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| | Rolling Stone : Queen: Biography |
 | | Mercury began to suffer from AIDS during this period, and everything from A Kind of Magic on was driven by an unspecified philosophy promoting all races, creeds, etc. ("One Vision," "The Miracle"). |
 | | Greatest Hits III is a junkyard of rarities, remixes, and solo tracks, valuable mostly for Mercury's ingenious cover of "The Great Pretender." Greatest Hits I, II, and III is a rather expensive doorstop, and Rocks, a decent collection of '70s classics, gets docked half a star for sloppy editing. |
 | | The BBC set, eight tracks recorded in two sessions in 1973, is an intriguing glimpse of the band just before the release of its first album; clearly excited yet delicately precise about every move, Queen appears almost fully formed as rock's most dramatic perfectionists. |
| www.rollingstone.com /artists/queen/biography (560 words) |
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