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“We came off stage and looked at each other in amazement, because all that singing from the audience was so extreme. And I said to Freddie, ‘Maybe we should be harnessing this kind of energy’”: How Queen created the mother of all rock anthems

Friday August 22, 2025. 03:10 PM , from Keyboard Magazine
“I was hoping it would catch on,' Brian May said
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