trivial question about Mercury and Peter Starker pic

what does Starker's birthday cake say?
is it 150th like 150 years old like Freddie's joke about Starker getting old?
And at the bottom is it S???eta ?
Like some kind of typical female name Freddie used to gine to his friends?

Stop saying Starker and yeah it was his nickname from Freddie, Serita Straker.

Haven't STUDIED Freddies name games completely but from what I understand he named people usually after celebrities whose last names rhymed with their own.


The cake appears to say SYRIETA (sirr-ee-eh-ta)



That's about all I can say.

I looked up the name via Google in various misstypings. Streets BAKER, AKERS etc. Anything that would rhyme but alas no luck.


Send it to "phoebe" freestone

Syreeta was a black soul singer on the Motown label who bears a passing similarity to Peter. I dare say it was a private joke!

Matt Z, I never knew that about the rhyming thing. But that is a thing us English people do a lot. It started of as Cockney Rhyming slang, Cockney being a term for someone from London. But now everybody uses it, for everyday things, even names, but they are usually first names. There is usually two words for it, but this then gets shortened to just the first word.

My name is Paul, so people call me Bouncing (Bouncing Ball), in fact none of my mates call me. I have a mate called Christmas (Eve), Steve. When we go upstairs, we go up the 'apples' (apples and pears). A road is a 'frog (Frog and Toad). The Sun is a Currant (Currant bun). But my favourite would be for fingers, which is 'Bell Ringers', or hands 'Elastic bands'.

Brian May would be called 'Cast', short for Cast Iron.

Some people think us English are mad, I don't know why?

You English *are* mad. Mind you, you were mad long before CRS. Some of you are also bad and dangerous to know.

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

Syreeta was a black soul singer on the Motown label who bears a passing similarity to Peter. I dare say it was a private joke![/QUOTE]

No similarity to My eyes. Syreeta was Stevie wonder's first wife. Also co writer for many of his early solo songs. WHERE I'M COMING FROM, and MUSIC OF MY MIND.

She died a few years ago from cancer. She became a devout Muslim.

Epic song: Cause We've ended now as lovers



Anyways, just giving respect. What's your source on this alleged relation to this nickname?

For the record what were the band nicknames?


Liz was Roger Taylor right?

(Elizabeth Taylor)

Brian's nickname was Maggie (Maggie May - song by Rod Stewart)

"No similarity to My eyes."

ok sorry

Roger - Liz (Elizabeth Taylor)
Brian - Maggie (Maggie May)
Freddie - Melina (Melina Mercouri)


No idea about John

I just remembered reading somewhere that John's nickname was Jill for Jill St John (I could be wrong though).

I'm sure John's nickname was Belisha, as in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon]Belisha beacon[/url], because Freddie couldn't think of anyone famous with a surname like Deacon, and this was the next best thing.