Live Magic is a brilliant album!
One of his greatest experiences looking back at wembley doing the clap.
Not the first young man whose abiding memory of Freddie Mercury is the clap, I'll wager.
Live Magic is a bloody terrible album! Cheaply done, short as hell and badly edited. They did later issue a fuller album of the same Wembley concert, can't remember what it was called, but even then, tbh it's not Freddie at his best - he blows his voice out fairly early on and it's not one of his greatest vocal performances on record.
If you want a decent Queen live album, go for Live Killers: late 70s heyday, includes the full Brighton Rock (the track from which May's big solo came - in later years he'd still do the solo but without the song around it) and the "fast" version of We Will Rock You. And Death On Two Legs. And In Love With My Car. And Get Down Make Love. And the big hits (up to that point, obviously).
EDIT: Got confused, most of Live Magic is from Knebworth, not Wembley, which explains why the vocals on the Wembley album seemed stronger (I thought there might have been some sneaky overdubs). Turns out I'm not alone in my low opinion of Live Magic though, according to Wikipedia in 2004 Q Magazine listed it as "one of the top five disappointing live albums from usually great acts."
I've met Brian May a number of times now. He is a knobber of quite epic proportions. I think a good judge of people is how they treat others they can get away with being rude to - he fails that test by some margin. It's a good thing I'm a reasonably passive person who values his job above the short term pleasure of giving a bell-end a kicking.
convert, you're not in the badger culling business are you?
No, but I'd happily be in the aging rock star culling business!
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I always thought Freddie was a bit of a coward as he didn't reveal he had Aids until the day before he died, guess he was just ashamed. But he could done lots of good for the cause.POSTED 2 HOURS AGO # REPORT-POST
What a stupid post.
I always thought Freddie was a bit of a coward as he didn't reveal he had Aids until the day before he died, guess he was just ashamed. But he could done lots of good for the cause.
What a stupid pathetic post, plus 10,000.
When FM, acquired HIV, it was mostly classed as a gay disease, asd gay people where not as well treated as they are now,probably a lot of pressure was brought by his record comapny and PR people to keep it quiet, so to save upsetting the masses.
Even today people dont announce openly they are HIV positive,due to the stigma that it may be from sexual activity, as opposed to fluid transfer, blood transfusions of years ago or sharing needle.
Someone gets cancer, all love and cuddles, someone gets HIV, and a wall is suddenly put up round them, and its not openly talked about.
The only other artist I can think of that comes close in terms of changing sounds and genres is Bowie.
Er well I'm a big fan of both but Zappa's in a league of his own in this respect.
