Having toured long, they recorded the second album, Queen II, which saw them enter the British Top 5. The single Killer Queen was the first record by the band to have acclaim in the United States. By that time, Freddie Mercury had already been regarded one of the leading rock singers. In 1975, Queen experienced a grand breakthrough.
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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen. The record, released on November 2, 1981, is the UK's all-time best-selling album. Combined with Greatest Hits II, it became the definitive Queen compilation. While a domestic release with different tracks but the same cover art was available in the U.S. In 1981, the British release was available to United States customers only by import until the 1995 release of Greatest Hits I & II, which combined the two discs. The seventeen-track UK Greatest Hits disc was released in the U.S. On its own for the first t.
Queen were an English rock band originally consisting of four members: vocalist and pianist, guitarist, bass guitarist, and drummer. The band formed in London in 1970 after May and Taylor's former band split after having released an album and single. Freddie replaced lead vocalist, after the latter's departure from the original trio.
There was much deliberation as to what the band's name would be. May and Taylor had settled upon the Grand Dance, derived from a C.S. Lewis Trilogy of books Out Of The.
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