There’s practically nothing that Kurt Cobain and Axl Rose ever saw eye-to-eye on. Both of them certainly loved the rock and roll music that they played every single time they performed live, but each of them was coming from a completely different angle whenever they put their emotions down on record. Cobain was the one […]
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It’s not hard to imagine a small, conservative, Midwestern American town where rock ‘n’ roll is illegal, a la the movie Footloose, but how about a big city in the north of England imposing an ordinance to limit how loud a rock band could be? In 1973! It might sound like a corny script idea […]
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Who knows where inspiration comes from? It’s a mystery that people have been trying to figure out since the dawn of time. The act of ideas hitting from nowhere is an amazing phenomenon. Within a split second, a lightning strike of genius hits an artist, and the rest is history. Freddie Mercury knew that feeling […]
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It’s hard to think of any Queen song without looking at every member of the band. Even though not all of the songs were written by everyone, there wasn’t a single tune that would have sounded right without Freddie Mercury’s layers of vocal harmonies or even John Deacon adding the perfect bassline to tracks like […]
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Whenever Freddie Mercury had an opinion, he wouldn’t often shy away from sharing it. Once, when asked to describe himself as an artist, he said, “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.” The singer often had a way of saying the most artistically intelligent remarks with an air of crudeness like this, but this was […]
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It turns out that Queen have David Bowie to thank for their big break. Six years before their ‘Under Pressure’ duet, Bowie failed to submit a promo clip for Diamond Dogs’ ‘Rebel Rebel’ lead single to the BBC’s flagship Top of the Pops. It was a sign that the glam star had truly made it, […]
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Any singer who has ever dreamed of wowing crowds across the world is going to be studying Freddie Mercury for the rest of their lives. Up until his final show, there wasn’t a single soul that could entertain a crowd the way he could, and even while being so mild-mannered behind the scenes, he could […]
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For all his stage moves, it’s easy to forget how much of a phenomenon Freddie Mercury was as a musician. Even though he may have been able to deliver Queen’s music to any crowd that would have them, Mercury was just as proficient behind any instrument that he tried, penning classic musical passages throughout ‘Bohemian […]
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Recently, the song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ celebrated its 50th anniversary, and fans of Queen everywhere came out to praise the classic. You can’t blame them either. How often do you find yourself talking to fans of a certain band, hearing them ramble on about the so-called classics they adore, only for you to think, “It’s not […]
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A woman who claimed to be the alleged secret daughter of Freddie Mercury has died aged 48. She didn’t make her identity public and used the pseudonym ‘B’ when making the claims about Mercury being her alleged biological father. Little is known about her, apart from the fact that she is said to have worked […]
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