Queen
Queen spent the 80s restlessly switching styles — funk on 'Another One Bites the Dust', synth-rock on 'Radio Ga Ga', stadium anthems everywhere else. Their twenty-minute Live Aid set in 1985 is still widely regarded as the greatest live performance in rock history.
Origin: London, England · Years active: 1970–1991
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Biography
Queen spent the 80s restlessly switching styles — funk on 'Another One Bites the Dust', synth-rock on 'Radio Ga Ga', stadium anthems everywhere else. Their twenty-minute Live Aid set in 1985 is still widely regarded as the greatest live performance in rock history.
Key 1980s albums
- The Game (1980) — Search Amazon · Find copies on eBay — 80s albums
- Hot Space (1982) — Search Amazon · Find copies on eBay — 80s albums
- The Works (1984) — Search Amazon · Find copies on eBay — 80s albums
- A Kind of Magic (1986) — Search Amazon · Find copies on eBay — 80s albums
- The Miracle (1989) — Search Amazon · Find copies on eBay — 80s albums
Essential songs
- Another One Bites the Dust (1980) — 80s songs
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1980) — 80s songs
- Under Pressure (1981) — 80s songs
- Radio Ga Ga (1984) — 80s songs
- I Want to Break Free (1984) — 80s songs
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Queen — quick answers
- Who are Queen?
- Queen — London, England, active 1970–1991. Queen spent the 80s restlessly switching styles — funk on 'Another One Bites the Dust', synth-rock on 'Radio Ga Ga', stadium anthems everywhere else. Their twenty-minute Live Aid set in 1985 is still widely regarded as t
- What did Queen release in the 1980s?
- RADIO 1980 lists 5 albums and 5 essential songs for Queen, covering 1980–1989.
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