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QUEEN是70年代初出现的一支英国重金属乐队。它与当时流行的大多数穿破牛仔裤、蓄长发、在台上吸烟的重金属乐队几位不同：他们涂着黑色的指甲油，穿着考究，显得十分高贵。他们的音乐也如他们的外表一样，与普通金属风格迥异，被称为贵族风格的纯盎格鲁金属。

QUEEN组建于1971年，乐队成员是主唱Freddie Mercury,吉他手Brain May,贝司手John Deacon,鼓手Rpyer Taylor，这个阵容一直保持了二十年未变。

“没有电子合成器”是QUEEN一大足以自夸的特色，在早期的专辑封面照片上，他们把这句话写在自己的衣袖上，虽然他们在电子合成器非常流行的头十年里没有充分利用它，但是这丝毫没有影响到他们在大西洋两岸的成功。他们把许多乐器和人声混合成一种独特的音响效果，尽地这种创造在八十年代有些过时，但他们在乐迷心中留有美好的印象，尤其是它在七十年代中、后期的那种创新效果。

QUEEN的首张专辑QUEEN I于1973年7月出版，被乐评界和乐迷们公认为是QUEEN最优秀的专辑之一。同时，Keep yourself alive作为单曲出版，这首作品被认为是QUEEN最优秀的单曲之一，充满了力量感的曲调打动了无数的乐迷，Great King Rat也是一首金属味道十足的作品。

这张专辑出版后，乐队开始了他们的巡回演出。乐评界注意到Freddie Mercury那尖锐的高音和Brain May那不同寻常的吉他演奏风格：他放松吉他弦以获得一种奇特的低而愉快的音质。

毫无疑问，QUEEN同BEATLES、LED ZEPPELIN一样，是支伟大的乐队。

很多初听摇滚的朋友大概不会认为QUEEN是一支金属乐队，那是掉入狭义金属乐概念的缘故。其实，金属的范畴还是比较广的，长发、皮夹克和金属饰物只是一些金属乐队的噱头，至于刺耳的咆哮那更不是金属的标志。金属经过三四十年的发展，门类还是很丰富的，并且摇滚乐的其他分支和流派，也或多或少的受到金属的影响。

Queen: Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano); Brian May (guitar, piano, background vocals); John Deacon (bass instrument); Roger Taylor (percussion). Recording information: Trident Studios, London, England. Queen's 1973 debut is definitely their most underrated album of that decade. Although most tracks aren't as well known as the band's later material, QUEEN proves to be an impressively consistent listen from beginning to end. It's extraordinary how many of the group's future musical trademarks were already detectable in their debut--Brian May's orchestrated guitar harmonies, multi-tracked vocal "choirs," imaginative songwriting and dynamics that could switch from head-banging heavy metal to reflective balladry in the blink of an eye. Although QUEEN was recorded off and on over a three-year period, the tracks still manage to be focused and unified. The rocker "Liar" contains a middle section that foreshadows Queen's future hits (1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody," 1976's "Somebody To Love," etc.) while "The Night Comes Down" and "Doing All Right" are two gorgeous ballads. But make no mistake: the majority of QUEEN is raucous hard rock--see "Great King Rat" and the grand Zeppelin groove of "Son & Daughter." Also included as a CD bonus track is the forgotten composition "Mad The Swine," and an instrumental version of their future hit "Seven Seas Of Rhye."