KICK ASS!

After reading your posts I did some reading and you are correct, it seems as though they gave up interest in touring in the states, however their success in the U.K. continued through record sales charting LP's and songs like Radio Ga Ga.

I became a Queen fan during the mid 1970's, I had purchased A Night at the Opera soon after it's release and that is where my Queen journey began. I began researching their earlier albums and bought the next few that came out culminating with their release of Live Killers, which I thought was an incredible performance. I was never lucky enough to have seen the band live in person.

When The Game came out it was a huge downer for me, it seemed as though the band had sold out, the pop tunes Another One Bites the Dust and Crazy Little Thing bored me and the album only showed glimpses of the style from their earlier works. I had given up on Queen, temporarily.

After reading up on Wikipedia it seems the band slowed down during the early 80's. A couple members did some solo work and they took time off from recording and touring.
However it was their Live Aid performance that drew the world's attention to Queen once again - (from wikipedia) "At Live Aid, held at Wembley on 13 July 1985, in front of the biggest-ever TV audience of 1.9 billion, Queen performed some of their greatest hits, during which the sold-out stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison.[114][115] The show's organisers, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, other musicians such as Elton John, Cliff Richard and Dave Grohl, and music journalists writing for the BBC, CNN, Rolling Stone, MTV, The Telegraph among others, stated that Queen stole the show.[116][117][118][119] An industry poll in 2005 ranked it the greatest rock performance of all time.[116][120] Mercury's powerful, sustained note during the a cappella section came to be known as "The Note Heard Round the World"."