Mercury Rising: We Will Rock You
Pete Paphides, Guardian, The, 11 May 2002
A new West End musical, We Will Rock You, plunders Queen's back catalogue for tunes. But, says Peter Paphides, it misses the chance to tell the story of one of rock's greatest ever performers.
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