Freddie Mercury

lazorgirl

New docu on tonight BBC1 @11; promo looks promising

wonderfulname

entertainment.ie wrote:

Profile of the flamboyant Queen frontman, exploring his time away from the band - including a collaboration with Michael Jackson and the triumphant Barcelona duet with Montserrat Caballe. The programme also examines his life as a gay man who was not yet publicly out. Featuring rare archive footage and interviews with bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor, as well as friends and admirers including Paul Gambaccini, Montserrat Caballe and Matt Lucas.

Sounds good.

Shakti

any excuse......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADh8Fs3YdU

Hunchback

His Irish boyfriend Jim Hutton was hot stuff back in his day

Rick_

Love Queen and Freddie Mercury, will have to catch this on iPlayer tonight.

If you really want to enjoy Freddie on another level, look for the acapella videos on YouTube, his voice might sound great to music, but listening to it on it's own makes you realise how amazing a voice he really had.

Mixed feelings about this myself. No particular interest in his music, and even less in his private life. It's said that he wasn't "publicly out" but I remember a time when a famous person could more or less be widely known as gay and the media kept out of it unless the person in question decided to make it an issue. The world and his dog knew FM was gay, but between famine, recession, and the cold war it hardly justified a headline.

But it bugs me to no end that he's held up as some kind of icon when he didn't leave a bean in his will to AIDS research/charities, and didn't do much for his current partner at the time of his death (who had been with him for quite a while) either.

No skin off my nose, and I really don't care what a private individual does with his own money anyway. But a hero he ain't!

kingofslaves

Barna77

Anywhere to watch this online or something?

So missed back in 1992 for the olympics too

lazorgirl

you can watch it on bbc iplayer

Barna77

As long as you have an Uk ip address

lazorgirl

Barna77 wrote: »

As long as you have an Uk ip address

you can get around that if you change proxy settings. i followed tutorial on youtube on how to watch bbciplayer in Ireland.

John_Rambo

Amazing stuff. Watching Queen live in Budapest now. (on after the documentary)

The world became a worse place when Freddie Mercury died. A stunning, creative, born entertainer. One in a zillion.

gcgirl

John_Rambo wrote: »

Amazing stuff. Watching Queen live in Budapest now. (on after the documentary)

The world became a worse place when Freddie Mercury died. A stunning, creative, born entertainer. One in a zillion.

same here Freddie was an amazing showman