Queen to Stream 'Live at Wembley' on YouTube

Queen's Freddie Mercury

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Queen will celebrate what would have the 65th birthday of their late frontman Freddie Mercury on Monday by streaming their concert film Live at Wembley Stadium for free on YouTube. The concert movie, which documents the highlights of two concerts at the massive venue in London in 1986, features many of the band's best-known hits, such as "Bohemian Rhapsody," "We Will Rock You," "We Are the Champions," "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love." The concerts filmed for the movie were among the last the quartet ever played together.

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The concert will only be streamed for two days on Queen's official YouTube channel, starting at 12:00 a.m. ET. This occasion marks the first time the band has ever allowed the full movie to be streamed online.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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