Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Facts About Freddie Mercury

By: glenn

glenn — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:56:38 +0000

I saw Queen in 1974 and 1976 (making me the old man here) after both A night at the Opera & A day at the Races. What amazing shows and sound, only to be surpassed by Bowie during that time.

I was glad I saw them early on, because their work went downhill after that

By: alicia and sam

alicia and sam — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:17:17 +0000

Fredie we lovove your music an my mum is a very big fan we will never firget you.YOU WILL ALLWAIS BE THE KING.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:03:16 +0000

What else can I say? Every single one of your comment gave me goose bumps!
Losing Freddie was a huge hit to the music industry. A man of such phenomenal talents, amazing voice and along with Brian, John & Roger made a unique Rock Band who will last forever…
“who waits forever anyway…”

WE LOVE YOU FREDDIE!!!!!

By: bp

bp — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:14:00 +0000

when i was a tenager many moons ago i was besooted with freddie mercury and just loved queen. by chance i was googling freddie and came across so many things on the net which eveoked a flodd of memories. i saw them in australia in 1976 and in london in 1979 which gives you a hint of my age.
freddie mercury was such a beautiful and charismatic singer performer. and comes across as such alovely man. i wish i could express it all in words. all i can say is thankyou.

By: youngin'

youngin' — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:22:00 +0000

I am 16 years old and obviously way too young to have attended a Queen concert. In fact Freddie died the year before I was born. But he lives on through people like my parents who introduce their children to the magic that is Queen. I still find myself shedding a tear or two when listening to songs like “The Show Must Go On” and “Somebody to Love”. Freddie’s voice was unparallelled in skill. There’s not another like his. His death marked the loss of, in my opinion, the greatest entertainer in history.

R.I.P. Freddie Mercury.

By: Music Fan

Music Fan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, it was very helpful.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:16:00 +0000

Oh! What have we all missed,what brilliant music would Freddie have written,had he still been here.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:11:00 +0000

Oh! what have we all missed, just think what great music Freddie would have wrote, had he still been here.

By: aidan

aidan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:42:00 +0000

loved their music!

By: Jim McIntyre

Jim McIntyre — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:56:00 +0000

I saw them after “Night at the Opera” was released, maybe 1976? He still had long hair. His suit was so tight that if there was a coin in his pocket, you could have read the date.

As someone mentioned, technology at the time limited what could be done live. But at the moment Bohemian Rhapsody went into the operatic section (which starts with that plink plink plink plink piano section), they cut into Killer Queen (which begins with a similar piano part). It was brilliant!

They did have a great sound system for the time, though. He could sing something (which came through both speaker banks), then it would echo from the left, then from the right. He was then able to sing three part harmony with himself! (“The earth will shake, in two will break…”)

They did so much with so little. They had a mirror ball (“Just one little mirror ball?”, I thought as we entered.) But when the time came to cut the lights and hit the mirror ball, I got dizzy. Very dizzy. Things were spinning so badly that I thought I was going to be sick, but when I looked down to puke the spinning stopped. I looked up, and it started again. BADLY! And I realized that while the tiny reflections of light were spinning around the hall, they were simultaneously panning the sound through the speaker banks in the same direction. The combination of the lights and sound swirling in the same direction tricked your brain into believing that the whole building was literally spinning around you.

I saw KISS a week later at the same venue (and remember, this was KISS at their peak, and they were FAMOUS for their showmanship). Queen blew them away. This may have been a clue: The music Queen played over the PA before the lights went out was the Beatles’ White Album; The music KISS played was “Night at the Opera”.