I met her, just before the 'Tribute' concert,she was a lovely lady,answering questions and having photos taken with fans of Freddie, i should imagine after 26 years it pisses her off, it would me!
Invisible Woman · Member since
Mary is the owner of the house and has the right to do what she wants with the house.
I noticed something else.
In the text it says:
"Mary, who lived with Freddie on and off for 20 years and nursed him until his death, inherited the house along with his £9m fortune."
Did she really was his nurse?I don't think so.
And next:
"Freddie formed Queen in 1970 with pals Brian May, 70, and Roger Taylor, 68, and the trio went on to sell 300 million records."
Trio?
Did John is just our imagination?
matt z · Member since
^i didn't click on a similar daily mail post. Maybe THEY got their facts right. I dunno :-/
john bodega · Member since
Couple of considerations :
- fans should've left the door alone. It's reasonable to take measures to protect the door.
- the perspex on the walls, though, is a mistake to remove. I left a note there for Freddie in 2014 and it was a real Spinal Tap "too much fucking perspective" moment. Shouldn't take that away from people.
- all of this having been said ... I definitely don't care if Freddie would be rolling in his grave or not, because it's a figure of speech. He's not around anymore. Also don't care what Mary Austin thinks. She's just a lotto winner with a nice house.
Supersonic_Man89 · Member since
You inherit a £9 million property...the fans leave it alone apart from the outside of one wall/entrance which is only used for deliveries - where they write/scribble messages that mean so much to them...and she's able to heartlessly remove that?
There is no grave...there is no statue in England...the fans didn't harass his parent's house and they don't harass his sisters. That was their one place - something which had been there for a quarter of a century. Gone. Why? I just don't see how a multi-millionaire like herself could really have been traumatised by a part of a wall had such beautiful messages scrawled upon it.
I think it's incredibly disappointing and Freddie would have disapproved. Of course Freddie loved things looking beautiful and smart etc. but he also had a heart and was very sentimental.
felix ibex · Member since
too much noise for her I guess anyway some of freddies ashes are underneath the oak tree with the fish
perpetual craze · Member since
Freddie wanted Mary to have his house, that was his wish! It’s nobody’s business and she owes the fans nothing! Anyone who judges her needs to get a life.
I guess if Freddie would have approved of fans vandalising the outside of his home then he would have left his house to his fans in his will, going on past actions if he had then there wouldn’t be much left of it by now. Anyone who thinks they have a right to vandalise other people’s property should learn to grow up and master the art of respect.
MercuryArts · Member since
Don't vandalize, just drop a small bouquet of flowers by the door. That's what I would/will do if I ever get over there.
Invisible Woman · Member since
I clicked on a link from the topic, there is a part of the text about "trio".
I go back to the topic.
As I said,Mary is the owner of the house.
She is now an older woman and I understand she is annoyed about all these things but I don't understand why she did it now, she could did it after the anniversary of his death.
I also understand fans who are angry and disappointed because of this.
Someone says "Freddie would not be liked to see such a vandalism" or "why the messages stand when he can not read them".
Maybe.Maybe not.
Maybe he would be touched by these messages. I believe he would be pleased because the fans still remember him with enormous love although more than 25 years have passed.
Maybe he would be sad because all this was removed.
Nobody knows what Freddie would be think about it.
master marathon runner · Member since
Full respect to Mary.
That's all.
people on streets · Member since
Totally agree with Mary.
Vandalize your own house. Idiots.
Daniel Nester · Member since
And you got Tacky Jacky defending it all.
SmokyQuartz · Member since
I visited there once, when I'd noticed on a map that Logan Place was just around the corner from a hotel I was staying in.
So I walked there and spent a few minutes just remembering Freddie. I didn't have paper or pen or flowers with me, but I would never have dreamt of ever carving into wood or bricks on the property or writing on walls or the door.
If fans care about Freddie, they would care that his property, now Mary's, maintains it's value in that area. With damage or grafitti it's value goes down. It's possible to remember and be respectful. She is probably just trying to stop vandalism, not flowers or notes.
john bodega · Member since
^ it's erroneous to suggest that people should care about every little thing relating to Freddie just because they dug the music.
I wouldn't waste an ounce of sympathy on Mary over any of this - again, she struck it pretty big in life. I think she's doing fine.
People doing irreversible physical damage by carving, etching, or drawing on property are fucknuts, but no harm was done by being able to put a note behind the perspex. That's all really.
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Kuijpy wrote:[/b]
Awful person, golddigging, what If Freddie was a carpenter? Then was all the contact brokan, look what she did to the guys Freddie loved, jealous golddigging bitch,
Don't like her.[/QUOTE]
ha ! Are you serious?
If he was a carpenter, she still would have loved him. She knew him when he was dirt poor. Can't say the same for the others.
Freddie said she was the only person he ever trusted. And his other "friends" wrote tell-all books that made his private life public.