10 Huge Artists Who Got Snubbed At The Grammys

10. Queen

There's a good chance that we will never see an act like Queen come into the limelight ever again. While there have been acts like the Struts who have definitely pulled a few notes from Freddie Mercury's playbook, this group of rock monarchs still have some of the greatest rock songs ever made for a damn good reason. It's just a shame that the Recording Academy didn't think so back in the day.

In their prime, Queen never even saw a Grammy in their active years, with most of the rock categories going to the more tasteful records from the likes of Steely Dan around the same time. Even Bohemian Rhapsody, which is universally considered one of the greatest rock songs of all time, never really saw its just due until a few years later, where everyone started to pick up on just how genius it is.

This may have just come down to the musical press not quite being ready for what Queen was at the time, thinking they may have been a bit too vaudeville for the traditional rock that was coming from the bluesier acts at the time. Granted, Freddie always seemed to take it in stride, never making anything for the press to latch onto and doing whatever the hell he wanted to regardless of whether there was a market for it. For a band that was all about being competent behind your instrument, there's almost something punk rock about that. In a world that aims to serve the critics, Freddie made music for himself and never apologized for it.