For the first time I watched 'The Great Pretender' documentary, last night. It was about as revealing as we are going to get regarding Queen's relationship in the early to mid 1980s. It seems that the band had fallen out with Freddie and Freddie had fallen out with the band, and had it not been for the enormous flop of Mr Bad Guy, and the enormous success of Live Aid, then the subsequent Magic Tour would probably never have happened, Queen would have split, and perhaps they'd have come back together after finding out Freddie was sick, but we can't begin to speculate on how that would have all panned out.
Funny to see the American side of the awesome performance :P
Freddie's voice comes through so clearly!
What so funny about it? Freddie was gay, so the Americans apparently elected to talk straight through the performance in stead of showing it. Typical.
^ That's why it was funny. Nobody would pay attention to what these two have to say, because Freddie's voice in the background came through SO clear.
[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]
...had it not been for the enormous flop of Mr Bad Guy, and the enormous success of Live Aid, then the subsequent Magic Tour would probably never have happened, Queen would have split, and perhaps they'd have come back together after finding out Freddie was sick...[/QUOTE]
I don't think so. With Freddie's character and pride, if not for the flop (Mr Bad Guy) and the success (Live Aid), he probably wouldn't have let the band know that he'd been sick. The band might have known about it after everybody, when it'd been too late.
Or even if he had, it would not have been the same. The band coming back together because they pitied Freddie's sickness, would have been totally different from the band coming back together because they realised that they still could make good music together and people still needed them. In the first case, there might have been A Kind of Magic or The Miracle or Magic Tour, but there would definitely not have been Innuendo, in particular Bijou or TSMGOn, as these songs demonstrate top team work. So, we owe a lot to Live Aid.
Of course it's just my speculation without any evidence. Any "If" could result in a Nazi premise, as folks here used to say.
30 years and it's still fresh. fuck we are getting old thou. It was 20 years only 10 years ago. what happened to time?
Also Italian newspapers and websites celebrated the 30th anniversary. For Italian fans (and also for the others), some pictures here (some of which I have never seen before):
http://www.corriere.it/foto-gallery/spettacoli/15_luglio_13/live-aid-ae81d2b8-2579-11e5-85c7-ee55c78b3bf9.shtml
http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/musica/2015/07/12/foto/live_aid_anniversario_evento_30_anni-118922960/1/#1
http://www.virginradio.it/gallery/183746/Live-Aid-30-anni-dopo-.html
