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Before forming Queen, May and Taylor had played together in the band Smile. Mercury was a fan of Smile and encouraged them to experiment with more elaborate stage and recording techniques. He joined in 1970 and suggested the name "Queen". Deacon was recruited in March 1971.
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Queen, the first studio album was released
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Queen first charted in the UK with their second album, Queen II, in 1974
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The band´s second and third albums were published the same year.
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Sheer Heart Attack at the end of 1974 and, above all, A Night at the Opera in 1975 brought them international success
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Bohemian Rhapsody stayed at number one in the UK for nine weeks and helped popularise the music video format.
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The album contained great success single, Somebody to Love.
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The album contained two greatly successul singles which have become sports hyms, We Will Rock You and We are the Champions.
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It contained Bicyle Race, Fat Bottomed Girls and, above all, Don´t Stop Me Now.
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By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world.
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"Another One Bites the Dust" became their best-selling single.
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Their 1981 compilation album Greatest Hits is the best-selling album in the UK and is certified eight times platinum in the US.
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It contained, among other successes, Under Pressure.
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Hits such as Radio Ga Ga, I Want to Break Free and Hammer to Fall appear in this album.
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Their performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert has been ranked among the greatest in rock history by various publications.
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In August 1986, Mercury gave his last performance with Queen at Knebworth, England.
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It contained A Kind of Magic, Who Wants to Live Forever and Friends Will Be Friends.
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It contained the Miracle, Breakthru and I Want it All
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Freddie Mercury died in 1991 of bronchopneumonia - a complication of AIDS.
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It contained The Show Must Go On, among others.
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A postumous work which contained I Was Born to Love You and Too Much Love Will Kill You, among others.
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At the end of 2004, May and Taylor announced that they would reunite and return to touring in 2005 with Paul Rodgers (founder and former lead singer of Free and Bad Company). Brian May's website also stated that Rodgers would be "featured with" Queen as "Queen + Paul Rodgers", not replacing Mercury.
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On 20 May 2009, May and Taylor performed "We Are the Champions" live on the season finale of American Idol with winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert, who would later become the new leading singer of the band, after the Paul Rodgers left it.
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Queen still goes on, and will do it forever, with projects led by Taylor and May involving great singers of nowadays such as Adam Lambert and Mark Martel.
