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A trip through the archives that serves up an hour of killer Queen material, featuring some of the band's greatest musical moments ever delivered to our screens.

A trip through the archives that serves up an hour of killer Queen material, featuring some of the band's greatest musical moments ever delivered to our screens.

The legendary band’s huge international status and punishing touring schedules meant that over the years they made surprisingly few appearances on programmes like Top of the Pops, and tragically for their fans, several of those performances were either lost or never recorded.

This collection brings together the very best of what’s survived from one of the most enduring and best-loved acts in British rock, featuring perhaps the most charismatic and best-loved frontman of all time. Amongst the gems are moments from the band’s celebrated 1975 concert at London’s Hammersmith Odeon and highlights from their trips to the prestigious Montreux Pop Festival in the 1980s – an event that would attract the cream of the world’s music acts every year.

Songs featured take us from the band’s first ever UK hit, Seven Seas of Rhye, through to These Are The Days of Our Lives, Queen’s last hit before Freddie’s untimely death, as well as all the biggest hits, including the iconic Bohemian Rhapsody, frequently voted the nation’s favourite ever song.

Radio 2 is celebrating 50 years of Queen. Vote for your favourite Queen track at bbc.co.uk/queenvote.

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59 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 Aug 2024 02:30
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:00

    Queen

    One Vision

  • 00:00

    Queen

    Killer Queen

  • 00:00

    Queen

    Killer Queen

  • 00:03

    Queen

    I Want To Break Free

  • 00:03

    Queen

    I Want To Break Free

  • 00:08

    Queen

    Keep Yourself Alive

  • 00:12

    Queen

    Seven Seas Of Rhye

  • 00:14

    Queen

    Somebody To Love

  • 00:17

    Queen

    Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

  • 00:19

    Queen

    It's A Hard Life

  • 00:23

    Queen

    Another One Bites The Dust

  • 00:27

    Queen

    Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love)

  • 00:31

    Queen

    We Are The Champions

  • 00:31

    Queen

    We Are The Champions

  • 00:33

    Queen

    One Vision

  • 00:37

    Queen

    Radio Ga Ga

  • 00:43

    Queen

    A Kind Of Magic

  • 00:47

    Queen

    Bohemian Rhapsody

  • 00:54

    Queen

    These Are The Days Of Our Lives

Credits

Producer Shelley Talton
Series Producer Simon Goretzki

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