[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]
what I meant, Vocal Harmony, is that when I walked past it at about 8.30pm/9pm in the evening, there seemed to be no light coming from the house, and I simply meant it looked like there was nobody home, it looked quiet. I just meant there seemed to be nobody home.
Perhaps I should have phoned first to check.... now what's the number again?[/QUOTE]
Thanks, there are a few possibilities as to why you thought it might be empty, hence my question.
Yeah when you remember that number, give it a call ;)
Perhaps Mary will invite us on a wee tour of the minstrel gallery?
Would you go there, if she would?I know it's a highly hypothetical question, but I for one wouldn't want to visit Garden Lodge. Not now. not then. To some it might be a mythical place but it was a place Freddie resided in for a few years. Having lost my most beloved mum three weeks ago, I feel that our place is lacking most of its former spirit, because her beautiful soul is gone. The question you might rightly ask right now is probably, why I am here, posting stuff, when I should grieve. I do grieve. So much that I feel the stupid need to distract myself.
Why would I visit Garden Lodge, knowing that the man who once filled the space with his spirit had left for his final tour almost 30 years ago?
A few weeks ago I came across an interesting lecture by Harvey Goldsmith, the English concert impresario. He was talking about Live Aid, which, to those of you who don 't know, he organized with „Saint Bob“. Subsequently he promoted and organized the UK dates of the Magic Tour, including Knebworth. In his speech he claimed that the downside of Live Aid was the celebrity-culture that it enforced. According to him, before Live Aid the UK red tops only reported about musicians if they were about to get divorced. After Live Aid the sensationalist papers knew they could increase the circulation of their garbage with private stories of pop musicians. There's probably some truth to his remarks. As far as I understood, Freddie actually never really liked to having been treated as a celebrity. He had a huge ego, of course and he needed to be seen and listened to the world over. But I fully appreciate that he wanted to be treated like everybody else and therefore demanded his privacy. It's the sensationalist-cel3brity- Murdoch-moralist-climate that made the „pack of worms“ camp outside Garden Lodge once word got out that Freddie had been ill. I am not sure what people get out of going there to see the place. Feel close to Freddie? He had left a long time ago and the place is not a museum. Or are people expecting Brian May to take the dog out for a walk down memory lane, walking by Garden Lodge?
