Meeting Freddie

Thank you JRD1951! A lot of valuable info in your posts.

The Breakthru video is my favourite. Summer 1989 was, for the UK, uncharacteristically hot and sunny, and this summer sunshine video transports me back to those happy days.
Jrd1951, another reason for Queen's star fading in the states was of course the infamous Paul Prenter. TV and radio stations would seek interviews with Freddie, only to be rather abruptly shot down by Prenter who would say things like "Freddie doesn't want to speak to you" when, in actual fact, Freddie knew nothing about the requests. So Freddie and the band were wrongly labelled as aloof prima donnas, when the truth was very different.

Beermack. I seen that as well in a documentary. That’s the only documentary that mentioned that fact. I was trying to find interviews with Paul Prenter but I guess they do not exist.

RadioDaDa , I think I've only seen clips of Prenter being interviewed, I believe from South America 1981. There must be more footage, although I have zero interest in listening to that weasel. What he did to Freddie was unforgivable. He was from here in Belfast, and he was a DJ /presenter on local station Downtown Radio. This was in the mid 70s shortly before he started working with Queen.

Met Brian, John and Roger a lot of times.. ;) in 1980 till 1986, 1990 The Cross in Amsterdam

It's very narrow minded to use rap and computer music as examples of how music was dying.
After all WWRY is basically a rap and they used loads of synths and effects, especially on Flash Gordon.