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Halloween Special: Top 10 Musicians To Dress As For Halloween

Friday, October 28, 2011 10:33AM - By

Halloween Special: Top 10 Musicians To Dress As For Halloween

It’s that time of year again, when you get to spend the weekend dressed up as your favorite pop culture figure, or gals can dress up as a sexy cat, a sexy nurse, a sexy tomato, a sexy pocket calculator, or whatever else you can wear a short skirt and fishnets with.  We thought we’d take a moment here at Beatcrave to offer up a few last minute suggestions for those of you still hunting for that perfect Halloween costume—just dress up as your favorite musician!  It’s a lot easier than you think.  Happy Halloween, gang.

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Lady Gaga To Join Queen?

Thursday, October 6, 2011 11:24AM - By

Lady Gaga To Join Queen?

Well… this is interesting.  You know how Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury has been dead for about 20 years now, and Bad Company’s Paul Rogers has been filling in lately?  Well, it seems that Queen guitarist Brian May has come up to a solution to the Band’s “singer problem” as he calls it—have Lady Gaga front the band.

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Freddie Mercury Honored With Google Doodle

Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:51AM - By

Freddie Mercury Honored With Google Doodle Freddie Mercury Honored With Google DoodleTo honor rock n’ roll legend Freddie Mercury – on what would have been the Queen singer’s 65th birthday – Google celebrates the music icon with a new Google Doodle and birthday tribute video.

Google published the Freddie Mercury doodle worldwide on its homepage Monday, but not in the US, which is celebrating Mercury’s birthday today (9-6) because of a conflict with Labor Day.

The minute-plus video is set to Queen’s 1978 Queen hit song “Don’t Stop Me Now,” which Mercury wrote. Watch the video below!

Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Freddie Mercury

Friday, September 17, 2010 7:46AM - By

Sascha Baron Cohen To Play Freddie Mercury Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Freddie Mercury

Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian best known for his over-the-top characters Borat and Bruno, is set to play the rock n’ roll icon that is Freddie Mercury in a film about the band Queen.

Queen guitarist Brian May confirmed the news in a BBC interview on Friday. May and drummer Roger Taylor are overseeing the music for the film, which will focus on the years leading up to Queen’s legendary, 21-minute appearance at the Live Aid concert in 1985.

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POLL: Who Do You Think Has The Greatest Voice In Rock?

Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00PM - By

greatestrockvoice POLL: Who Do You Think Has The Greatest Voice In Rock?

Music fans have given NME their votes for the greatest voice in rock. Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant came out on top with Freddie Mercury of Queen and Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company following closely behind. It’s a pretty big honor and a very broad one at that.

Do you agree with this outcome? Let us know what you think!

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