The Naive Fan...

'The bed of donney kays' and 'It's America' are classic! As are the rest of the posts on this thread. Thanks for sharing.

And to add another note of being naive: how many of us thought that Freddie Mercury was an incredible birth name.

:) LOL

I also thought videos were filmed while they made the song, I had watched only 'Bo Rhap', 'Another One Bites' and 'We Are The Champions' at the time, and that led me to more mistakes: In 'Another One Bites' Roger mimes the choruses so I thought he did them, and the only harmony of the song is lower than the melody, so that supported my theory of Roger as the 'bass singer'.

But the one in 'Champions' was even worse. After the first chorus ends the camera is on Roger, who turns to his left, bends a little and does a cymbal roll in the hi-hat I think. Well, back then what I thought is that there was a piano next to the drum-kit and that Roger played piano in the verses and switched to drums in the chorus, since Fred was standing up. That one was so funny :)

Other than those I remember thinking John played keyboards in 'Innuendo' because I didn't note the bass and apparently all the band had to be performing.

"they all used to simulate anal sex on stage or something like that"

Oh man - some thing are better left unsaid.

I used to think that John Deacon sang some songs.

It would be a cold day in hell if John admits he has sang on Queen songs! LOL
Dammit! If only he sang the Breakthru part during the BTS of Breathru at the end when they were running towards the camera! That was a golden opportunity!

Please don't laugh...

When I was a wee lass, I used to think Freddie was Harry Belafonte. I'M NOT KIDDING.

See, back in like 85 or so there was a sticker book of rock stars. I got this Harry Belafonte sticker and I pasted it under the name Freddie Mercury in the sticker book.

Hope you all had a hearty laugh after reading this.

PFFFFFT! :P

When I looked at my dad's copy of the Innuendo album back a few years, I saw that all the band members played keyboards as well as their respective instruments. I was amazed that, say, Roger could play drums AND keyboards at the same time! I even asked my dad how they did this, and he replied, "They've gotta be pretty talented," obviously misunderstanding my question as how they can play both instruments, but not simultaneously.

LOL

I used to think that John played a co-lead guitar with Brian. Otherwise, how could they have gotten the two "bouncing" guitars in the middle of Bicycle Race? Or the the three alternating guitar "heralds" at the end of the hard rock in Bo Rhap?

Then, of course, I realized that those were just stereo tricks and overdubs, yada yada yada...

I use to think that Freddie was the composer and the singer of a song I've seen and heard on tv, something like "scatman's wolrd" I think....

I use to think that Brian was Roger and Roger was John. And when I was about 7, I saw the Bo Rhap vid and thought that all of them were girls. Up until I was 8 I figured out Freddie was a man, understanding what the bulge in his pants was.

Hilarious topic. Keep it going!

I didn't know who Queen was when i was 11 and i heard bo rhap. And when first saw a pic of the band i thought Brian was Freddie for the longest time, until i went to a website. And I had always known the song "no one but you" but only found out a year ago that it was Queen.

I guess its all just a learning process

Growing up in the 80s, there were a couple of things that mislead me to believe that...

- When I was 5 or 6 I used to believe that Freddie was Tom Selleck, as Magnum was a popular TV series in the 80s.

- 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' were 80s songs.

- Before becoming a fan I thought that Freddie was one of those arrogant rock stars (like Sting or Bono) who think that the whole world turns around them.

- Up to the point where 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was re-released after Freddie's death, I never heard the song before. After watching the video I was surprised to find out that they once had long hair in the 70s. Which made me believe that they broke up at some point in the 70s, and they got back together after like 7 years in the 80s when they had short hair (except Brian of course).

- The intro to 'The Show Must Go On' was made of cellos, and not a synthesizer. Which made me wonder what member of Queen could play the cello... I thought it could possibly be Freddie.

- I also used to believe that all the songs on 'Made In Heaven' were new, and Freddie recorded all of them 1 year before dying of AIDS.