The original is quiet hard to read, so I missed a few words (????) I think I heard a few quotes from this interview but never read it in full.
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Born to Rule...
The quick silver girl has style, but it`s not just cultivated, it stems back to those balmy days in east africa.
" My uncle had a villa in Dar-Es-Salem, only yards from the sea, and in the morning I`d be woken by the servant and clutching an orange juice an I`d literally step out on the beach."
"In a way I `ve been very fortunate, even in the early days. I love being pampered, it`s just something that`s grown with me."
In an era of working class pop heroes, Freddie Mercury stands out as someone distinctive enough to be different. The wealth and glittering success he has achieved with QUEEN would turn anyone`s head. Not so , our Mr. Mercury.
Relaxing between management meetings this week, he confessed that he liked the flamboyance of life and any style he had was certainly not cultivated. Quite simply, he`s always been used to living a pop stars life.
" I am very well looked after, but I need it because we`ve so many pressure, I mean I can`t make myself a cup of tea, I am useless at it, so I have someone to make it for me. That`s the kind of enviroment I live in. " he said.
Legs crossed and wearin his favorite red velvet doublet, he admitted that his upbringing had been " sort of middle class".
In fact his father was government service and lived a long time in the tropics - with servants of course. He went to boarding school - in India, where else. At the moment he lives in a Kensington flat, but after Queen`s 60 day tour of the states, he says that he`s hoping to get a detached place in London`s fashionably chic area Barnes.
He is a true professional and remarkably confident of his success. Fame rests easily on his shoulders, and he gives the impression, rather like royality, of someone beeing groomed from birth for his role in life.
" Sometimes I think, Oh my god, they must think I´am working so hard to cultivate all this, but I am not, he added. I ´d hate to live under false pretenses, Queen are not frauds.
" We presented a kind of image. we weren`t putting any kind of labels on it. We said this is QUEEN, this is our music and this is how we present ourselves.
" The funny thing about Queen is that no one can put their finger on it and we don`t want to give it to them. We say this is us and it is up to you to interpret it.
" The campness and the flamboyance comes into it. We like to dress up". he confessed.
" If you cultivate something it is only for the short term and we are in it for the long lasting thing. We are one of the bands who are going to take a piece of the action. We`re going to to it. We know we can do it.
" I think versatility is one of our assets. Killer Queen was a massive hit and the idea is to come up with an equality classy single."
Class is what Freddie and QUEEN are all about as they currently ???? up the charts with Now I`am Here, another cut from their highly praised Sheer Heart Attack album.
He writes and sings of champagne and laser beams and when he`s relaxing ???? to listen to Liza Minelli, Sparks or Jimi Hendrix.
Freddie has been with QUEEN for four years and he reckons the ban`s university education has helped to give them a broader outlook, though he admits that in the early days they were manipulated like so many of today`s young bands.
" You`ll go trough that, but you learn by your mistakes." he said. " Now we don`t go just into the studio and make records, but follow everything else trough and make sure it`s being done the way we want it. That goes from the artwork on the album sleeves to the inner bags and dealing with record companies and management. It`s like undertaking a huge project."
Given the time and opportunity he rather fancies the idea of writing a musical show, though he confessed it takes him a long time to write song lyrics.
" What comes easiest to me are melodies and song structures rather than lyrics." he said.
He should have added that he also had a ???? for style and breeding(?). You see, for all the campness Freddie Mercury is every inch a gentleman.
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