I recently saw a photo of John Deacon hugging Dave Clark at Freddie's funeral, on Twitter. I hadn't seen it before and felt like I was intruding on their privacy, just by looking at it. I can't imagine how bad I'd have felt about actually attending the funeral without an invitation. At least he left quite quickly.
If it unfolded as he says, that he was right there at that moment it was on the radio - who's to say it wasn't meant to be? The lord is mysterious.
Such a bizarre fucked up story.
[QUOTE] [b]Fireplace wrote:[/b]
I actually found the whole story rather distasteful. The press hounds rightfully get slagged off for sticking their noses where they didn't belong, but apparently if you've seen Queen play live once that earns you the right to slip into his funeral on a whim "to see if someone stops you". Being confronted with his family then suddenly made him realise he had no business being there. More appetite for sensation than love for Freddie I'd say. . [/QUOTE]
Agreed. Mind boggling and thoughtless, IMO...and that's being mild.
I don't care if a person had purchased tons of tickets and attended tons of concerts, it doesn't give any one the right to crash a service.
Can someone give me the gist of this? I'm unable to open Youtube at the moment
@Sweetandtenderhooligan - The gist is a man happened to be driving past the location of Freddie's funeral when it was announced where Freddie's funeral was, so he decided to park his car, investigate and then to just keep walking... I mean seriously keep walking - he gave a small quote about Freddie's importance to his fans to the press (nothing wrong with the quote, but with him being there to give it) he walked past all the mourners and celebrity mourners leaving the funeral, past the floral tributes on which he read some famous names too, right into the most private place of all, in the actual crematorium until he found himself stood alone in a room with Freddie's parents and sister who were the last people to leave.
At which point he at last thought "probably I shouldn't be here" and left. I hope he thought this sooner rather than later. I hope as he says that Freddie's family didn't see or notice him. But he tells the story, so who knows.
Yet, nicely spoken and reverent as he seems, he still gives the impression that the whole thing was somehow a special experience/memory for him to value, sad as it was and he (to me) doesn't seem to acknowledge that the entire thing was wrong from the moment he walked past those leaving the funeral... which in my view is highly disturbing. It doesn't matter if you went to every Queen concert ever, you don't have any right to be there at Freddie's funeral unless you are invited. Moreso in fact as funerals are for the mourners, not those mourned. And this especially, so private an affair.
WOW. I can't describe how utterly inappropriate his actions were. Why would you even admit to it or post it here?! If you knew it was Freddie's funeral, why the hell would you keep walking towards it?!
Yes, I would have thought you’d feel too ashamed to admit it. But maybe he did feel ashamed. It was a long time ago now I suppose. To speak of it may be positive in some way.
Unhappily I am too young to have ever seen Queen live and only discovered the band when Freddie has already left us, but I can imagine the emotion of that day (in being too young, at least we were spared the immediacy of that day at the time) and so can imagine how someone could get carried away in their genuine sorrow.
I can imagine how someone might go so far as to stop their car & linger for a while on the outskirts. Yet I cannot comprehend how someone could become carried away enough to seriously keep going so far and more so to even now speak of it as a story more than a regret.
[QUOTE] [b]Sweetandtenderhooligan wrote:[/b]
WOW. I can't describe how utterly inappropriate his actions were. Why would you even admit to it or post it here?! If you knew it was Freddie's funeral, why the hell would you keep walking towards it?![/QUOTE]
Why? Attention? Bragging?
It's all so very sickening.
If I was him I wouldn't have put this story out on YouTube. We all make mistakes, and he made a mistake by going to the funeral. He realised that at the time but I suppose by the time he was there it was probably better just to sit in on it rather than leave. It would have been better had he not gone at all.
It annoys me somewhat that he's taken to YouTube to post this video. If it was a funeral for a friend of mine or a family member of mine, I wouldn't actually care that someone I didn't know wasn't there since, actually at every family funeral I've been to there have been people there who I haven't known. If they then took to YouTube or Instagram or whatever to tell their story without our permission as a family and tried to cash in on it, I'd be pretty pissed off with them.
I hope that Kashmira and the family just ignore this video. It's really only for the family to talk about this.
