Magic Remixed: Did anyone see it?

I taped the Logo channel special and watched it last night, and I'm wondering what people thought.

There's new interviews from Roger, Peter Straker, Phoebe, David Wigg, Davis Evans, Jim Hutton, Robbie Williams, a TimeOut reporter whose name I can't remember, Freddie's mom and sister, and others.

There's Garden Lodge footage I hadn't seen -- Freddie taking a bubble bath and a backyard party of mostly men.

I thought one of the most touching parts of the documentary was when people were asked what would they have given Freddie for his 60th birthday.

It's absolutely shocking and appeared on UK TV last year - an appauling tabloid piece that only serves to prove that Freddie was, in fact, a gay man. It is of absolutely no relevance to the history of Queen or Freddie's legacy.

What part was appalling or characteristic of tabloid newspapers? Was it the focus on his sexuality?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Daniel Nester wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Freddie taking a bubble bath and a backyard party of mostly men.
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Unless he was writing Crazy Little Thing, I think I'll pass...

Don't worry, it's not as bad as that. The bath bit is the bubble bath bit that has been seen in Freddie's Loves. It's fun to see Freddie kick back and relaxed.
The backyard of men is just Freddie standing around with a ciggy talking to some friends. Big whoop. Oh no, look! They haven't got shirts on. Aggghhh! lol

There's nothing that would make me compare it to tabloid rubbish. It was a programme to mark his 60th and showed the man behind the music along with friends' opinions of the man.

There's tabloid and then there's documentary. Every docu that goes beyond the music and looks at Freddie, the man, is criticised deeply here for doing it. It's a shame cause the real programmes that try to see the person, get an undeserved reputation because of these fans' own opinions.
If those fans that say it's tabloid want to watch something with a disney-like perspective, check out the safe docus like the official ones.

Adam.

nope I live in the U.S. we hardly if ever get a chance to see anything to do with Freddie and/or Queen. It really sucks!

^yeah i know-we never do, do we? hmm-it does suck-but I did see that on Logo channel because I have direct tv.

i have seen something quite like that recently dunno if its the same thing or not.some things out there about freddie is just crap.has anyone seen freddie loves...that was tacky imo to say the least.

I really don't understand why it's okay that the private home videos of a gay man are shown on national TV while it's not okay to show straight people in their bathroom, or is it?

I know that celebrities are subject to incredible stalking and intrusion these days but I still think some decency should be maintained. We all know that Freddie Mercury was rather protective of his privacy and if he were alive I doubt that Peter Freestone would say "he had a huge cock" on TV.

The fact that official documentaries are not much better (untold story) is no excuse imo. Such documentaries are not meant to protect Freddie's right to be perceived as a gay man, they are just intrusive.

i agree with what u said 4 the most part...but i liked the untold story.

I came to see this topic because I always follow what's going on on the boards. It is funny how for us, Eastern Europeans, such documentairies don't have any impact. Most of us would't even watch it. If by any chance we would, being more hotblooded, either we would like to lynch the creators or we would have probably like that we haven't seen that at all because we don't need anyone to tell us whatsoever about Freddie. We simply love him just like that. Funny how the pages turn...

I got an e-mail off queenzone saying about it but couldn't find the channel or anything it was on. Has any1 found it on youtube :) Please Reply because i really wanted to see it :(

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ThomasQu?nn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]What the fuck is the logo channel[/QUOTE]

It is a gay -lesbian channel on digital cable.

It's interesting how we are reading from the grave how Freddie would react to the documentaries made about him. I think documentaries that tell stories about prominent artists is inevitable -- people want to know about the people behind the art they love. Where it gets complicated and potentially harmful, I think, is if we go back to the songs, armed with new biographical information, and try to re-interpret them. There's got to be a middle ground, I think, between direct, biographical readings and ignoring the artist altogether.