If Freddie was still alive what would Queen be doing ?

I dont think they would of split up for good, maybe they would go off and do their own things and get together for special events perhaps even do a set at glastonbury

Eitther way they have nothing to prove to anybody, they are one of the biggest selling music artists of all time and that speaks for itself

sorry double post

If they were still together permanently that would be fantastic but I think it would of been unlikely but if they were, perhaps there would be the occasional album and tour or festival appearances

Hard question:

Innuendo is one of Queen's best albums ever, but surely it wouldn't have come out with such an intensity of feelings and such a majesty if there hadn't been on the background the situation of Freddie's illness.

We can probably think of 'tendencies' trying to imagine what was already evident in the '80s.

I personally imagine that Freddie and Queen would have still made studio albums together, and that Freddie's solo activity would have evolved the post-romantic and almost classical field that he explored with The Great Pretender and, later, with Barcelona.

Barcelona wasn't only an experiment, IMHO. It was the outcome of a style that was already 'in nuce' in many of Freddie's compositions.. so I imagine that he would have done lots of other things with Symphonic Orchestras, maybe another experiment with classical music, who knows.

Surely, Queen lost Freddie at the top of his compositional skills, and someway it was like a Supernova.

Now, another question: after the Queen+PR experiment there's a huge silence around Brian and Roger.. 2 world tours, one studio album, and now.. nothing. Brian takes care of wild animals, Roger announces records that no-one knows if they'll come out or not.
Do you think that this is the end?

Roy.

Also i swear i read somewhere that Freddie had another solo album ready to make after the Barcelona album but he got too sick to do it in the end

I dont think its the end for Queen+PR though, maybe in a year or so we might hear they are going back on tour

Freddie would've kicked Brian out of the band by now.

Why?

Well why not?

they obviosly would still be celebrating the cure for aids that they found just in time .......

A bunch of men .... at the same time.




(sorry, i just noticed that nobody else chimed this one in)...


Hey, c'mon... i'm not knocking him... I just think it's funny.

matt z wrote: A bunch of men .... at the same time.

(sorry, i just noticed that nobody else chimed this one in)...

Hey, c'mon... i'm not knocking him... I just think it's funny.
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You, sir, are a weak man.  I resisted making naughty gay/baseball themed jokes for the ENTIRE 'Did Freddie Have Perfect Pitch' thread.  The entire thread!   It was very hard, and in some ways I'm still recovering. :)

I don't think they ever would have formally split, but I doubt they'd be touring together much anymore either. All four had interests other than Queen, and my guess is that those would have overridden the band itself at some point shortly after the Magic Tour.

They probably would've continued releasing albums on an ever-more-infrequent scale until the mid-to-late '90s while focusing more on solo projects. A few years after what would've ended up as their final album was released, the questions about Queen that had previously been answered with, "We're taking a break from that," would have slowly started to be answered with, "We haven't exactly broken up, but we're enjoying our solo projects right now and aren't in any real hurry to record another Queen album."

And we'd have a freaking anthology box by now.

GratefulFan wrote: matt z wrote: A bunch of men .... at the same time.

(sorry, i just noticed that nobody else chimed this one in)...

Hey, c'mon... i'm not knocking him... I just think it's funny.
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You, sir, are a weak man.  I resisted making naughty gay/baseball themed jokes for the ENTIRE 'Did Freddie Have Perfect Pitch' thread.  The entire thread!   It was very hard, and in some ways I'm still recovering. :)

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Y'know, you're right... and BESIDES... the post was directed at the WHOLE band, not just FM...

Perfect Pitch... yeah... i could see how that MIGHT allude to it...

OK,...a REAL response:

Brian: Would have been cast into the role of music production for a couple of children's or sci-fi films.. (maybe with the odd appearance of Rog playing drums or timpani)

Roger: What would he be doing?... After an endless stream of wives/ex-wives, mistresses, dates with supermodels etc... he'd be the one to reunite the band after they almost parted in 1995 after they'd toured the states (USA) in 1993 following the  success of Bohemian Rhapsody and renewed interest.

the BAND would have released something in 93 or 94, it wouldn't have been the best. It might have trudged some formulaic stuff at times, BUT it would have had the best spirit in the making of it. (a positive one...my guess is with more 90's layered acoustic rock with a heavy lead)

John: ....DOING ALRIGHT.

Fred: Would be doing a bunch of men...at the same time.

after that... He'd probably become some strange oddity, walking social graces with even stranger and stranger get ups, until he became a fixture/comedienne on British TV.

Only occasionally to come out of  seeming retirement to play some gigs after 95.

That's just how i'd see it..

I figure Bri would maintain his workhorse/rock status... and eventually they might have kept playing and done some monstrous QUEEN + FOO FIGHTERS tour...and we'd have already had a Bio Pic in the works as of 2001.

They'd just be so damned utterly successful they might have taken a few years off here and there just to sit down and appreciate it... that's just my guess.