Hearing Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” when it first came out in 1980 was a disorienting experience. Plenty of rock bands—from The Rolling Stones to Bad Company to KISS—had hits in the late ...
Queen's music was already impossible to pigeonhole: a bit glam, a bit hard rock, a bit prog, a bit pop. Why not try out disco? The movement was starting to fizzle by 1979 — probably not the ideal time ...
"I'm tired of the bloody anthems! I want the energy in the clubs! The bodies! I want to make people move." This is how the absurd 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody imagines Freddie Mercury speaking to his ...