‘He was completely focused’: Queen’s Brian May remembers Freddie Mercury’s

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

To name sammy Hagar, Genesis, Sabbath in the same breath as the great Freddie Mercury is un-forgivable,

Personally i love "A kind of magic" "The Works" & "Hot Space" all offer something different in the bands abilities.[/QUOTE]

If you had any credibility left, you'd be down to zero after making those statements. Typical stepford fan, completely zoned into one band and everything else is in second place.

If you write off classic albums like Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb, Duke, Paranoid, Sabotage and 5150 - and then mention Hot Space and AKOM in the same breath - you are an even bigger fool than I thought.

Hot Space = Most brilliant album of the 20th century.

Body Language is a classic - an abstract dance-like track that has really thoughtful lyrics.

[QUOTE] [b]Gregsynth wrote:[/b]
Hot Space = Most brilliant album of the 20th century.

Body Language is a classic - an abstract dance-like track that has really thoughtful lyrics.[/QUOTE]

And the most ingenious music video of all time ;)

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[QUOTE] [b]Gregsynth wrote:[/b]
Hot Space = Most brilliant album of the 20th century.

Body Language is a classic - an abstract dance-like track that has really thoughtful lyrics.[/QUOTE]

And the most ingenious music video of all time ;)[/QUOTE]

Yes, in Hot Space you can find more musical geniality then in Beethoven’s fifth symphony. Body language is the best “piece” of the 20th century.

The real Wanker: Your not a real Queen fan if you think i am a fool for liking " A kind of Magic" and "Hot Space" albums.
This is the Queenzone and its really for fans who are 100%passionate about Queen like i am.
Sometimes i wonder if you lot are true fans or just taking the piss.
Also to TOM one here, you say Queen were not a rock group, well take a visit to any HMV store and see where Queen is listed in the store, yes under the category "Rock"
so end of debate. Freddie was always known as a rock singer.

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Vocal harmony you have very good points and I can see you know a lot about music


I am just curious and would like hear your opinion. which one you think is better? just curious....

I do admit that I haven’t heard (till now) any other pop male singer with fuller and richer tone than Freddie’s. And remember I am talking about his best live moments, like Newcastle Dec 79, Live Aid etc.

In the mid 80's Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet certainly had a rich tone, and fuller sounding voice. Not a band I'm a fan of, but a singer who could run with Freddie when it came to singing pop, as opposed to a wider range of songs.

He could also do it live, pretty consistently. Freddie, as is well documented, suffered vocal chord problems so there is sometimes a difference from gig to gig, and tour to tour in vocal quality. At his best Freddie as a vocalist was hard to beat and IMOas a front man untouchable.


Thanks.


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[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

The real Wanker: Your not a real Queen fan if you think i am a fool for liking " A kind of Magic" and "Hot Space" albums.
This is the Queenzone and its really for fans who are 100%passionate about Queen like i am.
Sometimes i wonder if you lot are true fans or just taking the piss.
Also to TOM one here, you say Queen were not a rock group, well take a visit to any HMV store and see where Queen is listed in the store, yes under the category "Rock"


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Actually Gerry, in HMV they are listed under Rock and Pop which is where you'll find Take That, The Spice Girls and One Direction. . . So it proves nothing.

You're in over your head as far as discussing music, because you have closed your ears to so much through your devotion to one artist, or group of artists, who when they choose to do something that doesn't fit in with your rose tinted view of life with Freddie, you rebel against.

You are unwilling to recognize true musical talent or genius beyond Mr Mercury. You are unable to hear something, understand what makes it good and recognize it as such although it may not fit in with what you would choose to listen too.

Go and find Whipping Post by Frank Zappa, then come back here and tell us what you think of Bobby Martin's vocal performance.

Vocal Harmony: im not closed down to other forms of music, its just that i can not find anyone more excellent
than Freddies vocals to please me, he was a one off and had the style other rock singers lack.
i heard whipping post by frank zappa, which is really not my thing but the guitar work reminds me a little bit
of Boston.
My cd collection is huge and not just Queen, I have cds by Toto, Twisted Sister, E.L.O, Status Quo, Supertramp The Sweet, David Bowie,
Boston, Kiss etc......... so its untrue that i am unwilling to recognize other artisits.
Freddie has been my ultimate number one since i was 10 years old, he made everyone else look like trash
on "TOP OF THE POPS" and i knew he was extra special and not just another boring rock star.

Gerry, with that cross section of rock music in your collection I'm suprised you earlier claimed that bands like Deep Purple were ten a penny.

Queen are by far my favourite band, but I would never think of matching there musical skills up against the likes of Purple, or Rush or any of Frank Zappa's touring bands. Queens stregth, especially in the 70's was that they carved out a style that was 100% distinctive. I feel that when they started working with Mack, much of that style and uniqueness of sounds was watered down. They became more mainstream and as a result, through most of the worlds record buying teretories became huge. But sales alone are not a barometer by which you can measue greatness alone, if it were there are many bands who sell or have sold huge amounts of tickets and cd's who's contribution to great music can be written about on a postage stamp.

Having roots in 70's rock I'm surprised that your such a fan of Queens 80's output, which although hugely successful and singable doesn't stand artistically to well, for the most part, against what they produced in the decade before.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

The real Wanker: Your not a real Queen fan if you think i am a fool for liking " A kind of Magic" and "Hot Space" albums.
This is the Queenzone and its really for fans who are 100%passionate about Queen like i am.
Sometimes i wonder if you lot are true fans or just taking the piss.
Also to TOM one here, you say Queen were not a rock group, well take a visit to any HMV store and see where Queen is listed in the store, yes under the category "Rock"
so end of debate. Freddie was always known as a rock singer.

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This is just fucking pathetic and mentally ill. You *are* a Queen-Taliban after all - you come to a forum, then you have the goddamn gall to lay down the rules to others, and what are said rules? You have to be "100% passionate about Queen like I am", meaning that you can't be critical of any of Queen's work and have to accept them as infallible, perfect and incapable of putting out lousy crap as well as some brilliant work.

Then, to top it off, you say "end of debate", honestly believing you have settled the matter of where Queen belongs in terms of genre because HMV files it under "rock". Are you really so stupid that you can't fathom the incredible imbecility of this utterly flawed reasoning?

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]


i heard whipping post by frank zappa, which is really not my thing but the guitar work reminds me a little bit
of Boston.

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OK, if we needed any further proof that your opinion on any matter of a musical nature is as worthless as Michelle Bachmann's views on quantum mechanics, we have it right here. Zappa's guitar work reminds you of Boston? Get a hearing aid.

Thomas quinn: hang on to your handbag love!
you moan about me whinging well your can squawk just like the rest of us love!
by the way that zappa track did sound like Bostons guitarist, and my ears are ok thank you very much.
Queen are not perfect they have made mistakes, but i still support them because i am a loyal fan.
i would say after the "kind of magic" album it all went pear shaped.
When it comes to the music im very fussy and i guess my standards are higher than yours but hey
do not let me hold that against you.
l.o.l

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OK, if we needed any further proof that your opinion on any matter of a musical nature is as worthless as Michelle Bachmann's views on quantum mechanics, we have it right here. Zappa's guitar work reminds you of Boston? Get a hearing aid.[/QUOTE]


Ha ha so true.

I desperately avoided saying something similar!

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

The real Wanker: Your not a real Queen fan if you think i am a fool for liking " A kind of Magic" and "Hot Space" albums.
This is the Queenzone and its really for fans who are 100%passionate about Queen like i am.
Sometimes i wonder if you lot are true fans or just taking the piss.
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You equate being a fan with liking every single piece of a band's output, and you're not a "real" fan if you think classic albums by other bands are better than Queen's poorest albums?

Your brain is just so small.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

its just that i can not find anyone more excellent than Freddies vocals to please me, he was a one off and had the style other rock singers lack.
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Etta James? Stevie Wonder? Marvin Gaye? Aretha Franklin?

How about Imelda May?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjdkjGwGJQc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRLN2bqOwPY

It's not that you haven't found it. You haven't opened your mind to it because you're stuck in a 70s/80s Queen time warp and created a religion in your head devoted to one singer (not band - singer).