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Davros · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:55 am Post subject: ON THIS DAY - SEPTEMBER 5TH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREDDIE MERCURY.
I was not exactly a fan of Freddies work.
Queen were great but the OTT Freddy did not appeal to my
'phobias at the time'.
Still, no denying Freddy had a huge impact on the world of music and it's stage performance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury

And for some trivia..............
http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/10-things-you-never-knew-about-freddie-mercury

On the anniversary of the Queen singer's death in 1991 Clash presents 10 things you never knew about Freddie Mercury.

(Adult themes and rude word warning0

As the flamboyant front man of Queen, Freddie Mercury toyed
with hedonism amidst making timeless songs, which leaves
plenty ammunition for these little tidbits...

1. Even his official passport read ‘Frederick Mercury’, despite the fact
that his birth name was Farrokh Bulsara. Calling him anything but
Freddie would not be well received, however - he started using the
name ‘Freddie’ prior to ever arriving in England, and ‘Mercury’ when Queen first started.

2. Mercury didn’t consider himself a particularly great pianist.
As a result, he always dreaded performing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in concert
because he worried he would mess up on the piano in the process.
In future years, he started using the piano less on albums so he would
be free to dance and run wildly during concerts.

3. In the final scene of Queen’s ‘It’s A Hard Life’ video, when Freddie
sits down on the steps, he does so very gingerly, favouring one side
over the other. At the time of filming, he had only just had a plaster
cast removed, a souvenir after drunken horseplay went awry one night
in the New York bar in Munich.

4. Mercury was always in his best form at concerts after emotional conflict.
Before a show at the Milton Keynes Bowl, Mercury got into a
massive argument with his current beau, Bill Reid, that culminated
with Reid biting Mercury’s hand so hard that it left teeth marks and
bled profusely.
Another fight left their hotel room with a layer of broken glass and plaster on the carpet.

5. In another incident with Reid, the two of them yelled at each other for
so many hours that Mercury woke up completely hoarse on the day
that Queen was scheduled to perform live on Saturday Night Live,
a hugely popular variety show in the USA.
The entire day was spent trying remedies to get his voice back,
which he was only barely able to do in time.

6. After boarding a flight to New York from Tokyo one day,
Mercury discovered the plane was a DC10, a model that had had
some problems in the past. “DC death more like!” Mercury remarked,
before immediately gathering his things, exiting the plane, and taking the only available seat on the next flight fourteen hours later - economy class,
as opposed to his First Class seat on the DC10.

7. When Mercury was on tour in the United States, he found out the
man he was seeing, Tony Bastin, had been seen out with someone else.
For revenge, Mercury paid for Bastin to fly out to see him in the US
under the pretense of visiting.
Mercury met him immediately after his arrival, told him it was over
and then put him on the next plane back to London that day.
Mercury also kept Bastin’s cat, Oscar.

8. Mercury loved his cats, so much so that while on tour,
Mercury would periodically call home to talk to them.
His one-time girlfriend and long-time close friend Mary Austin would hold the cats up to the phone so they could listen to him speak.
He also had portraits painted of them.

9. Mercury’s assistants were required to have a pen and paper on
them at all times in case inspiration hit unexpectedly.
Lyrics for ‘Life Is Real’ were started suddenly while flying over
the Atlantic from New York, with what is now the classic line
“guilt stains on my pillow” originally taken down as
“cunt stains on my pillow”.

10. A recreation of the statue created to honour Mercury, found on
Lake Geneva in Montreaux, Switzerland, stands on top of the Dominion Theatre, just down Oxford Street from Clash HQ.

more info and quotes here ...................
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
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Cheersh,
Davros (Dave)
2009 T100 - "Rosie"
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