Freddie - Handsome or not!

This topic arises from Bob Geldof's remark about Freddie's looks.
Is Freddie handsome, or not?
Freddie has the kind of looks you either love or dislike! Perhaps guys don't find him attractive (straight men, I mean). Maybe girls see him differently...
In my opinion, although he does not have conventional good looks, he is really gorgeous in an inexplicable way - 70s Freddie (my personal favourite) and 80s Freddie as well. Even 'opera' Freddie!
What is your opinion?

I think he was quite a handsome guy.

I think he was intensely handsome, at times, in the 70's even beautiful.

As a young girl I didn't appreciate his looks because I wasn't into the clone look (which I didn't know about anyway) and he was old enough to be my dad. Also until live aid I actually didn't know what had happened to Queen. I used to ask people where was the band that wrote those wonderful songs like we are the champions, etc...people used to say don't know, think they went to Germany or something.

Only after he died did I realise he was that magical, fairy like creature I saw on the screen in 1976 (ok I was 6, so that's how I saw it). I was so upset then I went out and bought tribute magazines and I saw pictures that I'd not seen before and realised just how many times he'd changed his look and just how good looking he was.

Maybe Bob just couldn't get past the clone look.

I don't think he did himself any favours with the clone look, but with better teeth, film star good looks.

As a straight guy - I never rated Freddie`s look. To me his music skills,voice, stage performance and charisma matters most.

He wasn't just handsome, he was more than that, he had the most unique and striking features , very unusual and stood out from the crowd. But yes he was handsome and his charisma and personality shone through in his smiles and performance expressions, he reached the audience in a way other performers cannot hope to do.
He was not just a pretty face like so many.
He was the equivalent of a great classical painting a work of art, features wise.
My critique or thoughts on this is his face was the face of a great artist , and how he used that image was perfection.

He was certainly handsome, to say other wise is jealousy.
Bob Geldof is jealous of Freddie's teeth so much it causes him to say that. There is no other explanation, and we know that was what he was talking about.my goodness ! Freddie's Teeth were amazing, his Mouth was massive! It was his greatness , his roar'!!! To dismiss his mouth and teeth or want to change them is completely missing the point of Freddie Mercury, and if that changed he would have not looked right, never mind sound right.

[QUOTE] [b]SmokyQuartz wrote:[/b]


Only after he died did I realise he was that magical, fairy like creature I saw on the screen in 1976 (ok I was 6, so that's how I saw it).
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You know, that is exactly the way I feel. 70s Freddie has a very fae look about him! And I am not 6 years old. :)

Bob Geldof is one to talk!

Personally, I thought Freddie in the 70s didn't look that great, but he certainly wasn't ugly. Having seen the video of him in the 60s as a teenager, I think he looked better then than in the 70s.

On the other hand I think he looked great in the 80s - I'm not gay, but I like that 'clone' look, I think it really suited him and brought out his Persian features. He even looked really good in 1987, during The Great Pretender and Barcelona time.

I think he was the second best looking Queen after Roger.

But yeah, Geldof is one to talk! He looks thoroughly unremarkable, while Freddie stood out.

Incidentally Sid Vicious also said, in a radio interview, that Freddie looked awful and like "a Turk". But Sid is really just beneath comment.

Its not the only time someone famous refers to to Freddie as not handsome.

I think it was " Status quo" on a Queen documentary saying " you know, the ugly one, the one who sings" ( but that could be taken with a bit of salt cos they were friends,but still holds some basis)
And Diana Ross saying " he dosent turn me on" ( ....like we care Diana)

The thing about Freddie is that he had very strong features (so angles and lighting played a significant part) and not a western ( Anglo-Saxon/ American) type of look / face stracture wich is the standard to male and female beauty almost globaly.
Stronger jawline and chick bones, asian/orianetal eyes and a protruding forehead, not flat like most peoples. ( a bit Neanderthal but in good way ..lol) http://digboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/freddie-fangs.jpg

Also he was shelf aware not only about his teeth but generally had a constant tention ( what we today use to call a duckface pose). This is not bad of course but he knew what flirted him most and he projected it.

So his face was like a canvas combined with his creativity and the alter ego he wanted to project publicly. Its a bit tricky to meassure him in convensional terms of looks.

To give you an example in the "I was born to love you" video, (especially in the romantic scenes with that woman) he appears with the looks of a film star of the golden era of the silver-screen.( Rock Hudson , Tom Selleck etc)

http://mercurymelina.tumblr.com/post/86696081912

On some 70's photos he appears a bit ugly, or like a gipsy or something ( Brian had made a simillar statement about firstly introduced to him)

http://fuckyeahmercury.tumblr.com/image/86388806683
http://fuckyeahmercury.tumblr.com/post/86594792812/freddie-mercury-1974
http://mercurymelina.tumblr.com/post/84462368712

So the thing about if he was hundsome or not bothered me too sometimes.
But i should aggre with something stated above. It was the face of an artist!
http://fuckyeahmercury.tumblr.com/post/82847831499/freddie-practicing-with-a-dancer-at-the-shooting

[QUOTE] [b]ANAGRAMER wrote:[/b]

Bob Geldof is one to talk![/QUOTE]

GOtta agree,..... he's an ugly fuck if there ever was one. Slimy, frail puny welsh looking speckled man. How dare he approach his twisted perspective on someone who was (straight guy talking) pretty damn handsome before his clone queer look.



(Excepting the 74-76 Magazíne circuit. He looked terrible. Tacky varnish and velvet. Eck.





Straight commenting. I'd say he was most handsome in 1979 and 1991 with his beard.

Teeth aside (I hardly noticed them and never judged them) he was a handsome man.

The Zandra Rhodes stuff was abominable ... NOT HIM

I think he was ugly, but I'm a heterosexual man, homosexuals or women will probably have a different opinion.

[QUOTE] [b]noorie wrote:[/b]
You know, that is exactly the way I feel. 70s Freddie has a very fae look about him! And I am not 6 years old. :)[/QUOTE]

I still see it now, back then I believed it! lol! I certainly didn't think he was human and I was sad that he had to go (ie lyrics to Bo Rhap). Vivid imagination, children were children in those days :-)

Handsome Parsi from beginning to end.

I don't really think he was necessarily good or bad looking. He didn't look average either. Kind of weird looking; but not in a bad way.