Popularity of individual members of Queen according to Google

[b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b] Anyone have a link to that clip I
saw years ago.........where someone was interviewing Freddie, and said
something about him being the leader of Queen or it being HIS band or
something to that effect.....Freddies response was along the lines of
"no I'm not the leader, we're four equal guys"

Someone should show gerry that....lol

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This is the one you're referring to I think - [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8MKb01_D8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8MKb01_D8[/url]

Yeah, that was it all right! Thanks, Costa!

Talk about a clueless interviewer! She didn't even know who wrote the song she was talking about............the female Brazilian version of Larry King, I guess...........

Fronting Queen was a very difficult job, why do you think Freddie had trouble with his throat on a regular basis, and i know Drummers have it hard as well
so please do not treat me as an idiot, or patronise me because i know all of this.
But as front men go, Freddie must have been the most hardest working ever in music.
Singing for over 2 hours must have been awful for fred, every night and running round dripping in sweat
just look at The Wembley 86 dvd and see freddie dripping wet with sweat, i really felt for him.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]Singing for over 2 hours must have been awful for fred, every night and running round dripping in sweat[/QUOTE]
Gerry...there were very very few queen gigs that clocked in at two hours - where do you get this "info" from?

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]just look at The Wembley 86 dvd and see freddie dripping wet with sweat, i really felt for him.[/QUOTE]
the wembley gigs were well under two hours. and when you take out the gaps between encores etc it's barely 1hr 40mins.
added to that the guitar solos etc and the actual instrumentation passages in the songs - freddie did not sing for anything like two hrs
added to this the fact that bands like Zep, Yes & genesis regularly did gigs of 2hrs + - zep sometimes almost 3 hrs - queen's gigs were quite short n sweet by comparison.

ps - drummers - by virtue of the fact that they are keeping time with all four limbs - are usually the fittest member of the band and work hardest...by a long chalk - but then (as a drummer) you already knew that?

Just from a quick search of queenconcerts.com, the longest show I can find is one from the Jazz tour, at 134 minutes!

And am I sure there MUST be a few out there, but I cant really think of any fat drummers off the top of my head..........LOL

Well, Taylor became increasingly pot bellied from the early 80's and on.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Fronting Queen was a very difficult job, why do you think Freddie had trouble with his throat on a regular basis, and i know Drummers have it hard as well
so please do not treat me as an idiot, or patronise me because i know all of this.
But as front men go, Freddie must have been the most hardest working ever in music.
Singing for over 2 hours must have been awful for fred, every night and running round dripping in sweat
just look at The Wembley 86 dvd and see freddie dripping wet with sweat, i really felt for him.
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Well as has been pointed out RT's job over the same period would have been more physical. And maybe more mentally taxing, as he not only had to keep time, thus hold the whole band together but also sing, which often goes against what keeping time requires.

As for nobody working harder than Freddie, he was great, the greatest, but plenty worked ax hard or harder on stage. Take a look at film of Paul Stanley in the early to mid 80's or Micheal Jackson or Jagger.

As for the length of shows, Zappa, Rush, Zep, The Who all played longer shows than Queen, and in fact the current Queen set and the Last Paul Rodgers set were are/were the longest Queen shows since the 70's

[QUOTE] [b]Vocal harmony wrote:[/b]


As for the length of shows, Zappa, Rush, Zep, The Who all played longer shows than Queen, and in fact the current Queen set and the Last Paul Rodgers set were are/were the longest Queen shows since the 70's



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Longest Queen shows EVER, in fact! If you go by the average length of the shows, the QPR and QAL tours would have to be......both regularly went in the 130-140 minute range, while Queen concerts that long were few and far between in 70s and 80s!

Other artists may have had longer sets but Freddie put his life and soul in to Queen gigs.
It takes a very clever front man to keep the crowds interested for such a long time.
sitting behind a drum kit may be hard work, but mentally and physically a front mans job is harder.
Freddie had it all, that is why he is considered the master showman he was.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

It takes a very clever front man to keep the crowds interested for such a long time.
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And Freddie wasn't the only one who could do that!

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[b]gerry wrote: [/b] Fronting Queen was a very difficult job, why do you think Freddie had trouble with his throat on a regular basis
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The reason he had trouble with his throat was because of the nodules, not the mental pressure of fronting the band.