“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen

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Queen came into existence pushing musical boundaries. By the time the band became world famous for their pop anthems, most of their greatest expeditions into new territories were behind them. But in 2012 Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe helped Prog argue the case that Freddie Mercury’s troop were always a prog band.

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