Helena Dax
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Helena Dax
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Freddie’s religion
I think he took the general point of Zoroastrianism -good words, good thoughts, good deeds- and tried to live by it, forgetting about the rest.
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Who is behind the funny noises?
Thanks for your answers! I've always thought they were "talking" to Freddie, but maybe there were times when it was just Brian tuning his guitar.
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Who is behind the funny noises?
It happens here, for example: Earls Court 77, before Death on Two legs. . I think it's Brian, but I'm not sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHWwiKYPmls
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Who is behind the funny noises?
Sometimes, when Freddie's talking to the audience or sending messages for the press or things like that, you can hear John or Brian playing some funny noise in order to get him back to business. But who is it? Brian o...
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New podcast with Peter Hince
Did Hince's book say anthing bad about Brian?
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John Deacon wrote Back Chat.......
I think Back Chat was inspired by John's frustration towards Brian at the time, which is well documented, but it doesn't mean necessarily that every line of the song is specifically about Brian, just that he was proba...
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The "family" cliche
I'm sure they weren't a family in the "let's spend every second of our days happily together" sense, and that there were moments when they couldn't stand each other. But I recently heard Roger saying in a video that J...
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How smart was Freddie
I think he was quite intelligent: Phoebe seems to think so and I've read several comments about Freddie's deep interest for opera, ballet, Japanese art... In my opinion, he started playing dumb in the interviews when...
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How were you first introduced to Queen?
My parents took me to the cinema to see Flash Gordon and the song stayed with me forever, and my next memory is the IWTBF video.
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Opinions on The Music Video for It's A Hard Life
I like it and to me, it works. If you're a rock star and sing the line "it's a hard life", people will probably mock you and I think Freddie was aware of that, and that's why he aknowledges in the video that yes, he's...
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Did John actually retire in 1997?
Here's my especulation: I doubt there was a single reason. He had always had mixed feelings about being a rock star, the idea of Queen without Freddie was too painful to him and he probably had some disagreement with...