WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!
Disney and ABC to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of QUEEN
With All-New The Queen Family SingAlong
Premiering THursday, November 4th at 8PM ET
With Performances by QUEEN Lead Singer Adam Lambert, Fallout Boy,
ONeRepublic, Pentatonix, Jimmy Allen, The Muppets
Derek Hough and Alexander Jean among others
In the summer of 1971, four Brits, the late Freddie Mercury on the mic, Brian May on guitar, Roger Taylor on drums and the lately-disrepsected John "Deacy" Deacon recruited together at Mountain Studios to record their first song "Keep Yourselves Alive" on their self-titled debut album. They formed their band under the name QUEEN with a logo full of Chinese zodiacs...and a music legacy was born.
Since then, the dust biting, bicycle racing, pressure decreasing, opera rhapsodying rock and roll idol of West London has grown to become a music icon which has sold over 300,000,000 albums, multiple music videos, a feature length film named after Bohemian Rhapsody, the song that first released on their 4th album A Night at the Operas in late 1975 which spent 9 weeks at the top of the UK Singles Charts and becoming a Christmas number #1 smash hit. But aside from BoheRhap, it wasn't until 1985's LIVE AID Africa famine relief charity concert that put the band firmily onto the worldwide stage.
However, in 1991 the band started to fall apart as Freddie himself suffering from HIV AIDS in April 1987 became really lazy and NEVER told us about his illness until the day before he died November 23rd 1991. Following Mercury's death on November 24th of that year, the band reassembled themselves and recruited their fellow rock and roll artists including the late David Bowie who collaborated with them on "Under Pressure" on their Hot Spaces 1982 album which inspired the stupid Vanilla Ice ripoff that nobody asked for and assembled The Freddie Mercury Funeral Concert on April 20, 1992 to give Mercury a emotional sendoff to heaven. The band were also remade famous in America around this time with their Bohe Rap track once again topping the charts following its inclusion on the 1992 hit live-action movie Wayne's World. The money earned from the concert was poured in to create The Mercury Phoenix Trust foundation.
Now in its 50th year with the loss of Mercury, the '97 retirement of Deacon and new members vocalists Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert, pianist Spike Edney, bassist Neil Fairclough and drummers Rufus Tiger Taylor and Tyler Warren, the band still shows no signs of Stopping Themselves Now.
To celebrate the 50th golden anniversary of one of if not the greatest rock and roll ballads of our generation, Disney and ABC are putting together a new entry of their hit Family SingAlong series started last year dedicated to the life and music of the legendary rock and roll music name of the early '70s-mid '90s. The special will include renditions of the band's hits by artists including OneRepublic, Fallout Boys and Pentatonix among others.
This isn't the first time the band has collaborated with Disney. Last January 2020, the band was morphed into plush toy figures for the hit Disney and LINE Japanese mobile game Disney Tsum Tsum first released in July 2014.
It is currently unknown if The Queen Family SingAlong will have the surviving original members of the band Brian & Roger will get involved despite the band's lead singer of 2012 Adam Lambert taking part. It's also unknown if archive concert footage of Mercury will also be used since starting around 2003, the band has had a tradition of reuising Mercury's concert clips for the tracks "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Loves of My Life" and "The Words of Love" reminding both their new and long-time fans how much the late Zimbabwe vocalist and pianist of the hit British rock and roll band meant so very special to them giving them some emotional nostalgia.
This holiday season, Disney Will Rock You.
Disney presents The QUEEN Family SingAlong
Thursday November 4th 8:00PM-9:00PM ET
on ABC and Disney Channel
