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* AudienceParticipationSong: "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions" and "Radio Ga Ga" spring to mind, though this works with a lot of their output. Freddie left the first lines of "I Want to Break Free" to the audience, and he himself explicitly stated that "Love of My Life" had been "turned into a duet" with the audience as early as the 'Live Killers'' album. And then there's the obligatory singing "contests" Freddie had with his audience, where he sang a note and the audience had to match it. On the ''Live Killers'' album, Freddie himself commented it with "You buggers can sing higher than I can, I tell you". Brian May and Roger Taylor imagine that songs like "I Want It All" and "The Miracle" [[WhatCouldHaveBeen could have ended up like this as well]] if Freddie hadn't become too ill for the band to keep touring.

* Mercury was responsible for many of their ballads ("Love of My Life", "My Melancholy Blues"), pop songs and stylistic experiments ("Killer Queen", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to Love" etc.)
* If you're headbanging to an incredibly heavy HardRock tune it's probably been written by May ("Prophet's Song", "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You") or Taylor ("Tenement Funster", "I'm in Love with My Car", "Sheer Heart Attack", "Fight from the Inside")

* AudienceParticipationSong: ''We Will Rock You'', ''We Are the Champions'' and ''Radio Ga Ga'' spring to mind, though this works with a lot of their output (Brian May and Roger Taylor imagine it [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have been the case]] for songs like ''I Want It All'' and ''The Miracle'' if they'd been able to keep touring after Freddie Mercury became too ill for it). ''Love of My Life'' was often sung almost completely by the audience.

* BadassBoast: "Princes of The Universe"
** Also, its lyrics contain a bit of AGodAmI. Given it's from ''{{Highlander}}'' this should not be surprising.

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-->''We are a very competitive group. We are four good writers and there are no passengers."''

->''We are a very competitive group. We are four good writers and there are no passengers."''

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* CreatorBacklash: The aforementioned "It's a Hard Life" video? May isn't a big fan of it and Taylor outright hates it, calling it "the worst music video ever" on the ''Greatest Hits 2'' commentary.

All members of the band were songwriters, approaching [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot wildly different styles]], from straight-up HardRock, GlamRock, proto-thrash metal ("Stone Cold Crazy", "Dead on Time"), disco[=/=]{{Funk}}, pop, rockabilly, NewWave and SynthPop, going all the way between 1 and 6 on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness. While all bandmembers shared an eclectic approach to songwriting and a tendency for experiments, generally speaking: Mercury was responsible for many of their ballads ("Love of My Life", "My Melancholy Blues"), pop songs and stylistic experiments ("Killer Queen", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to Love" etc.), if you're headbanging to an incredibly heavy HardRock tune it's probably been written by May ("Prophet's Song", "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You") or Taylor ("Tenement Funster", "I'm in Love with My Car", "Sheer Heart Attack", "Fight from the Inside"), and Deacon goes all over the place stylistically but his songs tended to end up as hits when released as singles ("You're My Best Friend", "Spread Your Wings", "Another One Bites the Dust", and so on).

Their well-known songs, of which there are many, include:

* FaceOfTheBand: Freddie Mercury. Overlaps with IAmTheBand, as even the fans who ''don't'' regard new singers as [[ReplacementScrappy replacement Scrappies]] will tend to agree that there is no Queen without Freddie.

* GrowingTheBeard: ''Sheer Heart Attack'''s regarded as the band's first great album. ''Hot Space'' is generally the point where fans agree that they shaved off the beard.

* TheMusical: WeWillRockYou, surprisingly good for being a jukebox musical but then it helps to have Queen music period.

* PopStarComposer: Queen wrote songs for the Highlander, Flash Gordon the Movie, and a new edition of Metropolis.
** Brian also wrote the soundtrack to a French movie called ''Furia''. It sounds like he was chained to a copy of John Williams' StarWars soundtrack.
* PosthumousCollaboration: Deliberate on Freddie's part for ''Made in Heaven''. Freddie recorded as many vocals as he could for the band to work with, but they still had to dig deeper than that to make a full album.
* TheQuietOne: John Deacon (almost literally - he was the only member who didn't sing).

** More notably, the entirety of ''A Day At The Races'' can be thought of as a "sequel" to ''A Night At The Opera''. They're both named after MarxBrothers films, the album art is almost exactly the same with a black background rather than white, and many of the songs parallel each other. "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Somebody to Love", "'39" and "Long Away", "The Prophet's Song" and "White Man", "You're My Best Friend" and "You and I", and very specifically, both albums open with EpicRiff-driven HardRock tunes ("Sweet Lady" and "Tie Your Mother Down").

* FaceOfTheBand: Freddie Mercury.

--> ''[[HoYay Oh, it's like a disease, son]]''

** Even their "worst" songs were catchy and not too bad. Is there even a genuinely bad song in their list at all? Of course not. Who do you think this is, [[TheJonasBrothers The Jonas]] [[TakeThat Brothers?]]

** So THAT'S why gay folks in films (Brokeback Mountain, Milk) have those (very unflattering I must say) moustaches. Thanks, TVTropes!

** "[[{{Higlander}} HEEERE WE ARE! BORN TO BE KINGS! WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE]]!"

** Aids didn't kill him, epic power just engulfed his body.

*SelfBackingVocalist: Their trademark was to massively overdub their vocals to create a choral effect.

* StuckInTheirShadow: While John Deacon is considered one of the best bassists in rock music, his personality was too reserved to make him as memorable as the more dynamic band members (like some [[TheWho other bassists]] [[LedZeppelin called John.]]

** What about "The Show Must Go On"? It was so awesome that MoulinRouge used it!

**More notably, the entirety of A Day At The Races can be thought of as a "sequel" to A Night At The Opera. They're both named after Marx Brothers films, the album art is almost exactly the same with a black background rather than white, and many of the songs parallel each other. Bohemian Rhapsody and Somebody to Love, '39 and Long Away, The Prophet's Song and White Man, You're My Best Friend and You and I, and very specifically Sweet Lady and Tie Your Mother Down.

**Even their "worst" songs were catchy and not too bad. Is there even a genuinely bad song in their list at all? Of course not, you moron.