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Title: Queen - The Game
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1980, Rock, Pop Rock, London, England
Matrix #: 5E-513
Condition: VG+
Cultural Facts:
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Studio Lore: Recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich, it was the first Queen album to feature synthesizers, a real shift for a band that had publicly avoided them before.
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Media Narrative: Its success pushed Queen deeper into global mainstream culture, with “Another One Bites the Dust” helping them cross harder into U.S. pop and radio space.
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Personal Struggle: Freddie Mercury later lived with AIDS in private while tabloids circled relentlessly; the secrecy around his illness was partly self-protection in a brutal media climate.