Queen (Band)

Overview
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970. Their classic line-up consisted of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals) and John Deacon (bass). Mostly known for their influential hits such as; Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Don't Stop Me Now, among many others. Queen has had a global presence in popular culture for more than four decades, many parodying their music, making their own cover songs or even creating tribute bands.

Queen has sold over 200 million albums, thus putting them one of the world's best-selling musical artists of all-time; only surpassed by 11 other artists in history. Queen produced a total of 15 studio albums with their lead vocalist Freddie Mercury, up until his passing in 1991. Queen still continues to produce music, mainly through live aids, which they were well known for in the 70s-80s, elevated heavily by the catchy radio-friendly lyrics of most of their music, the upbeat attitude and Freddie Mercury's flamboyant stage presence.

Impact On Cohen
Queen's music has had a great impact onto the creative process of Cohen when working on both the CCU and Tiny Tots; Cohen often listening to exclusively Queen when he worked between 2018-2020; throughout those years being by-far the most listened to artist on his Spotify, unsurprisingly earning the slot of his most listened artist of the 2010s decade. Cohen had first learned about Queen through an activity he once did in the First Grade involving their well-known "We Will Rock You" song; having a simple and very effective beat that most can universally recognize; two stomps of the foot and a clap of the hands. Cohen later rediscovered Queen through his Grade 9 drama class, where he was grouped with three of his friends; Grooves, Jarren and Jaxson. Their project had to involve them lip syncing to a song, they had originally suggested songs that frequently were used in interent memes around the time; such as Take On Me and Africa.

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