Queen

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Performer

Inducted: 2001

Inducted by: Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins

Nominated: 2000   2001

First Eligible: 1999 Ceremony

Inducted Members: John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor


Songwriters Hall of Fame: 2003

Induction Ceremony Songs:

SongPerformed By
Tie Your Mother Down  Queen With Dave Grohl And Taylor Hawkins
We Will Rock You  Queen

Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1999 (ranked #26) .

R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
A Night at the Opera1282020
A Night at the Opera2312012

R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)172021
Under Pressure (1981)4292021

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
Queen II (1974)
A Night At The Opera (1975)
A Day at the Races (1976)
News of the World (1977)
The Game (1980)
A Kind of Magic (1986)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Keep Yourself Alive (1973)
Stone Cold Crazy (1974)
Seven Seas Of Rhye (1974)
Killer Queen (1974)
Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
You're My Best Friend (1975)
39 (1975)
Tie Your Mother Down (1976)
Somebody To Love (1976)
We Will Rock You (1977)
We Are The Champions (1977)
Don't Stop Me Now (1978)
Fat Bottomed Girls (1978)
Bicycle Race (1978)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1980)
Another One Bites The Dust (1980)
Flash (1980)
Under Pressure (1981)
Radio Ga Ga (1984)
I Want to Break Free (1984)
Who Wants to Live Forever (1986)
A Kind of Magic (1986)
I Want It All (1989)
The Show Must Go On (1991)

Queen @ Wikipedia



Comments

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Does ANYONE realize that Queen WASN'T inducted FIRST BALLOT?

Posted by Karl Singleton on Saturday, 10/18/2014 @ 11:22am


The RIAA recently put a couple - and even one for Bowie - of multi-platinum singles for Queen.

FAT BOTTOMED GIRLS - 2x Platinum
UNDER PRESSURE - 2x Platinum

So far, they've now made a total of 65 million awards.

Posted by The Dude on Monday, 03/26/2018 @ 11:42am


Queen’s Greatest Hits album is now part of the Billboard 300 Week Club.

https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200

Posted by The Dude on Tuesday, 08/14/2018 @ 11:01am


http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-artists-ranked-from-best-to-worst.html#comments

I always had the feeling that Queen was in the same boat as Boston, Kansas, Journey, and Styx. Now Vulture confirmed it. They ranked Queen 213 out of 214 out of all the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees:

209. Kiss
210. Rush
211. Chicago
212. Journey
213. Queen
214. Bon Jovi

213. Queen — John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, and Roger Taylor (2001)

When popularity is factored in, Queen is the most overrated band in the history of pop music. This preposterous aggregation looked and sounded awful from the beginning, their music a pastiche of pastiches of things no one in the band were inclined to understand, all of it culminating in “We Will Rock You.” Queen haters love to say the song is appropriate for a Nuremburg rally, but you can also sort of see Leni Riefenstahl giving it a listen, cocking her head and saying, “Nein. A little too much.” Their popularity in the U.S. went down quickly after their heyday, but they remained unaccountable super-duper-stars in the U.K. and in time became the rock equivalent to the beloved ugly toy you had when you grew up. Docked 30 notches because of this: After the band’s closeted lead singer, Freddie Mercury, died of AIDS, the entire rock universe held a televised tribute show, broadcast on MTV, during which mentions of homosexuality and AIDS were kept closely under wraps. The band (and everyone else at the show) let a new generation of vulnerable kids — and thousands of the unloved, dying alone on the streets — know that, yes, they should be ashamed of who they are. Thirty years earlier, the Lovin’ Spoonful, in one of the best songs about rock and roll, captured it this way: “Believe in the magic that can set you free.” By that wholly credible standard, Queen aren’t rock and roll at all and don’t belong in the hall of fame.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 08/24/2018 @ 14:50pm


Roy

This piece has been out for a while. The man pretty much doesn't know what he is saying. I do though have to agree that Queen is way overrated.

Posted by Zuzu on Friday, 08/24/2018 @ 15:51pm


Roy

This piece has been out for a while. The man pretty much doesn't know what he is saying. I do though have to agree that Queen is way overrated.

Posted by Zuzu on Friday, 08.24.18 @ 15:51pm

Yes, I know, but I didn't have the chance to post about Queen until now.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 08/26/2018 @ 12:47pm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGbdnYueqs

6 Ways Bohemian Rhapsody IGNORED Queen's TRUE STORY!

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 11/6/2018 @ 22:37pm


RIAA Gold & Platinum Update: Queen

Title: Somebody To Love
Format: Single
2x Platinum (2 Million)

Title: Bohemian Rhapsody
Format: Single
7x Platinum (7 Million)

Total: 59 Million

Posted by The Dude on Thursday, 12/20/2018 @ 13:57pm


QUEEN > ABBA > CHIC > WHAM!

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 01/9/2019 @ 09:31am


QUEEN > ABBA > CHIC > WHAM!

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 01/9/2019 @ 09:34am


Four of those are tolerable...but Best Picture? The film has a friggin' 48 out of 100 on Metacritic.

Posted by Casperq on Tuesday, 01/22/2019 @ 17:45pm



So, Bohemian Rhapsody has won four Oscars but lost to a movie NOBODY CARES ABOUT that’ll be forgotten for “Best Picture.” Yep, the voters got this wrong big time like they did with the fourth episode of Star Wars. BM was the best musical biopic I’ve seen since Control.

Posted by The Dude on Monday, 02/25/2019 @ 01:24am


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/freddie-mercury-queen-biopic-bohemian-rhapsody-movie-fact-check-746195/

Fact-Checking the Queen Biopic, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Contrary to claims in the movie, the group didn’t break up before Live Aid, John Deacon wasn’t the original bassist and they never battled an executive named Ray Foster

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 02/28/2019 @ 12:25pm


RIP

MIKE GROSE, QUEEN’S FIRST BASSIST, DIES

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/mike-grose-queen-dies/

Posted by The Dude on Sunday, 03/10/2019 @ 15:55pm


The Dude,

I had really liked the biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and I think that a sequel would be a very good idea. Although I did not see “Bohemian Rhapsody” in a movie theater, I had purchased a copy of it on BluRay instead. I think that they should have included the deleted scenes as extras on the BluRay however. Aside from the historical inaccuracies, “Bohemian Rhapsody” had still been quite an entertaining film.

Now, if they could only do biopics on Rush and Yes and The Moody Blues.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Wednesday, 03/27/2019 @ 10:42am



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

The music video of "Bohemian Rhapsody" needs to join the one billion club quick as possible!

Posted by The Dude on Monday, 07/1/2019 @ 11:01am


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

The music video of "Bohemian Rhapsody" needs to join the one billion club quick as possible!

Posted by The Dude on Tuesday, 07/2/2019 @ 10:27am


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

Less than ten million views left.

Posted by The Dude on Thursday, 07/4/2019 @ 21:31pm


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

Less than two million left! The music video of "Bohemian Rhapsody" needs to join the one billion club quick as possible!

Posted by The Dude on Thursday, 07/18/2019 @ 09:12am


I like queen but Styx is my favorite band. Songs like Renegade, Come Sail Away, Suite Madame blue, blue collar man, Grand illusion, fooling yourself, lady, rocking the paradise are as good as it gets. Styx has twice as many Top Ten hit than Queen with 8 songs making the Top 10. Queen has 4 songs. Styx is definitely in their league. I certainly understand if you like Queen better but Styx is definitely a great band that actually had more hits. Just the facts.

Posted by Richard Thorne on Sunday, 03/1/2020 @ 18:07pm


From an american point of view you might compare Styx with Queen. In Europe Styx is almost unknown while Queen has been voted most important rock band ever after the Beatles by Record Collector´s readers

Posted by W. Sibbing on Friday, 10/21/2022 @ 12:58pm


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