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Post by Queen II 74 on Apr 20, 2020 21:19:21 GMT
To begin with I am only 25 years old, I had the greatest impact with a exclusive Brazilian collection called "Queen Collection" in 2007, and when I heard Somebody to Love and Bohemian Rhapsody it was love the first heard!
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Post by Jakelic on Apr 20, 2020 23:26:53 GMT
Definitely hearing In My Defence for the first time. It is to this day my favourite song, important to me on so many levels. I think it's Freddie's finest, even though he didnt write it, nor is it a Queen song. I prefer the original LP version, the one with Laurence Olivier intro, violins and sliding bass. Magic. It will play on my funeral.
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Post by master marathon runner on Apr 21, 2020 6:51:22 GMT
Killer Queen performance on TOTP in 1974.
Hit by the thunderbolt !
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Post by vh on Apr 21, 2020 11:23:38 GMT
There have been a few.
Hearing Killer Queen for the first time, I was hooked by Brian's solo.
Seeing the Bo Rhap video on TOTPs amazing
The visual impact of the intro on The Crazy Tour
Getting a chance ( and being allowed ) to play Brian May's guitar!
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Post by macduff77 on Apr 21, 2020 15:51:32 GMT
Finding "Live Killers" in my mom's record collection around 1990/1991 and playing it to death; and then reading the teletext on November 24th stating Freddie had passed away. Just as I was getting into Queen big time. I had no idea he was sick until his announcement and then death. So sad.
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Post by CoolCat on May 3, 2020 10:21:55 GMT
Listening to Under Pressure for the first time. That bassline in connection with the piano completely blew me away. I begged the guy on the radio to tell me the name of the song, and he did. Total lifesaver, that one.
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Post by carpediem on Aug 10, 2020 15:06:01 GMT
Probably seeing them on Top Of The Pops in 1974 doing Seven Seas, even though I was very young at the time. That run of hit singles they had up to Spread Your Wings was an amazing start and the flag got planted at the top of the mountain very quickly. And that's where it stayed. And I do remember rushing home from school at lunch time on the day the new top 30 was announced each week to see if Bohemian Rhapsody was still at no.1 in the chart!
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Post by thefonz on Aug 28, 2020 3:52:11 GMT
Easy.
Hearing 'We Will Rock You' on cassette at a friends 13th birthday party. That created a love of music in me, not just QUEEN. Before that moment, music was just something on the radio, and not something I interacted with.
I rewound the tape over and over just to hear that song.
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Post by martinpacker on Aug 28, 2020 9:26:51 GMT
I liked Killer Queen but didn't like them as they didn't smile. :-) Then Bohemian Rhapsody blew me away and I've been a fan ever since.
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Post by martinpacker on Aug 28, 2020 9:27:47 GMT
Definitely hearing In My Defence for the first time. It is to this day my favourite song, important to me on so many levels. I think it's Freddie's finest, even though he didnt write it, nor is it a Queen song. I prefer the original LP version, the one with Laurence Olivier intro, violins and sliding bass. Magic. It will play on my funeral. Yes, In My defence gives me chills. Whether the vocal or the video. Mostly the vocal. |
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Post by kimmlogan on Aug 28, 2020 11:15:04 GMT
Well, I can give my first time Queen had an impact on me. It was the single “Killer Queen”. I just thought it was so sophisticated and unique and fun.
Then of course when BoRhap was released! BOOM.
People push it aside now because it’s so iconic and “over played”. But when it first hit the scene...WOW!
it is when, at least in America where people started saying, “Oh, OK. THESE GUYS ARE GOOOOD”,
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Post by kimmlogan on Aug 28, 2020 11:16:26 GMT
Killer Queen performance on TOTP in 1974. Hit by the thunderbolt ! Bingo. Although I didn’t see Top or the Pops, but on the radio. I just LOOOVED to sing along with Killer Queen. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 15:32:02 GMT
Attending the Queen & Adam Lambert concert 2015. I have always considered myself a casual Queen fan, but this made me dive into their back catalogue as become a proper fan. The best concert I had been to until then.
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Post by peacelovingguy on Aug 28, 2020 15:46:48 GMT
Great thread. Like a poster above, I am a product of the Greatest Hits inner sleeve. My parents bought the album when I was 7 years old. I used to look at all the pictures of their studio albums and think “who is this crazy band with all these bizarre album covers?”. Much later my life revolved around staring at the CDs in record stores deciding which album to buy next. But the reason I became a fan was watching the Radio Ga Ga video when I was 10 years old. It just blew me away, because I thought they were a dead dinosaur band from the 70s, but here they were with this incredible new song.
My biggest moment as a fan was attending the Freddie Tribute Concert, when Tie Your Mother Down started and Brian, Roger and John were alone on the stage and the crowd went nuts. No other band sounds that good live.
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Post by Frank on Aug 30, 2020 14:42:10 GMT
I have too many moments...I can't pick just one!
The moment that first comes to mind was seeing Queen + Adam Lambert at Madison Square Garden in 2014. Before then, I had never been to a Queen concert. Being 31 years old, I missed seeing Freddie and John, and even when Bri and Rog were touring with Paul Rodgers I just couldn't convince my parents. As soon as I heard Brian kick the concert off with Now I'm Here I broke down like a big baby. I got a lump in my throat and cried tears of joy.
I also traveled to Las Vegas to see them when they had their residency. I only planned on seeing them once, but convinced my wife to see them the following night too. And I'm glad I did! Just before Love Of My Life I yelled "I love you, Brian" and he actually stopped for a brief moment and said "I love you too." A silly little moment, and I felt quite embarrassed afterwards, but it means a lot to me. I'm happy to say I found a recording of the moment on YouTube and quick saved it.
Last year I traveled to Montreux for Freddie's 73rd birthday celebration. So being able to see Freddie's statue and explore the surrounding area, including the studio, was a vacation like no other. I felt overwhelmed with emotions. One morning I got up super early so I could listen to Made In Heaven as the sun rose. Just me and Freddie's statue, and the sun coming up.
And I suppose looking back even further, it was when I heard Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time that really impressed me the most. Without that moment, I might not have become the fan I am today. This was way back in 2003. Just me and my friends listening to the radio. I asked my friends "who is this?" And they said "Oh this is Queen again." I responded, "what do you mean?" And they said they did We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, which we literally had heard just the day before. I was hooked. Asked my parents to take me out so I could have their greatest hits. Never looked back since.
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Post by zanzibar1 on Aug 30, 2020 15:13:47 GMT
I'm lucky (?) to be old enough to have got into the band when I first heard Seven Seas Of Rhye on the radio (in 1974!), and I remember seeing them perform it on Top Of The Pops here in the UK. I was into glam rock at the time, so Sweet, Slade, Mud, Suzi Quatro and Showaddywaddy (!) were my favourite bands, and SSOR fitted quite nicely into that genre. I kind of went off Queen when Killer Queen came out, as it was so different to the hard rock of SSOR, but then Now I'm Here reasserted the rock style, so I was back on board. I never really got fully into them until I first heard Bohemian Rhapsody, at which point I thought the first part of it was a radio commercial, but after that stuck with me (I remember being most upset when Mamma Mia by Abba knocked it off the Number 1 slot after 9 weeks), I stuck with them ever since. The first album I had of theirs was ANATO, followed by QII, then SHA. I don't think I got the first album for a while after that, but I do remember it had various different coloured sleeves, presumably depending on the country of manufacture. I remember getting ADATR on it's release date, and being a little disappointed at first, but now it's my favourite Queen album, then along came NOTW, which contained my favourite ever Queen track, It's Late. That's about it - a potted history of my teenage introduction to Queen.  Crikey Simon, that almost mirrors my reasons for getting into Queen. But the thing that finally nailed it was the 1975 Hammy Odeon concert and actually watching it as it went out. That and my brother and me listening to ANATO at four in the morning on Christmas Day. Great memories indeed. Mine too !!!...asked for ANATO for xmas off my mum after seeing the video on TOTP. Been with them ever since. |
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Post by jazz78 on Aug 31, 2020 12:22:20 GMT
Purchasing News of the World in December of '77, seeing them live November 14,1978 and again August 26th 1980 both in Providence, Rhode Island. The fact that my cousin was their lighting director on those tours didn't hurt either!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2020 12:29:45 GMT
First time I heard ''39' in the year 2000. It's still my favourite song of theirs.
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Post by CamAaron on Feb 8, 2021 17:50:58 GMT
Edit: At first, this post was a thread itself, but it was moved to here. In this thread, you can share the way you knew Queen, or started listening to their music. This is my case: The first time I listened to their music, was in my childhood, while watching Angry Birds clips, specifically the one that featured a small part of Bicycle Race; by that time, I didn't know it was Queen what I was listening to. Some years later, I listened to We Will Rock You and later to We Are The Champions, now knowing it was Queen, but didn't get much interest at the time. Finally, in 2018, after the movie release, I started listening more of their music and looking for information; now it's my favorite band. Feel free to share your experiences . |
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Post by Steve on Feb 8, 2021 18:40:07 GMT
It was via my cousin. He played me "The Miracle" back on its release in 1989. I was hooked from the first listen. Been a massive fan since!
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Post by DasTarD on Feb 8, 2021 19:41:03 GMT
My parents had the Greatest Hits album (1981) and I start listening to it only after a few years, maybe 1985 or 1986 I played it a lot and liked Killer Queen, so then buying my first vinyl, I bought Live Magic but was dissapointed that Killer Queen was not on there, after that I started buying all the albums, finishing 2 years later in 1988.
Sadly I sold everything and bought all the Hollywood Records CD's which I still own today.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Feb 8, 2021 19:46:27 GMT
I could have sworn we've already done this, but I can't find it so anyway here goes. I'm old enough to have been into Queen right from the start. Not in a big way at first, but ever since A Night At The Opera which I posted about in another thread.
I feel fortunate that my musical beginnings were in the 70s, which, to me, was the greatest era of music. We had so many great bands, including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Queen, Sweet, Genesis, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, and many others, which lead the way for generations of future music. Sadly, I never saw Queen live, but hopefully that will at least partially be rectified at some point when things get back to some sort of normal.
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Post by ted on Feb 8, 2021 19:53:45 GMT
I first heard You're My Best Friend when it started getting radio play in the mid-70's shortly after release but being quite young then I didn't know what Group it was. It was quite likely the 1st Queen song I ever heard. A few years later, a friend of mine started getting into them so that led to me buying my first Queen album, News of the World, which I bought in the early 80's.
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Post by CamAaron on Feb 8, 2021 21:07:09 GMT
I could have sworn we've already done this Well, before posting this thread I also searched if something like this was already posted to make sure it didn't get repeated, but couldn't find anything either. |
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Post by macduff77 on Feb 8, 2021 21:41:33 GMT
My mom had Live Killers on LP since it was released but finally sat down on a whim one day in 1990 (I was 12 at the time and bored) and listened to the album and was instantly hooked.
Interesting side note. Moved from Scotland to Canada in 1989 and the last thing I remember from Scotland was the radio DJ introducing I Want It All. Listened to the song as we pulled up to the airport in the taxi. A now-forever cherished moment.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Feb 8, 2021 21:51:47 GMT
I could have sworn we've already done this Well, before posting this thread I also searched if something like this was already posted to make sure it didn't get repeated, but couldn't find anything either. I think there might have been separate comments here and there, but not an actual thread. Anyway, carry on. |
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Feb 8, 2021 22:24:44 GMT
I could have sworn we've already done this, but I can't find it so anyway here goes. Simon - you were right, your initial suspicions were correct - there was a whole thread. this current thread now merged into original. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Feb 9, 2021 0:41:12 GMT
I could have sworn we've already done this, but I can't find it so anyway here goes. Simon - you were right, your initial suspicions were correct - there was a whole thread. this current thread now merged into original. At least I know I'm not going slightly mad! 😄 |
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Post by martinpacker on Feb 9, 2021 10:10:26 GMT
"Fly Swatters" going up, December 10, 1980, Wembley Arena. :-)
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Post by Mercury Roadrunner on Feb 19, 2021 2:27:23 GMT
The Queen moment(s) that made the biggest impacts on me:
- listening to "The Show Must Go On" for the very first time (around 1996, when I was not even 10 years old yet)
- watching "The Queen Phenomenon: In The Lap Of The Gods" on Russian TV ("NTV") with Russian translation (around about the same time, something like 1996)
- attending Brian May's "Another World Tour" Show in 07.11.1998 at "MSA Luzhniki Arena" (Moscow, Russia)
(just imagine what a shock it was for a 12 year old boy like me to see a Queen member 1) alive 2) live on stage in act 3) to see a show of that level (it was the end of 90's and grand professional shows was still a bit of a rarity in Russia, it still felt almost like a glimpse of Iron Curtain was still there...)) So it was a real "Breakthru" for me...
- collecting all of their albums and videos on tapes (and only a lot later on CD's) - (what a true gem it was to get a Queen live bootleg on tape...)
- meeting Brian, Roger and Jim in February, April, September and October 2004 (Moscow, Russia)
(in the times of their "WWRY Musical" Russian Version adventures),
and having numerous friendly chats with them and attending their press conferences and TV interviews
(I still remember what a great and funny joker Roger sometimes can be; what a perfect gentleman Brian is ; and Jim - may I say, what a charming man)
- and meeting them again in September, 2008 (Kyiv and Kharkiv, Ukraine)
(in the times of their "Queen + Paul Rodgers" "Rock The Cosmos" Tour)
attending (and filming) their press conference in Kyiv and attending their famous show at Freedom Sqaure in Kharkiv (actually I was one of those who were in a very first row right in front of the stage and, boy, oh boy, looking back at something like 350,000 people behind you is indeed something special...)
- technically launching with my own hands the very first official commercial screening of the "Bohemian Rhapsody" Movie in 01.11.2018 in Moscow at Dolby Atmos cinema
- loads of great things, but as a title suggests - the biggest impact that Queen moment made on me was this - discovering Freddie Mercury's personality and dedicating my life to music. Something like that ; )
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