WINNER - Ultimate Battle of the Bands

 A Champion is crowned!!!   And the WINNER is QUEEN in a landslide victory (10 of total 12 votes cast).  How fitting!!!  

For some of us, we had the good fortune to not only listen to Queen in the mid-late 70s as they reached their peak musically but to also witness their dazzling on-stage concert performance at their zenith (in my case, Toronto ice hockey stadium in 1978).

Their music has been categorized as glam rock, progressive, hard rock, pop rock but was consistently well-crafted music and songwriting.

Queen was larger than life with the perfect front man in Freddy Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara).  Blessed with a four-octave vocal range and flamboyant persona, each album and single release was an event to be eagerly anticipated.

  

And let’s not forget their six minute masterpiece “Bohemian Rhapsody” that still sounds unlike any other #1 chart-topping single ever recorded.  It happened to be one of my first ever 45 rpm records I purchased in my youth!

In fact in 2012, the song topped the list on a UK poll as the “Nation’s Favourite Number One” spanning 60 years of music!!!

Let me leave you with a snippet of lyrics from that memorable song:

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo,
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.

Congratulations to a well deserving musical CHAMPION of the World!