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***Freddie***

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    At what?

    Music, obviously.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭acidskiffle


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Where did you get that idea from? Theres no need to get arsey
    Not getting arsey in the slightest.
    Just don't see the point in expressing a negative opinion about a band when the thread was made to commemorate their frontman's 20th anniversary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭mehfesto



    Watched this last Christmas night at about 1am on the beeb. It was brilliant entertainment - espcially the medley bit!

    Freddie was, in my opinion, one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century. His voice was always filled with soul and grit. I wouldn't be the biggest Queen fan, but I love that voice and May's guitar tone together.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Best frontman ever. Fact.
    +100 to that! The ultimate showman. Still sadly missed.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Music, obviously.
    :rolleyes: I suppose it takes all sorts really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    :rolleyes: I suppose it takes all sorts really.

    Yeah, coming from somebody with a Bible quote as their signature that is laughable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    :rolleyes: I suppose it takes all sorts really.
    I bet you thought this thread was about you freddie 59:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Queen were hardly useless at music, maybe to you, but that's fair enough.
    Although their legacy would hint otherwise generally speaking, but anyways whatevs leik lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Hard to believe it's 20 years ago today.

    I was working late that day & heard the news later on in the pub.

    Couldn't believe it!

    The first major gig I went to was Slane '86 with Queen topping the bill.

    They put on a great show despite the rain.

    The whole audiance doing the handclapping thing for Radio Ga Ga was an unforgettable sight.

    25 years on from that show, I'm now only a couple of years younger than Freddy when he died.

    Way too soon.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Great, great frontman. Gave Robbie Williams a career as a tribute act too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    This is my favourite..



    I find it hard not to jump on the table and rock out when I hear this tune.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 Keitho Dub


    Just have a look at what is about now days JOKES, music of old much better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Keitho Dub wrote: »
    Just have a look at what is about now days JOKES, music of old much better.

    Aye back when the kids could play outside and racism was acceptable, ah good days


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Superbus wrote: »
    When I was 6 or 7 I was always in the car with my mum going to see my Granddad in hospital in Kildare, and she'd just bought the Queen Greatest Hits 1,2 and 3. We listened to it non-stop for about a year and a half, really became the soundtrack of my childhood around then.

    Incredible live obviously, as others have said Freddie was probably the greatest frontman ever, I just wish I could've seen them at their peak. But it's the recordings that have real resonance for me.

    And I get how weird it is to like Queen, of all bands, like that. Considering they were pretty vacuous most of the time. I guess it's the baggage connected with them for me.

    It's true they were a little vacuous - their excuses as to why they played Sun City were laughable for example. But the music and Freddie's charisma and showmanship ...it was the soundtrack of my childhood too.Think I'll always love it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    My favourite Freddie moment is at the beginning of the Live At Wembley concert when they kick off with One Vision and Freddie comes out strutting like a peacock and belting the song out. It was like he owned the place! I think Queen's albums were not rated that highly because they were truly at their best playing live.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    How time flies! The don't make them like Freddie any more.:)

    This video is one of the best I've ever heard.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-EO1c1pQdw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    Funny how things get to you.

    I was a major Queen fan when Seven Seas Of Rye came out (1974 - pop fans) as their first hit single. A Night At The Opera blew us all away.

    Then Queen and I kinda drifted apart,each album slightly less great than the previous.

    Live Aid was superb,but was just a moment in time.

    So although I was aware of his work it was just in the backround.

    Three years ago I was in Barcelona. I said to Mrs CML that we might go up to Place D'Espana and see the fountains.

    It's a magnificent show. The fountains are gigantic and lit with constantly changing colours.

    Just as we arrived, Barcelona started (Freddie with Montsarrat Caballe).

    I was,quite suddenly and for no reason,in tears.

    Luckily it was raining because I couldn't have explained what exactly I was crying about.

    Fair dues Freddie,one of the greats.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    cml387 wrote: »
    Funny how things get to you.

    I was a major Queen fan when Seven Seas Of Rye came out (1974 - pop fans) as their first hit single. A Night At The Opera blew us all away.

    Then Queen and I kinda drifted apart,each album slightly less great than the previous.

    Live Aid was superb,but was just a moment in time.

    So although I was aware of his work it was just in the backround.

    Three years ago I was in Barcelona. I said to Mrs CML that we might go up to Place D'Espana and see the fountains.

    It's a magnificent show. The fountains are gigantic and lit with constantly changing colours.

    Just as we arrived, Barcelona started (Freddie with Montsarrat Caballe).

    I was,quite suddenly and for no reason,in tears.

    Luckily it was raining because I couldn't have explained what exactly I was crying about.

    Fair dues Freddie,one of the greats.

    Great story! I heard Barcelona on the radio in the car today,just beautiful. Says so much about his talent and the diversity of his interests that he could turn his hand to something like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭acidskiffle


    Anyone else remember Highlander every friday night before Walker Texas Ranger? First time I ever heard this gem..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    cml387 wrote: »
    Just as we arrived, Barcelona started (Freddie with Montsarrat Caballe).

    I was,quite suddenly and for no reason,in tears.

    Luckily it was raining because I couldn't have explained what exactly I was crying about.

    Fair dues Freddie,one of the greats.

    The Barcelona marathon starts with that song playing too, it's bloody epic coming down the Avenida Maria-Cristina with that playing and the confetti everywhere to start the race.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    It's true they were a little vacuous - their excuses as to why they played Sun City were laughable for example

    they went way down in my estimation after that, to play in south africa during the height of the apartheid regime was unforgivable...just proved that they were corporate whores at the end of the day..only in it for the money:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    One of the first Queen songs I heard. Cant beleive its 20 years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    My favourite Queen song:




    And my next fav!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    cml387 wrote: »
    Funny how things get to you.

    I was a major Queen fan when Seven Seas Of Rye came out (1974 - pop fans) as their first hit single. A Night At The Opera blew us all away.

    Then Queen and I kinda drifted apart,each album slightly less great than the previous.

    Live Aid was superb,but was just a moment in time.

    So although I was aware of his work it was just in the backround.

    Three years ago I was in Barcelona. I said to Mrs CML that we might go up to Place D'Espana and see the fountains.

    It's a magnificent show. The fountains are gigantic and lit with constantly changing colours.

    Just as we arrived, Barcelona started (Freddie with Montsarrat Caballe).

    I was,quite suddenly and for no reason,in tears.

    Luckily it was raining because I couldn't have explained what exactly I was crying about.

    Fair dues Freddie,one of the greats.
    I got a similar feeling while on holidays in Montreux a couple of years ago. There's a statue there of Freddie doing the pose from the Rage Comics (you know what I mean) and every day someone lays fresh flowers at it. I think there must have been a cold breeze coming off the lake or something but my eyes felt odd and I had to sniff my nose.



    I'd like to add that Eric Carr the drummer with Kiss died the same day as Freddie. The greatest frontman and one of the greatest drummers in one day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    The greatest song ever written about a household detergent.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭philstar


    Dotrel wrote: »
    The greatest song ever written about a household detergent.

    from the worst movie ever made


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Freddie who?:confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Freddie who?:confused:

    Starr


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