| Origin | London, England |
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| Genre(s) | Rock
Various others |
| Years active | 1970–1991 |
| Label(s) | Parlophone, Hollywood |
| Website | queenonline.com |
Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury, and drummer Roger Taylor, with bassist John Deacon joining the following year. Queen rose to prominence during the 1970s and are one of Britain's most successful bands of the past three decades.
The band are noted for their musical diversity, multi-layered arrangements, vocal harmonies and incorporation of audience participation into their live performances. Their 1985 Live Aid performance was voted the best live rock performance of all time in an industry poll.
Greatest Hits is a 1981 Queen compilation. The record, released on November 2, 1981, is the UK's all-time best-selling album. Combined with Greatest Hits II, it became the definitive Queen compilation. While a domestic release with different tracks but the same cover art was available in the U.S. in 1981, the British release was available to United States customers only by import until the 1995 release of Greatest Hits I & II, which combined the two discs. The seventeen-track UK Greatest Hits disc was released in the U.S. on its own for the first time, with a few bonus tracks, in 2004 under the name Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You Edition.
http://rapidshare.com/files/94835216/1981_-_Qn_Greatest_Hits_I.rar
Greatest Hits II is a 1991 Queen compilation. It was #1 on the UK Albums Chart. The disc contains all of Queen's European hits from 1981 to 1991. Accumulated sales (Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen for the U.S. and Canada combined) are in excess of 16 million worldwide. It was released less than a month before the death of vocalist Freddie Mercury and the last Queen release of any kind while he was still alive, it was later made available in the United States in two box sets: Greatest Hits I & II and The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III.
http://rapidshare.com/files/94845960/1991-2_-_Qn_Greatest_Hits_II.rar
Greatest Hits III is a compilation of latter-day Queen ("Queen+") songs, the band members' solo hits and the band's collaborations with other artists. It was released on November 8, 1999.
http://rapidshare.com/files/94856888/1999_-_Qn_Greatest_Hits_III.rar
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