Thoughts on Thor Arnold and Lee Nolan's eleven year friendship with Freddie

Doughnut, It will be loaded on YouTube wont it like the others.When is it?

For Crying Out Loud Villiers!!
Just pass that dreadful stone already!!!!....You have a very important Live to broadcast!!!! If Thor can conquer the almighty Tire Gods.....YOU can Surely beat down the Dreadful Kidney Stone Gods!!!!
.......too bad you couldn't enjoy that Morphine!! Lol
Seriously Sis, we are here for you!!!! PLEASE feel better soon......xoxo

Thor I agree with everyone - you guys will be GREAT. Nobody wants perfect - we just want the real and wonderful YOU. I love what Rainbows said! Ditto

So glad the tire gods granted you safe passage.

Holy God Villiers2 - SUCKS about your kidney stone!! I hope you are feeling better very soon

Black Queen's kid - I love your philosophy!

> A very entertaining guy named Tony (last name escapes me > right now). He used to be Man Friday (or Phoebe if you will) > for Elton John and Yoko Ono. This guy had the funniest stories > ever and his delivery and timing were great. He kept Freddie > laughing for sure. Thor, we think we have found this Tony in our Russian team of sherlockholmeses:) Is he the man on the photo that I have attached? This is Tony King (photo is from Phoebe's book "Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man who Knew Him Best: An Intimate Memoir by the Man who Knew Him Best"). Here is what Phoebe writes about Tony King: "Tony King, who worked for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and thereafter Yoko and thereafter Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall was also a constant friend in New York as he was permanently resident there." "Freddie and his good friend Tony King started up what was to become an international game known to more than a few of his friends. The 'B' Moviestar game started in a bar in New York where we each had to name an actress who while being a known name had never made the 'A' list. The likes of Viviane Ventura, Laya Raki, Britt Ekland, Tania Elg, Viveka Lindfors - sorry, girls - but you were at the top of Freddie's list. Even Joan Collins who has since become a household name due to her wonderful work on television." Lesley-Ann Jones gives a bit different description of how this game started: "Also in 1975, Elton teamed up with a second Scot carving a name for himself: Rod Stewart. <...> It was during the sessions for this LP that they hit upon the old theatrical custom of calling themselves by women's names. Elton was dubbed Sharon Cavendish, a name which he would use routinely on tour. Rod was Phyllis, after the actress Phyllis Diller. <...> When Freddie found out, he had to join in, and became Melina Mercouri. <...> Freddie would one day employ an entire entourage known by female names. His PA was Phoebe (Peter Freestone), his former lover turned chef was Liza (Joe Fanelli), and his personal manager Paul Prenter was Trixie. Nor were friends and band members immune: Brian was Maggie, as in Rod's hit 'Maggie May'. Roger was Liz, for Elizabeth Taylor. <...> and Mick Jagger's assistant and Freddie's long-standing friend, Tony King, became Joy. Mary Austin, taking things the other way, was Steve, as in TV's 'The Six Million Dollar Man', Steve Austin. Did she mind? 'Nobody was allowed to mind!' laughed Phoebe. 'You knew that someone was accepted if they got "a name". John Deacon never had one, curiously. Perhaps because he was so shy.'" Finally, Peter Hince says in his book that John Deacon had a nickname "Belisha (Belisha Beacon?)", but that's not a female name:) I hope this long post has been useful! :)

On the topic of marriage Peter Freestone writes in his blog:

„Barbara asked if I thought Freddie and Jim would have got married, if it was possible, as it is now legal. To be honest, I don’t think it would have happened. Freddie was very traditional in his thoughts and for him marriage was between a husband and wife. Freddie was very happy to be in a relationship with Jim, but I think Freddie carried it as far as he felt he was able to. Freddie was a very complicated person, and some of the things he did were contrary to his traditional up-bringing, but he did what HE felt comfortable doing.“

Of course, this is a hypothetical question, but I don't think Peter can even know what Freddie would think of a same-sex marriage today. The society has changed a lot in the past thirty years, it is quite possible that Freddie's opinions would change as well. And we don't know what his personal life would be like ... By the way, I read that, for example, Elton John was not a big fan of same-sex marriage (he said in 2008 he preferred civil partnerships over marriage for gay people) - and where he is today.

I am very much looking forward to live chat on Instagram.

villiers I turned into your live yesterday am (uk time) and I said hello. I don't know if you saw it as I had to sign off and go to work . As others have said 'get that kidney stone out '

I love your accent by the way :)



Thor and Lee I have you are having a blast :)

Chevyman if you miss the live I wouldn't worry as I'm sure that Villiers will upload it to her youtube account. I think Thor said he will tell us when it is going to go ahead so we don't miss it.

We will never know if they would have gotten married, although I don't think they would have done it whilst Freddie's parents were alive out of respect.

peace out

Hi

This is totally unrelated to Freddie , other than it's a photo of London, where Freddie lived, but I thought I'd share the photo I took on Westminster bridge in around 2005, maybe. I use it as the wallpaper on my tablet, and am considering getting it made into a large canvas at a photo shop.

It was taken on a late November evening and it had been tipping down with rain. I was soaked to the skin! Suffering for my "art"! :-)
But, those weather conditions proved VERY atmospheric.

Hope you enjoy! Happy Holidays to you all.

BTW I saw Mercury (the Queen Tribute band endorsed by Jer) in concert last night! Wow! Fabulous! They really rocked the house! I thoroughly enjoyed my little self! :-)

Bye for now, peeps !

Not sure if that worked! Let's try again!

Let me know if it works! For me it says "file wont open"! Mystery to me!

Once more ....

Blimey will anything work ...?

FINALLY! It worked! Phew! Didn't take that long to take the photo!

Freddiedarling I was able to view all of the photos lol....you nutter. I was black at first but then loaded up your photo. I think it's a great idea to put it onto canvas.

Glad you had a great time at the tribute act show.....I don't have anyone into queen like me so I can't go to any tribute acts lol

Did you buy the Freddie doll on e bay ?

arrrr
it was black at first not i was black at first

FreddieDarling, nice photo! I saw a Queen tribute band (a different one, though) a few years ago, and although it was perfectly decent, I couldn’t quite get into it for some reason. Glad you had a blast.

Doughnut, don’t let the lack of company stop you from going to shows. I had a similar problem, so I just started going alone and it’s great. You can be completely immersed in the music without worrying about anyone else (and it’s not like you can have a conversation during a show anyway, so it’s really not a big deal).

Villers, I’m sorry about your misfortunes. First a cold and now a kidney stone? Damn. Keeping my fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.