Freddie's Record Collection (Rock Albums)

Anyone know which Rock albums Freddie owned/loved?

I know he was well into Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles etc

Also I heard an interview once where he expressed admiration for Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'...

Any others?

As we all know, he listened to Aretha Franklin. I think Roger mentioned "Aretha Live" which is presumably the 1971 album "Live at the Fillmore West". Some random website I just visited says he loved Aretha's gospel album "Amazing Grace."

as Paul Rodgers was his favourite singer....
oh. noes... I appologize !

This would be a good question for “Ask Phoebe”.

It's something that I'd have loved to have known. Any of his entourage that have commented on it have mentioned artists like Aretha, Montserrat Caballé etc, yet Brian commented on how Freddie followed Hendrix over England when he done shows here and his old dear also mentioned of his admiration of Jimi. I'd like to think that Freddie still had an ear for heavier stuff, then again there is every possibility that once he was out the studio that he very seldom listened to music in his free time and just kept up to date with the hits of the day.

Ratty stated in his book that Freddie loved Purple Rain by Prince and Blue by Joni Mitchell

I agree with your comments. I did not know, though, about Purple Rain and The Wall. Thanks for mentioning that.

I would add that some of his '80s pop compositions gave away a part of what he was into those days. Mother Love (Chris Isaak's Wicked Game), Keep Passing the Open Windows (Joe Jackson's Stepping Out) and Man on the Prowl (Elvis' style rockabilly, like CLTCL), for instance. Not to mention the more dance oriented music he was into during his NY days and it's influence on Hot Space, Mr. Bad Guy and elsewhere.

PS (edit): Also opera, of course, as Montserrat Caballet (Barcelona, etc) and It's a Hard Life's intro (Ruggiero Leoncavallo).

Cheers,

Ogre-

Freddie loved The Police as well and their influence shows on The Game.

[QUOTE] [b]Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:[/b]

I agree with your comments. I did not know, though, about Purple Rain and The Wall. Thanks for mentioning that.

I would add that some of his '80s pop compositions gave away a part of what he was into those days. Mother Love (Chris Isaak's Wicked Game), Keep Passing the Open Windows (Joe Jackson's Stepping Out) and Man on the Prowl (Elvis' style rockabilly, like CLTCL), for instance. Not to mention the more dance oriented music he was into during his NY days and it's influence on Hot Space, Mr. Bad Guy and elsewhere.

PS (edit): Also opera, of course, as Montserrat Caballet (Barcelona, etc) and It's a Hard Life's intro (Ruggiero Leoncavallo).

Cheers,

Ogre-

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I like Joe Jackson, but I can't say I've ever mentally connected Keep Passing The Open Windows with Stepping Out. What is it, specifically, that you think connects the two?

I think he had The Who's Tommy and the Cabaret soundtrack as well in the late 60's?

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]

I like Joe Jackson, but I can't say I've ever mentally connected Keep Passing The Open Windows with Stepping Out. What is it, specifically, that you think connects the two?[/QUOTE]

tq, it's all over it. Just listen to the piano and chorus of Stepping Out before 'Windows'. btw, it is a great influence.

Going way back in time to the old Creem magazine, they used to have a two page section with pictures of various artists discussing their influences/what they were listening to at the time. I still remember one with Freddie around '81, and he had an Aretha Franklin LP listed, as well as The Police's 'Zenyatta Mondatta'. Didn't care for the band at the time, but thought, 'what the hell' and bought that LP. And really liked it (and their two follow ups)

Hi, ThomasQuinn! I am not a musician, so, as a mere fan of music, I find them to be very similar in their structure of bass/drums/piano and the vocals using long expressions of vowels like in "ooout" and "beliiiieve". Maybe it is just me, though, but I think somebody mentioned this before around here.

Cheers,

Ogre-

if I remember correctly Freddie said that he was crazy about Lionel Richie's All Night Long and that he was inspired by his movements in the music video of the song

Peter Freestone once said to me that Freddie loved the Aretha Franklin album amazing grace and the 1971 live album, he would play alot but apart from that it was usually just the radio in the background.

I always thought “Lazing on a Sunday afternoon” reminded me of “it’s a jolly holiday” from Mary Poppins.