Looking for songs,books,shows,movies or anything else that mentions the band Queen or its members.
The movie Wayne’s World brought “Bohemian Rhapsody” back to popularity, I believe.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman features the Best of Queen album.
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s “Good Omens” mentions the group more than once.
“all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into ‘Best of Queen’ albums.”
“he was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were”
the above whilst a character is listening to one of the aforementioned tapes
On edit - Damn you Maus Magill!!
There’s the wonderful movie Flash Gordon that uses music by Queen very effectively.
Sandman (Gaiman again). I forget the issue, but the exchange went something like this:
Man 1: Freddy Mercury died.
Man 2: Another one bites the dust.
Man 1: Whan God gave you teeth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.
A story in the British Forbidden Planet SF anthology–the one about chickens stranded on a highway median and experiencing accelerated evolutionary leaps in intellect and technology–also featured a discarded “Best of Queen” cassette. Pratchett may have been the author. This was around 1988.
I thought this thread was about that great Helen Mirren movie. :smack:
[Homer Simpson]
When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beers
I drank some very good beers I purchased with a fake ID
My name was “Brian McGee”
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen.
[/Homer Simpson]
My Penis
A short story from National Lampoon, companion work to My Vagina, about a girl who wakes up one day with a penis. I believe she describes it’s appearence as ‘king of ugly but in a cool way, like that guy who sings for Queen’.
I had a post earlier that was eaten like eight times.
Short version: Highlander (film and TV) theme/score, Princes of the Universe and a bunch of songs that eventually became A Kind of Magic.
Brian May’s terrible (Everything I do) is Driven by You became “Everything We Do is Driven By You” for a crappy series of UK Ford ads in the early 90s.
Lots of Queen songs appeared ad nauseam in the UK version of American Gladiators (which was just called “Gladiators”.)
How about the (IIRC) Queen song that payed in the bar fight scene in Shaun of the Dead ?
Brian
“Don’t Stop Me Now.” Great use of one of my favorite Queen songs.
Along with “You’re My Best Friend” at the end of the movie.
The first time I watched the movie, I had to pause the movie because I was laughing so hard during the barroom scene.