Was Freddie the greatest rock star of his generation?

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Was Freddie the greatest rock star of his generation?

โ€œ๐€๐ฌ ๐š ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐›๐ž๐š๐ญ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž. ๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐™๐ž๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐–๐ก๐จ โ€“ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง โ€“ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐…๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž. ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž, ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž. ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ.โ€

Did he have a certain presence off stage as well as on?

โ€œ๐Ž๐ก ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ก. ๐…๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ž. ๐ˆ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ž, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ง๐จ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ฎ๐ซ๐š ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐…๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐š๐. ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐›๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐‰๐š๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ข๐, ๐ญ๐จ ๐š ๐๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ž. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐…๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ, ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ. ๐‡๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ฎ๐ซ๐š. ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ.โ€

For all the charisma that Freddie had, did you sense that beneath it all he was insecure?

โ€œ๐Ž๐ก, ๐ญ๐จ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ. ๐€๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ. ๐‡๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ โ€“ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ.โ€

Peter Hince 2018
Roadie to Freddie Mercury and John Deacon
Head of Queen Crew
Heโ€™s now a photographer

Freddie Mercury holding the audience in the palm of his hand at Slane Castle, July 1986
Absolutely phenomenal

Photo from the Richard Young Collection

FreddieMercury news Queen

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