The very first time we met Freddie was when he came to one of our gigs. He said, ‘You guys are great, great, great, you are really, really brilliant , but you should do this and you should do that, you should be more of a dramatic act, you should have more lights, more sound…’. Okay Freddie!
We were like, who is this guy? We said what are you? Freddie said, ‘Well, I’m a singer darling, I’m a singer.’
Oh really. Okay, fine! He kept turning up to our gigs and saying the same things.
We were getting into difficult ground, we were getting no where, we were a band called ‘Smile.’
Our singer got enticed away from us by some group called ‘Humpy Bong’ and he went off to the big time.
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