Freddie confirms Queen are not Queen if four members are not there

I was watching a very interesting interview with Freddie and Dave Clarke from 1986 chatting about the musical Time and Freddie's involvement in the project and half through Freddie said each and every member is NOT Queen and they are only Queen when the four band members get together as a band whether it is in the recording studio or on the stage, so how will that affect the QAL fans now, we have heard from the horses mouth just what i thought all along Queen is NOT Queen without 4 band members and two band members does NOT make it Queen, Freddie said it so do not knock me.

Brian also said it... but people are allowed to change their minds. If you're not interested in the collaboration with Adam, don't buy their tickets, posters, physical or digital releases, etc. Simple as that.

Indeed he did, but he also said in other interviews that the other three had the ability to function without him. That Queen could be Queen without him, that no one wanted to leave in case things carried on without that persons involvement. All those were things Freddie said about him or anyone else leaving.

Also on one of the DVD documentaries ( I can't recall which at the moment) when talking about Mr Bad Guy which he and CBS were expecting to sell in huge quantities he talks about leaving the band and going on to another phase of his career. When Ian Gillan left Deep Purple they found David Coverdale (who by the way hadn't seen the inside of a recording studio before joining them, Fish was replaced in Marrilion by Steve Hogarth, David Lee Roth by Sammy Hagar in Van Halen, Ozzy By Ronnie James Dio in Sabbath, all those guys left bands and were replaced and got on with careers away from the bands they were in. Roger Waters left Pink Floyd then threw everything out the pram when Floyd carried on withou him, are you saying that Freddie would have acted like a complete fool had he known (or had he left and been replaced). I think not.

And before you mention Led Zeppelin, they have a long history of failed reunions some of which never got past talking, some never got past a small number of rehearsals and some got as far as one off gigs

He said the same thing in Rio in 1985. He is not the leader of the band. He is just the lead singer. Freddie loved to be extravagant but he never saw himself as the leader. To him everyone were equal members. I love Freddie for that.

The point of this thread is to just point out that the magical ingredients as Freddie pointed out is Queen is not Queen in any shape or form if the four quartet are not together so even if May & Taylor have carried on there limp career playing the hits it is not Queen.
They cannot recapture that magic and ambience that was once Queen, those four guys who were a complete unit and today only two remain but we all know it will never top what the four of those guys had from 1971 to 1991.

It was very interesting what he said precisely about Queen and the distinctive sound it needs and the particular sound of each of the group members. Sure, technically, Queen could and in a way is functioning without Freddie. But without him Queen lost not only the voice, but all the tremendous features which his musicianship consisted of. Writing lyrics, composing songs, studio-production...etc etc. Brian and Roger just can't hold it all anymore and after MiH it was clearly evident that they couldn't. Then the question arises: what is harder ? To go out there and play old songs live or to go into the studio and try and compose some new brilliant music? People will always expect on a new Queen album Freddie's voice. That's why, even though RT is calling that sort of work "scrapping the barrel", they should polish unreleased / nearly completed tracks from the 1972-1991 and put out something good. Believe it or not, but when they released Let Me In Your Heart Again it was played on every radio station in Poland.

If there is version of Fun It sung entirely by Roger, can we assume that there is a version with Freddie, singing all the vocals?

Freddie fanboys are just as bad as Adam Lambert twats...

[QUOTE] [b]Mr Right wrote:[/b]

They cannot recapture that magic and ambience that was once Queen[/QUOTE]

Nobody says they're trying to. That idea exists only in your own head.

Two founding members of a band are touring, and for some reason denouncing them has become your life's purpose.

Keep on trolling.

Real Wizard Freddie has spoken and you surely you are not that thick to dismiss what the man is saying here.
Queen are not Queen if 4 are not there as a group, has that not registered in your head yet???
Any worthy Queen fan knows the magic is lost "live" now.
It is not in my head because Freddie has spoken and said so stamp your feet all you want but you have lost this argument.

I never knew that Queen ever had anything magical attached to them. They were never friends really and a lot of what they produced musically and publicity-wise was very much calculated. How that could have come across as 'magical' mysteriously eludes me.

I see your point Mr Right but that's at a time when they could all perform in Queen. Freddie wasn't ill then so you can understand why Freddie said that as there wasn't a reason stopping either of them from not performing. But obviously Freddie can't now and John doesn't want to. Brian and Roger never quit and because they perform Queen hits why should they form a new group with a new title to perform Queen hits?

I'll keep it short: Adam Lambert isn't in Queen, he sings with Queen.

So is Mr Right that guy quy the 1971-91 signature from a few weeks ago?

[QUOTE] [b]MusicFan15 wrote:[/b]

I see your point Mr Right but that's at a time when they could all perform in Queen. Freddie wasn't ill then so you can understand why Freddie said that as there wasn't a reason stopping either of them from not performing. But obviously Freddie can't now and John doesn't want to. Brian and Roger never quit and because they perform Queen hits why should they form a new group with a new title to perform Queen hits?

I'll keep it short: Adam Lambert isn't in Queen, he sings with Queen.[/QUOTE]

Adam Lambert sings with Brian May and Roger Taylor.

[QUOTE] [b]MusicFan15 wrote:[/b]

I see your point Mr Right but that's at a time when they could all perform in Queen. Freddie wasn't ill then so you can understand why Freddie said that as there wasn't a reason stopping either of them from not performing. But obviously Freddie can't now and John doesn't want to. Brian and Roger never quit and because they perform Queen hits why should they form a new group with a new title to perform Queen hits?

I'll keep it short: Adam Lambert isn't in Queen, he sings with Queen.[/QUOTE]

Exactly, they don't pretend to be original Queen, that's why they added the + and since it's Queen music they play and since collectively they wrote over half the music I can't see a problem with using the name and adding the +.

[QUOTE] [b]Mr Right wrote:[/b]

The point of this thread is to just point out that the magical ingredients as Freddie pointed out is Queen is not Queen in any shape or form if the four quartet are not together so even if May & Taylor have carried on there limp career playing the hits it is not Queen.
They cannot recapture that magic and ambience that was once Queen, those four guys who were a complete unit and today only two remain but we all know it will never top what the four of those guys had from 1971 to 1991.[/QUOTE]

Brian's answer to that - "People are gonna say is it really Queen without Freddie, well I have no idea, I don't know what the answer to that question is but people wanna hear Queen music, they wanna hear it done great and they wanna hear Roger & I play and we love to play so having this opportunity is great"

What makes you think they're trying to recapture or top anything? They've made it plain in every interview that they're simply out there playing their music live for the fans who still want to see them play, that it's a collaboration and that they didn't want an imitator or to try to replicate what they had with Freddie.