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Freddie came into the studio one day and announced that as he had a cold, his doctor had forbade him to drink vodka, his usual tipple. As we digested this information, he added quickly: ‘So get me a brandy!’.
Being with him, I never realised how big he was. I’d never seen him as this rock mega-star. I just saw him as my mate, Fred. If I could do it all over again, all those years with them, I totally would, and I guess all ‘the family’, as they called their staff, would say the same.”
Chris “Crystal” Taylor
Queen crew, Roger’s Drum Tech, Assistant and Roadie
I added 3 pictures from Live tour the town Hall England
27 November 1973, Queen performed @ The Town Hall, Birmingham, England “Queen I Tour”
According to a fan who saw the show, half the audience was at the bar at the beginning of Queen’s set. They were David Bowie fans who were there to see Mott The Hoople (Bowie wrote All The Young Dudes, their biggest hit). With each passing song, more people left the bar to watch Queen and were won over by the energetic show and the musicianship.
There’s a funny moment during the a cappella second chorus of Hangman, after “Hang that rope from the highest tree”. Freddie, in a campy voice, says, “Yes, you’ll do that” (as he did last night in Keep Yourself Alive).
Queen’s fortunes varied somewhat on this tour. On many nights they were reported to have blown Mott The Hoople off the stage, but on this night things didn’t go quite so smoothly. Someone who attended the show recalls a noticeably nervous Freddie Mercury, who even tripped over a monitor at one point: “Freddie was clearly winded, but continued on from the floor as if it were part of the show. This impressed some audience members, but not everyone. During the last song, Freddie was hit in the face by a hot dog. With ketchup falling down to his neck, he was visibly distraught.”
The third pic is particularly interesting, as it is the last known shot of the fuzz switch still visible on Brian May’s Red Special. Over the next year it would be removed, the hole covered with duct tape, and replaced with a red dot (and later black tape again). In 1998 it was finally replaced with the “May Star” as seen on the front cover of his 1993 solo album Back To The Light.
Freddie’s hair nearly caught fire during the video shoot of ‘I Was Born To Love You.’ This song was released as a single on the ‘Mr. Bad Guy’ album. David Mallet the video director said of the incident,” I also remember with Freddie in front of those mirrors, I wanted to give him a halo. To give someone with black hair a halo is quite difficult. And we put this sodding great light above his head, and after about half an hour, his hair started smoking literally. Literally smoking! And I remember shouting, Fred get the hell out of there before you catch fire!
Mallet also said that the wobbly mirrors were totally by chance. He said, “Freddie singing and dancing in front of all those mirrors was actually a lucky accident. In the video shoot the playback speaker was put near one of the mirrors. It’s the bass of the speaker that started to rattle the mirror, and I remember looking thru the camera and thinking, ‘God that looks good.’ So we ended up with a runner boy kicking each mirror in time with the beat. And thankfully we didn’t break any mirrors, but it worked.”
Credit:The Express and David Mallet
The smoking hair that could have turned Freddie into a human torch, and the vibrating mirrors were all by chance events that created one of the most fun and sensual videos from Queen. Freddie was terrific in this video and was having the time of his life. Seeing him happy made me happy and no matter how many times I watch this, the biggest smile comes over my face which will continue, ‘Forever And One Day’.
He could hold 100,000 people in the palm of his hand.
Not once did I see him get nervous… he was extremely confident and one of the most professional people I’ve ever worked with…
His energy and joie de vivre… he was a one-off Rock Icon, never to be replaced.
He was the ultimate individualist and everyone respected that.
He expressed his sexuality all the time and especially through photography. His costumes, his fashion, his expressions…he was so open and had a sense of humor about it.
Adidas was his thing…the shoes, sportswear… he felt most comfortable on stage in sportswear.
I think once or twice saw him a suit and tie. My favorite Freddie look will always be the sporty white trousers at the 1986 Wembley concert.”
30 November 1979, Queen performed the first of two evenings @ The Iconic Glasgow Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland ‘Crazy Tour’
The Apollo: A haven for Scotland’s rock fans
Queen experimented a bit with their setlists on this tour. They once again opened with ‘Let Me Entertain You’ tonight and also received an award
Queen had achieved an ambition by selling all 3500 tickets for the greatest concert venue in Scotland’s rock history and wins the famous statuette…
The inscription on the tiny gold plaque said it all: S.R.O. – Sold Right Out.
But, Queen aren’t the only ones. Blondie and Paul McCartney is also the proud owner of an Apollo Trophy for packing out the place. So are The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Roxy Music, Cliff Richard, The Who and Abba to name but a few.
The awards became so sought after that if an act was just a few tickets short of a sell-out their roadies would buy the remaining briefs up in order to qualify for the prize.
The tin statuettes bought for just £7.50 were presented by Frank Lynch, who transformed the crumbling Green’s Playhouse cinema into the Apollo Theatre in 1973.
A sad farewell to the venue, the building was eventually demolished in 1987.
Live Aid. Sting, U2, Dire Straits, The Who, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Elton John, and George Michael were among the acts performing in London that day (Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Madonna and Tom Petty were at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia for the American counterpart). But of all the high-caliber artists on display that day, there was unanimous agreement that Queen’s Live Aid performance stole the whole show with a magnificent, 21-minute tour-de-force set.
