10 Bands That Mixed Different Music Genres

For every song they made, Queen always saw themselves as entertainers before anything else. Although you can technically put them into the glam rock category, Freddie Mercury had his eye on grabbing the audience's attention, and that meant something more than just traditional rock and roll. Their approach had to be musical, and the different influences of the band gave us some of the most eclectic hits that the rock charts would ever see.

When you go back and listen to the early albums that Queen put out, there's definitely a hard rock and metal streak in there, from the prog sounds of Great King Rat to straight up metal riffs on Stone Cold Crazy and Ogre Battle. Though the heaviness was courtesy of Brian May, this was just setting the stage for what Freddie had in store, from ballads like Killer Queen to full on showtunes on Bring Back Leroy Brown or Seaside Rendezvous. Once MTV kicked in though, their love of theatrics made them almost too perfect a fit, going from rockabilly on Crazy Little Thing Called Love to disco on Another One Bites the Dust.

Even if not every single experiment was a success (Hot Space, anyone?), Queen never cowered in the face of a challenge, with songs like Innuendo being one of their best after two decades of being a band. With Freddie still laying down vocals up until his dying days succumbing to AIDs, the only thing that seemed to stop Queen's ambition was their own mortality.