Freddie

okioffice84 · 24-11-2011 11:42PM

One of his best vocal performances:

And this just to hear the voice...

Mint Sauce · 24-11-2011 11:44PM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Freddie who?

Seriously?

nkay1985 · 24-11-2011 11:46PM

Whatever people's opinions about Queen, to say Freddie Mercury was anything but one of the greatest vocalists and showmen of the 20th century is ludicrous. He had an incredible voice, a commanding presence and was, quite simply, amazing.

Died far too young.

Mint Sauce · 24-11-2011 11:48PM

All 25 minutes of that Live Aid performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsM6u0a038

mcwhirter · 24-11-2011 11:55PM

Still have live aid concert on vhs, they stole the show, u2 close second.

Zaph · 25-11-2011 12:01AM

irish-stew wrote: »

All 25 minutes of that Live Aid performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsM6u0a038

While I like some of their music, I could never class myself as a Queen fan. But I remember watching shortly after having seen my then favourite band, U2, give what I thought would have been the performance of the day and being totally gobsmacked. It's still to this day the most incredible display of how to work an audience I've ever seen.

oppenheimer1 · 25-11-2011 12:22AM

irish-stew wrote: »

Seriously?

Oh Queen I see... before my time really.

bradlente · 25-11-2011 12:39AM

The Queen were great and their frontman was quite simply....Mercurial.

Mint Sauce · 25-11-2011 12:48AM

Any excuss to play this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3V2ecJpscI

ladysarastro · 25-11-2011 01:45AM

irish-stew wrote: »

Any excuss to play this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3V2ecJpscI

The bit when he sings out Barcelona and all the crowd hold up lighters sends shivers down my spine!

JonathanAnon · 25-11-2011 02:36AM

He seemed like a really nice guy.. And Barcelona was incredible, probably his best song (including the Queen stuff).. such a pity he didnt get to sing it at the Opening Ceremony the next year..

Stovepipe · 25-11-2011 02:42AM

He was bloody brilliant and they, as a band, were superb technically-talented professionals. First album I ever owned was Queen's Greatest Hits. Some of their stuff (and I say this as a hardcore Queen fan) was rubbish but most of it was first-class. A mark of their quality was the respect held for them as musicians by their peers.

Rest in peace, Freddy.

PS: what ever became of John Deacon?

ShooterSF · 25-11-2011 02:45AM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Oh Queen I see... before my time really.

Yeah thank feck someone invented recording materials. I think I'd have offed myself by now if I only had the music I grew up with! Even at 12/13 in the mid 90's I was already digging up Queen albums rather than listening to the crap being released at the time!

richymcdermott · 25-11-2011 02:56AM

Queen are over rated huh ?

Only band that all 4 members had more than one number 1 singles
Sold over 300 million albums
Live aid performance considered the greatest performance of all times.
Bohemian rhapsody the only song to be number 1 twice .
Won countless awards and influenced some of the most well known bands today including metallica and foo fighters.
Freddie mercury is the greatest frontman to ever grace the music scene

I was born a queen fan
Il die a queen fan

Heres to freddie , god bless..

nkay1985 · 25-11-2011 03:44AM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

He seemed like a really nice guy.. And Barcelona was incredible, probably his best song (including the Queen stuff).. such a pity he didnt get to sing it at the Opening Ceremony the next year..

Agreed, it's a tragedy. Someone posted about breaking into tears when it was played at the magical fountains in Barcelona; just listening to it now nearly sets me off. It's such a beautiful piece of music. His attack on the chorus is incredible.

Just reading about it there and, to help spare Caballé some time, he recorded her bits in falsetto and sent it onto her! Unbelievable! He was so fcuking talented when you actually sit back and think about it.

deepsouthtalla · 25-11-2011 08:06AM

Stovepipe wrote: »

.PS: what ever became of John Deacon?

He has become a recluse, and afaik he doesnt talk to Roger or Brian, sad really but just show's you that Freddie kept the band together

Love Queen all thru my teenage years that's i listened to and got slagged big time and called gay because i liked Queen :rolleyes: anyways

RIP Freddie, long gone never forgotten

stovelid · 25-11-2011 11:25AM

Just a man, with a man's courage. You know he's nothing but a man and he can never fail.

Mint Sauce · 25-11-2011 10:33PM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Oh Queen I see... before my time really.

Did the first 50 odd posts not kinda give it away?

Latchy · 25-11-2011 10:40PM

I remember hearing Seven Seas Of Rye for first time and remember thinking ,these will be a band to watch ,then I was blown away by Killer Queen with lyrics like

She keeps Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says
Just like Mary Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice.. she's a killer

I became a Queen fan

crosstownk · 25-11-2011 10:42PM

Freddie is a legend.

He could sing anything. Only a piano had more octaves.

He was also a gifted musician and songwriter. Bohemian Rhapsody was a classical masterpiece and will still be used as a reference 100 years from now. Somebody to Love is similar.

RIP.

The Show WILL Go On.

Stained Class · 25-11-2011 11:16PM

stovelid wrote: »

Just a man, with a man's courage. You know he's nothing but a man and he can never fail.

Went to see the film in Courtown in 1981 with my little bro in tow.

Thought it was the best movie ever!

Mind you, I was 12 at the time....

WoollyRedHat · 25-11-2011 11:49PM

The first album I ever got was Queen

Freddy was enigmatic. Talented on so many levels, he oozed with passion and love for music, some of Queens songs are so well written, so well sung,a true legend and irreplacable.
I must get around to reading his biography, heard it's excellent

fryup · 25-11-2011 11:56PM

Maybe it was because of my over-sheltered irish upbringing, but i never knew he was gay until he died

did you people know he was gay back in the day, back in 70s & 80s??

stovelid · 25-11-2011 11:58PM

fryup wrote: »

did you people know he was gay back in the day, back in 70s & 80s??

Just look at him.

fryup · 26-11-2011 12:03AM

stovelid wrote: »

Just look at him.

well yes now i can see it, but back in the day it went over my head i just thought he was being flamboyant

Dotrel · 26-11-2011 12:08AM

I reckon a lot of people probably thought he was straight. I'm sure Queen fans will correct me but IIRC he was in the closet and it only became common knowledge for the average man on the street when the news of him having AIDS came into into the public domain (around 1990?).

Interestingly the moustache pretty much died out as a manly fashion statement in Western Europe around the exact same time. I've always reckoned tha had a lot to do with Mr. Mercury.

Stained Class · 26-11-2011 12:12AM

fryup wrote: »

well yes now i can see it, but back in the day it went over my head i just thought he was being flamboyant

Same here.

Nobody thought about that type of thing back then.

To us at the time, he looked liked a fairly butch man.(In comparison to say Nick Kershaw, Simon Le Bon & the rest of the New Romantics)

We were told he had a girlfriend an' all!

Having a 'tache was seen as the height of fashion back then, remember Magnum P.I., Burt Reynolds, et all....

paulosham · 26-11-2011 12:22AM

deepsouthtalla wrote: »

He has become a recluse, and afaik he doesnt talk to Roger or Brian, sad really but just show's you that Freddie kept the band together

Love Queen all thru my teenage years that's i listened to and got slagged big time and called gay because i liked Queen :rolleyes: anyways

RIP Freddie, long gone never forgotten

That's not true, he has just retired. Just because he's not in the public eye doesn't mean that he has become a recluse.

Latchy · 26-11-2011 12:42AM

fryup wrote: »

Maybe it was because of my over-sheltered irish upbringing, but i never knew he was gay until he died

did you people know he was gay back in the day, back in 70s & 80s??

From memory , Freddie like other celebs came out when the Aids Epidemic was at the peak in the public eye and their was more awareness of how it could be caught but also , there was some ignorance around to with some thinking you only had to shake hands with an Aids victim to catch it .

BrianJD · 26-11-2011 12:45AM

Dean09 wrote: »

My favourite Queen song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs

And my next fav!

2 Minute mark of Who wants to Live forever. Love it.

***Freddie***

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