Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind

Queen and Philosophy: Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind is a collection of cutting-edge philosophical essays on the rock group Queen, founded in 1970 and originally featuring lead vocalist Freddie Mercury. Queens reputation and fan following continue to grow in the twenty-first century. These insightful and provocative chapters include: uncover the origins of Queens unique style in prog rock, vulgarity, and lower versus higher Romanticism examine Queens view of love and friendship draw upon three timeless Queen songs, We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, and Dont Stop Me Now and Socratess behavior in the Apology, to understand the rocking nature of philosophy identify the connections between ancient matriarchal religion and Queens love for strong female imagery explore how Brian Mays astrophysics brings to bear the issues of absolute versus relative spacetime and how the philosophies of Newton, Mach, and Einstein contribute to Queens creative output analyze the structure of Queens sound to answer the inevitable question, How can four people make all that music? expose what Queens songs tell us about the contemporary theory of mental illness and therapy scrutinize Roger Taylors stark impressions of ordinary life and death, and their alignment to the cynical musings of Diogenes of Sinope and Senecas blunt observations on the shortness of life look at the movie Highlander through the music of Queen and reveal how both song and cinema convey the philosophy of bushido, the soul of the samurai