Brian May exclusive interview: Queen, debauchery and Freddie Mercury.

Well, it's a moving read and an interesting one. Thanks for sharing!

This is the first time that we hear about Freddie losing most of his foot. Did the journalist conducting the interview overstepped here a little and used her own words ?

Thanks to Noidea for posting all those posts above.

For those interested, I have uploaded several scans of that article. Here is the first.

Here is the second scan

Here is the third scan

Here is the fourth scan

Here is the fifth scan

And here is the last scan

I think she is a fan - she does not agree with the choice of the new singer either lol.

Quite an overreaction from Bri there I feel.

That many words simply on the contents of the book would have been boring. The journalist obviously had to pad out the article with some backstory, and the content of the interview. Brian was happy to discuss the things he did with her, so I don't understand why he'd be unhappy if some of that ended up in the article.

There was fresh content for even the most hardcore Queen fans (Munich having a serious negative impact on John for example), and I don't really see the overall tone of the article as sensationalist. As YV said, it's fairly humourous in tone, and Bri should be prepared to be called-out a little on some of his more eccentric habits and actions.

I enjoyed it. And I think it was a decent attempt in producing an interesting and informative article that also promotes an upcoming passion-project.

Brian is a control freak, for better or worse.

I wish I was able to like it, but the article reads like it was written by an NME journalist in the 80s - snide, arrogant and mean spirited. I have to say that I'm glad Brian came out and disavowed the article. I didn't find it lighthearted or enlightening in the slightest. Just an article of half-truths and lies.
As I was reading it though I just wondered why Brian would agree to it. Especially the Times.

I'm glad to finally fully understand "we went to bali, saw God and Dali"

It's as I expected and even predicted. Now all the so-called tabloid press are putting the centre of their interest on Freddie losing his foot.

I asked earlier in this post, because we've heard about it in the Days of Our Lives documentary but there Brian said it in a way that would point to Freddie having *some* problem with it even though it didn't look well but here he said it in a way like whole or majority of his foot were amputated! Can any of you clarify whole situation here ?

Well... Brian talking about Freddie's foot (what's the point? Do we have pictures of it in the book?) is as sensationalist as the cocaine trays.

My guess is that it was emaciated and developed a hole that never healed. Doubt any amputation that would invite infection. ... but I'm no doctor.