Freddie's Voice Differences between 1984-1986 (live).

Isle0fRed wrote: 1. Did Freddie find new singing techniques in the 1985-1986 timeframe?
2. Did the nodule burst actually HELP him?
3. Why did Freddie sound so "clean and fresh" at Live Aid (on breaks during the Works Tour, he never sounded 100% Fresh)?
4. Did Freddie improve with age?

1. Possible, He uses lots a falsestto  during late Works onwards
2. Possible. Batman Begins quote. "Why do people fall...So you could pick yourself back up" Look back at Jazz to Crazy
3. 1, Break between Tour 2, Cough drops and water 3, fewer rehearsals for Live Aid 4, Giving everything. Live Aid was susposed to be the farewell gig for the band.
4. Yes, see Barclona, The Miriacle, Innuendo and Made In Heaven

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Very good explanations!

Isle0fRed wrote:

Live Aid was susposed to be the farewell gig for the band.

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Interesting... I've never heard it put like that before.

Are you sure though?  No doubt the band were in a bad place in 1985 and this show brought them new life, but is there any confirmation that they were considering calling it quits at this point?

yes i heard that they were thinking of splitting up for good after the works tour but live aid rejuvenated them and thankfully so!!!

I have a newspaper cutting from the week before Live Aid. I don't have it to hand at the moment, but I think it was written by Rick Sky from the Daily Mirror. It goes something like.............

'Queen's Freddie Mercury is so determined to play next week's Live Aid concert, he is taking a risk of losing his voice forever! Mercury, who has recently had an operation on his vocal chords, has been told by doctor's that he must rest his voice for at least another month. Doctor's have told the star that if he sing's at the show, he may never sing again'.

By the sounds of that, he went in for an operation as soon as The Works tour finished. It would certainly explain the dramatic improvement of his voice.

Doesn't it take a few months to heal from a throat operation? If that's true--then Freddie really took a risk!

From what I've read Freddie had a throat infection and was advised not to perform, but due to missing on the 1984 Band Aid record due to touring commitments, Geldof contacted Spike Edney (sometime Boomtown Rat & extra Queen player) convinced Freddie to do it due to missing out on the initial record.

I think the rest did Freddie good, plus it was only 22 minutes (Is This The World ... aside) & I also think Freddie was just full of himself what with it being Jim's first time seeing him do his thing and what with them just getting together, so any mild discomfort he probably tolerated

The big difference vocally seems to have been between the Australia shows and the Japan shows.

For whatever reason it seemed like his voice just totally cleared out, the tonal differences between those shows is unreal, especially in the first few shows in Japan, thats the clearest and most 'open' he had sounded since the start of the hot space tour.

Maybe that was the first time since late 83 where he could have a small break from singing as after Rock in Rio he recorded more solo stuff so maybe that helped!

Well he had like 2 weeks off between the legs!