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"We Will Rock You" and "We are the Champions" will be a part of human culture (actually Queen as a whole seems to have a lot of staying power, brilliant band way ahead of their time in so many ways). "Freebird", "Do You Feel Like I do". Bands as a whole will be remembered because they made so many "permanent" songs.

Good point. Jethro Tull's 'Too Old to Rock'n Roll, Too Young to Die! was one of the songs that the CIA used to draw Manuel Noriega out of hiding..

Queen is a very important band, a band with quite a unique and unparalleled style of their own that's among the most significant styles of the Seventies. In fact, to a certain extent Queen embody the Seventies like no other band does: not ABBA with their poppy limitations, not AC/DC or Kiss, certainly not Led Zeppelin who had too much of a Sixties' aura around them to begin with. Queen were the epitome of glam: they took that POMP element in rock as far as it would go, blowing their bubble to enormous dimensions and taking enough care so as not to burst it - rather than bursting, it just kinda fizzled out throughout the Eighties. Careful, crafty, talented and slick, what's not to like about them?

Actually I think the thing Queen embodies more than anything (they touched on glam but not as much as Sly and the Family Stone or T-Rex) was that quintesential 70s concept: arena rock. Queen is music that should be listened to with 70,000 people played from a stage the size of a city block with a light show that just bumped Westinghouse stock 10 points. From the opening notes of "Keep Yourself Alive" Queen was destined or the football stadiums, I'd loved to have seen them in the early days when they were clubbing I bet the filled the club with overwrought sound. I remember at Live Aid where most bands seemed to intimidated by the size of the crowd Queen walked on stage like it was their birthright to play in TWO stadiums at the same time, like it was bound to happen to them eventually because, after all, they're Queen. Really learned a lot about the band when Freddie died and everybody started scrambling to say Queen played in their genre.