Marc Matel in Bo Rap Trailer?

Supersonic_Man89 wrote:

Oh, 100 percent on the first listen i knew it wasn't Freddie. There's no doubt about it in my mind and shouldn't really be for the majority of you. I'm also quite sure it's Marc's...sounds like him a lot, and he's fully aware of how Freddie sounded in the mid-eighties.

I think somebody pointed out that they used Marc's rather than the original because the sound recording of Live Aid wouldn't be up to scratch...plus, although his voice is used in the trailer...maybe they don't want to use any of Freddie's actual recordings in the film... as it may take people out of the moment (KNOWING Rami is miming to a vocal we've heard a thousand times before etc.)

And i can't believe nobody has mentioned this so far, but I'd like to suggest Mike Myers is playing Norman Sheffield. Due to the beard, the look and perhaps Freddie's flippancy towards him. Although Mike does a northern accent...perhaps he couldn't replicate Norman's London voice too well.

Unlikely. Why would they show the song to the ex-manager? My opinion is that Mike Myers plays a, for now unnamed, EMI executive. It's the story that Queen wanted the song to be the single and the label didn't. Notice the big EMI sign in that part of the trailer behind Freddie... Or should i say Malek? :p

It's Marc Martel FFS, I just went through this in the Fan Club Facebook group. It's a brilliant mimic, but it's a mimic.

Obviously Martel. After years listening to his own stuff and to QEX bootlegs, you can easily tell.

bucsateflon wrote:

clearly? its not that clear

It is to me.

It is indeed Marc Martel. Its an amazing job Marc has done, but those of us who have listened to Queen since we ran around in dipers will hear a slight difference. Freddie was rawer and more powerful in his output. Marc is a bit cleaner. I love it! And as someone said Fox couldnt use the original voice because of the sound quality and lack of multitracks.

Gary Mullen (while doing a good job , for a night's enterainment ) is too coarse / bombastic to nail an excellent , accurate impersonation of Freddie, to the standard required for a project as important as this.

And if any further proof is needed, listen on headphones and Martel’s phrasing/actual wording is different to Freddie’s on the long run down

It is Marc. You were right mate.

So thats a great way to promote Marc Martel and QEX. The soundtrack CD will be a way forward to continue queens legacy with QEX. Get them back doing the tribute act and QAL can retire at that point.

Marc Martel is no longer in QEX. They have a new singer for the upcoming tour.
So Martel singing promotes nothing. It‘s just very convenient to have him sing, since the records simply won‘t fit that great ( because of missing quality for instance or other aspects...)

Definitely sounds like Marc to me. It's funny how he can do a very good 'impression' of Freddie, but still sound nowhere near as good.

Nowhere near as good as Freddie, but still miles better than anyone else still living. Certainly much better singer than "precious darling" Lambert will ever be.

It's most likely Marc, It's not Gary Mullen, it's too "dry" (for want of a better term) to be him, especially these days. He did do the Japanese Nissin Cup Noodle advert from a few years back though.
Queen Productions don't actually own the rights to the Live Aid sound / footage, which is why they aren't using it.
Why they don't just use audio from some other concert is anyone guess.

It IS Marc Martel. No doubt!

Thrill Yeti wrote:
It's funny how he can do a very good 'impression' of Freddie, but still sound nowhere near as good.

He's like Freddie would sound after you fiddle with the EQ to remove to low and high end frequency of his voice.