Fifty years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor reveal the vision, precision and daring behind Queen ’s A Night At The Opera , the album that rewrote rock’s rules.

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IT’s DECEMBER 1984, AND Prince Rogers Nelson should ...

THEY met as four year olds at a nursery school in Lanarkshire. Now as they prepare to enter the decade of their retirement, they’re recording their first album together. Best pals Stevie Rooney and St