Freddie Mercury on Billy Idol

I saw that Freddie made this quote about Billy Idol "Is Billy Idol doing a bad Elvis pout or was he born that way?"
Does anyone know where this quote was made and if there is a video of him saying it?

Its a bad Elvis pout... still dining out on it....

Billy Idol another of the 80s talent less twit.

i thought he's managed a few good tunes in his time... and what little you know Gerry - he's from the 70s - Generation X - "Valley of The Dolls" "King Rocker" "Dancing With Myself" and "Kiss Me Deadly" - his solo stuff also had some nice tunes:
"White Wedding" "Eyes Without A Face" "To Be A Lover" "Don't Need A Gun" "Catch My Fall" and "John Wayne"

His guitarist Steve Stevens, is pretty good too.

as for the "pout" it started off as a "snarl" (Gen X) then progressed to the "pout", but these days the hybrid snarl/pout "snout"
had evolved into a confused look of "where did i leave my car keys?"

He was never really one of my favorites, but yeah, he did have some good songs........and Steve Stevens is a hell of a guitar player......he's on a whole bunch of other people's albums, too! (I did know he was on "Dirty Diana" but I had no idea he played the "Top Gun" theme! cool)

Stevens was picked over Eddie Van Halen to play the guitars on the Top Gun theme if I remember correctly. Did a great job on it too, IMO.

I saw Billy Idol recently, not my idea but I went along with it. Pretty standard rock show but he has plenty charisma and a handful of good tunes., and guitarist is decent but didnt particularly like his tone


Idols snarl and other facial expressions were pretty funny/entertaining. I think he knows that. Well I hope he does anyway.

Thanks for the responses. Does anyone know who Freddie made this quote to or when he made it? I just came across it on the web but it didn't have a source.