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Freddie Mercury rare footage from 1964

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If you missed Alfie Boe:- Freddie Mercury Saved My Life Documentary here is the footage with Freddie from 1964 [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61iHLckFy0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61iHLckFy0[/url]
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School friends? He was not in a band, right? Why was it filmed? Just for fun? It must have been a special occation because not mnay had a recorder at the time. Anyone know more about this footage?
What a great band!
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i dont think he was in a band yet...it was shot by a school friend with a super 8 mm camera...just for fun ....
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Colour cameras exist in Britain since early 60's. Film schools had them, most likely including Ealing (which I assume had a film department considering it was an arts & media school AFAIK), so all it'd have taken was for one of them to borrow one from college and try it out.

No need for a special occasion, no need to be tycoons or multi-millionaires. Just some students having fun... mobile phones and iPads have made those kind of things far more common but it doesn't mean they didn't exist in the late 20th century.
John hated Hot Space. Frederick's favourite singer was not Paul Rodgers. Roger didn't compose 'Innuendo.' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' hasn't got 180 vocal overdubs.
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awesome. thanks a bunch
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I thought it was quite telling

Freddie did seem quite shy and especially guarded about his teeth

Shame really
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Awesome footage. Thanks a lot.
"I really feel like being evil tonight."
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It's so nice to see this man this way. It almost makes him more real. Sometimes I feel he's become a phantom. So omni-present in our daily lives, but yet so far, far away. Almost like a legend of a hero from the past.
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Great footage.
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[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]

It's so nice to see this man this way. It almost makes him more real. Sometimes I feel he's become a phantom. So omni-present in our daily lives, but yet so far, far away. Almost like a legend of a hero from the past.[/QUOTE]

Totally agree. The image of him with his fist in the air, in that yellow jacket feels almost like Nike's "Just do it" logo or something. His real persona got hidden even almost deeper, because of all this over-exploitation of Wembley and Live Aid imagery. Very good documentary.
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He was self-conscious by covering his teeth.
"He knew exactly what was going on. He knew that was his last performance, he could barely stand." Roger Taylor commenting on Freddie's last video appearance.
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Ah, awesome
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Here's the actor to play the young Freddie if that movie were to be made soon

https://www.google.com/search?q=jordan+gavaris&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yVB9U5-QNZCcyATCnIKABg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=673

Or, if it gets made 15 years from now, he'd be perfect for the '80s Freddie.
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Wow, thanks. That really shows Freddie's more personal, more introverted side.