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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - MAY 27: (L-R) Brian May, Queen Silvia of Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Swede, and Roger Taylor pose for a picture during the Polar Music Prize 2025 at Grand Hôtel on May 27, 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by Michael Campanella/Get

Queen legends honoured with Polar Music Prize in Sweden

Queen drummer Roger Taylor has said he and guitarist Brian May felt "so proud" as they picked up the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm.

Music • 27 May

Handwritten Freddie Mercury lyrics up for auction

Handwritten lyrics from a notebook owned by Queen frontman Freddie Mercury are expected to fetch between £100,000 and £150,000 at auction.

Music • 31 Oct 24

Baba. "A little bit pop, a little bit soul and always honest." Photo credit: Hazel Coonagh

Behind the music - Baba

Baba aka Siobhán Lynch has released her new single, Sad Party. We asked her the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 22 Oct 24

Behind the music - Ardú

Irish a cappella group Ardú celebrate their 10-year anniversary concert on 27 July at the Button Factory in Dublin and have released new single, One Good Day. We asked them the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 22 Jul 24

Behind the Music - Luna Motif

Luna Motif are a four-piece from Dublin who have released a new single entitled Firestorm. We asked them the BIG questions . . .

Music • 22 Dec 23

Bohemian Rhapsody piano up for auction

From fanciful costumes and working drafts of Bohemian Rhapsody to ashtrays and art, hundreds of items Freddie Mercury go on show in Britain today before being sold next month.

Music • 04 Aug 23

Queen in London in 1976 to receive a British Phonographic Institute Platinum, Gold, and Silver award for record sales. Queen have been recognised with a Brit Billion Award for achieving the milestone of being streamed more than one billion

Queen receive Brit Billion Award for streaming record

Queen have been recognised with a Brit Billion Award for achieving the milestone of being streamed more than one billion times in the UK.

Music • 19 Jul 23

Damon Albarn (R) and Graham Coxon of Blur perform at Wembley Stadium on Saturday in London, England. (Photos by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

Blur score big with triumphant Wembley performance

Blur frontman Damon Albarn said the band had been waiting all their lives to play Wembley at the first of two gigs at the stadium on Saturday night.

Music • 10 Jul 23

Celebrity impersonators banned from Facebook protest outside the offices of parent company Meta in King's Cross, London, as part of their "Stop Banning Us" appeal. Picture: PA

Celebrity impersonators protest outside Meta offices

Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift tribute acts were among those protesting outside the London offices of Facebook parent company Meta following an "unfair" ban from the site which they say is damaging their careers and livelihoods.

Music • 27 Jun 23

John Deacon, Freddie Mercury (Frederick Bulsara, 1946 - 1991), Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen pictured together in 1976.

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was almost Mongolian Rhapsody

One of the world's best-known songs, Queen's six-minute hit Bohemian Rhapsody was released in 1975 breaking radio records.

Music • 02 Jun 23

Freddie Mercury - The collection includes a vast array of costumes, paintings and objects from his everyday and onstage life

Freddie Mercury treasures on show and under the hammer

A month-long exhibition and auction showcasing more than 1,500 items from the private collection of the late Freddie Mercury is due to take place this summer.

Music • 26 Apr 23

Queen remember Mercury on anniversary of his death

Queen guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and Culture Club have paid tribute to Freddie Mercury on the 31st anniversary of the singer's death.

Music • 24 Nov 22

Mick Jagger during a concert at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenberg, Sweden in 1982

Slane Castle pics for new online music photo exhibition

Unseen photos of Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury are among those in a new online exhibition by music photographer Denis O'Regan to celebrate his 69th birthday.

Music • 24 Oct 22

Queen release lost song featuring Freddie Mercury

Queen have released a lost song featuring their late band member Freddie Mercury for the first time in more than eight years.

Music • 13 Oct 22

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Tuesday

There's the self-explanatory Days That Shook the BBC with David Dimbleby, the final heat of Celebrity MasterChef, the story of a basketball referee who gets greedy in Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul, and Freddie Mercury: The Final Act . . .

Television • 30 Aug 22

Freddie Mercury - Song is from the sessions for Queen's 1989 album, The Miracle

'Lost' Queen song featuring Freddie Mercury on the way

Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor have revealed that a 'lost' song, featuring the band's late singer Freddie Mercury, will be released in September.

Music • 06 Jun 22

Annie Mac is in The Late Late Show house tonight

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Friday

There's a new drama called The Rising, another star-studded Late Late Show, a Freddie Mercury tribute night, a new documentary about Magic Johnson, and the return of reality show Selling Sunset . . .

Television • 22 Apr 22

A boy walks past a statue of British rock group Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury after it was unveiled by organisers outside a restaurant on the northern coast of Jeju. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Freddie Mercury to live forever in South Korea statue

A die-hard Queen fan unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Freddie Mercury on Thursday on South Korea's resort island of Jeju, after an eight-year quest to honour his late hero.

Music • 21 Apr 22

Brian May: "It was very moving because it's a great story."

Queen's Brian May to make his acting debut

Queen guitarist Brian May is set to make his acting debut in an "anti-bullying" episode of CBBC show Andy And The Band.

Music • 20 Jan 22

Behind the music - Gyða Valtýsdóttir

Icelandic dream pop artist Gyða Valtýsdóttir has released her new album, Ox. We asked her the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 13 Dec 21

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Saturday

There's a Freddie Mercury and Queen night on the Beeb, more from Last Singer Standing and Angela Scanlon's Ask Me Anything, Battle of the Christmas Lights and the final part of The Beatles: Get Back . . .

Television • 27 Nov 21

Mercury's HIV battle a 'cultural touchstone moment'

Freddie Mercury going public with his HIV diagnosis before he died was a "cultural touchstone moment", a charity boss has said on the 30th anniversary of the singer's death.

Freddie Mercury • 24 Nov 21

Here are all of tonight's Late Late Show guests

Vicky Phelan and Christy Moore will be among Ryan Tubridy's guests on tonight's Late Late Show on RTÉ One.

Television • 19 Nov 21

Freddie Mercury on Stage at Slane Castle in 1986

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act to air on BBC

A new 90-minute documentary about Queen front man Freddie Mercury's final days will air on BBC Two this November and will include new interviews with his former band mates.

Television • 28 Oct 21

Freddie with Brian May: "It now seems like Freddie is with us."

Brian May: "I think about Freddie Mercury every day"

Queen guitarist Brian May has said that he still hasn't fully recovered from Freddie Mercury's death thirty years ago and that he thinks about his late friend and bandmate every day.

Music • 05 Aug 21