Rudi Dolezal spoke about Invisible Man video shooting that there was some delay and the band waited for 7 hours until everything was ready. and there was some cocaine as well. As they were finally ready, everybody was on scene except for Freddie. Rudi found him in dressing room on his knees looking for a small package of drug which got lost in a fluffy pink carpet.
Lost some of my ideals about Freddie too ??
Source: Dolezal backstage, to be found on YouTube in German.
Apologize for my horrible English
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Wasn’t The Invisible Man video filmed on Roger’s birthday, and throughout the day they got more and more drunk celebrating? (See the video for evidence)
people on streets · Member since
Rip Tony. A life well lived.
miraclesteinway · Member since
The other thing is in all of this, as for news reports etc, Freddie Mercury is a name that people of a certain age like to drop, since he was a major celebrity and also very much the man about town before he became so reclusive later on. Tony Pike could have misremembered the year in a conversation, saying something like Freddie's birthday in 1990 instead of 1987, or all sorts of other things could have gone on that weren't Tony Pike getting cocaine for Freddie, and somehow the press has turned it in to that.
It's equally possible that Tony Pike supplied a 43-year-old rock star with a little bit of cocaine, although given how frail Freddie looked even at the Brits in early 1990, I'm almost convinced a hit of cocaine would have knocked him unconscious at that time at the very least.
I don't know. It's just a story in a paper.
MisterCosmicc · Member since
Freddie could have done cocaine. There was a guy, Miki Zone, from a music group called Man 2 Man, who was doing coke frequently until he died, and he had full-blown AIDS. People underestimate what people with AIDS are capable of.
Costa86 · Member since
Tony Pike might have gotten the year wrong. He might have been thinking of 1987, during the time of the birthday party in Ibiza. For us Queen fans who are familiar with the timeline of major events, it might seem strange to make such a mistake, but for someone like Pike - who was likely on the older side when he told the coke story - it would be relatively likely for him to get a date a few years off.
Or else it could be that Freddie was indeed taking the odd line in 1990, although I do find it quite hard to believe that he'd go to Tony Pike for that if it happened in the UK. Living in London, he could easily have gotten coke from just about anywhere given the connections he had.
Panzerwerk · Member since
Quite a coincidence, but yesterday there was a Dutch programme called 'the most beautifull girl in the class'. It depicts the life story of the girl who everyone thought was the most beautifull during high school. One of them was a girl who lived in Ibiza during the late 1980-ies and dated the son of Tony Pike. She mentions playing tennis with Freddie and doing her first line of cocaine with him. Who better to do it with the first time then Freddie Mercury. This should have been around 1987.
Star* · Member since
Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon because Freddie Mercury is in vogue at this present time!
I think many of these stories are drivel.
miraclesteinway · Member since
I had lunch with Freddie Mercury in 1976. We had cocaine pancakes, with maple syrup laced with cocaine. We drank the finest 1952 vintage champagne that cost at that time nearly £800 per bottle. John Reid paid for the whole dinner.
After dinner we went back to Freddie's apartment, played scrabble, and he asked me for some ideas about "My Melancholy Blues". I told him I didn't like it in D major, and for his voice E-flat would be better. I advised him that We Are The Champions would never be a hit. How wrong I was.
The strangest thing about the evening is that I wasn't even born yet, but there I was, high as a kite, not even a glint in my father's eye, giving advice to Freddie Mercury. It's funny how things turn out. Brian May came around and was fascinated that Freddie could communicate with discarnate unborn spirits. I explained to Brian about how I'd been travelling around in astral dust for about 23 years since my previous life as King George VI. He didn't believe the King George VI part, actually, and I still can't prove that, except to say that "The King's Speech" has parts in it as truthful as "Bohemian Rhapsody".
