![]() ![]() It was, however, a Top 10 hit in England. “Don’t Stop Me Now,” the lead single from the LP, featuring the group’s trademark multi-tracked harmonies, didn’t quite live up to expectations, peaking at Number 86 in America. ![]() Queen were on a pretty amazing run by the time their 1978 album Jazz came around they’d gone from tiny clubs to stadiums, and every single song they released seemed to fly up the charts. –JRĪlthough it seems most of Queen’s fans were clueless as to how openly gay and subversive frontman Freddie Mercury was – despite the unabashed swank of his stage presence – he also never really tried to hide it. Nearly 30 years later, his most-remembered track still makes us dance a lot – through a few tears. The outspoken AIDS advocate and fundraiser died from complications of the disease at age 41 in 1988. It’s his gospel roots that arguably make his self-penned disco classic a transcendent ode to joy. Somewhat reductively called the “Queen of Disco,” the virtuosic, openly gay singer approached gender (in his performative and private lives) as a fluid, non-binary concept in a pre–Judith Butler era. With all due respect to Prince, Sylvester may have had the most pristine, expressive falsetto in modern popular music. Image Credit: Anthony Barboza/Getty Images
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