4 May

I missed this story at the time. Yikes, blows every other deal ever made out of the water. Queen were never the coolest band in the world in their heyday, but the greatest artists create the future, they’re rarely the most popular in their day. Cool is just more high school culture. Think of how often the greatest artists, like a Van Gogh or Kafka or even Mozart, only become truly enormous after they’re gone. Some even die penniless. The present by definition doesn’t understand them, they create the future itself, they’re ’speaking’ to people and societies not yet born. That’s what greatness is.