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  1. No one but you. Do you consider it a full blooded Queen song?

    Some other data points... "Don't Lose Your Head" has Joan Armatrading on vocals. And "Good Old Fashioned Loverboy" likewise. And "Innuendo" has guitar from Steve Howe. Are these then "Queen" songs? I'd argue they (per...

  2. HYDE PARK - how was it?

    For me it was "Say It's Not True" that was the highlight. It's a great song I'd not heard before and Roger sang it really well. His voice reminded me of "Fun In Space" and I think the song had a similar feel to severa...

  3. ROBBIE WILLIAMS OOOH MY GOD

    Wearing blue jeans and a white singlet under his coat and scarf? Anybody else wonder when the coat'd come off? :-)

  4. 'Mother Love' credits

    The whole point on Miracle and Innuendo was to get away from possessiveness. Scarcely applied to Made In Heaven, sadly.

  5. When Freddie's illness was most noticeable

    I thought it was more nasal and I didn't like it as much. Almost like he was trying too hard.

  6. When do you feel Freddie "knew"

    And I think the context in which music is made is terribly important. Witness the "what was Innuendo all about?" discussions we have from time to time. So understanding that context is valid, despite being a little up...

  7. When do you feel Freddie "knew"

    Two things: 1) We do this because we've emotionally invested in Freddie. That's what makes us this morbid, and we all have mixed feelings about that. 2) "Know" is a slippery beast. Knowing for definite is quite a bit...

  8. Man of Manhattan

    I've heard it said that Eddie Howell wasn't over pleased with the result. "Over-Freddie'd" would be one way to describe it. Personally I rather like the treatment it got.

  9. When freddie's joyful attitude changed?

    I'd say it'd changed by the Magic Tour. And that he knew something was wrong, even if his HIV tests had been negative up to that point. Or maybe he just felt he was getting older in 1986.

  10. Innuendo

    Well, I just got back into listening to Innuendo. I find the track very intricate with lots of nice ideas. But it is emotionally heavy. I think that's why I didn't like it. I wondered about the words in "Don't Try So...

  11. freddie's golden boy

    I wonder if he wasn't somewhat tongue-in-cheek talking about himself, though with some detail changes.

  12. Headlong video.

    Whisperer and maxpower, I concede these things are a matter of personal opinion. I guess: 1) I like the yellow jumper for its own sake. 2) Freddie was doing a little dance when in the yellow jumper - albeit not moving...

  13. Headlong video.

    Nice yellow sweatshirt. :-) But then I have a screensaver of him in a blue shirt from the same video. He didn't look good. I have a theory: Perhaps bits of Freddie footage are from the 2 shootings - late 90 and early...

  14. Mary Austin

    Personally I don't know whether I'd want to be Mary or not. Losing Freddie has obviously cast a long shadow on her life. But let's not forget she had some good times with him, too. Any footage or photos of them togeth...

  15. The Fairy Fellar's Master Stroke Painting

    And the painting is mentioned by both Robert Rankin and Terry Pratchett in recent books. Quite well travelled that painting. :-)

  16. lighting rig works tour

    Rock in Rio seems very badly filmed to me. On VHS it really sucked. I just hope there's a show from the Works tour in better condition.

  17. I am going slightly mad. More than a song.

    I was never sure whether the word madness (which crops up once or twice) is a cypher for AIDS or an actual description of a symptom. I've tended to think it is a cypher for AIDS. At the stage when he could still recor...

  18. Innuendo Video

    All part of the "covering up Freddie's condition" thing, I think. None of them is filmed afresh and all of them are "rendered" according to some artist's style. Mostly I like the video, but it clearly showed "somethin...

  19. Question about releasing "The Great Pretender"

    TGP is one of the very few cases where a cover is better than the original. But then what would we expect? :-) It seems to me that Freddie was being honest with us all, and especially himself. He was one of those arti...

  20. Intro Freddie @ Milton Keynes

    I was there and Freddie mused on whether Morgan Fisher was A/C or D/C. A sexuality reference. At least that's how I took it.