Freddie Mercury-Send In The Clowns

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XZzglak-q4&hd=1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XZzglak-q4&hd=1[/url]

it could be, but it could also NOT be.
there's nothing on there that a good player/mimic couldn't do. no vocals, no audible talking

so, i'd like to reserve judgement on this "find" until it's corroborated.

Credible source BUT.. even if it is Freddie.. couldn't care less about a discarded piano recording...

That sounds a lot like an upright piano. Did Freddie have one of those alongside his other black piano at Garden Lodge?
Also, not too sure of the playing style either. This is probably best labelled as 'suspect' for now.

From what i have been told, this track is from a tape Jim Hutton owned. It contains 4 instrumental pieces all done by Freddie.

I suppose a way to help determine some authenticity would to ask someone such as Peter Freestone if that track was one that Freddie would listen to, or play, at home. If he says yes it would help go towards some 'provenance'. If he says he never once heard Freddie play the song (and he was with him as much/more than most at home) then that would count against.

Not definitive I know, but it would help.

Is true, is from a tape selled for a collector by Jim Hutton.

This track is genuine; and I am the collector.

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Jim Hutton a wee while before he died, and I did indeed purchase the cassette from him.

It may not have been Freddie's taste in music (I am not sure) but it was Jim's, and Jim would pester Freddie to play these sort of tracks for him. Freddie would respond with a few spontaneous bars - and then give up (I guess because he did not know the rest) and laugh it off as some sort of joke. (This is evidenced in other Garden Lodge tapes of a similar period).

Regardless of what you read in the press (or hear otherwise), there was a genuine closeness between Freddie and Jim and when Freddie pissed Jim-off, and Jim went off in a sulky strop; Oftentimes Freddie would later "apologise" in his own way with some lavishly generous gift.

But on one or two occasions, after very serious bust-ups; (and after brooding a while) Freddie would pretty quickly listen to one of Jim's favourite pieces of music, practice a few times, and then tape-record his version for Jim as some sort personalised peace offering, and special apology.

These are Jim's recollections - not mine.
I have never "released" these because they were an intimate communication between two men. Somethings were just not meant to be heard in public.

However - some scumbags - like David C*ntface Fuller, think it is fine to sell these on (after receiving these freely in good faith) for personal gain.

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

I hope this resolves all doubt about the question.

Gerry; I agree with you 200%!
100% from my point of view, and 100% with yours!

To be honest, I don't know.
But what I do know is that Jim was a bitter and broken man - but that was because of the politics and greed you alluded to.
Nevertheless there was STILL a deep affection for Freddie and he came across more as the lover burned; than as a man with an axe to grind.

Hey, you pays your money and take your choice, but he seemed genuine enough to me.

Gerry; I agree with you 200%!
100% from my point of view, and 100% with yours!

To be honest, I don't know.
But what I do know is that Jim was a bitter and broken man - but that was because of the politics and greed you alluded to.
Nevertheless there was STILL a deep affection for Freddie and he came across more as the lover burned; than as a man with an axe to grind.

Hey, you pays your money and take your choice, but he seemed genuine enough to me.

Thanks John for the story.

Now that this song is public, can you share a lossless scan of the song?

And another question, how that song become public? I mean, you are the owner of the cassette and another person upload it.

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[b]gerry wrote: [/b] yes i truly believe jim made freddie very happy and fr once in his life freddie could be comfortable and himself.
Although freddie was fond of mary she was shield from his sexuality, until freddie got the courage to tell her the truth.
She was never the less a leach when freddie left his will and a bitter row erupted between mary and jim, and he got badly hurt.
Jim deserved more than what he inherited and mary did not deserve what she got.[/QUOTE]

Gerry
this whole conversation can rack up some strong arguments here. see previous threads :-)

Anyhow, my opinion on it - Freddie left her the house to do with as she chose - this was HOW MUCH he thought of Mary - perhaps if he truly loved Jim he'd have left it to him?  It was Mary's and so were the contents that he bequeathed to her.

Tell me honestly that if someone left you a house in their will, that YOU'D be happy to have the deceased's old friends still living there...and if so, how long would YOU be ok with that situation...think about it. All the friends, and friends of friends and the hangers on and liggers - people you've never met ....after all it was her house and up to her who she let live there - or not.

Thanks for the info, John. I was happy to hear the tracks, but I'm sorry it was a result of you getting screwed over.

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Thank you Chief Mouse!

It's a shame why this is leaked...