Freddie Mercury Would've Being 73 Today.

[Arksided]

Quite amazing that Queens' front man would have being 73 considering he passed away at a mere 45 years of age, I hope he's still camping it up and giving it large wherever he went to, gone but never forgotten:

[237SJ]

I remember working with someone in the 1980s who was a friend of Freddie and I remember him saying to me " You know he is dying don't you"? I didn't know he was dying.

[Bobbisox1]

An amazing showman

[237SJ]

And the person who said that to me also died of AIDS. They were terrible times.

[Togo]

Shergar would have been 42 on Jan Ist.

[Bobbisox1]

I remember seeing him ( for the last time ) on the music awards, he was so gaunt and ravished by that terrible disease, today with all the advances , he may have still been here

[Arksided]

That's when I saw him and knew for sure he was definitely going after keeping Aids a secret from the press etc... for his remaining years.

[Baldric]

Great Showman and Group, still listen to them quite often.

[douglas9401]

Methuselah though, eh? Boggled.

[retrocop]

Never ever interested in Freddie Mercury and Queen until I visited Malta and stayed in a hotel over Christmas. The evening cabaret was a Queen tribute band from Italy. You can find them on google.About two hours of exciting vibrant entertainment. The lead was the split of Freddie Mercury and so was the guitarist. Would that be Brian May.?
When we came home in the New Year the film came out and my interest was revitalised.Wonderful entertainers imo and that is from a dinosaur who normally can't stand modern music and pop groups etc.

[NellieMay]

I so wish I had seen Queen live. A big regret .

[Buenchico]

His music lives on:

[237SJ]

I agree with Nelliemay - a big regret of mine. Never seeing Queen live

[retrocop]

I think this may of been the tribute band I wrote about earlier.

[Mozz71]

Each generation has ab amazing showman. Mine was lucky, we had four: Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie and Freddie.

[andy-hughes]

I consider myself so lucky to have seen Queen twice - once when they were still a support act (!) and once when they had made it big.

What a wonderful man, such a talent, and such a loss to music.

[Arksided]

I never got the chance to see them live either as 'Queen' (I've seen Brian May and Roger Taylor a few times since then) at fourteen I was deemed to young to travel to London with my mates to see them on their Magic tour 86' I could go and see them on their next tour... little did we know :-(

[Togo]

True story. In 1974 I was in Blackpool on a company training course.( I know, but the company HQ was would you believe in Blackpool.) Anyway, a group of us found ourselves in a place that was called Jenkins(or Jenkinsons) Bar. Big place with a gay club upstairs. It was a night when live bans were rolled in to play a couple of songs and then replaced by other "hopefuls". We couldn't understand why the tables were confiscated and lined up in front of the makeshift stage and we were all pushed back. The group came on and played Killer Queen and brought the house down as Freddie strutted up and down on the tables that had been lined up. Never heard a song played so "tight" and polished before that, and we were all saying they should release that. 3 weeks after it was top of the charts and they were famous. No, I did not ever visit the gay bar upstairs, but I did see Brian London going in there. Just down from the old Yates Wine Lodge. Happy Daze.

[Stephen_G]

I would have loved to have seen them live as well, but would have been only 13 on the Magic Tour, in '86, and I doubt that my Parents would have let me go by myself to Wembley - didn't know anyone else to go with.

[pixie374]

Coincidentally, I have just had Don't stop me now on top volume on the way home (and Born to Run, another great one). I didn't really appreciate Queen by the time he died, but they must have been great to see live.

[Bobbisox1]

Loved the film too , I think my favourite track is Hammer to Fall