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A Freddie Mercury tribute singer performs during the Global Rapid Rugby match between the Western Force and the World XV...
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A Freddie Mercury tribute singer performs during the Global Rapid Rugby match between the Western Force and the World XV at HBF Park on March 22, 2019 in Perth, Australia.

Freddie Mercury - Queen concert - July 19, 1986 - Freddie Mercury on July 19, 1986 at the legendary Queen concert on the...
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Freddie Mercury - Queen concert - July 19, 1986 - Freddie Mercury on July 19, 1986 at the legendary Queen concert on the occasion of the "Magic Tour" on stage in the Müngersdorfer Stadium. It was Queen's last concert in Germany. Freddie Mercury on July 19, 1986 at the legendary Queen concert on the occasion of the "Magic Tour" on stage in the Müngersdorfer Stadium. It was Queen's last concert in Germany.

Queen 1975 Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury and Brian May
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Queen 1975 Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury and Brian May

Brian May and Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991) of Queen at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, September 19, 1980.
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Brian May and Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991) of Queen at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, September 19, 1980.

Singer Freddie Mercury of Queen at the Rosemont Horizon on September 19, 1980 in Rosemont, Illinois.
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Singer Freddie Mercury of Queen at the Rosemont Horizon on September 19, 1980 in Rosemont, Illinois.

The late Freddie Mercury is displayed on screen during the Closing Ceremony on Day 16 of the London 2012 Olympic Games a...
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The late Freddie Mercury is displayed on screen during the Closing Ceremony on Day 16 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 12, 2012 in London, England.

Singer Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), of British rock group Queen, backstage at Slane Castle, Ireland, 1986.
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Singer Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), of British rock group Queen, backstage at Slane Castle, Ireland, 1986.

British rock group Queen at the end of a show, 1979. Left to right; John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury and Brian...
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British rock group Queen at the end of a show, 1979. Left to right; John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury and Brian May.

British rock group Queen performing on stage, 1986.
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British rock group Queen performing on stage, 1986.

John Deacon and Freddie Mercury of Queen being interviewed at the band's office in London for Japanese music magazine 'M...
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John Deacon and Freddie Mercury of Queen being interviewed at the band's office in London for Japanese music magazine 'Music Life', 13th June 1974.

British rock group Queen performing on stage, Stockholm, 1982. Left to right: Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), Brian May a...
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British rock group Queen performing on stage, Stockholm, 1982. Left to right: Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), Brian May and John Deacon.

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 24: An image of the late Freddie Mercury is projected onto a screen while Adam Lambert ...
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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 24: An image of the late Freddie Mercury is projected onto a screen while Adam Lambert + Queen perform onstage during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 10: John Deacon, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen perform on stage...
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 10: John Deacon, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen perform on stage at Wembley Arena, on December 10th, 1980 in London, England.

Freddie Mercury and John Deacon of Queen during a rehearsal at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, February 1981.
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Freddie Mercury and John Deacon of Queen during a rehearsal at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, February 1981.

British singer-songwriter and record producer Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), British bassist John Deacon and British gui...
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British singer-songwriter and record producer Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), British bassist John Deacon and British guitarist Brian May performing on stage during Queen's 'A Day at the Races' European Tour, 1977.

23 March 1985 - Freddie and Jim meet for the second and definitive time at Heaven Club, London. 💘Jim first met Freddie i...
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23 March 1985 - Freddie and Jim meet for the second and definitive time at Heaven Club, London. 💘
Jim first met Freddie in 1983 at Copacabana, a gay club in London. Freddie, who was three years older, offered to buy him a drink. But not only Jim didn't recognize who he was, he actually rejected him.
They didn’t connect until a year and a half later, when they “accidentally” saw each other, once again, at the nightclub Heaven and Freddie offered to buy him a drink again. This time, Jim accepted.
“[March 23, 1985] The day started like any other. I made myself some supper, then headed out wearing jeans and a white vest. The look at the time was ‘High Clone,’ complete with mandatory mustache. I got the tube to Vauxhall and when the Market Tavern closed, I fell straight into the back of a minicab and went to Heaven. I arrived fairly late, after paying the cab I only had £5 to my name. I went straight downstairs to the bar and ordered a pint of lager.
‘Let me buy you this,’ said a voice. I looked up. It was the chap from Cocobana in 1983. Freddie thing. I’d had a fair amount to drink. My tongue had loosened up. My defences were down.
‘No, I’ll buy you one,’ I said.
‘A large vodka tonic,’ came back the reply.
He introduced himself as ‘Freddie’. I now knew he was Freddie Mercury, but still had little inkling who he actually was, nor what he did. It didn’t seem to matter.
Freddie asked me to join his crowd of friends, who were grouped in the middle of the bar. Joe Fanelli was there, Peter Straker, and a couple others. I haven’t got a clue what we talked about that night, I let them do most of the talking. Freddie and I danced, I was a bit of a raver in those days. I could tear the floor to bits along with anyone unlucky enough to be in my way. For a few good hours I threw Freddie across the dance floor. I think he admired my unselfconscious, bullish dancing. 😂
While Freddie told me the story of his life that summer we discovered there was a special chemistry between us. I fell in love with so much about Freddie, regardless of what he did for a living. He had those big brown eyes and a vulnerable, child-like persona. He was quite the opposite of the sort of man I’d ever fancied before… He appeared to be remarkably insecure but he was totally sincere and I was hooked!
Jim Hutton
Even though they didn't get married (at that time it was impossible for couples of the same gender), Jim gave Freddie a ring.
And as we all know the couple stayed together until the very end 💝💘💗
We know EVERYONE has opinions and some stronger than others; PLEASE DON’T BE NEGATIVE.
If you wouldn’t dare say it to Freddie then don’t post it to the page.

On this day in Queen history, August 24, 1984, Queen performed live at the Forest National, Brussels, Belgium.This is th...
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On this day in Queen history, August 24, 1984, Queen performed live at the Forest National, Brussels, Belgium.
This is the first show of The Works tour.
According to the July '89 issue of Record Collector, Queen ran through about 40 songs during rehearsals. This list of songs rehearsed that didn't end up in the setlist comes from someone who worked on the tour:
Great King Rat (longer version), Brighton Rock (full song), I'm In Love With My Car, Sweet Lady, White Man, We Will Rock You (fast), Play The Game, Need Your Loving Tonight, Put Out The Fire, Las Palabras de Amor, Life Is Real (both Freddie solo piano and Freddie/Brian acoustic duet versions)
The keyboardist for this tour (and also the '86 Magic tour) is session musician Spike Edney. He would also lend some vocals to many songs and play rhythm guitar in Hammer To Fall. He and Roger Taylor would form a band called "The Cross" in 1987 which spawned three albums, and he would return to Queen in the 21st century to play on the tours with Paul Rodgers.
Spike was recruited in a very informal way by a Queen associate. He went to Munich for their first rehearsal in early August, wound up partying for most of the first night, and missed the first day's rehearsal. It later transpired that everyone else had. He recalls, "The next day, we all managed to get to it eventually, to the first rehearsal, and all the gear was set up. The stage was huge, and I thought "Oh well, here we go then" and we got to the first song , and what I'd forgotten was that they hadn't actually played together for two years. So they said, OK, let's try one of the new songs, I think it was Radio Ga Ga, and we started playing it, and course, I knew it, I'd been studying it for weeks. You know, 1,2,3,4 and we start and we get about a minute into the song and the whole thing collapses. And they all look at each other, you know, very sheepishly, and they say, "Anyone know how it goes?" and I say "well, actually, I know. I know how it goes" and they said "Ah". And so I started showing them the chords and everything and Fred looked at me and said "You don't know the words, do you?" 🤣 and "Well, yeah I do actually" so then they all came round the piano and we spent the whole day just going through songs, and I thought, "I'm gonna be all right here, this'll be OK!”
The show started very late, as the band were still doing soundcheck when they were supposed to go on. Apparently over the previous week there were few occasions when all four band members actually showed up for rehearsal. Many songs (likely those listed above) never made the setlist, and soundcheck was an extensive cramming session, particularly for the older material that they hadn't played in years.
Roger Taylor later reflected that this European tour was one of his favorites, and many fans cite the early Works setlist as their favorite ever played by the band. Three medleys are now played, two of which have revived many old songs: Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Stone Cold Crazy and Great King Rat. Staying Power from Hot Space returns to the set, as does Sheer Heart Attack from News Of The World. Only half of Staying Power is played, and it runs into Dragon Attack, followed by an improvisation running into a more compact version of Now I'm Here compared to previous tours.
Many people who attended shows on this tour recall Queen having a very heavy sound, especially on songs like Liar and Stone Cold Crazy. By 1984 they had gained a reputation as being one of the best live rock acts in the business.
Six songs from The Works are performed each night, and the introduction tape is from the album track "Machines". After the heavy G chords are heard on the tape twice, the band walk on stage in the darkness to play the chords the third time, which leads into the brand new "Tear It Up". This is yet another effective opening to a Queen show, something they would perfect time and time again.
I Want To Break Free is performed each night in 1984-85 as the first encore, with Freddie coming on stage sporting a pair of huge plastic breasts under a pink shirt. Part way through the song, he would remove the breasts and twirl them around for a while before finally throwing them into the audience. Some souvenir! As a result of this gag, Another One Bites The Dust has been moved from the encore to be earlier in the set.
This tour showcases an incredible lighting rig and an overall setup mimics the movie Metropolis, from which scenes were used for the promo video of Radio Ga Ga last year. The huge wheels behind the stage (modelled after the ones on The Works album cover) rotate at mostly random times - usually because they are turned manually by various crew members such as Roger's tech Chris "Crystal" Taylor whenever they have a free moment (Freddie Mercury's assistant Peter Freestone told the tale in 2021). However, a crew member who worked on the tour recalls otherwise: "I do know local crew members were used on the UK shows and certainly (a number of) European gigs. The other thing is that Radio Ga Ga had a set piece with the cogs and lighting, using low ambient lighting and strobes to emphasise mechanical motion of the cogs during the instrumental break. Would Roger Taylor be happy with no one covering him/his kit during a show? Possibly Peter Freestone is remembering production rehearsals when any spare bodies might have been asked to operate the cogs?"
During vocal improvisations on this tour, Freddie would often include bits of "Foolin' Around" and "Living On My Own" from his pending first solo album, which he had been working on during this period.
Freddie now plays a Telecaster for Crazy Little Thing Called Love. It would remain like this through the Magic tour.
The band no longer bring a gong with them on the road. Roger now does a cymbal roll at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody. His tech at the time, Chris 'Crystal' Taylor, recalls: "There were big changes to the tour's stage design, and the gong wouldn't suit it, that's it."
A fan recalls hearing the band running through Tear It Up whilst queuing up to enter the venue.
Freddie's voice is in superb shape for this show, but it will quickly weaken as the tour progresses. As incredible as Freddie Mercury was, he certainly did not take care of his voice at times, especially in the mid-80s. After a couple years of heavy smoking, Freddie's voice now sounds a lot deeper and raspier overall.
Before It's A Hard Life, Freddie says, "I think tonight we're gonna do songs from just about every album that we've ever made. You heard some very early stuff from the first album. Right now I think we're gonna do something very new, and we'll see what you think of it."
Freddie does a vocal exchange with the audience before Staying Power, singing "Get Down Make Love" and "Gimme Some Lovin" a few times. The band would improvise bits of the latter a couple times in 1986.
This is the only show on the entire Works tour where Roger plays regular acoustic drums on Another One Bites The Dust (before which Freddie teases the audience with a bit of Mustapha). For the rest of the tour, he'd play electronic drums. He'd also integrate the electronic drum kit into a few other songs, like at the beginning of Hammer To Fall, where one might argue that his sounds don't appropriately complement the guitar to create the intense, heavy sound.
The band sound very tight on this opening night of the tour, with the only exception being the rough transition from Stone Cold Crazy to Great King Rat. The keyboard and guitar solos are integrated together for the first few shows of the tour, during which Brian plays a few bits from Machines. Spike Edney uses his vocoder (a Roland VP-330) for the "machines" and "back to humans" lines heard throughout the tour during this spot (he would use his vocoder for the "radio" lines in Radio Ga Ga as well). After this segment, Brian then gets a few minutes to play on his own as usual.
Parts of the promo video for Hammer To Fall were filmed during this show. Claims from some (even official) sources state that Freddie invited the audience back for (what would actually be "additional") filming the following day aren't true. Here is all that Freddie had to say before the song: "This next song we're gonna use in our next video. So everybody just go mad and maybe later you'll see one of you guys inside the video one day. Oh, just go crazy, take your clothes off. It's called Hammer To Fall." After the song, he simply says, "Good night, you guys!" as that was the last song of the set.
Here is a fan's recollection: "On the night of the gig, there was a camera mounted on an arm that would swing over the front rows of the audience during a few songs. These audience shots were taken during Tie Your Mother Down, Radio Ga Ga, and Hammer To Fall itself. I guess they also had a camera up in the box at the back of the hall [as there are a few shots of both the audience and the band]. I don't remember any cameras onstage during the gig - just the one mounted on the arm."
The Dutch fan club invited only about twenty of its members to attend the video shoot the next day. They were instructed by a roadie to sit quietly on a chair and not to move or approach the band members. After a few hours, Brian came over and had a chat with them, checking to see if they were enjoying themselves and if they were hungry. He then promptly ordered them some take-out. ♥️

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