Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Queen's Memorable Moments - Hidden Gems" video.

  1. That's a shame. Unbelievable even, the only thing I thought to say first is maybe back then the Grammy's being an American production weren't as focused on international acts. But that's just a guess. Beyond that, that's kind of the problem with award shows. Certainly back then there was a lot of great music being made, and not everyone can be much more than just nominated. Not everyone can win. But yes, as pointed out, they were nominated a few times which makes more sense. In the movie world, even Martin Scorsese who started out making great films from basically the moment he really started in the 70s took until 2006 to win his first actual Academy Award. I think that in retrospect given how political these awards shows are that if they knew Freddie was going to be taken from us so suddenly and so surprisingly and to see the legacy they truly did have years later they may have given them a Grammy or two earlier when they could. But when he died, he literally only had just announced the day before he was sick, so it was literally one of those cases of "You don't know what you have till it's gone" with him. We took him for granted, the only thing that could really be made a parallel would be if Elton John had gotten sick for similar reasons and we lost him instead, while keeping Freddie and Queen much longer. By the way, look out for the new Elton John movie coming soon by the way! They advertised it during tonight's Oscars.
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  2.  @faithful2008  I mean they toured America even in their early days though, too. I think the #1 thing that hurt Queen the most is the same thing that hurt all the good acts back then, there was just a lot of really great music being made back then, stuff that's all considered classic now. And there can only be one winner. It does seem a crime in retrospect that Queen never won a single one but I am not shocked at all to learn they got nominated a few times.
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