摘要：
20年前皇后（Queen）乐队在现场援助（Live Aid）慈善音乐会上技惊四座，14年前他们的主唱弗雷迪·墨丘里与世长辞，而今天，皇后乐队被授予了历史上最为流行的英国乐队称号。
　　 Twenty years after they stole the show at the original Live Aid concert, and 14 years after the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen have been crowned the most popular UK band of all time.
　　 20年前皇后（Queen）乐队在现场援助（Live Aid）慈善音乐会上技惊四座，14年前他们的主唱弗雷迪·墨丘里与世长辞，而今天，皇后乐队被授予了历史上最为流行的英国乐队称号。

　　 据《卫报》7月5日报道，据统计，皇后乐队力压披头士（the Beatles ）乐队和猫王（Elvis Presley）成为在英国唱片销量排行榜上停留时间最长的艺人。按照吉尼斯世界记录大全负责英国单曲与专辑部分的编辑者的说法，皇后乐队的上榜时间为1322周，而披头士的记录则为1293周。

　　 该乐队的鼓手罗杰·泰勒4日表示，该消息让他感到惊愕不已。正在里斯本参加此次欧洲露天巡演最后一站的泰勒说：“我们过去的确有那么一股子令人感到不可思议的雄心壮志。但我们也从未期盼过能见到这样一张榜单：皇后乐队高居榜首，然后是披头士，再往后才是猫王。”

　　 皇后乐队于1974年推出了首张榜首专辑《歌剧院的夜晚》（A Night at the Opera）。但吉尼斯世界记录大全的助理编辑詹姆斯·布拉德利表示，皇后乐队是在相对较短的时间内取得这样的成绩的：猫王首次上榜是在1956年，而披头士则是在1963年。

　　 皇后乐队能取得如此成功，很大程度上要归功于其最具影响力的两张专辑，特别是其中较早发行的那张，上榜时间长达450周且销量超过4百万张。后来发行的诸如《黑暗》（Darkness）等几张专辑的市场走势显得扎实平稳，而在伦敦西区进行的名为《将你震撼》（We Will Rock You）的演出则使他们继续存在于公众的视野之中。

　　 皇后乐队上次巡演是在1986年，当时的墨丘里已经病倒。5年后他死于与艾滋病有关的疾病，年仅45岁。为向墨丘里于1985年在温布利大球场的精彩演出致敬，罗比·威廉姆斯于2日在海德公园举行的“现场八方”（Live 8）慈善音乐会上再次演唱了《将你震撼》这首歌。

　　在英国唱片销量排行榜上停留时间最长的前10名艺人名单:

　　1.皇后乐队（1322周）

　　2.披头士乐队（1293周）

　　3.猫王（1280周）

　　4.U2乐队 （1150周）

　　5.恐怖海峡乐队 （1136周）

　　6.西蒙和加芬克尔 （1114周）

　　7.麦当娜（1032周）

　　8.大卫·鲍维（1005周）

　　9.艾尔顿·约翰 （989周）

　　10.迈克尔·杰克逊 （966周）

　　 （国际在线独家资讯 张咏）

　　 Twenty years after they stole the show at the original Live Aid concert, and 14 years after the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen have been crowned the most popular UK band of all time.

　　 The group, currently on a critically acclaimed comeback tour with former Free singer Paul Rodgers taking on vocal duties, have overtaken the Beatles and Elvis Presley as the artists who have spent the longest time on the British album charts.

　　 According to the compilers of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums, Queen have spent 1,322 weeks on the chart, compared with the Beatles‘ 1,293 weeks.

　　 Roger Taylor, the group‘s drummer, said yesterday he was staggered by the news. Speaking from Lisbon, the latest leg of Queen‘s European stadium tour, he said: "We were always incredibly ambitious. But we never expected to see a list that read Queen, then the Beatles, then Elvis."

　　 The band‘s first number one album, A Night at the Opera, came out in 1974. But James Bradley, the assistant editor of the Guinness book, said Queen‘s achievement had taken a comparatively short time: Elvis Presley first charted in 1956 and the Beatles first made the chart in 1963.

　　 Queen‘s two greatest hits albums, the first of which spent 450 weeks in the charts and sold more than 4m copies, have accounted for much of their success. Endorsements from newcomers such as the Darkness have contributed to steady album sales, and the West End show We Will Rock You has also kept the band in the public eye.

　　 In a nod to Mercury‘s show-stealing performance at Wembley in 1985, Robbie Williams played We Will Rock You at Saturday‘s Live 8 concert in Hyde Park.


　　 Queen toured earlier this year for the first time since 1986, when Mercury fell ill. He died of an Aids-related disease five years later, at the age of 45.

　　 "We never thought we would tour again," said Taylor. "Paul came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry. Paul is just such a great singer. He‘s not trying to be Freddie."

　　UK top 10

　　1 Queen (1,322 weeks)

　　2 The Beatles (1,293)

　　3 Elvis Presley (1,280)

　　4 U2 (1,150)

　　5 Dire Straits (1,136)

　　6 Simon and Garfunkel (1,114)

　　7 Madonna (1,032)

　　8 David Bowie (1,005)

　　9 Elton John (989)

　　10 Michael Jackson (966)

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