I like to think that the "four old ladies" would still be rocking and rolling together. I think they said that the band was a like a marriage, so maybe they had already got over their rough patch in the early 80's and would have kept going, allbeit at a slower pace. However I reckon there would have been pretty questionnable albums every now and then as well as Freddie indulged himself in the latest fads. 50 cents and Eminem may not be that from the truth at all!...lol. And the creative peak with Innuendo towards the end of their career would have never existed.
Freddie would be as bald as a badger and would have been using lots of different wigs on stage including ones of his former hair. No one who just went to a concert or saw the videos would have known the difference. He would have done a lot more work with opera singers (of course) and would have also reprised the success of Under Pressure, doing a full album with David Bowie. But despite all that, he would have always kept on coming back to the well.
Brian would have done a similar thing with his guitar mates and we might have seen something akin to Starfleet parts II and III, but full albums rather than EPs. Rog would have been doing solo albums and The Cross never would have existed. John would have been the one they all would have had to keep on coaxing back for another album and/or tour. But with Freddie doing the coaxing, John would have found it intermittently too hard to resist. He would have also produced a female band and would have bonked the blond drummer (apparently he always had a subliminal thing for Rog and never knew it!). Brian would have been jealous, but would have stuck with Ms Glover as his extra bit....lol.
Its nice to dream I guess.
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