The Beatles and Elvis Presley may be the best-selling musicians of all time, but they've just been topped by Freddie Mercury's band. It turns out that the Great British public dream of seeing Queen live more than any other act around the world.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales. Second is Garth Brooks with over 157 million units sales, followed by Elvis Presley with 139 million units.
Freddie Mercury by a mile. There are plenty of great Elvis impersonators but very few Freddie's as the songs require a much wider vocal range.
During her time on the throne, The Queen met countless pop and rock stars from throughout the ages. She even awarded The Beatles MBE medals. However, she never met the King of Rock and Roll himself: Elvis Presley. But she once came very close.
1) Elvis Presley (1935- 1977): Elvis Presley sold more albums than any other individual music artist in history, and the second most overall (the Beatles sold more). As well as being a musician, Elvis was also an actor appearing in movies like 'Jailhouse Rock', 'Blue Hawaii' and 'Love Me Tender'.
Freddie Mercury was the greatest singer of all time. That's what the study called “Freddie Mercury – acoustic analysis of the fundamental frequency of speech, vibrato and sub-harmonics”. It was made by Austrian, Czech and Swedish researchers.
“Freddie was very fond of Elvis.” Mercury said he even styled his vocals on the song to sound like The King Of Rock'n'Roll. “My voice does sound a bit like Elvis Presley's on 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love',” explained the singer.
Ryan Pelton is famous for his unbelievable likeness to Elvis.
The song was Queen's first No. 1 single in the United States. Queen frontman Freddy Mercury wrote the song as a tribute to Elvis Presley, and although Mercury typically composed music on the piano, he wrote "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on guitar — and he did it in about five to 10 minutes.
Elvis' perfect pitch was just one of the many factors that contributed to his success. The singing range of Elvis Presley was quite extensive, ranging from three octaves to a full seven. He was able to identify pitches accurately, which helped him to create his own unique style of music.
The world is full of Elvis Presley impersonators, but only one, Jimmy 'Orion' Ellis, sounded so much like him that people were convinced he actually was Elvis.
Known by the real name of “Céline Marie Claudette Dion”.
Elvis Presley, recognised as the best-selling solo music artist of all time by Guinness World Records, sold over 400.
He says Elvis's favorite groups were the Harmonizing Four and Golden Gate Quartet and his favorite gospel singers included Jimmy Jones, Jake Hess (who sang with the Statesmen and later formed the Imperials) and Mahalia Jackson.
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Meanwhile, Marilyn was nine years older than Elvis and preferred older men, like her husband Arthur Miller and ex-husband Joe DiMaggio. Unfortunately, this pop culture fantasy of Elvis and Marilyn becoming romantically involved never had a chance in reality.
The co-best men were Marty Lacker and Joe Esposito, two members of the Memphis Mafia, Elvis's ever-present entourage, and the maid of honor was Priscilla's sister Michelle Beaulieu. Elvis reportedly requested that the word “obey” be removed from their otherwise traditional marriage vows.
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According to his research, the key lies in Mercury's vibrato, which differs slightly from those of other classically trained singers. "Usually, you can sing a straight tone, but opera singers try to modulate the fundamental frequencies," he says. "So they make the tone, if you like, a bit more vibrant.
Definitely, Michael Jackson is way more famous than Freddie (at least it is in my country) but Freddie have a great voice and Queen performance at Live Aid 1985 is legendary.