his magnetic presence.
From that moment, even being a 8 year old kid, I remember paying big attention to the music programs in the spanish TV when that band, Queen, was appearing from time to time .... with the above mentioned clips again and, oh holy grail, the first time I saw the Bo Rhap videoclip .... a-m-a-z-i-n-g ....
1986: AKOM is released; my older brother bought the tape; what a wonderful world !! Live Magic is released, my brother gets the tape again; YIHAAAA !!!! and then we started (well, in fact my mum did) buying all the tapes we could (Greatest Hits, The Works and Queen II were the following); and then, with my own money ;), the vinyls of Queen and Hot Space.
The rest is a beautiful love story :)
In 1979 in Argentina I went to a church camping trip, the guys were always playing WWRY. I liked it a lot. Then when I came back to the USA I bought Greatest Hits One and fell in love with Bohemian Rhapsody.
After, I didn't listen to them for a long time. In 2001 I heard a song on the radio, went back to my mother's house, digged up the LP of GH1, and I've been a constant fan ever since.
After, I didn't listen to them for a long time. In 2001 I heard a song on the radio, went back to my mother's house, digged up the LP of GH1, and I've been a constant fan ever since.
I was about 12 years old and My cousin Rhonda who was quite a bit older than me had the "News of the World" album and wanted me to have a listen to it. (Glad she did..you rock Rhonda!) She played me WWRY. I thought it was pretty cool!! Been a fan ever since.
my dad had Live Kilers when i was 6 or 7 i listened to it almost everyday, i was hooked. I eventually forgot about them, but everytime i saw Freddie Mercury on the Live Killers tour or on TV i was somehow intimidated while i was a little kid.But one day about 3 or 4 years ago, i was w/ my dad at Best Buy and the Wembley DVD just came out, he picked up a copy and asked me if it would be a good buy. So i was like Queen WTF? whatever, so he bought it and we watched when we came home.[/QUOTE]While I was watching it, everything came back to me like a kick in the nuts. [/QUOTE]I was like oHHHHHHHH!!!!! thats Queen![/QUOTE]So im still trying to find the 2 Disc Live Killers at my house that ive been worshipping as a child.[/QUOTE]