Queen if Freddie didn't die...

Hi everyone...I'm sure this has been discussed before, so sorry if it has.

After watching interviews with Led Zeppelin and their hesitation (well, seems to be Plant's hesitation) to tour without their original drummer and record new material got me thinking...what would have Queen done if Freddie lived and another member of Queen passed? I'd like to think they would have called it quits as well, but I wonder.

I think it would pretty much have happened the same thing.....All four members of the band knew it was the mixing of four of them that would create the magic, so they were devoted to the band ("we're going to stay together until we fucking well die...") and each other knowing that if someone was missing there would be no Queen at all....However, Brian and Roger just can't stay away of the music industry because they love it too much and I strongly believe that Freddie would fall into that category, too. He may have been quoted that he hadn't been planning to grow old and still singing on stage however a lot of people close to him believe he wouldn't have been able to stay away for too long, dispate his ageing. So, John Deacon is the only member who seems unwilling to go on outside the format of Queen and had chosen to retire. I believe Freddie would not have retired. So, they would have called it quits concerning the band, but not music in general. I just can't imagine Freddie wandering around Garden Lodge from dawn to dusk, playing with his cats and drinking tea...do you?
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the Plant reasons aren't really about not touring without Bonham. think Plant is closer to Jason and Pat & John's other kids than the other two Zep members.

anyhow, back on track, had Freddie lived - queen probably would've died anyway - I'm sure there's a quote somewhere from him about not wanting to get old and embarrassing
- and anyway - freddie, would've been off trying new styles and stuff

Plant has a decent solo career, thats what I thought the main reason.

If Freddie lived, would a Queen musical , which Brian and Roger have drawn criticism for creating, have been more or less likely to have happened. Id say its highly possible Freddie would have been well into it.

i agree and disagree. freddie woulda probably done many more musicals after[i][b] "Time"[/b][/i] ....but i strongly doubt [i](from Freddie's own quotes on taking NOT himself seriously)[/i] that the last thing about the man would be to be[i][b] "so far up his own arse"[/b][/i]  -pardon the bad taste pun - as endorse a musical about his [b][i]OWN band[/i][/b]. no chance

I think maybe they would of done a couple of more tours in the late 1980s/early 1990s if Freddie would of lived ,but i think Queen would of split up not long after that.

^^^^
and still a Paul rogers tour

Freddie would not have wanted to continue IMVHO; he knew (as John does) that the sum of the parts was much greater than any of the individuals. The 4 made A Great Band - anything less than that was less than Queen.

It'd have taken the shackles off of Freddie too and would have allowed him to explore Broadway and West End theatre - at which he would have been INCREDIBLE.

[QUOTE] [b]dudeofqueen wrote:[/b]

Freddie would not have wanted to continue IMVHO; he knew (as John does) that the sum of the parts was much greater than any of the individuals. The 4 made A Great Band - anything less than that was less than Queen.

It'd have taken the shackles off of Freddie too and would have allowed him to explore Broadway and West End theatre - at which he would have been INCREDIBLE.[/QUOTE]
It's a fine idea, besides the fact that I don't see that happening whatsoever.

Fred was planning to do a lot of work with Ted Nugent so I imagine him and Brian might not have seen eye to eye on everything, especially Fred's plans to buy a nature reserve so he and Ted could hunt badgers, foxes and John Deacon.

Freddie would have entered into a twisted relationship with the pudge guy from backstreet boys that would have ended in a lovers quarrel and subsequent KNIFE FIGHT... he would have been disgraced and would have wound up working on a rap single with 50 and Eminem. Then that would have been it



INNUENDO would have never been released and the band would have called it quits.


FREDDIE would have worked on a musical CARTOON about a Russian princess and that sums it up.

John retired

If Freddie would be alive yet, they woudn't achieve the legend status they have now. In many ways, early death makes legends, especially in rock n roll.

try telling Karen Carpenter's family that - she's all but forgotten in RnR circles

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]
he would have been disgraced and would have wound up working on a rap single with 50 and Eminem.
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That's not the first time you've joked about Freddie collaborating with 50 Cent and Eminem.

[QUOTE] [b]waunakonor wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]
he would have been disgraced and would have wound up working on a rap single with 50 and Eminem.
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That's not the first time you've joked about Freddie collaborating with 50 Cent and Eminem.[/QUOTE]

Wow!

Maybe it will happen!

(Good memory, I probably have mentioned it before)