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Last week, Queen + Adam Lambert announced details of their American summer tour. "This is the closest that you'll ever get to see Queen as it was in our golden days," said guitarist Brian May. "But it's not a reproduction." The group pledged to center their show around Queen's large catalog of hits, though they did say they wanted to revive some deeper cuts like "Dragon Attack." In honor of the tour, we asked our readers to select their 10 favorite Queen songs. Click through to see the results.

Many giant bands of the 1970s had great difficulty adjusting to the MTV era. For Queen, the transition was seamless. Their 1984 single "I Want to Break Free" topped the charts all over the world, with the very notable exception of America. That might have something to do with the fact that the video featured the entire band in drag. They were parodying the British soap opera Coronation Street, but very few American rock fans had ever heard of the show. This was also the time of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Huey Lewis, leaving little room for Queen on the charts. Still, the John Deacon-penned song remains one of their biggest hits overseas. The song had a second life in 2012 when it was prominently featured in an Hyundai ad.

The classic lineup of Queen had been together for four years by the time "Killer Queen" hit the radio in 1974, but for most rock fans it served as an introduction to the band. They couldn't have picked a better song for the task. It's a perfect showcase for Freddie Mercury's eclectic lyrics and soaring vocals as well as Brian May's virtuosic guitar playing. It reached Number 12 on the American charts, and the group was just getting started.

Freddie Mercury knew his body was rapidly failing him when Queen began work on their 1991 LP Innuendo. He was determined to complete one final masterpiece, and Brian May wrote "The Show Must Go On" about his unbelievable drive. It ends the album on a note of defiance and hope, and Mercury has rarely delivered stronger vocals. They weren't able to perform live to support the disc and in videos from the time it's alarmingly clear just how frail the singer had become. He died nine months after the album came out.

David Bowie stopped by Switzerland's Mountain Studios during the recording of Queen's 1982 LP Hot Space to sing background on a "Cool Cat." During the session, the four members of Queen and Bowie started jamming on a new song built around a killer bass groove. The result was "Under Pressure," which came out in October 1981 and became a global sensation. It remained in Queen's set list through the end of their live career, and Bowie played it all through the 1990s and early 2000s. Sadly, they never played it together, even though they performed back-to-back sets at Live Aid in 1985.

Freddie Mercury could barely play the guitar, but in 1979 he managed to sit down with an acoustic instrument and come up with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in about 10 minutes. Written near the height of the disco and punk movements, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a throwback to 1950s rock, specifically Elvis Presley, who was one of Freddie's heroes. It was their first Number One single in America.

Being a Highlander isn't always easy. The immortal beings are able to love us mortals, but then they have to watch us grow old and die while they remain unchanged. Brian May tapped into this unusual source of agony when he wrote "Who Wants to Live Forever" for the soundtrack to the first Highlander movie. He sings the first verse, while Freddie takes over for the rests of the song. The group was joined by an orchestra for the recording.

Queen had a tough task in front of them when they went into the studio to begin work on their 1976 LP A Day at the Races. How in God's name do you follow up "Bohemian Rhapsody?" Freddie knew he couldn't match the grand madness of that song, but he still came up with a pretty incredible soul tune with "Somebody to Love." He wrote the song on the piano and then dubbed in vocals by Brian May and Roger Taylor, making the trio sound like a full choir. It was a huge hit that year, reaching Number 13 in America. George Michael delivered a stirring rendition of the tune at the 1992 Freddie Mercury tribute concert.

Long before Sir Mix-A-Lot declared that he liked "big butts and can not lie," Queen told the world that "fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round." The song was released as a single along in 1978 with "Bicycle Race," whose lyrics also refer to "fat bottomed girls." The 45 sleeve shows such a woman on a bicycle, and they promoted the songs by having sixty-five models ride bicycles naked around Wimbledon Stadium. Needless to stay, the stunt caused a firestorm of protest in the press, which probably did little but promote the song.

Queen's most enduring and beloved song remains one of their most mysterious. The six-minute classic was written by Freddie Mercury, breaking most rules of convention songwriting by omitting a chorus and shifting tones wildly through the course of the tune. The group spent weeks and a small fortune creating the masterpiece, layering on vocals until the tape couldn't physically fit any more. The story don't tell much of a cohesive story, though the narrator is clearly plagued by a horrible past and endless frustration. "It's one of those songs which has such a fantasy feel about it," Mercury said. "I think people should just listen to it, think about it, and then make up their own minds as to what it says to them." Realizing they had something special, the group made a video for the song, a full six years before MTV came on the airwaves. An entirely new generation of rock fans embraced the song when it appeared in Wayne's World.

And so, yes. When I hear about the decline of the American church, I think about Sunday afternoons. I think about love songs. I think about boys getting nothing to face a hard world with. No understanding of what it is to surrender yourself to whatever you love enough to name a God.

There is no greater love than that which is shared between two people immersed in a common struggle. And this is how the drug dealing anthem comes home to roost. How it takes on a different body entirely when a singer bows in appreciation for the hands that do the hard work, the partnership that flourishes, in spite of those who wish ill upon it.

On Queen of Time, her first album without the Flatbellys, Lindsay Lou tracks her progress through recent turmoil and grief that led to songs of hope and realization. In this album of self-discovery, she addresses the competing tensions women face.

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Queen songs, much like their albums, are the sorts of things which should be celebrated as much as analysed. There's a great scene in the Bohemian Rhapsody movie where Freddie Mercury and the rest of the Queen gang come up with We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions. The idea, they say, is to write songs that songs that the audience can sing back at them; to make their audience part of the song. It's a genius, simple idea, but it clearly worked. It makes you wonder why more bands don't approach songwriting that way.

To this day, Queen have a bond with their audience that remains strong. For every naysayer who bemoans they work they do with Adam Lambert, there's another ten who queue up to defend the band: it's their legacy, and they can do whatever the hell they like. Most importantly, it's their songs.

Ahh yes, the songs. All 189 of them. From the Baroque-tinged hard rock that formed the bedrock of Queen's sound, to their explorations in funk, prog, opera and pretty well everything in between, when it came to their creativity nothing was off limits. That such an eclectic range of influences and passions were put through the Queen grinder and came out sounding like no other band is just one of the factors that have made them such an enduring and widely-loved proposition.

Having decamped to Switzerland to work on Jazz, this song's inspiration was found from the Tour de France 1978 passing through Montreux, the location of Queen's favoured Mountain Studios. The inspiration for the video, featuring dozens of naked women riding cycles around Wimbledon Stadium was equally clear, and predictably resulted in its being banned in a number of countries. Which, of course, is probably exactly what Queen wanted in the first place.

Inspired by a Richard Dadd painting of the same name, this Queen II album track is a good example of how Mercury's natural creativity could be boosted by a bit of deft studio know-how. "I did a lot of research on it and it inspired me to write a song about the painting, depicting what I thought I saw in it," he told Radio One in 1977. "It was just because I'd come through art college and I basically like the artist and I like the painting, so I thought I'd like to write a song about it."

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