Whats your thoughts on where Freddie's career would have gone if he had never gotten ill?
I'd assume Queen would probably have toured up till the early ninities and may still record every now and then but I don't think he would have continued the way The Stones, McCartney or The Who have. The move into opera would still have happened and I think he'd proabably have embraced that more in later years and although he would never have authorised the musical 'We Will Rock You', I can see him moving into composing for theatre, similar to Andrew Lloyd Webber. His social circles were more in line with the theatre world than rock and he continually said he didn't want to be old onstage looking ridiculous.
Thoughts?
Looking at his social
I don't know about theatre but one of Freddie's unfulfilled wishes was to collaborate with Aretha Franklin. Just my opinion, but I think Freddie would have done more such collaborations and more of his own music...I can see him writing music for ballet or some choreographed theatrical pieces may be.
It makes me feel sad to ponder on what all he could have done...he was such a bundle of creative and curious energy so he definitely would have experimented
Yes Freddie said he would not be running all over the stage in old age as it would be ridiculous but May & Taylor still do!
Perhaps Freddie would have liked to work behind the curtain or even writing songs for other artists, the world was his oyster as he was a very clever man!
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I really don't know..but I hope he would have been involved in music in some way, shape or form. Producing and writing for other artists, music for movies. I would hope Queen would have stayed together making music. Possibly a follow up to Barcelona...
Thanking about what if, is always bittersweet.
Theater world and operatic stuff, solo projects were fluff and would have been fluff if continued.
Hes only commercial success and main recognition would be only by rocking with Queen.
Seeing how the biggest bands now make hundreds of millions doing big world tours I fear they would have become another Rolling Stones and churned out tour after tour due to greed.
John would've left anyway. Like Bill left the Stones. The three others absolutely crave attention and would've continued touring. They wouldn't be as big as they are now.
@Ramnes: Yes, I too remember he had said in an interview that he wouldn't be running around a stage all his life
I wonder if Freddie would have written an opera one day. Compare artists today such as Rufus Wainwright and Neil Hannon who have. Written a full opera, designed the costumes... maybe got someone to add some ballet in there. I can totally imagine Freddie doing this at some point.
A more uncertain question for me is - had Freddie never been ill, would Queen even have made it to 1990 or would they have split up before then? I don't know. It feels pretty certain John would have left the band. But the rest of them too... it seems far from certain in my mind they'd have kept going together. There's the rub though - anything we say is mere speculation.
Dysan If Freddie had been around now Queen would have been massive even more so than the 70s and 80s.
Surely the release of "Bohemian Rhapsody" film has proven the world adores and misses Freddie on a massive scale.
Without Freddie the magic is not there!
Yeah but look at it like this... if Freddie didn't die tragically, and they just churned out albums every 3 years a patchy as they had done up until that point I doubt the movie would've been made.
I think so, yes. Barcelona had given him the taste for something else above the plain plane of rock and roll. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber would have gotten hold of him (ha ha - literally!) and found a way to develop his vocak style for the theatre.
Having said that, I don't think he'd have been able to put aside his "Freddie-sms" as a performer to then be disciplined enough to work in the structured framework of a West End / Broadway troupe. I reckon he'd have looked (and, crucially, felt) incredibly awkward. I really don't think he'd have been able to learn the skills as a theatre performer (physically) that late in life to be anything other than a cameo performer and that would have been a real shame.
Still, with unrestricted access to lycra-clad young boys ("Bring me another; this one is broken!"), endless supplies of cocaine and parties to render a diary meaningless, I reckon Fred would have managed to squeeze them all in. Might possibly have affected his buoyancy though.......
spiralstatic, re:
>I wonder if Freddie would have written an opera one day. Compare artists today such as Rufus Wainwright and Neil Hannon who have. Written a full opera, designed the costumes... maybe got someone to add some ballet in there. I can totally imagine Freddie doing this at some point.
From the man that claimed his songs were like Bic razors and then wrote Delilah? He wasn't anywhere near as talented, stylistically or lyrically as Pete Townshend and neither was he influenced by someone like a Kit Lambert to give him an insight in to the process.
Freddie was incredibly talented as a song writer after all he got Queen in to the big time with those first few singles and Pete Townsend is no where near as talented as Freddie was. Are you for real or what???
