freddie mercury

x in the city

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncAQR47eZo

awesome guy, like himself and kobain. now we are left with imbicles of the x factor regime and the like.

dont make artists like this anymore...

Pighead

x in the city wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncAQR47eZo

awesome guy, like himself and kobain. now we are left with imbicles of the x factor regime and the like.

dont make artists like this anymore...

Freddie Mercury was a poor mans Mika.

fonecrusher1

queen



great band.....

Ruu_Old

It was Brian May controlling him all along, just so you know.

fonecrusher1

Pighead wrote: »

Freddie Mercury was a poor mans Mika.

Its well known Mercury copied Mika's style.

stovelid

I read that he once mistakenly greeted Sid Vicious as Mr Ferocious in his immaculately posh voice in a misguided down with the kids moment.

I loved him after that.

Asphyxia

One of the greatest men that ever lived. It's just so sad he went the way he did and still young only 45.

He brought us some incredible music in his time

http://youtu.be/irp8CNj9qBI

PeterIanStaker

One of the greatest rock frontmen ever. Brilliant voice and stage prescence. Watch the Live Aid set on YT in its entirety, he has the crowd in the palm of his hand.

CiaranMT

Bono?




















Runs for the hills

starbelgrade

Ruu wrote: »

It was Brian May controlling him all along, just so you know.

Brian May is a freak, who basically married himself....

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/anita_brian-gal-lookalikes.jpg

Yep - that's his f*cking wife on the right left right ... **** it, you can't tell them apart.

fonecrusher1

Remember the story in the newspaper about him eating a hamster or something? Years ago.

Thrill

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Remember the story in the newspaper about him eating a hamster or something? Years ago.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Freddiehamster.jpg

Lol

PeteEd

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Remember the story in the newspaper about him eating a hamster or something? Years ago.

I think he actually ate a cock chicken!

Dennis the Stone

Y'wha?

fonecrusher1

Thrill wrote: »

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Freddiehamster.jpg

Lol

no thats wrong it was definitely Freddie mercury.

oh no, your quite quite mistaken.

stooodent

Dennis the Stone wrote: »

Y'wha?

sacha is actually a pretty good actor and impersonator Id say he will pull it off..

PeteEd

stooodent wrote: »

sacha is actually a pretty good actor and impersonator Id say he will pull it off..

quite apt for someone playing freddie!

Thrill

stooodent wrote: »

sacha is actually a pretty good actor and impersonator Id say he will pull it off..

Sacha pull Freddie off. No way.

bronte

:(

Faith+1

Fcuking Awesome song!

jd007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ydSXHsc9Y

barochoc

Disrespect Freddie at you pearl. He's recognised as possibly the greatest front man & rock singer of all time.

I completely agree with above by the way.

Massive Queen fan since I could walk. You can not take the piss out of this guy. Nobody has the talent to rip the piss out of Freddie.

Back the fook off Freddie :mad:

GLaDOS

x in the city wrote: »

awesome guy, like himself and kobain. now we are left with imbicles of the x factor regime and the like.

I quite like Nirvana, but Cobain has done nothing to be mentioned in the same breath as Freddy.

Xavi6

Freddie's collaboration with Bowie is possibly the best of all time.

artanevilla

Greatest entertainer of all time.

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allanb49

Some of the stories that came out are almost comedy gold and always make me smile

- His 40th Birthday party he had (allegedly) midgets bringing around silver trays of coke for guests
- During Live aid he cornered Bono, pushed him one hand against a wall and said we've talked about you and like you alot. Bono talks about it on a video on youtube,
- The skit he did with kenny everett wearing all leather, Kenny introduces him and he starts pouring milk on everett then when kenny asks him show us what you do he jumps on top of him

- Live Aid is this the world we created, one of the saddest songs i've heard and all the more apt considering the location.

Always enjoy some Queen best frontman ever.

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Have a look at Freddie on Live Aid. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand.

I remember years ago, a guy in school picked up my discman (remember those) and started ripping the piss when he pressed play and heard "Bicycle Race". I thought, you absolute idiot - you have no idea about music if you laugh at Freddie Mercury/Queen.

allanb49

elviscostello wrote: »

Have a look at Freddie on Live Aid. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand.

I remember years ago, a guy in school picked up my discman (remember those) and started ripping the piss when he pressed play and heard "Bicycle Race". I thought, you absolute idiot - you have no idea about music if you laugh at Freddie Mercury/Queen.

I remember i had greatest hits 1 in 4th class and used to listen to it on my tape player, remember people ripping the piss out of me for not liking

- Boyzone, Take That, Spice Girls, B*Witched.

Dancor

Greatest front man ever.

We named our dog Freddie after him.

up for anything

x in the city wrote: »

awesome guy, like himself and kobain. now we are left with imbicles of the x factor regime and the like.

Don't be calling my daughter an imbicle, you bloody imbecile! :mad:

Having said that, Freddy was a God. In fact, it's a pity he is not God.

up for anything

up for anything wrote: »

Don't be calling my daughter an imbicle, you bloody imbecile! :mad:

Having said that, Freddy was a God. In fact, it's a pity he is not God.

Your daughter isn't the one that smacked the other girl in the mouth, is she?

I hate that I wasn't old enough to appreciate their music at the time

sham69

Amazing songwriter, amazing frontman.
Will never be touched.
It will be 20 years next november since he died, hard to believe.

I still listen to the albums daily.

Auvers

Brian May

-IS a known Freemason
-BRAINWASHED Freddie Mercury into participating in his music group
-LIED to the public for years
-TRANSFORMED drummer Roger Taylor into a monarch slave to do his bidding
-ACQUIRED the HIV virus from his Illuminati ties.
-INFECTED Freddie Mercury with the super-strain
-PROFITED from his death
-REPLACED the man who brought him fame and fortune
-THREATENED to kill John Deacon - and his whole family - if he ever revealed the truth.

allanb49

Deleted User wrote: »

Your daughter isn't the one that smacked the other girl in the mouth, is she?

I hate that I wasn't old enough to appreciate their music at the time

Music is ageless enjoy it now

topper75

Odd that I was watching the Jedward programme the other evening and it was Freddie that popped into my head. And now a thread on boards a few days later.

I don't know what made me think of Freddie in particular. I suppose you had gaggles of young people in hysterics around those talentless eejits. And then by contrast, 20/30 years ago, you had this vocal genius composing masterpieces with his supergroup. It's all gone backwards. The TV talent show thing won't produce another Queen, if there is to be such.

allanb49

Auvers wrote: »

Brian May

-IS a known Freemason
-BRAINWASHED Freddie Mercury into participating in his music group
-LIED to the public for years
-TRANSFORMED drummer Roger Taylor into a monarch slave to do his bidding
-ACQUIRED the HIV virus from his Illuminati ties.
-INFECTED Freddie Mercury with the super-strain
-PROFITED from his death
-REPLACED the man who brought him fame and fortune
-THREATENED to kill John Deacon - and his whole family - if he ever revealed the truth.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056025807

Kasabian

"Who wants to live forever" still remains one of my favourite vocal enjoyments in life.

Anyone care to embed it for me ?

The Mulk

x in the city wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncAQR47eZo

awesome guy, like himself and kobain. now we are left with imbicles of the x factor regime and the like.

dont make artists like this anymore...

Mercury amazing frontman worshipped the world over, Cobain frontman of the most over-rated band ever.

up for anything

Deleted User wrote: »

Your daughter isn't the one that smacked the other girl in the mouth, is she?

I hate that I wasn't old enough to appreciate their music at the time

No, she is planning on entering next year. Hopefully, if she smacks anyone in the mouth it'll be crocodile tears Cheryl.:D

I hate that I was old enough to be around for most of their chart toppers.

_feedback_

topper75 wrote: »

The TV talent show thing won't produce another Queen, if there is to be such.

That's the thing that I hate about the way things have gone. There really never will be another band like Queen will there. Music just comes and goes now.

That was the main thing that saddened me about Michael Jacksons death. There will never be anyone that comes close to what he was either.

topper75

elviscostello wrote: »

That was the main thing that saddened me about Michael Jacksons death. There will never be anyone that comes close to what he was either.

I could get slated for saying this - but I blame punk music. All the mediocre unsophisticated stuff of today has its roots in punk with its 'anyone can play guitar and start a band' notions.

You can't compose songs of the calibre of Who Wants to Live Forever or Beat It by just knowing three chord tricks in your folks' garage.

allanb49

Have you ever heard the duets of Mercury and Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooKEHgeH884

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEBo0Hf3LqE

Mercury sounds like a giant beside Jackson, The power of the mans voice was remarkable.

_feedback_

topper75 wrote: »

I could get slated for saying this - but I blame punk music. All the mediocre unsophisticated stuff of today has its roots in punk with its 'anyone can play guitar and start a band' notions.

You can't compose songs of the calibre of Who Wants to Live Forever or Beat It by just knowing three chord tricks in your folks' garage.

Not so sure about that. I would have thought a lot of it has to do with new media. Anyone that knows the three chord trick and can fit a microphone in their folks garage, can release an album.

kfallon

Amazing frontman alright, full of charisma!

However this thread reminds me of the quote from his mother as he was being buried, "That's the cleanest hole he ever went into!!!"

Sorry, I apologise, couldn't resist

_feedback_

What a waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncAQR47eZo

topper75

elviscostello wrote: »

Not so sure about that. I would have thought a lot of it has to do with new media.

Good point. With youtube etc, it's a double-edged sword.
+: raw talent doesn't need to kiss up a record industry
-: non-talent is mushrooming

kfallon wrote: »

Amazing frontman alright, full of charisma!

You can see in the Who Wants to Live Forever clip that he talks like he is in a cabaret, but he is addressing a packed football stadium. The stage was his home.

squeakyduck

First off Mercury was about a million leagues above Cobain.

He was a legend from when he started standing out in his teenage years in Zanzibar until the day he died. He touched so many hearts even after his own death, including mine. I don't remember him dying I was only like 3 but the music was in the house (vinyl baby :cool:)

He lived a rock and roll life, was in one of the biggest bands in the world and is still remembered fondly. It's very sad they way he died but through this he did raise awareness for the homosexual community.

We should make Freddie a saint. We should have a petition, you'd have so many people sign it!

losthorizon

I saw them live at Slane - jeepers was I young!

Btw the love of Freddies life was his gardener from Tipp of all places with a really strong Tipp accent.

When he was young it was a girl called Mary Austin I think.

His religion was a very rare one called the Zoroastrian religion started in 600 BC.

I am a big fan of Queens early work especially their first four or five albums. They did go down hill after that.
This song is a great one Describing whats going on in the painting by Richard Dadd ( I was trying to pick up a print at one stage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7-9eAal_x4

I think The Works was the last good album they made. Heres a good song from that album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJXHc4jb30

Quality

Wouldnt a classic rock forum be great!!

here.from.day.1

Legend alright.

losthorizon

Quality wrote: »

Wouldnt a classic rock forum be great!!

I agree!!!