Even though Queen's sales rose through the 70's, peaking in '80 with The Game, their original, hard-rocking fans had drifted away and the band ended up, unfortunately, and in some ways unfairly, as something of a joke in the US from then on. They remained second only to the Beatles in rock group popularity in England until the end, and they were hugely successful throughout the rest of the world until the group was forced off the stage by Mercury's death from AIDS in '91. They have sold more than 130 million records worldwide.
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