Alfie Boe:- Freddie Mercury Saved My Life Documentary

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[QUOTE] [b]rocknrolllover wrote:[/b]

Great. Perhaps this is the only documentary, where so few was told about his non-traditional sexual orientation. focused more on his musical basis. it is wonderful to see rare previously unseen footage of young Freddie.[/QUOTE]

Yes, showcases his talent musicianship as should be so. The stage exploits are enough sexual energy to convey him as a star. It's better than being a constant homosexual promo which he did not want anyway. His private bedroom was private, and being gay is not a talent nor is it the making of a star.
There is only one Freddie Mercury after all.
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He's greatest musician without any doubt .
If somebody has doubt on this count, i can say as was wrote in one newspaper in 1977 if I'm not mistaken "IS THIS MAN A PRAT?"

The PRATTS prat attack

Yes and they were attacking Freddie as an easy target because of his brilliant colourful image and act that he used to great effect in his interviews with those Morgans.
Nowadays such a blatant anti gay attack would be out of the question, but now they have it like sexism
Against women.
They use Freddie as a gay sexual icon, which is degrading and exploitation.and it is sexist!
Two extremes, both wrong.
Homophobic dismissal of his brilliant creative persona calling it prat like and then heteromesuxlaisation idol worship of the gay angle which is political sexism.
Freddie was a individual and didn't ride anyone's boat to his creative ideas success or presentation of himself , he wasn't into " gay " rights. He was an entertainer as far as his extrovert- ness goes, and he used it and so brilliantly used it
.and they hated his command of the public and his style because it was so far removed from their wannabe rock star ideals.
But his musicianship and vocal brilliance they jealous of, because they were wanna be rock stars those failed journo's ' s at NME etc.
And , just like Brian says, Queen were not about dirty jean long hairs playing guitars with heads down, and that's what the PRATTS did not like, they preferred the idea of punk because they couldn't play instruments either so wanted to promote that idea.
PRATTS!

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[b]Stelios wrote: [/b] Is there a way to watch it? I live in Grecce so itv is not accesible. (Or i am doing something wrong...)[/QUOTE]

Use this [url=http://www.expatshield.com]http://www.expatshield.com[/url]/  it's free and it will give you a British I.P so u can watch ITV & BBC etc online. Just turn it off after you use it to return to your default internet settings. If you have hotspot shield you will need to uninstall that first or else expatsheld wont work.[/QUOTE]

Thanks. I installed it but still wants my postcode to confirm. Is there a specific postcode that should i type?[/QUOTE]

Put in any London postcode.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuLhVFSQZM

Here too.

So are these the guys who sold off the footage and kept the originals ?
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Thank you so much for the youtube version.

I loved this and learned so much. So appreciated!

[QUOTE] [b]Queenfansunite wrote:[/b]

The PRATTS prat attack
....
Homophobic dismissal of his brilliant creative persona calling it prat like and then heteromesuxlaisation idol worship of the gay angle which is political sexism.
Freddie was a individual and didn't ride anyone's boat to his creative ideas success or presentation of himself , he wasn't into " gay " rights.
PRATTS![/QUOTE]

What exactly do you mean by "heteromesuxlaisation idol worship of the gay angle " ?

As for "he wasn't into " gay " rights" . Its true but it was a different era, he had personal struggles with his sexuality and to a digree ( after he became famous) he could afford not to care about " gay " rights.
When "gay rights" became hot again with the HIV crisis, he was already infected and chose to channel all of his anguish ,sadness and (inevitable) anger into musical creativity.

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[b]crazy duck wrote: [/b] Great documentary! Unseen footage was interesting. Not sure about alfie boe singing as it sounds the same as him talking but more shouty! But other than that I thought he did a great job. You can tell he likes queen![/QUOTE]

Very interesting to hear the bit of Mother Love around the 47:00 mark without the final "Mother Love" whisper. Caught me off guard there.

[QUOTE] [b]inu-liger wrote:[/b]

Very interesting to hear the bit of Mother Love around the 47:00 mark without the final "Mother Love" whisper. Caught me off guard there.[/QUOTE]


Yeah. Me too. Was close.....

The worst thing about the Alfie Boe documentary was Alfie Boe. Who thinks that singing a song 3 thousand octaves below how it should be sung is a good thing?

This is a great documentary!
The new footage was great, and Alfie did a wonderful job. Some great pipes he has, and he was very respectful towards Freddie. This documentary is right there with the "Days of Our lives" and "The great pretender".

Brian playing "Stone cold crazy" was great. I´m very happy with this. Just excellent!

At least he gave us this wonderfull documentary otherwise we didn't got to see a 17 year old Farrokh waving.

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[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuLhVFSQZM

Here too.

So are these the guys who sold off the footage and kept the originals ?
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Thank you so much for the youtube version.

I loved this and learned so much. So appreciated!

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It was such a great programme. It did Freddie justice IMO, lots of insights. TV on this side of the pond, take note...this is how it's done.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. My only problem was I'd never heard of the guy (not Freddie, the OTHER ONE)

Seemed part promotion, part fanship, part documentary. All in all this short film was a better credit to "discovering" Freddie than it's predecessor the great pretender.


Especially loved the focus given to collaborators Mike Moran, Brian May, Montserrat, and Mack.


A welcome change from the almost salacious great pretender that focused on his hedonism rather than his art.


Imho, much of that really truly belonged on "the days of our lives" documentary. Far too short and repetitive to warrant purchase.

Even the extras fell short.


Thank you posters for bringing this to my attention. (Stateside)

I agree this was a good programme. My favourite parts were seeing a teenage shy Freddie, and listening to Freddie and Monserrat fooling around in the studio.

It was also entertaining to listen to Bob Geldof saying that Freddie can't possibly be called a good-looking man, and that all the Queen guys looked "weird". I can't say I agree with him though. I think Freddie WAS good-looking, at least in the 1980s (he did look somewhat ugly in the 1970s), and I don't think Queen as a whole looked any more peculiar than any other band. And Freddie's style on stage was super cool.

Geldof did a lot of good for the world, and he's been through hell (and is still going through it, unfortunately, with the latest tragedy). But he's a bit of a shit. Kind of like Bono.