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Brian May, Roger Taylor and Tim Staffell, form a band called smile.
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Freddie Bulsara persuades Brian May and Roger Taylor to let him replace Staffell as the lead singer after he left.
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Through trial and error with many different bassists the band finally got their new main bassist known as John Deacon. The core members are established now and shall stay that way. Freddie Bulsara, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon.
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Freddie changes his last name to mercury
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Queen signs with Trident Studios and were to be managed by Neptune Productions-a subsidiary of Trident.
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Queen released their first album called Queen. It reaches number 83 in the US and number 47 in the UK.
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Queen released the single “Seven seas of Rhye,'' it reached number 10 in the uk charts.
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Queen releases their second album Queen II, it reaches no.5 in the UK charts and number 49 in the us. The band is starting to do increasingly well, gaining more traction.
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The album 'Sheer Heart Attack' was released. It reached number 2 in the UK charts and number 12 in the US.
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In October of 1975, Queen wants to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single but was told that at 5 minutes and 55 seconds, that no radio station would play it. Freddie gave a copy to his friend, Dj Kenny Everett and told him he was not allowed to play it. He played it anyway and other stations followed suit.
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Queen began a sold out tour of the US in January of 1975.
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Freddie Mercury received an ivor novello award for his song 'Killer Queen', in May of 1975.
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Queen leaves their agreement with trident, and signs management deal with John Reid in September of 1975.
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On halloween, Queen releases the single Bohemian Rhapsody and it stays No.1 on the UK charts for 9 weeks straight. It reaches number 9 on the US charts. It was also the first single to be released with a music video.
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The album ‘A Night at the Opera’ was released and it reached number 1 in the UK charts and number 4 in the US. The band is seeing a gradual rise to fame here.
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The song 'Somebody To Love' from the album 'A Day At The Races', was released to be a single. It reached number 2 in the UK and number 13 in the US.
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The singles ‘We Are The Champions’ with ‘We Will Rock You’ as the b side, were released. They reached number 2 in the UK and number 4 in the US. Both tracks are from the album ‘News of the World.'
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The album ‘Jazz’ was released. It reached number 2 in the UK and number 6 in the US.
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the epidemic of HIV/AIDS struck a few population centers in the U.S and UK. Governments mounted almost no public health response. Some medical professionals viewed HIV as “Gay related immunodeficiency.
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Mercury ditches his glam rock look and cut his hair to a popular gay style. May fans hated it, some in the U.S even threw razors onstage. The homophobia was always there, but now for Mercury, it's becoming more like a blatant slap to the face.
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Queen performs some of their greatest hits at the live aid concert held at wembley stadium, london. The concert soon become one of the most famous concerts in history.
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Freddie Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS. It was kept from the public.
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The U.K passed an anti gay law that said homosexuality shouldn’t be promoted and the same sex families had pretend families and not real ones.
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Queen released the album Innuendo, it reached no.1 in the UK and number 30 in the US. All the while Freddie was denying rumors he was very ill.
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Freddie Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia which he had contracted as a complication of AIDS.
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In early december, two weeks after Freddie's death, Freddie's bandmates go on television to dispute what the media has been saying about him and his death: that he brought AID’s upon himself with his wild partying.
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The Freddie Mercury tribute concert was held in london, it raised more than 20 million Euros for the AIDS charities.
