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It has to be natural. You can’t go to school and ask, “How do I work an audience?” You can’t learn it like that; you just have to have the gift to start with. It’s spontaneous. I think a front man in a group has to make sure that he is stronger than the audience, because sometimes the audience can overtake you, and then you’ve had it. You’ve built them up, so you have to control them.
Freddie Mercury
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I´ve read that there was a hole in the fence and many drunk persons came that way so it wasn´t Queen´s fans who started to throw things.
 
"So all you people give freely
Make welcome inside your homes"

"All prime ministers and majesty around the world
Open your eyes look, touch and feel
Rule with your heart, live with your conscience"

I´ve already posted The Miracle and some lyrics from it
"The one thing we're all waiting for, is peace on earth and an end to war,
It's a miracle we need, the miracle, the miracle,
Peace on earth and end to war today,"
 
Queen had just finished their album "The Miracle"
"But even before the records were in shops Freddie wanted to push on with recording new material.Queen were dazed by Freddie´s eagerness to return to the stresses of the studio but they all said yes." Jim Hutton
Freddie hadn´t told them about his disease yet but the other members could see he was seriously ill.
Then Freddie confirmed it.
Freddie was determined to continue working on music with Queen for as long as he could, saying that he would "keep working until I fucking drop"
 

Brian May and Roger Taylor haven´t stopped touring, they are on a tour now with Adam Lampert and they have also played on the Queens platinum concert.
This is from last month
 
75Happy birthday Brian May, 75 years today.
He´s busy touring and a few days ago he did this acceptance speech
Brian May acceptance - Doctorate of Science, honoris causa - Hull University 14/07/022
 

Roger Taylor wrote the song and then he went on vacation. When Freddie heard it he wanted to make some changes and took the opportunity to do it when Roger was away. When Roger came back he liked Freddie's version and they recorded it.
It was first written for the movie "Highlander" I'm not sure if Roger's original version was used there.
 
Freddie had the Phrase "i'm going slightly mad" on his brain. Then he had another through -the -night session with his friend Peter Straker. Straker used to come to Garden Lodge for dinner quite often and they often stayed up the whole night singing, laughing..
In this case Freddie explained for his friend what kind of things he wanted to say in the song.
The inspiration for it was the master of camp one-liners ,Noël Coward.
The master-stroke was "I think I´m a banana tree".Once that came out there was no stopping Freddie and Straker-they were then in full flow.
I went to bed to fall asleep listening to their laughter wafting upstairs. Jim Hutton



First there is making of "Slightly Mad" and in the end there is the finished video.
I know I've seen more footage with the penguins , they didn't walk in the direction they should..
I watched the video a lot when I was really sick in corona with high fever and felt it could have been written for me.

Freddie was very weak but you can see he knew what he wanted.
He didn't only have plans for the video , one of the days they were filming was Valentine's day and he planned a surprise for his boyfriend; a beautiful oil painting Jim had seen in Sotheby's auction catalogue.
Freddie got help from the other people who lived in garden Lodge with that.
When Jim came to watch one day when they worked on the video he first didn't recognise Freddie with all the make up and the wig.Jim wrote "In quiet moments Freddie took himself off to be with the penguins and give them water."
After the video was finished Freddie bought a flat in Montreux .He knew exactly how he wanted it decorated and chose everything himself.
I admire that he chose to live as long as he could.
 
After more than 30 years it´s finished, it´s released today.
 
Today it is World AIDS Day, so many lives have been lost
 
This was the last video Freddie participated in. His PA Freestone asked him "why are you doing this, you know your*e not going to look your best.Freddie said he didn't want to be a caricature in his last video(The video before this was I'm going slightly mad) .They used black and white to try to hide Freddie was so ill
But I want to show you the west coat he used.It was a Christmas present from his chefs boyfriend.His chef - he did other things too-took photos of Freddie's cats and then it was painted on the waist coat.
The waist coat are now for sale together with over 1500 items from his former home Garden Lodge It's have been exhibitions with some things in some other places for example New York and now a final exhibition. Among the things for sale are handwritten lyrics for some of Queen' hits.
"As Sotheby’s London hosts Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own this summer, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the private realm of a global icon through a series of six auctions in September, preceded by a public exhibition unlike anything that has been seen before." His former girlfriend and later friend Mary Austin inherited 50% of Freddie's fortune and Garden Lodge and more than 30 years later she sells most of his things.She said when they lived together he once gave her a ring, but then he avoided talk of any wedding.But he made sure she was supported for her whole life.Freddie told friends in New York that Mary had given up her own happiness to help him.I'm not sure what it meant but she was there by his side in public contexts but in the background was his boyfriend.During that time it wasn´t a good time to be gay but it was ok to be bisexual.But Freddie couldn't praise his boyfriends in public, it could give him and Queen some problems.
 
I was never a huge Queen fan growing up, aside from the songs they contributed to the original Highlander film. My older cousin loved the band, but after I stopped living with him I just didn't experience Queen very much overall.

When I first heard about the "Bohemian Rhapsody" movie, I was skeptical to say the least. By that point I was an adult, and I'd learned that Freddie Mercury was homosexual. As a committed Christian, I don't condone that behavior, but I also don't fear or hate others who practice it. My main worry in this regard was how much they were going to focus on it, especially in today's culture where being anything anything other than a straight white male gets you praised like you're the second coming of Jesus. I had some idea that there was a lot more to Freddie than his sex life, or at the very least I hoped so...and when I finally saw the movie, I wasn't too bothered with it in general. Rami Malek embodied Freddie excellently, and he completely deserved all the awards he got as a result.
 
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