The Future of Garden Lodge

I think we need some KISS news.

Let's see ...

"KISSology 4" is scheduled to be released before the end of this year.

KISS will be finishing up studio cd number 20 soon for a release early next year.

World tour to follow.

KISS book "Nothin' To Lose" covering the early years (1973 to 1975), with input from Gene and Paul,
will be released summer of 2012.

40th Anniversary coming up.

And from Queen ...

Another release of "Wembley '86."

Someone should really give Brian and Roger copies of "KISSology" 1 through 3 to show them how to actually release vintage concert material and interviews.

By the absence of any replies to my question I'll assume Mary is following the terms of Fred's last will to the letter. Good enough for me. Mind you, it wouldn't bother me if she let Fred's old boyfriends stay or if she bulldozed the place. I have very little interest in the personal lives of Queen, only their music. 

Thanks for the warning about the Kiss tour skip.

jpf wrote:

Someone should really give Brian and Roger copies of "KISSology" 1 through 3 to show them how to actually release vintage concert material and interviews.
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Well, we can agree at least that there's zero chance they already have, uh, 'KISSology' bad through worse.

People can debate Mary's 'wickedness' stemming from a vicious split with Freddie until they're blue in the face, but as far as I know, their split was amicable, and I doubt Mary's friendly mood towards Freddie changed. She made him Richard's godfather, for Christ's sake. Not forgetting of course, that Freddie wrote Love of My Life for Mary. And apparently she was at the Milton Keynes '82 concert when he dedicated it to her.

Those two books were pure cash-ins, as they would never have seen the light of day had Freddie lived.  Had they been true friends, they would have respected Freddie's wishes to keep his private life private.  But the dollar signs in their eyes won the moral battle.  Paul Prenter may have betrayed Freddie in life by selling him out to a tabloid, but Jim and Peter betrayed him in death.

And it looks like they're bitterly jealous that Mary got the house.  They clearly can't come to terms with the fact that Freddie loved a woman more than them.  This isn't rocket science.

Quite a few biographical works happen after people are dead.  There's little to be complaining about in these books.  They're largely sentimental fluff written by wholly average biographers, and except for the fact that Freddie's dignity perhaps suffered some in the recounts of his last days, they really couldn't be more inoffensive.  What I mostly remember from them is Fred's kindness, loyalty, generosity and sense of fun.  And his dedication to his work.  What I mostly remember from the other biography I read is the scene of a grim and depressing sexual encounter with multiple strangers he allegedly offered himself up for somewhere in South America.  Freddie's 'story' was going to be told anyway.  You can't think of a single other motivation beyond money for these guys that had just inherited a half million pounds each?

Maybe, (I don't know-just speculating), Peter, Jim, Joe and so on, just reminded Mary of what "wasn't to be" and she couldn't deal with being reminded of the life, marriage, kids that she DIDN'T have with Freddie....just an opinion

More likely she wanted to live in the house with her family and Peter Jim and Joe were not part of her family

I don't think Garden Lodge will ever become a museum based on the location & the people who live around there have multi million pound properties, they'd complain about crowds of people and traffic. They've already been complaining about the fans leaving tributes on the wall.

There should be a proper memorial somewhere in London, a little garden or something like the George Michael fans have done.

There's always been rumours that Freddie's ashes are at Garden Lodge & Mary has continued to honour her promise to him not to reveal where they are. Mary's very careful about who she allows into the house as it is. The house is full of very expensive items worth millions of pounds & ofcourse she wouldn't want to risk damage or theft to those items, not saying that that would be the intention of Queen fans but there are that few who can be a bit crazy and over obsessed, like the ones who have tried to harass Mary or the ones who would send Freddie letters saying they would "get him" if he didn't respond to him (see phoebe's book).

There's a video on youtube of two guys hanging about outside garden lodge & they spot Mary getting out of a cab, as soon as they see her one of the men runs up to her trying to get her attention. She seemed scared (as you would be if two strange guys were hanging about outside your house & just pounced on you when you're just getting out of a cab with your shopping) and tried to get into the tradesmen entrance as fast as she could.