Freddie Mercury

by **Malbert** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:36 am

I just read a fantastic book about him by Lesley Ann Jones titled "Mercury". I had not read anything about him before this, so I cannot compare it to other books regarding his life. I was a Queen fan when I was very young: every Friday night we'd have pizza with my grandparents at a restaurant and "We Are the Champions"/ "We Will Rock You" played constantly on the jukebox.

by **JackT** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:44 am

He was a great vocalist.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:01 pm

Yep. Never liked Queen back in the day, but Mercury has to rank as one of the greatest vocalists of all time. There's supposed to be a movie in the pipeline about his life isn't there?

by **Malbert** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:46 pm

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:There's supposed to be a movie in the pipeline about his life isn't there?

I have not heard about it, but that would be fab!

by **Ivan** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:51 pm

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:Yep. Never liked Queen back in the day, but Mercury has to rank as one of the greatest vocalists of all time. There's supposed to be a movie in the pipeline about his life isn't there?

Sacha Baron Cohen is set to play Mercury.

Seriously.

by **Mr. Brian** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:06 pm

Ivan wrote:Sacha Baron Cohen is set to play Mercury.

Seriously.

I guess he looks like him enough to do it. They must be dubbing in a singer though right?

by **Dave Smith** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:12 pm

I was in London when he died.His fans lined the street with flowers next to his mews house in Earls Court.Never seen anything like it.

by **JackT** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:12 pm

Dave Smith wrote:I was in London when he died.

That's a little suspicious.

by **Mr. Brian** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:20 pm

Dave Smith wrote:I was in London when he died.His fans lined the street with flowers next to his mews house in Earls Court.Never seen anything like it.

you people do love your Queen

by **Malbert** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:48 pm

This guy needs to do it.

by **fat cherry** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:25 am

do what? the singing? He'd get away with the 80s butch freddie but not the early 70s funny looking dude with straggly hair. I'd never heard him speak until the tribute programs when he snuffed it.

I generally ignored queen after night at the opera though one of my mates was a massive fan - he even used to wear a catsuit in the band we were briefly in together. The other thought I had - when they did the music for highlander he must have already known he was on his way out so all that 'who wants to live forever' stuff must have been close to home. Also - when he sand wirth monserrat wossname (barcelona) he more than held his own, whereas bonio vs pavarotti, not so much. oo, did i just attempt to turn this into a u2 slagging thread. Nice one.

by **Malbert** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:29 am

fat cherry wrote:do what? the singing? He'd get away with the 80s butch freddie but not the early 70s funny looking dude with straggly hair.

Hair and make up pros can do anything.

by **fat cherry** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:09 am

i'm sure his chin got bigger over time, difficult to reverse engineer that looking at that bloke. CGI?

by **Malbert** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:54 am

fat cherry wrote:i'm sure his chin got bigger over time, difficult to reverse engineer that looking at that bloke. CGI?

Maybe CGI. Look what they did with Brad Pitt in "Benjamin Button." I can tell you that Marc has already done stuff with Queen, so he's got some experience already. When I was reading the book, it mentioned several times that Freddie was self conscious of his teeth. The man was worth millions; I don't know why he never got them fixed if it bothered him that badly.

by **fat cherry** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:20 am

singers dont like fiddling with anything that might affect their voice. not that i have a clue why that might change it. all i know is that's the reason rod stewart declined to have his nose fixed.

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