Queen Myths People Tend to Swallow

YourValentine wrote:

Please don't bring up Hitler to support the idea that Freddie was a racist :)

Hitler had a time machine,
his favourite band was
Queen

pma wrote:

Hitler had a time machine, his favourite band was Queen

He was also Freddie's favourite leader, other than Paul Rodgers of course.

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

Another popular "myth" is that when people don't have an accurate number when highlighting public opinion, they just express it as "99% of people" or "99% of the time"....

well, actually, that's not true.....only 99% of them do.

Ha ha ha ha good one! Thumbs up !

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Garden Lodge wrote:

2.)Crazy little thing was either written and /or sung by Elvis. Yes it was Elvis inspired (Rockabilly) and Freddie kind of sings like him but certainly it doesn't make it his!
I've heard people swear that they had heard Elvis singing this one.

There is actually a (recent) studio-made fake of Frank Sinatra singing CLTCL, and I think there's also one of Elvis. I picture people are going to use those in the future to 'back up' their claim...

I've had people saying "I actually had the LP of Elvis where he sang the song..." ha ha ha

You can forget the myth about Freddie being the leader of the band?!!!

In some ways he absolutely was, in others he absolutely wasn't.

Sebastian wrote:

In some ways he absolutely was, in others he absolutely wasn't.

Please, would you explain this?

Blaise Pascal wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

In some ways he absolutely was, in others he absolutely wasn't.

Please, would you explain this?

Well, he absolutely was 99% of the time, according to 99% of the people. However, when pointed out that he absolutely wasn't, 99% thought about it more deeply. 99% of those agreed.

Blaise Pascal wrote:

Please, would you explain this?

Freddie contributed more than any of his bandmates in things like writing, composing, arranging and producing songs, so in that sense he *was* in fact the leader, most of the time. Other things such as instrumentation, contracts, tour details, etc., were not up to him and he reportedly went with the flow. Brian, John and Roger would dominate other aspects, without which Fred wouldn't ever been as successful as he was.

Whilst browsing in Waterstones I came across another newly released Queen book. I scanned it and came to a very interesting bit. It contained an interview/or quotes from Brian May regarding Made In Heavan. It went something like, Roger called him whilst he was on tour to say that him and John were starting work on the new album. Brian replied that he didnt want to do it. Roger said well we're doing it with you or without you, so whatever. Brian said he was very angry and upset at this, so he felt pressured into having to work on it. And he said once he heard the stuff that they had done it was horrific. So horrific that he disregarded all their stuff and took all the tapes to his own studio to start again (im sure that Brian used the word horrific).

I like Sebastien thought, assumed, hoped in a way that Made in Heavan was a fully collaborative album, but after reading that extract i dont think it was. I assume (probably wrongly) that Brian shaped everything and the guys put their live stuff down on it. Ill have to go back to Waterstone to see what the book was called. It was surprising how honest Brian had been about the whole process.

12yrslouetta wrote:

It was surprising how honest Brian had been about the whole process.

We don't know how honest that account is - there are at least three sides of that story, of which one is known.

^ it's only 99% honest.....

And only 99% of the time.

It all adds up that Roger and John went ahead without Brian, and that he joined the process later. There's that hilarious clip from an interview where Roger insinuates that he and John would go on as Queen with or without Brian. Gee I'm glad it never came to that.

Artistic types do tend to overstate things, though. I doubt that the stuff that was worked on without Brian could really have been -that- bad. I just wish I could've been a fly on the wall when "whatever" happened to cause John to quit once and for all. My guess is that Brian called him a cunt.