Georgy Zhukov Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Yeah, not paying that much for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Bumping this thread. I just got done watching BBC's Freddie Mercury: A Life in 10 Pictures and it was a tremendous watch. Peter Freestone always comes across great in all the Queen/Freddie related docs that have come out over the years and was good to see him looking well. If you've got an hour to kill, check it out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tzf0/a-life-in-ten-pictures-series-1-freddie-mercury I was playing this over the weekend: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 36 years ago today. 20 minutes that changed everything. A guy I know was there but said Queen weren’t his bag. I believe he was there for Ultravox and a few others and the artists he wasn’t keen on, he’d meet his friends behind the mixing desk for a beer and smoke. They were there when Queen were in the midst of Radio Ga Ga when everyone clapped in unison and said he knew that what he was experiencing would be a defining moment in history. Pretty cool. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonGuns Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 On 7/13/2021 at 2:05 PM, Dean said: 36 years ago today. 20 minutes that changed everything. A guy I know was there but said Queen weren’t his bag. I believe he was there for Ultravox and a few others and the artists he wasn’t keen on, he’d meet his friends behind the mixing desk for a beer and smoke. They were there when Queen were in the midst of Radio Ga Ga when everyone clapped in unison and said he knew that what he was experiencing would be a defining moment in history. Pretty cool. I know a guy who was a massive David Bowie fan, he blagged his way into the press conference for Live Aid in the style of Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and got to sit in the same room as Bowie and Geldof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 5 minutes ago, ToonGuns said: I know a guy who was a massive David Bowie fan, he blagged his way into the press conference for Live Aid in the style of Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and got to sit in the same room as Bowie and Geldof. That is tremendous shithousery. I hope he pulls that one out at any opportunity possible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 BBC Two to air Freddie Mercury film on ‘extraordinary final chapter’ of his life Freddie Mercury: The Final Act Quote BBC Two is to air a film which tells the story of the “extraordinary final chapter” of the life of the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury. The 90-minute film titled Freddie Mercury: The Final Act will also document the journey leading up to the 1992 tribute concert held for the former Queen frontman at Wembley Stadium, the BBC said. Mercury died in November 1991 of bronchial pneumonia resulting from Aids at the age of just 45. Due to air in November, 30 years after the singer’s death, the film will feature interviews with his former Queen bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor, his sister Kashmira Bulsara, and friends including actress Anita Dobson, who is married to May. The film will start in 1986, when the band’s Magic tour had its final performance at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. The gig would turn out to be Mercury’s final live performance with the band, who had also performed during 1985’s Live Aid benefit concert. In 1992, musicians including Sir Elton John, The Who’s Roger Daltrey and more took to the stage at Wembley with Queen members John Deacon, Taylor and May to pay tribute to Mercury at a benefit concert for Aids awareness. Freddie Mercury: The Final Act will feature interviews with performers from the concert, including Daltrey, Extreme’s Gary Cherone, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Lisa Stansfield, Paul Young and the concert’s promoter Harvey Goldsmith. According to the BBC, the film also “hears from those who saw the impact of HIV/Aids first hand, either as medical practitioners, survivors, or human rights campaigners”, including Peter Tatchell. Guitarist May, 74, says in the film: “Freddie opened up his heart and gave it everything he had. He was a musician through and through and through. He lived for his music. He loved his music, and he was proud of himself as a musician above everything else.” Taylor, 72, speaking about the stigma surrounding HIV/Aids at the time, says: “We were very angry and we had to stick up for our friend – our best friend. I became fixated with the idea of giving him a hell of a send-off.” The film’s director James Rogan said: “Making Freddie Mercury: The Final Act has been an extraordinary journey into the final chapter of one of rock music’s greatest icons. Working with Queen and getting to see behind the scenes of some of their greatest performances and the legendary Freddie Mercury tribute concert was a rare privilege. “Equally important was speaking to the people who had lived through the eye of the storm of the global pandemic of HIV/Aids, with all its resonances with Covid today. Freddie’s death and the tribute that Queen organised for him helped to change global awareness of this terrible disease at a critical time.” Jan Younghusband, head of BBC music TV commissioning, said: “James Rogan’s film: Freddie Mercury: The Final Act is a poignant story of one of music’s most popular and talented musicians, and the legacy he left. “Not only does it shine new light on Freddie Mercury’s brave journey through those final five years of his life, it also tells a wider – and hugely important – story of the emergence of Aids at the time and how the incredible tribute concert after his death helped to change for the better public opinion about the crisis. “The artists of Queen and others who were there speak candidly for the first time.” BBC do fantastic documentaries and this will no doubt be essential viewing. One of the most productive periods of Freddie's career was his last 5 years. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Pencil this in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luciusfunk Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Saw this at Walmart a few months back and had to buy it. My favorite 70s Queen album. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luciusfunk Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Not Queen exactly, but my best friend and I are going to see Q+AL for the second time this November. Best tickets I've ever gotten to a show. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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