Mercury Dreams

This coming sunday marks the 18th year since the death of the talented Freddie Mercury. The Queen frontman has been labelled as one of the most talented musicians and entertainers on the planet.
Since Queen began in the 70's they gained a movement of loyal fans. Mercury himself was in fact a shy man who onstage seemed the most flamboyant extrovert in the world. He faced scrutiny for his sexual preferences and the media gave the frontman grief after his death for only stating he had AIDS after he died. The fact of the matter is he struggled with the disease since 87 and upon his death in 1991 it paid a huge contribution in his death from pnuemonia.
His music has lived on, albums still sell online, in record stores and Bohemian Rhapsody is still one of the most requested Queen songs of all time.
Theoretically Queen is a rock band. What Mercury added to the mix was operatic stylings which worked so well that they continued throughout the (original) bands career. Working with numerous already successful artist include David Bowie and Montserrat Caballé. Momentum was continuous and fluent and maybe that played a huge part in why they were so big, they (and definitely Mercury) were not afraid to be different stand up and be different from all the music that was being produced.
Although Queen do tour still with Brian May and Roger Taylor. Paul Rodgers took the place of Vocals and the band now has the name Queen + Paul Rodger.
It is clear no one could ever really replicate the thought provoking haunting voice of Mercury. The man is a modern legend. Queen are modern legends. Their music will live regardless of whether their frontman (Only frontman) was gay, straight, had AIDS or died. Their music touched millions and the fact they have spent over 27 years in the charts and have had albums out sell The Beatles Sgt. Peppers lonely Hearts band proves that truly they have earnt themselves a hard earned place in the history of music and even British culture.