Brian May question & answer session Queen convention 2001

Oscar J wrote:

About one in five of your posts are quite worthwhile to read to me,.

Very low odds then. You'd save yourself a lot of time by ignoring them all.

Oscar J wrote:

Like those inaccurate statements made by Brian that you just seem to love to bring up whenever an opportunity presents itself.

It's not about love, hate or any other feeling. It's about how their connexion to the topic. If it's about someone writing memoirs, then, in my opinion, it's worth discussing whether that person's memory's accurate enough for memoirs.

Oscar J wrote:

Furthermore, it's not like facts he'd write in proposed memoirs would have the same accuracy as statements he's made half an hour into an interview in a godforsaken studio somewhere. He would have access to his discography and thousands of other peoples articles on the different subjects.

If so, I'd gladly buy it and read it. Hopefully that'll be the case.

So most interesting sound bite I heard was that he wrote a theme for a James Bond film that was rejected.... I wonder if he recorded more than a demo/ I wonder what happened to it? did it go on to become something else? or will we never hear it?.....

Thanks a lot for posting!!!

Cheers,

Ogre-

Sebastian wrote:

Oscar J wrote:

About one in five of your posts are quite worthwhile to read to me,.

Very low odds then. You'd save yourself a lot of time by ignoring them all.

Gotta admit, folks - that's seriously funny.

Well played.

Sigh... well I'm glad that our conversation at least had some comical value to someone. :)

With that said, I don't mind skimming through a few rubbish posts to strike gold every now and then. Hell, people buy lottery tickets with much lower odds than that, right?

Oscar J wrote:

Hell, people buy lottery tickets with much lower odds than that, right?

Actually, people are statistically more likely to have a sizeable amount of money for retirement if they save five quid a week (or five dollars a week, or five euro a week, etc) for twenty years. Playing lotto's fine as a hobby which might one day make you a millionaire, but it's not by any means a wise investment.

If you read my posts expecting me to stop mentioning memory lapses (including my own), the fact Fred's favourite singer was not Paul Rodgers, the fact John Deacon hated 'Hot Space', etc., then you're certainly barking up the wrong tree. You'd be better off ignoring all of my posts and simply spending those seconds (or minutes, or hours) sleeping, or writing (you could've finished a nice novel by now), or mastering a sport, an instrument, a foreign language, walking your dog (or your crocodile, rhino, or whatever your pet is ... or your kid if you've got no pets ... or your imaginary friend if you're religious), etc.

Im pretty sure I read in a Queen bio that was written in the 70s, which I picked up at a book fair in early 1990s, that Freddie used to go into the Marquee to see Free perform and was a fan of Paul Rodgers voice.

I may be muddled on the source, but I definitely read it somewhere, long before the Q+PR association.

Togg wrote:

So most interesting sound bite I heard was that he wrote a theme for a James Bond film that was rejected.... I wonder if he recorded more than a demo/ I wonder what happened to it? did it go on to become something else? or will we never hear it?.....

Oh yes! I never heard of that before

AlbaNo1 wrote:

Im pretty sure I read in a Queen bio that was written in the 70s, which I picked up at a book fair in early 1990s, that Freddie used to go into the Marquee to see Free perform and was a fan of Paul Rodgers voice.

I may be muddled on the source, but I definitely read it somewhere, long before the Q+PR association.

For sure, I have too.

But he wasn't his favourite. Mercury stated many times that his favourite singers were Aretha Franklin and Montserrat Caballe.

Sebastian wrote:

or your imaginary friend if you're religious

Ha, zing ! You threw in the kitchen sink with that post.

Sebastian wrote:

If you read my posts expecting me to stop mentioning memory lapses (including my own), the fact Fred's favourite singer was not Paul Rodgers, the fact John Deacon hated 'Hot Space', etc., then you're certainly barking up the wrong tree.

Can't blame me for trying. :)

Sebastian wrote:
You'd be better off ignoring all of my posts and simply spending those seconds (or minutes, or hours) sleeping, or writing (you could've finished a nice novel by now), or mastering a sport, an instrument, a foreign language, walking your dog (or your crocodile, rhino, or whatever your pet is ... or your kid if you've got no pets ... or your imaginary friend if you're religious), etc.

Ha ... and you're suggesting *I* have too much time on my hands?

I am a quite fast reader, and there are certainly no novels going to be written should I stop skimming through your posts. Especially as they tend to be so similar. But hey, some signs of imagination in this latest one, good on ya.

The Real Wizard wrote:

But he wasn't his favourite. Mercury stated many times that his favourite singers were Aretha Franklin and Montserrat Caballe.

And Robert Plant and George Michael and ... and ... he mentioned a few, which is logical because loads of people have a number of favourite singers. Fred admiring Paul is absolutely believable, logical, probable and very likely to have been true; Freddie idolising Paul and considering him his favourite singer... not at all.