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Posted in 1986, 1986 April, May, June, United Kingdom
Queen – Friends Will Be Friends
If there was one date that split Queen’s phenomenal career in two, I’d say it was definitely July 13, 1985, the date of Live Aid of course, that really split the wonderful decade in two. On the stages of Wembley and Philadelphia the heroes of the early 80s,
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Posted in 1984, 1984 January, February, March, United Kingdom
Queen – Radio Ga Ga
January 23rd, 1984, was a milestone date for Queen’s and Freddie Mercury’s history and career. After almost two years in silence, after a couple of albums which received no great success, Queen, in those days famous mostly in the UK, were setting the stage for the release fo their new album,
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Queen – The Miracle
Queen released “The Miracle” at the end of November 1989. Generally you release the song that names the album as the first single, or maybe the second; in this case they had released the album six months before, and har already released four other singles, “I want it all”,
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Queen – Scandal
A couple of months after the release of “The Invisible man“, on Oct 9, 1989, the Queen released a new single and a new video. “Scandal” was the fourth release from the album “The Miracle”, after “I want it all“,
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Posted in 1989, United Kingdom
Queen – The Invisible Man
I always liked the song “the Invisible Man”. Queen’s fans love it also because it’s the only song that contains the names of hte band members, just like they do in the live performances. It’s really a great song, of course with a fantastic video!
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Posted in 1989, United Kingdom
Queen – Breakthru
In mid June 1989 Queen’s success and fame were really running like trains! Their latest album, “The Miracle”, in about six weeks had climbed all the charts, pulled by the incredible sales of “I want it all“. The Queen were really pop icons in England,
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Posted in 1989, United Kingdom
Queen – I want it all
In mid May 1989 we lived another important day for 80s music. On different days in many countries, Queen released their new album “Miracle”, presented by this iconic song, “I want it all”. The story behind this song belongs to Brian May.
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Music is made up of magic, this is clear. But 30 years ago, Jun 2, 1986, a kind of myracle happened: Queen released “A kind of magic”, one of their greatest albums, with songs like One vision, Friends will be friends, Who wants to live forever. Really a kind of magic!
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but most of all God save the Queen!! Thirty years ago, early november 1985, One Vision was released as a single, inspired by Martin Luther King, and following the planetary success that Queen achieved few months before during their Live Aid performance. For the mystery hunters, the songs contains few verses spelt backwards,
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