Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind

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Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queen’s reputation and fan following continue to grow in the twenty-first century. These insightful and provocative chapters include: ● uncover the origins of Queen’s unique style in prog rock, vulgarity, and lower versus higher Romanticism ● examine Queen’s view of love and friendship ● draw upon three timeless Queen songs, “We Will Rock You;” “We Are the Champions;” and “Don’t Stop Me Now” and Socrates’s behavior in the Apology , to understand the “rocking” nature of philosophy ● identify the connections between ancient matriarchal religion and Queen’s love for strong female imagery ● explore how Brian May’s astrophysics brings to bear the issues of absolute versus relative spacetime and how the philosophies of Newton, Mach, and Einstein contribute to Queen’s creative output ● analyze the structure of Queen’s sound to answer the inevitable question, How can four people make all that music? ● expose what Queen’s songs tell us about the contemporary theory of mental illness and therapy ● scrutinize Roger Taylor’s stark impressions of ordinary life and death, and their alignment to the cynical musings of Diogenes of Sinope and Seneca’s blunt observations on the shortness of life ● look at the movie Highlander through the music of Queen and reveal how both song and cinema convey the philosophy of bushido , the soul of the samurai