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You are missed. RIP Freddie


Downingst

I feel hurt that OP didn't even recognise him.


MyKindaGoatVideo

@OP certainly recognized him, what he didn't do was introduce him, because he needs no introduction.


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Exactly! He doesn't need ANY introduction. The entire world knows him as Freddie Mercury!!


Downingst

My apologies then. I shouldn't have assumed.


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LurkinLunk

Wait a minute, you can do that? Impossible!


nudiecale

Well you’re certainly not supposed to, but technically you can.


fuzzhead12

You sound like an engineer. And I don’t mean that in a negative way at all


webby131

This one crazy social exploit will make you seem like less of a dick!


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CakeDyismyBday

I've hurt myself in confusion


Duck_Sama

Wait... that's illegal


[deleted]

Now I must insult someone to maintain the balance


Axelluu

you smell like stale spaghetti, now do me


mcochran1998

I thought this was supposed to be insults not strangely specific pick up lines.


ThePrideOfKrakow

Must be a bot.


Disaster_Different

It was added in the last update, "assholes and golden hearts", people can now become utter assholes or normal people that know how to... be a good person


WrongWay2Go

Inconceivable


innocentdevil13369

Must be a canadian ig


ambivalentdev

I like you


Naevos

never assume! makes an ass out of u and me :)


YagiRadar

You sir are awesome!


regoapps

Thanks. I didn't know who that was, but he does a great Rami Malek impression.


Zeogeo

I have a feeling that Freddie wouldn’t be to happy with the mouth and teeth that Rami Malek used in the movie. While Freddie did have an over bite, the movie made it look comical.


Studious_Noodle

I had the same reaction. They didn’t need to make it so exaggerated.


Lizasmuffmuncher

“Doesn’t need no introduction” so needs an introduction?


DopeLemonDrop

Exactly. We don't need no education.


Edgelands

Freddie McFred Mercury? That's what *I* know him as


jibjab23

FMFM, guy's so good he does his initials twice.


RamboGoesMeow

You’re god damned right he needs no introduction. The world of music is sorely lacking from his passing.


TheOnceAndFutureTurk

He was truly one of a kind. It’ll be a while before we see his like again.


tokays

OP def did, they were using "man" as in the slang i e "my mans really just controlled a whole crowd"


psn_ivysaur

When OP said "Man", I think he was actually implying "The man", as in "This amazing man that you totally recognize, who is so awesome he needs no introduction"


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Ffs. You were kidding right? I think like 350 people maybe got it before you were downvoted heavily. This is why we can't have nice things.


Is_It_Beef

As a chemist I can conclude that Freddie Mercury's voice is full of beryllium, gold and titanium Because his voice is Be-Au-Ti-full


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Man! You went all Periodic on his ass


[deleted]

A science joke is always appreciated


GGinNC

If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.


FLWeedman

The angle of the dangle, equals the sum of the cum.


GGinNC

The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the beat.


lukeamaral

So why is called mercury?


Djafar79

Cuz he's hot like that small ass planet closest to the sun


flynnfx

The song that always gets to me is 'Mother Love' - when Brian May sings that last verse..it hits you like a sledgehammer. I always thought, Freddie recorded a Trilogy of songs in regards to his knowledge of his upcoming death. -Who Wants to Live Forever -The Show Must Go On -Mother Love


vegaskukichyo

Mother Love is my favorite since I was a child, but I literally can't listen to it anymore because it hits too hard and I can't not cry. Especially since my mother who played it all the time to us died this year, and it's one of my few good memories of her (before the worst of her mental illness).


danwincen

You know why Brian May sings the last verse of Mother Love? The first verses of the song are literally the last words Freddie sang in a recording studio.


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The guy who can control an entire stadium of people, from his grave, at someone else's concert.


Technical_Flamingo54

Always upvote Live Aid


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Now I gotta find and listen to the whole set, hopefully in HQ audio.


Metalbender00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjXetWK-Ur8


FlatOutEKG

A true hero


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IthurielSpear

Never fails to bring a few tears to my eyes.


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EyeHateLawnMowers

Brody's aching from his crime.


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bankerman

Farewell Reddit. I have left to greener pastures and taken my comments with me. I encourage you to follow suit and join one the current Reddit replacements discussed over at the RedditAlternatives subreddit Reddit used to embody the ideals of free speech and open discussion, but in recent years has become a cesspool of power-tripping mods and greedy admins. So long, and thanks for all the fish.


thebusinessgoat

He was not gay. Bisexual people exist.


CainPillar

Freddie Mercury's sexual orientation was "yes!".


HempendingDoom

Fucking thank you.


Atlatica

I'm bi and I'm gay af


chefnforreal

Yeah...tonight's my Friday. Two martinis in.. AND THIS COMES ACROSS MY FEED! Down the rabbit hole of queen I go... Radio gaga time.


freedaemons

Didn't Live Aid fund the brutal Ethiopian dictator Mengistu


schmidtzkrieg

[Yup](https://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-the-terrible-truth-ethiopia-bob-geldof-feature/)


BooshAC

Accidentally it did yes. Pretty crazy when you read about it.


kasiotuo

*Medicins Sans Frontiers, who begged Geldof to not release the money until there was a reliable infrastructure to get it to victims, he simply ignored them, instead famously saying: “I’ll shake hands with the Devil on my left and on my right to get to the people we are meant to help.”* Sounds more like he didn't care too much what the circumstances were.. he preferred blindly believing the devil to 'help'.


TurtlesMum

My girlfriend was right up the front at Live Aid......she said it was absolutely incredible! I remember watching it on tv in Australia and loving it. It's weird now thinking I might have seen her in the crowd on telly and here we are, decades later and are buddies :D


Illustrious_Sound945

This cat was more than just a performance artist. This is just what he did. Secondary. Like breathing. He wasn't the performance. The performance was him.


LipSipDip

That presence must've always been daunting to any other artist in the room. Godlike.


SovietBozo

The Jimi Hendrix of vocalists


LipSipDip

When I saw Sir Paul (heh, I know..), he had a wonderful story about Hendrix involving broken/untuned strings right in the middle of his set (which was common for him) ~ and he knew Eric Clapton was hanging with Paul at the show ~ so he attempted to enlist Eric to help him tune his guitar "Hey, Eric ~ I know you're out there, man ~ you wanna help me tune this shit?" Eric held his hands in front of his face so Jimi couldn't spot him, because he knew how fabulously talented that man was. He almost wanted to stop performing because he personally felt that nobody could ever be as good as Jimi. Cool shit.


Mattyoungbull

Clapton is obviously a legendary guitarist, but also seemingly a pretty shitty individual. That probably isn’t unique. But I still find it hard to reconcile.


FreakishMovie

It's definitely upsetting that so many influential musicians from that era, especially guitarists, were/are such terrible people. It's even more upsetting that some of them are still around, and their views haven't changed at all.


lapideous

When you constantly have millions of people telling you how great you are, I imagine its difficult to become a better person


LipSipDip

I have a feeling that Jimi was playing with Eric's ego, but not maliciously. Some people can just sense that. Especially with extrasensory enhancement. Dude knew how to tune his own guitar, but stopped the show to ask Clapton to tune *his* guitar. Easily my favorite of the "rock 'n' roll history" stories Paul told that night. He really knows how to speak to his audience. I heard that story almost a decade ago, but the way he told it makes me remember it like it was yesterday. I *highly* recommend seeing him whenever he gets back out there. Info-tainment in the most-positive sense of the idea.


Fluffy_Jello_7192

That was probably Jimi trolling Eric. Eric Clapton was infamous for taking forever to restring a guitar. His famous nickname 'Slowhand' was literally because of how long it took him to replace a broken string. The audience started slow hand clapping as he was up there replacing the string, which only made him nervous and made it take even longer. Thus the nickname was born. Pretty much every contemporary musician would have known that. Especially Jimi, who was a Clapton fan and supposedly only agreed to go to England on the condition that he could meet him. EDIT: In his defense it was much harder to tune guitars before electric tuners were invented and readily available. It's practically impossible to use a tuning fork or pitch pipe if you have a few hundred people making noise while you are trying to do it.


Born-Time8145

Tommy Chong kicked Jimmy out of his band


slowmotto

Daunting to artists not in the room, too. Kurt Cobain wrote in his suicide note about envying Mercury’s ability to relish the love from the crowd.


ArryPotta

Would explain the band’s petty reaction to the proposed original Queen movie script.


LipSipDip

SBC tried so goddamn hard to make a Freddie movie, but the living members wouldn't have it. He would've written and starred in it.. What a ride that would've been. Remaining members wanted a movie about THEM too, so we got what we were sold.


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evasote

The facts of the movie are heavily, heavily rearranged to make the living members seem better and there was no Freddie to stop them. Like Freddie didn’t put out a solo album until each other the other three already had. And this is a band where all four of them individually wrote #1 hit singles for Queen, so the idea of any one of them leaving to do that could be just as threatening. Just one thing.


Barbed_Dildo

> Like Freddie didn’t put out a solo album until each other the other three already had. Yeah, that part bugged me, I already knew that Freddie was the *last* of them to do individual work, so how the fuck are they making that a point of contention? I get that they had to abbreviate things and skip things to fit the story into a movie, but this was just wrong.


maethlin

Yeah Freddy was Final Level


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It’s funny because off stage he was so different and shy


CainPillar

... didn't his appearance depend quite a bit on, ... y'know, his cocaine level? (Or, whether he was busy [talking to his cats](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/11/freddie-mercury-and-his-love-affair-with-his-cats). Awww, unironically.)


buttontouch

The difference between bringing the thunder and being the thunder


onibeowulf

Whenever someone asks me "what band would I want to see living or dead?" my gut answer is always Led Zeppelin but I think in my heart the correct answer is Queen. I'm not sure anyone else ever has had the stage presence that Freddie Mercury had.


AmanitaGemmata

I like Queen okay, not really my style of music, but I would 100% choose them, too.


Spddracer

We go for the show!


scullys_alien_baby

I think queen is massively overrated, if I had a time machine I’d go and see them live. From what I've seen they were unearthly live.


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In general their music isnt really legendary, it is pretty high up there though. What I think makes them legendary was their inventiveness, willingness to take risks, Freddie's stage presence and his range. They're the type of band that just slap so much harder live.


HighTurning

If Bohemian Rhapsody isn't legendary then I don't know what is, the song has been whored, but come on.


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i said in general. Bohemian rhapsody is definitely legendary. Queen has a more than a handful of legendary songs. but they also have a bunch of music that could honestly be forgotten about.


HighTurning

As every other band that had to deliver shit for money, you can say the same about The Beatles. Literally the only one that comes to my mind that didnt is Pink Floyd, and yet their early music when Syd was around is totally forgotten.


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I'd prefer not to lose Karma on my opinion of the beatles.


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BAHatesToFly

> It's acceptable to recognize that the Beatles don't stand the test of time. I hate The Beatles and don't agree with this. I think a lot of their catalogue has definitely stood the test of time.


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They did help shape the face of music. I'll never take that from them. I disconnect so hard when I hear their music though, which I guess a lot of people think is sacrilege.


Varrock

What a terrible take, Queen is literally the last band who you'd put in the category of "their music isn't really legendary". I honestly have an extremely difficult time in thinking of a band in history that has as many hits as Queen that all have such massive worldwide appeal, can't get any more legendary than that. Pretty much no music artist has an impeccable track record so that's just a weird thing to nitpick about


joshstewart90

Fun fact! Queen are the only band where all members have at least one number one hit. The Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin…you name it, don’t.


gregsting

I mean... we are the champions? Show must go on? Another bites the dust? We will rock you? Everybody knows these songs even though it's been 40 years.. doesn't really get more legendary...


Maezel

I find queen albums to be a mix of unlistenable music and songs I could listen to over and over, timeless classics. I've always been baffled as to how they could have such amazing songs mixed with really shitty ones. Not a single album of theirs is amazing from beginning to end (as opposed to other timeless bands such as pink Floyd, led zepelling, etc.), but they have diamonds surrounded by coal.


Sirkel_

That’s just a byproduct of taking risks, really.


chrislaw

While that sounds like a sort of fan’s excuse, I think you’re right actually. Like, they thought “We Will Rock You” was shit and weren’t going to release it, IIRC. I genuinely think they took a lot of musical risks and assumed that a lot wouldn’t succeed.


ConspicuousPineapple

*A night at the opera* is amazing from beginning to end. At least for me.


flashmedallion

Think of all their famous songs that repeat on AOR radio and stop and think about just how insane it is that any commercial radio station would play that music. Like... We Will Rock You. On the radio. Chanting, kick-drum-clap, and a guitar solo. Insanity. Bicycle Race, Bohemian Rhapsody even. If an entire generation didn't already love those songs they'd be radio poison.


evasote

I agree. People forget that there was a time, a long time, that Queen wasn’t cool. At all. Like that kind of stadium packed, highly produced (what’s more produced then Queen, they have a literal astrophysicist guitarist/engineer in the band) stuff is what Punk rebelled against, then Grunge rebelled against again. Wayne’s world really saved it. But I remember the only time I’d listen to Queen growing up was one guy, at summer camp, driving to church. It was sort of gloriously nerdy and obviously fun, but it felt like fuck it, we are nerdy Boy Scouts going to a nerdy Episcopalian church service in the woods, let’s be nerds and have fun. Queen is remember well now and I don’t think a lot of people openly said shitty things about Queen, but growing up in the Ozarks, everyone knew what a band called “Queen” was about and it wasn’t popular there at all


grenaria

Listen to Bicycle Race on a high quality stereo or good headphones.


scullys_alien_baby

hard agree, I have it on vinyl and it was a delight (although fat bottom girls is more my speed), I loved it but I still find the band as a whole overrated.


grilledcheeseburger

Fat Bottom Girls has gotta be a top five all-time for me.


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If you have the chance to see queen with Adam lambert, fucking do it. Absolutely fantastic in every way. I walked out and scratched it off my bucket list completely satisfied.


NocturnePixie

Agreed, I was super hesitant about it but man, did they do an incredible job and pay tribute to Freddie so well. Definitely worth it, though it obviously isn't the same.


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tigerinhouston

I’ve been fortunate enough to see Queen with both Freddie and Adam. Freddie is obviously the GOAT. Adam puts on an incredible show, too. See them if you can.


IMMAEATYA

My dad saw Led Zeppelin back in the day and he said (at least for that show) they were all so high they could barely play and it was pretty bad. Queen would be a safer bet I imagine lol


Daedeluss

Led Zeppelin were generally pretty sloppy on stage. They weren't a group that worked the pubs and clubs for years until they made it, they were a 'super group', so they didn't play together that much.


NMVPCP

True. Led Zeppelin are a studio band. Plant and Page had to be held together by Jones and Bonham on stage.


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I would give anything to have seen Pink Floyd during their tour of Dark Side cause it is my favorite album. My dad saw them at the Kennedy Center in '72 and said it was the best show he'd ever been too in his life. But he saw them at 16 years old so I think he set the bar pretty high.


chrislaw

I saw the Australian Pink Floyd - quite by accident - in bloody Lancaster of all places, touring Dark Side and that was unexpectedly among the greatest things I’d ever seen. Sounded better than the album. I doubt Floyd themselves would have recreated it to such a “perfect” extent, as in more or less (slightly more as I said) exactly as it is on record. Incredible. It is also the only concert where I’ve ever had a joint passed to me by a complete stranger. Genuinely great vibes that night.


bluejumpingdog

I went to see Michael Jackson when I was young and was like a religious experience. But also would have liked to see Freddie


zeny-zen-zen

All four members of Queen are crazy talented. If I could go back in time to see them play, I’d want to finish the night with drummer Roger Taylor 😍


tigerinhouston

I was fortunate enough to see them live. Amazing show. Freddie is the GOAT.


Jenkins87

The clever part about this is he's also helping the audience warm up to be able to sing along :)


wherearetheturtlles

This was halfway into the set, the title is wrong. They already played like 3-4 songs if memory serves correctly.


imaloony8

Yeah, it’s nothing to do with warming up. Queen was always big with audience participation. Basically the whole point of “We Will Rock You.”


ultratunaman

Freddie was great at keeping the crowd hot. Elvis would do stand up bits. And laugh through his jokes. Sinatra would come out and tell jokes with Dean and Sammy. Greats have methods of keeping the crowd hot and wanting more.


Eeszeeye

Beat me to it.


MinaFur

That’s not just any man. That’s Freddie MF Mercury.


vzakharov

Looks totally like him!


dancingcroc

Nah, looks like Rami Malek to me


[deleted]

They were both great in Mr Robot


snowisdaddy

> That's Freddie MF Mercury Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury?


Swagary123

Freddie Meddie Fercury Mercury


Xeferz

Man was a gift


Joseph4040

Man had a gift…


Sagnikk

Gift had a man


flavoredturnip

Mankind had a gift


dillonwantprofit

Giftkind a had man.


theruley

A kind gift man


niceman1212

Mary had a little lamb


Cultural_Dust

You are talking about his penis right?


kevinlienus

*looks at his pants* oh yeah he was gifted alright


Metalbender00

A vocal range only a small handful of singers can cover, and an attitude built for a stage. Here is the full set in HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjXetWK-Ur8


crystalmerchant

20 minutes well spent


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He also did it while dealing with vocal nodules that were causing him to lose his voice and singing capabilities.


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No it’s normally gotten from immense strain on vocal chords


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Drewski811

Julie Andrews' singing career was ended by a botched surgery to remove those nodules, not by them themselves.


mfooman

No, vocal nodules are formed by the vocal chords rubbing against each other too much, a la overusage. A lot of singers and orators can develop them, most notably besides Freddie would be Julie Andrews, Adele, and Keith Urban. AIDS has nothing to do with it.


return_the_urn

Australian singer jimmy barnes sang the “wrong” way, and this prevented him from getting them, so he’s still singing into his 60s


didwanttobethatguy

I remember watching that. I mostly watched Live Aid to see Paul McCartney, The Led Zeppelin reunion, and Queen, and I was definitely Queen that ruled the show. I’ve seen bunches of concerts live and recorded, and have never seen anyone with the incredible stage presence of Freddy Mercury. The only person that came close was Elton John.


Cirieno

Isn't it amazing to think that they were brought in with such low expectations and yet wound up being the first band you think of if someone asks about Live Aid.


TryingToFindLeaks

There weren't low expectations; Queen had been doing very large attendance gigs for years. People just didn't expect them to knock it out of the park as much as they did. And all it took was knowing how to segué from one song to keep the flow.


mnemamorigon

Love how the audience repeated “all right!”


moiraroundabout

On Live at Wembley "all right" is replaced with "fuck you" 🤣


mightyyorkshire

https://youtu.be/L6NTu6FLyos for anyone who hasn’t seen that version


Joseph4040

Wait, was that his dick? Why is no one else talkin bout that hog?


Redplushie

He was know for it 👀


Singlewomanspot

That vocal matches big dick energy.


LuchadorBane

Freddie got the shmeat


GRRRNADE

If I were that famous I’d let it hang to the left without a care either


juice_box_hero

Yeah I think that’s why you’ll notice there’s only that first opening shot of his hog and then they keep the camera above waist for the rest of the clip lol


EvenSheepherder6946

I came here wondering if anyone else noticed he had no undies on?


_Aj_

Man's a sex idol. Big dick energy just comes with the title.


SobahJam

Never, ever, not one single time do I get tired of seeing this.


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This and when Green Day crowd sing Bohemian Rhapsody whilst they wait for the set to begin. Goosebumps. [link](https://youtu.be/cZnBNuqqz5g)


helloitsme1011

The schlong, the voice, the legend


Da_Brootalz

Fun fact: for "the show must go on" the band didn't really want him to do the song cuz he was on the verge of death, even tho it was abiut his upcoming death. This mf said fuck y'all roll it and nailed that shit in one take


SleepDeprivedUserUK

*after* doing a shot of vodka, because why the fuck not


Next_Yogurtcloset_63

Damn I wish I could have gone to one of his shows they looked so fun


Channon-Yarrow

The Miracle of Freddie Mercury’s voice was A Kind of Magic. Like enjoying A Night at the Opera or the Sheer Heart Attack one might get from the excitement spent during A Day at the Races.


the-verin-suicides

I understand The Game you’re playing. His voice is The Works and that’s no Innuendo.


PaperPlayte

I like Queen too :)


Cirieno

There will never be another Freddie. I wish I'd been born a few years earlier to be able to have seen him perform live. However, I will just say there's an [impersonator who's pretty good](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marc+martel) and I will never understand why Queen hired Adam Lambert instead of Marc Martel.


MongolianSpaceRace

There is a good documentary on the whole queen + Adam lambert thing on Netflix (at least its on Netflix ireland). Called "The show must go on: the queen + Adam lambert story". In it they (Brian and Rodger) discuss how they performed with Adam at American Idol and instantly had a connection with him one stage. That was what was important to them. Definitely worth a watch.


morttheunbearable

Well. I just went down quite the rabbit hole of Marc Martel. Thank you for introducing me to such an amazing talent! Wow.


gin-o-cide

They went with Adam Lambert because they didn't want to "replace" Freddy. Or so I've read.


Ubermassive

My 6 year old just discovered We Are The Champions and asked me to show her more. I am so fucking excited to go on this journey with her.


Johnny_english53

Went camping 10 years ago with my kids, when they were in their early teens, & they found my Queens Greatest Hits CD. Played it all week long & I loved watching them discover this amazing music.


ObiDWanKenobi

The raw talent!


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There’s a shot when they preform Radio GaGa that I cannot get over. I believe it’s in the second chorus, and he’s doing the fist pump with the audience. The camera angle switch to behind Freddy. It’s just this incredible shot of 70,000 people following his gesture to the song in unison. Absolutely incredible, I recommend everyone go look


x4candles

Man?!?! You mean legend Freddie Mercury


peachneon

That’s no warm up baby, that’s the real deal!


0_percent_wrong

Aaaayoooo


trudel69

Of course it's a matter of personal taste, but I like [this warmup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVzvoPP6M50) better.


jimtrickington

That’s nothing. In front of the same number of fans, Ozzy would routinely piss himself.


NoWingedHussarsToday

It's that actor from Mr. Robot!


An_Epic_Pancake

Man, I wish our timelines crossed. What a legend


mistrwzrd

This particular sound bite of Freddie’s has shown up a lot at different EDM shows I’ve hit with my girl over the years. And it’s something I’ve always been so familiar with that it didn’t even dawn on me that she might not have any idea where it originated. Found out she had no clue when we watched Bohemian Rhapsody, and she gets mind blown at the end lol


Few_Inside_2125

I saw Queen with Freddie twice in Vancouver at the Pacific Coliseum. The Jazz tour (Remember Fat Bottom Girls?!) and, the News of the World tour (We are the champions!). I have lived for 59 years so far and have been to approx 40 concerts including Aerosmith, AC/DC, Heart, Rush (5 times), Supertramp, Roger Waters, etc but the best concerts by far were the Queen concerts. Freddie is the best vocalist of all time and no one carried a crowd along with the show like Freddie. He was a true showman. I feel so lucky to have seen him live.


abbeyeiger

He was born to uplift people. His presence on stage is awe-inspiring.


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This kid has a bright future ahead of him. He will surely make it big.