Freddie Mercury would have turned 70 today

[True Dough]

Which Queen tune is your #1?

I gotta go with...

[megahertz]

1. The Prophet's Song, from A Night at the Opera (1975)

Massive.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Don't forget the theme better than the movie...

[Aristus]

3. " '39"

I call it the saddest song ever written about Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

[sir pball]

4. I'm going with him and Bowie..

But with one performer alive

[smirkymonkey]

11. That would be mine!

[earthshine]

5. These two are long-standing favorites of mine ...

and both appropriate for the topic of Freddie's premature demise.

I saw them in 1980 for the Game Tour. Simply fabulous.

[Orrex]

9. Terrific picks, both of them. (nt)

[Skittles]

6. It's Late

[Ron Obvious]

7. Probably Bohemian Rhapsody

But that's a conventional choice which someone will probably post soon anyway.

A little bit more obscure, a song I first encountered in the movie Highlander, in which it was particularly poignant.

[elleng]

8. Freddie Mercury Now Races Around the Sun.

An asteroid soaring between Mars and Jupiter has been named for the singer, who died in 1991.

The honor was announced on Sunday in a YouTube video by Brian May, the former Queen guitarist who became an astrophysicist after the band broke up. It coincided with a posthumous birthday celebration for Mr. Mercury in Montreux, Switzerland. He would have been 70.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/arts/music/freddie-mercury-now-races-around-the-sun.html?

[Initech]

10. If only Queen was still around!