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Last Night of the Proms review – star turns, good-natured flag waving and a rich Rule, Britannia!

Bill Bailey played a mean typewriter, Brian May and Roger Taylor raised laughs with Bohemian Rhapsody and trumpeter Alison Balsom bid a poignant farewell at just 46

The Guardian - UK

Bill Bailey pays emotional tribute to inspirational mother ahead of BBC Proms

Bailey will be joined by Sir Brian May, Roger Taylor and rising West End star Sam Oladeinde at the Proms’ final night

The Independent UK

Rock legends Queen trademark band's crest for use on wine

Queen look set to follow in the footsteps of Kylie Minogue and Gary Barlow by launching their own line of wine.

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Queen are 'launching their own wine'

Queen - which still features founding members Roger Taylor and Sir Brian May - are reportedly looking at releasing their own wine.

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“We pillaged a few things from Freddie’s solo work and refashioned them. It was a great labour love”: Brian May recalls how a Queen album was created after the loss of Freddie Mercury

Plus: the one thing that was 'sacrosanct' in Queen's songwriting process

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“We came off stage and looked at each other in amazement, because all that singing from the audience was so extreme. And I said to Freddie, ‘Maybe we should be harnessing this kind of energy’”: How Queen created the mother of all rock anthems

“I was hoping it would catch on," Brian May said

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“It's like he reached into a place that even he'd never got to before”: How Freddie Mercury took on mortality itself for Queen’s majestic final single

It was sadly to be Freddie’s last single with Queen before his untimely death just six weeks after its release

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“I understand people who say: ‘There is no Queen without Freddie.’ Because that’s what we felt following his death”: The epic story behind Queen’s triumphant comeback with Adam Lambert

No one expected Queen to return in 2011 –not least Queen themselves

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“I’m gonna need you guys to put that howling to good use”: Sabrina Carpenter is Hungry Like The Wolf as she performs with surprise guests Duran Duran at Hyde Park

Well, half of Duran Duran, anyway

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Every song on Queen's Greatest Hits, ranked from worst to best

Queen's Greatest Hits is the UK’s biggest-selling album of all time, with total worldwide sales of over 25 million copies –but which song is the greatest?

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"We thought it was going to be a disaster." Brian May and Roger Taylor look back on Queen's now-legendary performance at Live Aid, and share Bob Geldof's blunt pre-show advice to Freddie Mercury

"The response from the crowd was so deafening, it took your breath away"

Louder

“It came off the rails quite significantly at the end of Hammer to Fall”: Brian May reveals Queen's Live Aid doubts, and how the band were "lacking oil"

Guitarist recalls “flaws” in their performance that day

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Bob Geldof told Freddie Mercury to ‘just play the hits’ before legendary Live Aid performance

Queen’s six-song set is often remembered as one of the greatest rock performances of all time

The Independent UK

Bob Geldof told Freddie Mercury ‘don’t get clever’ before 1985 Live Aid set

Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May say Geldof told Mercury: ‘Just play the hits – you have 17 minutes’

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"It made me feel empowered!" That time pop superstars Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Pink dressed up as gladiators and covered Queen's anthemic classic We Will Rock You now seems like a weird fever dream

Look out for cameos from Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor in one of TV's most iconic adverts

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Louder

“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

Evening Standard

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’

Evening Standard

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

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“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?

The Guardian - UK

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

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