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Anyway, I don’t write very well in Italian and I often repeat myself because I'm Swiss (near Basel).

Jim Morrison, I find you very witty. Hello.

Jim Morrison, I find you very inspiring.
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"Little Wing," "Let It Be," "Comfortably Numb," "The Sound of Silence," "Nothing Else Matters," "Napule è," etc.? Perhaps the only one that could make it into a top ten is "Nothing Else Matters." Let's leave "Let It Be" out; it's an overrated song! There are billions of better songs.

I am 26 years old, and I am a huge music enthusiast because I have an English father who loves rock music. In the 70s, he sang in venues with his band and passed on all his passion for music to me. He had the fortune of seeing Freddie but unfortunately never got to know him before he became famous (they attended the same college in London for 2 years), and he would tell me that he was already a star back then, without a dime to his name, yet always traveling in taxis, dressed in the most unusual ornaments, and wearing star-shaped sunglasses. His charisma was so strong that no one ever mocked him; in fact, everyone admired this character. Obviously, at that time, Freddie was already singing in venues, and my father would always go to see him. As long as Freddie was alive, my father attended almost all Queen concerts. As a great music lover, my father didn't just go to Queen concerts; he also attended those of Led Zeppelin, Sparks, Bowie, etc. But he used to say, "I have experienced so many wonderful events, but no one could make you enjoy and feel emotions at their concerts quite like the Queen." Naturally, my father explained every little detail about Queen to me, and today I have an extensive collection. There it is: my passion explained.

Absolutely free, it’s true I had forgotten about that, I have to give you credit, but the Queen still remain among the first to have embarked on this type of music. When I’m wrong, I admit it.

Glam rock, that’s their true innovation in the music field, I’ve said it until I’m blue in the face. Anyway, it seems quite enough to me. As for the greatest innovators, they were the Beatles, just because they were the first. But in terms of the quality of their songs, they can be compared to the Pooh, nothing more.

Well, I know Zappa quite well and I like him a lot, but he didn’t do glam nor operatic songs. The scopitone was a musical jukebox with a screen to watch footage, but they weren’t music videos. As for the comparison with Mozart, I can only tell you that since I listen to a lot of music of any genre and I always inform myself about what I listen to, I think I have enough knowledge to make comparisons that may seem absurd to some people (but only because they don’t know one of the two figures well).

But Queen have been fundamental for everything I told you; however, it doesn't seem to me that what I said was validly contested.
1- Queen made the first music video. (I've included sources)
Response: I was told it was the Beatles first, then someone in the 40s had done something similar. (A somewhat vague and undocumented response)
2- Queen were the first to do glam in '69, and Bowie said so, someone who knows a thing or two about glam.
Response: I was told the first was Zappa (who didn't do glam) and then Marc Bolan (who did it after '70).
3- Queen were the first to mix opera with rock.
Response: I was told Zappa was already doing it (he never did).
All the responses seem a bit vague to me and the result of desperate and somewhat superficial searches.

"In nuce" was recorded in 1969 (that’s what matters, not the release year) and is a glam rock album entirely sung by Freddie. I have the album. Anyway, I understand that you don't like Queen, and that's absolutely legitimate, but that doesn't mean you can say they weren't fundamental to the history of music, not just rock.