Speaking as they unveiled the newly renamed, “rebuilt” and reissued version of their 1973 debut album, Queen I, in London last month, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor recalled how the sessions at Trident Studios were not only the making of the record, but of the band, too – and in particular of their frontman, Freddie Mercury, whom May says was just finding his voice at the time.
May says there was no questioning Mercury’s energy, but he hadn’t worked out how to use it.
