Sheffield denied that he had mistreated the band in his capacity as manager, and cited the original 1972 management contracts between himself and Queen in his autobiography published in 2013, Life on Two Legs: Set The Record Straight, in his defence.

Who turned down Queen band?

Robbie Williams turned down offer to be Queen's frontman before Adam Lambert. Robbie Williams has opened up about the fact that he could have replaced Freddie Mercury as Queen's frontman in the early 2000s, but turned it down.

Who is the man who lost queen?

The film hints that the band might quit the label — Malek's Mercury tells Foster that he will be forever remembered as the guy who lost Queen — but manager John Reid (Aidan Gillen) says they are still under contract. In reality, the band didn't quit EMI until 2010, nearly two decades after Mercury's death.