Mercury Rising: The Queen Interview
Jonh Ingham, Sounds, January 1976
AND SO IT CAME to pass that the Santa Claus single this Yuletide season was a spaghetti-melodrama of Love and Death, by that most British named of groups, Queen. (Ignore that in the early days the name caused snickers due to its, uh, "homo" connotations. Times change.)
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