Jared Kemling, a philosophy instructor at Rend Lake College, is editor of The Cultural Power of Personal Objects (2021).Randall E. Auxier, professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is author of numerous works including As Deep as It Gets: Movies and Metaphysics (2022) and Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock (2017).

• IntroductionPart I: My Fairy Kings1. Side White: Worshiping the White Queen (As it Began)Jared Kemling2. Side Black: Master Stroke of a Fairy FellerJared Kemling3. Queen, Prog, and Vulgar RomanticismJan Olof BengtssonPart II: A Night at the Concert4. Be Free with Your Tempo: Freedom, Individuality, and Nonconformity in InnuendoDouglas Rasmussen5. Let Me Entertain You: Performance as a Tour de Force (Of Course)Julie Kuhlken6. Freddie’s Left Hand: Queen and the Order of MusicRandall E. AuxierPart III: The Show Must Go On7. Is Adam Lambert a Killer of Queen, or Somebody to Love?Megan Volpert8. Instrumental Instrumentalism: Is Red Special a Member of Queen?Steven GimbelPart IV: Made in the Heavens9. Hot SpacetimeKristina Šekrst10. Tie the Cosmos Down: Brian May’s Astrophysics and MusicRandall E. AuxierPart V: I’m Going Slightly Mad11. Stone Cold Crazy: Queen, Mental Disorder, and SufferingSnita Ahir-Knight12. Hitting Rock BottomRobert S. VuckovichPart VI: Sheer Head Attack13. Hammer to Fall in the Shadow of DeathRobert DeVall14. Don’t Lose Your Head: The Interconnectedness of Queen and HighlanderKevin Taylor15. We Want to Love Forever, Forever is Ours TodayJohn ShookPart VII: Some Body to Love16. Freddie and Mary: A Single Soul Dwelling in Two BodiesAndrew Kaplan17. Good Old-Fashioned Lover BoyDarci DollPart VIII: Supersonic Men18. Queen and My Uncle’s Delicacy of Taste and PassionChristopher M. Innes19. He Will Rock You: Socrates was the Most Rock and Roll of MenMichael F. PattonReferences (I Want it All)Bohemian BiographiesIndex (Now I’m Here)

Jared Kemling, a philosophy instructor at Rend Lake College, is editor of The Cultural Power of Personal Objects (2021).Randall E. Auxier, professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is author of numerous works including As Deep as It Gets: Movies and Metaphysics (2022) and Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock (2017).

• IntroductionPart I: My Fairy Kings1. Side White: Worshiping the White Queen (As it Began)Jared Kemling2. Side Black: Master Stroke of a Fairy FellerJared Kemling3. Queen, Prog, and Vulgar RomanticismJan Olof BengtssonPart II: A Night at the Concert4. Be Free with Your Tempo: Freedom, Individuality, and Nonconformity in InnuendoDouglas Rasmussen5. Let Me Entertain You: Performance as a Tour de Force (Of Course)Julie Kuhlken6. Freddie’s Left Hand: Queen and the Order of MusicRandall E. AuxierPart III: The Show Must Go On7. Is Adam Lambert a Killer of Queen, or Somebody to Love?Megan Volpert8. Instrumental Instrumentalism: Is Red Special a Member of Queen?Steven GimbelPart IV: Made in the Heavens9. Hot SpacetimeKristina Šekrst10. Tie the Cosmos Down: Brian May’s Astrophysics and MusicRandall E. AuxierPart V: I’m Going Slightly Mad11. Stone Cold Crazy: Queen, Mental Disorder, and SufferingSnita Ahir-Knight12. Hitting Rock BottomRobert S. VuckovichPart VI: Sheer Head Attack13. Hammer to Fall in the Shadow of DeathRobert DeVall14. Don’t Lose Your Head: The Interconnectedness of Queen and HighlanderKevin Taylor15. We Want to Love Forever, Forever is Ours TodayJohn ShookPart VII: Some Body to Love16. Freddie and Mary: A Single Soul Dwelling in Two BodiesAndrew Kaplan17. Good Old-Fashioned Lover BoyDarci DollPart VIII: Supersonic Men18. Queen and My Uncle’s Delicacy of Taste and PassionChristopher M. Innes19. He Will Rock You: Socrates was the Most Rock and Roll of MenMichael F. PattonReferences (I Want it All)Bohemian BiographiesIndex (Now I’m Here)

Jared Kemling, a philosophy instructor at Rend Lake College, is editor of The Cultural Power of Personal Objects (2021).Randall E. Auxier, professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is author of numerous works including As Deep as It Gets: Movies and Metaphysics (2022) and Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock (2017).

• IntroductionPart I: My Fairy Kings1. Side White: Worshiping the White Queen (As it Began)Jared Kemling2. Side Black: Master Stroke of a Fairy FellerJared Kemling3. Queen, Prog, and Vulgar RomanticismJan Olof BengtssonPart II: A Night at the Concert4. Be Free with Your Tempo: Freedom, Individuality, and Nonconformity in InnuendoDouglas Rasmussen5. Let Me Entertain You: Performance as a Tour de Force (Of Course)Julie Kuhlken6. Freddie’s Left Hand: Queen and the Order of MusicRandall E. AuxierPart III: The Show Must Go On7. Is Adam Lambert a Killer of Queen, or Somebody to Love?Megan Volpert8. Instrumental Instrumentalism: Is Red Special a Member of Queen?Steven GimbelPart IV: Made in the Heavens9. Hot SpacetimeKristina Šekrst10. Tie the Cosmos Down: Brian May’s Astrophysics and MusicRandall E. AuxierPart V: I’m Going Slightly Mad11. Stone Cold Crazy: Queen, Mental Disorder, and SufferingSnita Ahir-Knight12. Hitting Rock BottomRobert S. VuckovichPart VI: Sheer Head Attack13. Hammer to Fall in the Shadow of DeathRobert DeVall14. Don’t Lose Your Head: The Interconnectedness of Queen and HighlanderKevin Taylor15. We Want to Love Forever, Forever is Ours TodayJohn ShookPart VII: Some Body to Love16. Freddie and Mary: A Single Soul Dwelling in Two BodiesAndrew Kaplan17. Good Old-Fashioned Lover BoyDarci DollPart VIII: Supersonic Men18. Queen and My Uncle’s Delicacy of Taste and PassionChristopher M. Innes19. He Will Rock You: Socrates was the Most Rock and Roll of MenMichael F. PattonReferences (I Want it All)Bohemian BiographiesIndex (Now I’m Here)