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The Brits' audacious mash-up of snarling hard rock and art pop defies convention

Queen defied convention in the most audacious ways imaginable. The Brits were one of the biggest acts of the '70s, thanks to their mash-up of metallic guitar crunch and art-pop flair topped off with Freddie Mercury's operatic shrieks, cries, and pleas. It's an aesthetic that was crowned in 1975 by the ingeniously constructed micro-symphony “Bohemian Rhapsody.” With a voracious appetite for new sounds, Queen would go on to ingest nearly every pop trend under the sun: Strutting disco beats, robotic synth-pop, and retro-rockabilly all found their way into their fabulously indelible style.

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