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TIL that when Queen performed for the first time in Australia, at the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1974, they were continuously booed by the crowd, they went on to finish their set with Freddie Mercury yelling to the crowd "When we come back to Australia, Queen will be the biggest band in the world!"

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