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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
With about 300 million album sales they’re one of the most successful bands in history, and remain enormously popular on streaming. The remains of the band still tour with Adam Lambert and pack out stadiums worldwide, and to be frank the audience are not there primarily for Lambert.
The biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody grossed over $1 billion, which is pretty unusual for a musical biopic. Evidently people are fascinated by the life stories and personalities beyond the music.
Although you don’t like Queen, plenty of people obviously do.
But Queen pretty much one of the biggest bands in the history of modern popular music, it's not hard to see it as a safe bet tucked into Friday night.
And I don’t care that there’s dross with the excellence. That’s true of every band. Apart from Pink Floyd as they never had a single good song.
ooo! Music is subjective! Whodathunkit?
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I thought this thread was going was going to be about the Led Zep doc they had on the other night too. Not that I got to see much of it as good lady wife hates Plant's voice and insisted I change the channel.
I'm also one of those who doesn't quite get Queen's apparent monstrous appeal. Every time I hear that their Greatest Hits is the best selling album in UK history I succumb to a momentary bafflement followed quickly after by relief that I never bought it myself.
Very few consistently reach the quality across their catalogue that their most ardent fans attribute to them.
Queen are probably exceptional in that very few people who claim Queen to be their favourite band own more than that box set with the three greatest hits albums in (back when owning things was a thing).
Not a big fan of Queen myself, but if others like them then fair enough. The Bohemian Rhapsody movie was an okay watch to be fair, largely because of Rami Malek doing an excellent job, but like most biopics, it bears about as much relation to the truth as the average speech by a politician.
*Cue legion of people chiming in to comment that they think Led Zep are shit*
By the metric of live performances per year and revenue generated, Rieu is a colossal success. Somebody out there likes him. A skeptical person might say that television stations need to have something to broadcast between the adverts.
Led Zeppelin: In The Light, shown in four parts on SKY Arts. Hence, no iPlayer style replay option for Freeview punters such as I.
Not to worry. The series will be repeated again fairly soon. Which was pretty much the point of this Discussion to begin with.