Sat Eye Candy: Queen

RIFF GENERATING GENIUS TURNS 62 TOMORROW Queen is one of those rock bands so rippled into what we consider that genre at this point that it seems too small a thing to call them "influential." From strict radio fare to the more outre melange of Howlin Rain, of Montreal and My Morning Jacket, there's Queen smiling out at us, all art spangled and power chord sweet. They are hard rock and tearful weepers, brainy concept makers and silly song slingers - an incongruous, unapologetically massive swi...

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