Watch on Soap2day. Follow the ups and downs of the British supergroup Queen in this documentary that goes backstage and behind the scenes to showcase the span of their career. Flamboyant lead singer Freddie Mercury, guitar virtuoso Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass player John Deacon created the sound that helped define pop music in the 1970s and made them global stars in the '80s, until Mercury's death from AIDS in 1991.