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The unlikely encounter between a pre-fame Freddie Mercury and David Bowie at a London market

The future Queen frontman encountered his eventual Under Pressure collaborator when working as a shop assistant at Kensington Market

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"How many times do you say you're gonna give something up and you don't?": Aggression and anger on the road with Thin Lizzy across America and Europe

With a new guitarist in their ranks, Thin Lizzy set off on an American tour with Queen, but trouble lay ahead

Louder

Brian May shares unique insight into how his father supported Queen on their first European tour

Fans called the musician’s touching post ‘a precious memory’

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Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Brian May and Roger Taylor look on

The performance came as Queen were awarded the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm by Sweden's King Carl Gustaf

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Roger Taylor and Brian May ‘so proud’ as they pick up Queen’s Polar Music Prize

Previous winners of the Polar Music Prize have included Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John.

Evening Standard

“I didn’t really get the music, to be honest. It was a bit too prog for me”: The prog superstars who tried to steal drummer Roger Taylor from Queen

The history of two hugely successful bands could have been very different

Louder

Freddie Mercury 'had secret daughter from illicit affair', extraordinary new biography claims

The Queen frontman’s secret love child speaks out 48 years after her birth: 'He adored me and was devoted’

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I Want It All: Queen drummer's former Surrey estate for sale for £8.95 million

Roger Taylor lived in the property for 24 years, between 1979 and 2003

Evening Standard

“At last, we get our first album to sound as we imagined it should sound… Phew!”: 52 years later, Queen have finally got their debut album right, says Roger Taylor

Despite already being ‘rebuilt’ only last year, Queen 1 is now getting a further full Dolby Atmos surround treatment too. So is this Queen 1.5?

MusicRadar

Men of a Certain Age by Kate Mossman review – close encounters with charismatic male rockers

A journalist’s bracingly honest account of interviews with musicians from Brian May to Shaun Ryder

The Guardian - UK

“Every one of them said yes without hesitation": Hank Marvin and Roger Taylor have just remade a '60s classic for charity

With a little help from Simon Phillips, Peter Erskine, Nick D’Virgilio, Eric Manegold, Vinnie Colaiuta, and more

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Hank Marvin of The Shadows and Queen's Roger Taylor release charity cover of Let There Be Drums

Hank Marvin and Queen's Roger Taylor have a new charity cover out.

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“I don’t only think in barre chords – that’s a slightly arrogant statement to make”: Brian May and Roger Taylor disagree about their guitar contributions to Taylor’s Queen tracks

The pair have offered a fresh insight into their songwriting partnership

Guitar World

“How long did it take me to get over it? Oh, quite a while”: Brian May on the “supreme injustice” of Roger Taylor’s Queen B-side "making as much money as Bohemian Rhapsody"

“It was a real sticking point for the band and it’s good we got through it,” he admits

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Inside Duran Duran’s chicly bonkers immersive one-night only nightclub

This week Duran Duran hosted a one night-only immersive experience which for a few hours, was the hottest nightclub in London

The Guardian - UK

Thank you Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor – how my 1990s teenage self found somebody to love

In her new book, music writer Kate Mossman looks back at her favourite type of encounter – interviews with charismatic, ageing, male rockers. Here she remembers the band – and specifically drummer – who electrified her as a girl growing up in Norfolk

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'I think it could happen': Queen legend Brian May hints at new music

Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor are "constantly" working on new material and could put some new tunes out under the Queen moniker.

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"I could have the beginnings of a Queen song right there in front of me now": Brian May says that he and Roger Taylor are "constantly writing"

"It’s whether that seed can grow," May says

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Queen, Herbie Hancock and Barbara Hannigan awarded 2025 Polar Music Prize

The prize is awarded to individuals, groups or institutions for excellence in the world of music.

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Gary Brooker brought back to life on unique version of A Whiter Shade of Pale on Think Loud 4 Parkinson’s charity record

New charity album ‘Think Loud 4 Parkinson’s’ contains a unique version of Procol Harum’s 1967 number one ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ along with Leo Sayer’s cover of The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ set to the music of Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’.

The Independent UK

Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor ‘fighting cancer as hard as he can’

Simon Le Bon said his former bandmate has ‘very late, fourth-stage metastasised cancer’

MusicRadar

“A nice fusion of synthesizers and epic pop”: Queen drummer Roger Taylor names the best song he ever wrote for the band - and the Queen song he hates!

Plus: his biggest influences as a songwriter

Louder

“When Paul pitched into We Are The Champions, it wasn’t anything like Freddie would have done yet it carried the spirit of the song”: How Queen + Paul Rodgers resurrected one of rock’s most iconic bands

The story of Queen + Paul Rodgers’ one-and-done album The Cosmos Rocks

Guitar World

“It’s one of our best tunes and one of my best basslines”: When Duran Duran fused Chic and Sex Pistols for one of bassist John Taylor’s standout performances

Duran Duran may be back in vogue – but for anyone who learned to play bass in the ’80s John Taylor has never been out of fashion

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“I didn’t know what to do. It sounded like an angry wasp”: Brian May recalls the time he played live through Jimi Hendrix’s Marshall – and it didn’t go well

Hendrix might have had the Marshall stack under his spell but the Queen says he struggled to play a chord

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