Peter Hince on The One Show

Today Peter Hince was on The One Show. It showed him talking about his time with Queen. It was a really good feature.

The One Show had Rod Stewart on the show and he told the presenters about the band he was going to form with Freddie and Elton John (Nose, Hair and Teeth) and one or two other things.

The link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0blpfb8/the-one-show-01102018

It started about 19 minutes.

Yeah was a nice surprise.

Nice, thanks!

great mate thank you

Thanks for that. Just caught up on iPlayer. Great!

Lips (Mick Jagger) and bottom (Rod Stewart) I remember years ago spitting image doing a paraody on it.

That cursed BBC iPlayer. :(

Really great seeing Rod Stewart say a few kind words about our Freddie, and Peter Hince appreciating Freddie and the band when he was employed by Queen.
Great item on the "One Show"

[QUOTE] [b]The Fairy King wrote:[/b] That cursed BBC iPlayer. :( [/QUOTE]

Hopefully this puts an end to that "Freddie was an Iranian" nonsense.

It's good to hear Rod say kind things about Fred. Previously when talking about Fred he's always been a bit of an ass, but this is respectful and kind.

ps Hince is the roadie Brian was so uncharitable about when he heard about his book being released.

http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1443940/queen-unseen-by-peter-hince.aspx

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]


It's good to hear Rod say kind things about Fred. Previously when talking about Fred he's always been a bit of an ass, but this is respectful and kind.


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I didn't know that. Can you give me an example (with source) ?

First time I heard that ROd was talking shit about Freddie-source plz

Thank you for posting the clip.

I probably should've been clearer. What I meant was that Rod had opportunities while Fred was alive to talk about Fred the musician, composer, singer etc., and he didn't do that (to my knowledge). He wasn't the only one: check out the Magic Years tapes -- a few big stars had the chance to say something about the above, but instead chose to take the piss. Phil Collins was probably the worst. It's a bit of a sore point for me. There was and is too little talk about Fred's musical skills and far too much talk about him being a "front man". (Or in the Magic Years, stupid jokes about him being gay). In my view, when Fred moved away from the piano to the centre of the stage to become the legendary "front man" that he genuinely was, Queen also lost something. It was a trade off between showmanship and musicality. But what it also did was distract critics and some fans from Fred's musical talent.

Holly: Yeah your right, on The Magic year tape many artists did take the piss like Divine calling the band "Kiss" the he says "oh well Kiss Queen there all the same" And Phil Collins was rude laughing saying " Theres not too many people like Freddie" (ha ha ha) very disrespectful.