Freddie's Record Collection (Rock Albums)

[QUOTE] [b]Pim Derks wrote:[/b]

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

I've been under the impression that none of the members of Queen were really fans of music and their personal record collections were quite small. When they were starting out they were inspired by Little Richard, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin - the all-time biggest names of rock history - and as they got older their musical knowledge was pretty much limited to the most popular hits of the time. Like in the 80s they would be aware of U2 and Michael Jackson because they were played on the radio all the time and every person on Earth was aware of them, but they would have no idea of Sonic Youth, or The Smiths, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Pixies, The Fall, Cocteau Twins... In comparison for example Elton John, Bowie and the members of Radiohead have had a far deeper knowledge of different bands and you could ask for music recommendations from them, but you couldn't ask from the Queen guys because they wouldn't know more than the average non-musical person.

[QUOTE] [b]aion wrote:[/b]

I've been under the impression that none of the members of Queen were really fans of music and their personal record collections were quite small.[/QUOTE]

You may not be wrong. But it's certainly not unique to the guys in Queen.

A lot of artists need to disconnect from the larger scene, as they don't want to be too influenced by what's going on around them. Living under a bubble can bear its fruits too.

Eddie van Halen and Ozzy have both stated this outright. But for others it may not even be conscious.

His fave song was TwoFux

In an interview in 79 Roger was asked if he liked Public Image Ltd and said something like 'oh no, terrible album'. He also said he really liked Talking Heads. We can only speculate as to the size of their own personal record collections but i'd say they would be more vast than small.

And Elton John owns tens of thousands of albums.

It always amazes me how performers, who have written some of my most favorite songs, themselves listen/listened to music I dislike the most. Purple Rain (what a horrible horrible track!) and Jimi Hendrix the best examples of this in this thread.

There's a Garden Lodge-video on YouTube which features Freddie showing some (unknown-to-me-guys) around the house (or the Mews-house). When the camera turns into a rather large room, there's a guitar solo heard which is from Frank Zappa's „Guitar“-double-CD. Thus, FM must have had a liking for FZ, I guess. I very much doubt that Joe, Phoebie or Jim Hutton liked FZ... And neither did any of Freddie's guests that night looked anything like FZ-admirers... But I am generalizing a bit here... sorry... I often wonder what Freddie thought of Kate Bush. They were label-mates and „Wuthering Heights“ seemed to be another „impossible“ number one-success, after BoRhap...

Always had the impression that Freddie and Roger were open-minded and passionate about other people's music. Freddie's musical taste had obviously been rather eclectic. He liked rock, he liked opera, had always had an ear for current pop music and his liking for soul and funk is well documented. Having cruised the gay-bars in the US in the late 70's, he must also have had a fling with what was called disco at that time (as terrible as it reads today).

Chim Cimbled was in his collection