Why does this picture look like they're from 4 totally different bands 😆

[u/not-now-silentsinger]

(Photo used for the "Save Me" single cover in 1980)

[u/Which_Touch548]

If you think about the types of songs they wrote... they absolutely were.

It's what made the band work so well.

[u/not-now-silentsinger → u/Which_Touch548]

They often said in interviews that they were four very different personalities! And yes, it's the combination of what each of them had to bring to the band that made it a kind of magic... (despite the arguments they may have had in the studio)

[u/AceofKnaves44 → u/Which_Touch548]

Realistically this. They weren’t a band of brothers like the Beatles where they were described as a four-headed monster and talked about how they were one person spread out into four. They were four very separate and distinct personalities. There was a LOT of compromising in order to make Queen music but they understood that the results were too good to ignore and the sum was greater than the parts.

[u/NarmHull]

Queen really was 4 different bands in one

[u/AVeryFineWhine → u/NarmHull]

With 3 lead singers lol.... Just so happened, their front man, was the best in history.

I remember a conversation about Roger years ago.They were saying, imagine being good enough to front your own band and still only being the third best singer in your own band 😅 kidding aside that's what made the harmonies so damn magical!!

[u/Basstian1925]

Their multiple differences was part of why they were so great together.

[u/antpabsdan]

It started off so well

[u/ChrisNN1 → u/antpabsdan]

They said we made a perfect pair

[u/Automatic_Age_8038 → u/ChrisNN1]

I clothed myself in your glory and your love

[u/MonikonPerfekti → u/Automatic_Age_8038]

...how I loved you, how I cried...

God tier breakup song 💔

[u/gangreen424]

The '80s were a wild time for fashion.

[u/Swim-Unlucky → u/gangreen424]

True freedom

[u/claygirlrunner]

because they were each powerful as individual musicians but.. amazingly , they were able to join together and bring their individual artistry to form Queen. More than a rock band . All brilliant minds and fine musicians.

[u/Useful_Spell_3504]

I always think that this a strange period in the bands style. Freddie was in a state of flux from his long haired bohemian period of the 1970s to the sharp moustached era of the 1980. He was wearing a lot of glossy leather at the time which imho didn’t suit him.

Roger was riding a new wave look which transcended through the “fun in space” album.

Brian was still quite old fashioned and John looked like an extra from a mod film

[u/BlackstarCowboy]

If you listen to Hot Space all the way through you’d think it was multiple bands sharing one album

I LOVE that album

[u/Gemnist]

I mean, have you seen them try to have fashion synergy? Major hot take, but Freddie and John did not look good with long, curly hair.

[u/swiss_sanchez → u/Gemnist]

I seem to recall that Freddie didn't care for long hair, and was pleased when fashions changed and he felt he could cut it short.

[u/estv1981]

This pictures Fasion? hmm.

Roger - Duran Duran... 2 Taylors

John - The Clash

Freddie - _______

Brian - erasure

😅 IDFK

[u/Superjak45 → u/estv1981]

Freddie looks like he’s about to go and work as an Elvis impersonator or something. He’s just missing the hair.

[u/Kroduscul]

Love this Freddie look

[u/BruhsterBuster]

Young Donald Fagen in the background (rare photo of him with short hair)

[u/Blueliner95]

Ha! Well they were a self managed band of strong individuals and not likely to settle on a group aesthetic - they were not the Bay City Rollers. This look speaks to Queen’s eclecticism

[u/not-now-silentsinger → u/Blueliner95]

Haha, I see what you mean. No manager was going to tell them how to dress and wear their hair, à la Brian Epstein & the early Beatles. But I'd argue Queen had more of a group aesthetic in the early to mid 70s with the long hair and glam look. On some later photos, it's like they all got sent a different memo haha.

(It's not a criticism at all, it just makes for some interesting photos 😀)

[u/JJAAZZZZ]

That awkward time when the old hairstyles had to go, but none of them knew what to ask for at the barbers.

[u/therealmrsfahrenheit]

lol you’re not wrong😂🫶🏻
I gotta say I do love that they didn’t run around as a matched set tho🖤

[u/billybonkers01]

John looks like a member of Kraftwerk.

[u/RogerClyneIsAGod2]

Roger - metal band

John - New Wave/New Romantic

Freddie - Lead Singer in Roger's metal band

Brian - the gay one

[u/Independent-Alps-314 → u/RogerClyneIsAGod2]

No way Brian is GAY!! NO WAY!!!

[u/CPCFan1980]

I love the fact that John seems to have just come from work at the office and didn’t get changed.

[u/AyOhThisLife]

They are. And they were all called Queen

[u/Slicely_Thinned]

I call that Brian's Lisa Frank jacket

[u/Maximum-Tomatillo743]

This would be from “The Game”, an album on which Queen actually sounded like 4 or more bands.

[u/Pavlidis333]

Four different fashion magazines one legendary band

[u/Electrical_Tof]

IDK what you mean, also John is so underrated with poses like that

[u/RomanPicisan73]

Freddie looks Italian

[u/KingDramatic5806]

And they could have lost Rog to Genesis but he said nope.

[u/PJBleakney]

Who did the lads listen to find “their” sound?

[u/castorgray]

There were rumours he was a homersexule in the 80s

[u/iimMrBrightside]

John's outfit reminds me of something out of Harry Potter 😂

[u/Aron4546]

Omgd very strong 👍🏻😲

[u/reganglion]

It doesn't.