There’s a pivotal scene in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody where a music industry executive is meeting the band Queen for the first time. This was still early in the Queen timeline; they’d not yet signed a record deal. The music executive looks at Freddie Mercury (Queen’s lead singer) and says (and I’m paraphrasing), “So, tell me—what makes Queen any different from all the other bands I meet?” Mercury’s answer was worth the price of admission: I’ll tell you what it is, Mr. Reid. We’re four misfits who don’t belong together and we’re playing for other misfits. They’re the outcasts at the back of
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