From Wembley Stadium to DIT Discos - Forum talks to Paul Prenter. 1987.

Well, this film SHARES the dirty laundry and - what is worse - without all the nuances that help you understand what happened to Freddie (and to some degree the others)...
He had a bad period in his life and made some poor decisions but even then he at least somehow managed to keep the boat floating.
Just tough luck that that awful disease came into play... Sadly, aids was even faster than Freddie : -(

[QUOTE] [b]RobbyBloodshed wrote:[/b]

Most annoying thing when he said “we recorded Bohemian Rhapsody”. No it wasn’t “we”, Paul. You were simply in the studio watching history.
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...after he says he was hired "three months" before they split with John Reid, which would be right around when they released News Of The World.

So if he's willing to lie about basic facts, there's not much foundation to build upon to get anything of value from the guy.

"They didn't have the same concept of the real world as I had"

...that "real world" where he had sold out Mercury to a tabloid six months earlier?

He said there were no more drug overdoses in the biz - a year after Phil Lynott OD'd on heroin. And insisted there were no active rock legends in 1987. Springsteen? Genesis? Bowie? Floyd?

"If you have the talent and the perseverance and the singlemindedness then you will make it. Eventually."

Yeah, no. Even by the mid 80s that was so unbelievably false. You made it if you had good hair and were seen as an opportunity to bring in cash for the white suits to spend on hookers and blow. Talent was already mostly irrelevant in pop music by then.

Man, he was out of touch with reality. The fact that this moron stayed on the payroll through 1985 can only highlight the tensions between Mercury and the rest of the band.

And he had the audacity to say "most people in the street have never heard of Queen" - when they were the biggest band in most of the civilized world at that point. Was he walking the streets of the Philippines?

He calls Queen "unreasonable and ungrateful individuals." Nope. Reality check: he got to work with one of the greatest rock bands ever, and he was sent packing because he was the vile, bitter philistine that we can see clear as day after reading this blurb.

And he even lied about his job description. He wasn't their manager - Jim Beach was (and still is).

What a piece of shit.

You know they were more popular in "the territories" (as record companies liked to say) than at home.
"Streets of Philippines" sounds like a Freudian slip after you mentioned Springsteen. At least for someone with a dangerous level of political correctness as you.

And yes, it's a piece of shit. I like the "I was not an alcoholic, I had an alcohol dependency problem" paragraph.

He was obviously angry he was fired. What was the exact reason for being fired?

Ratty claimed that Prenter had a party in Freddie's Stafford Terrace flat (in which he had been very kindly allowed to stay by Freddie), and the whole place got trashed. Freddie sacked him and Prenter vowed revenge- a revenge that appeared in a shitty gutter tabloid several months later. What a fucking weasel Prenter was.

Such an interesting find! One thing which did surprise me was that Prenter actually did seem to know a few things about music and showbiz. The way he seems to portray himself as the decent one who eventually had to distance himself from it all is pretty incredible though, he certainly had some cheek! Btw, does anyone know when he got ill? He seems to look fine in the pictures.

Such an interesting find! One thing which did surprise me was that Prenter actually did seem to know a few things about music and showbiz. The way he seems to portray himself as the decent one who eventually had to distance himself from it all is pretty incredible though, he certainly had some cheek! Btw, does anyone know when he got ill? He seems to look fine in the pictures.

[QUOTE] [b]beemack74 wrote:[/b]

Ratty claimed that Prenter had a party in Freddie's Stafford Terrace flat (in which he had been very kindly allowed to stay by Freddie), and the whole place got trashed. Freddie sacked him and Prenter vowed revenge- a revenge that appeared in a shitty gutter tabloid several months later. What a fucking weasel Prenter was. [/QUOTE]

Naive people think this was the only reason...

[QUOTE] [b]k-m wrote:[/b]

Btw, does anyone know when he got ill? He seems to look fine in the pictures.[/QUOTE]

Dunno. But he died in 91 as well.

Peter Straker stated in the hilarious FM/AIDS-„docu“ that he had been wary of Paul Prenter, tried to get along with him and that he (Straker) never really understood what role Prenter played in Freddie's life. Seems a bit strange to me, since he obviously used to hang out with Freddie's entourage quite a lot. But apparently quite a lot of aspects in Freddie's life had never been discussed openly with his friends. In the end, most of Prenter's misdoings are the result of Freddie having been rather irresponsible towards himself. As the Wizard stated above, he must have had a rather destructive cocaine-habit in the early 80's. In spite of the fact that Prenter might have had interests that weren't sincere, someone did allow him to take a position in which he was able to actually misuse his power. Would be interesting to know how insistent the other guys in Queen tried to open Freddie's eyes at that time. Never read anything about it, apart from Maylor stating that they all went off the rails in the early 80's.
The Prenter-interview itself is pathetic.