Mr Bad Guy, Freddies escape route?

^^^^ agreed, the 80's wasn't my favourite Queen period, although there were some moments, and Freddie As a band member was better than Freddie the solo artist.

And nobody ever proved that Freddie [b]wasn't [/b]Kim Basinger.

Sorry.  It needed to be said.

Also, Fred said 'I dress to kill,' which is uncontestable proof he admitted having at least attempted to murder someone... in fact, he did confess having committed an assassination: 'Mama, just killed a man.'

There's an interview with Mary Turner where Fred crearly says he doesn't have plans to leave the band because of his solo album. He didn't want to play his solo album live either.

I always understood that he signed a one-record deal to do Mr Bad Guy........if he was seriously thinking of leaving, wouldnt he have signed a longer deal?

He signed the deal because the advance was huge. Much bigger than other companies were offering for longer deals. The amount of money was also bigger than Queen were getting at the time

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

Also, Fred said 'I dress to kill,' which is uncontestable proof he admitted having at least attempted to murder someone... in fact, he did confess having committed an assassination: 'Mama, just killed a man.'[/QUOTE]

Freddie's involvement in the professional assassin scene should be explored in greater detail. After all, he had all predispositions: the killer look, supreme intelligence, an independent business with multiple global engagement opportunities, right personality to meet and get close to people, etc. Perhaps BoRhap was in fact an ad for his services that MI6 or other intelligence agency picked up on and then helped launch Queen into global scene just so Freddie can do his dirty deeds. Well, if gun did not kill, Freddie also spread a killer virus.

[QUOTE] [b]pittrek wrote:[/b]

I haven't seen the documentary since 2011 but didn't Roger say they had the meetings after the Hot Space tour and not in 1985?[/QUOTE]

Correct.

Things were far, far worse in the Queen camp in 1982-85 than any of us can realize.

Without a doubt, Mr Bad Guy was Freddie's attempt at running for the exits.

Had it been successful, and had it not been for Live Aid, they almost certainly would have split after the Japanese 1985 dates.

In that case, Freddie's favourite singer would have been free to tour with Queen almost 20 years earlier than he did... Wouldn't that have been an amazing break for all of us?

Actually, Paul Rodgers was in The Firm at the time.

I like the album, but it's a fact the mix of the album is so dated, the album looks like made in 80 or 81, not 85, and the music changes everyday.

I don't think there's a black and white answer to this. I do not believe that this was a planned escape route of sorts...just part of the puzzle.

Obviously during the 1982-1985 era things had deteriorated within the band for various reasons. The band was obviously tired of each other and their grueling schedule and need a break. I don't think they made any grandiose plans - it was more of a drift off and do their own things and see how things go.

Any number of different things could have changed and the band might have ceased to exist. Strange Frontier takes off and maybe Roger decides that he likes having more than 2-3 songs - Mr. Bad Guy sets the world alight and Freddie spurring a Freddie tour and maybe Freddie likes being in complete control forcing Brian to tour solo or create a new band...any ton of things. But as things happened they drifted away, had some time apart, and as things would have it (thank god) decided to drift back together - and perhaps indeed Geldof/Live Aid was a contributing factor....

Live Aid and a reunion after that in Berlin without Paul Prenter was the key for Queen continued as a band. That story Peter Freestone told me.

freddie,Wembley '86 : " there have been some rumours lately, about a certain band called Queen, and those rumours are that we're going to split up, whaddya think ? - they talk from here ! (Freddie points at his arse) . I'll tell you, we'll be together 'til we fucking well die" blah blah blah.
- A radical shift from the year previous.
If you believe that they were .

The fact that '86 saw then far more together was probably down to a couple of things:

The aforementioned 'clear the air' meeting after Live Aid in Berlin

The fact that Freddie knew by then his health was not right, and so his earlier desire to possibly leave the band had waned