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big freddie mercury bias

[crackerbox-palace-resident]

No one

me to myself at 4am: “remember the time when Queen were touring in ‘71 around Roger’s hometown and a bar there printed posters of his name in large capitals and the band’s name in small letters and font relatively”

source of poster is ofc As It Began ’92

[ggarbagee]

tbh i've never understood the Hot Space hate. i like it. it's fun. but then again i have a monkey brain that thinks that anything with a brass instrument in it is automatically funky as fuck

[zimtrim]

Queen - Freddie Mercury

[222hexcode]

Freddie Mercury Top-To-Toe

1982 from ‘16’ magazine

[222hexcode]

Profiles on the band Queen - Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Brian May

All from Queen’s fanclub magazine. Freddie = Summer 1982, John = Summer 1981, Roger = Spring 1982, Brian’s = Autumn 1981

For ease of reading:

Colours: Freddie, John, Roger, Brian (Hot Space album colours)

- Height: 5ft 9.5inches, 5ft 11inches, 5ft 10.5inches, 6ft 1.5inches

- Weight: 9.5 stone (60.3kg), 9.5-10stone (60.3-63.5kg), 10 stone (63.5kg), 10.5stone (66.7kg)

- Hair colour & eye colour: black hair, brown eyes, dark brown hair grey/green eyes, blonde and blue eyes, dark brown, brown eyes with green bits

- Education: Ealing college diploma in Graphic art, Oadby Beauchamp Comprehensive, Chelsea college of science & technology - London university, Truro school, London Hospital medical school, North east London polytechnic, Hampton Grammar, Imperial College London

- Favourite musician: John Lennon, Tony Thompson, Stevie Wonder, Leon Sylvers III, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix

- Favourite group: The Jacksons, Whispers, Sky (US), Commodores, Chic, Police, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Beatles

- Favourite albums: Up Against The Wall - Michael Jackson, Imagine - John Lennon, The Last Dance, My Aim Is True, Off The Wall, Plastic Ono Band, Sergeant Pepper

- Favourite book: News from abroad - Bette Midler, Roots, Rebecca, The Grapes Of Wrath, On The Road, Glass Bead Game, Out Of The Silent Planet - C.S Lewis

- Favourite writer: Beatrix Potter, No special favourite, Kerouac, Mervin, Peake, Herman Hesse

- Favourite movie: Some Like It Hot, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Wizard Of Oz, Close Encounters, Wizard of Oz, Snow White, Clockwork Orange

- Favourite colour: Black, Silver, anything but orange, Black

- Favourite actor & favourite actress: Timothy Dalton, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Jean Alexander, John Hurt, Brigette Bardot, Clint Eastwood, Natalie Wood

- Favourite country: UK, Japan, Brazil, USA, None, England

- Favourite food & Favourite drink: Indian Food & Champagne, Cheese on toast & tea, Spicy food & drink what I feel like, Japanese food & Guinness

- Favourite instrument: Piano, bass, silly question- like most, hate some, Guitar

- Favourite queen album and track: The Game & Somebody to love, The Game - Side 1, Night At The Opera & March Of The Black Queen, Queen II

- Groups you dislike: AC/DC, the clash, Kiss, Japan, Brotherhood Of Man, Toyah, Whitesnake, Clash, Almost all groups are inept or pretentious, or both, Omen

- Clothes Designer: I buy my own clothes from shops, Off The Peg, Anyone, Zandra Rhodes, April Wood, Nina Huryn, Jimi Bramble

- Names of Groups you were in before Queen: Wreckage, Larry Lurex, The Art, Opposition, The Reaction, Smile, Since, 1984

- Marital Status: Single, Married, Negative, Yes

- Children: None, Robert 5, Michael 3, Laura 1, Felix Luther, Jimmy nearly 3, Louisa 4 months

- Any brothers or sisters: One sister, Julie a younger sister, one sister, no

- Where do you live? England, London, all over the blood place, England

- Greatest Achievement: Current Success, Writing a No. 1 in USA (and Canada, Spain, Argentina & Guatemala), Getting rich - it’s not easy, Being a dad?

- Who do you admire most: Several people, all successful, modest talented people, genuinely selfless people, John Lennon, Dylan, Eric Clapton, J. Beck, P. Townsend

- Pet hate: Sliced bread, DC10’s, Snobs, Journalists, parasites, racial and religious bigots, patriots, extreme left and right, public life encroaching on private life

[goodold-fashionedloverblog]

Big long letter Freddie wrote to someone in what I think would have to be 1969. On display at the Freddie Mercury exhibition in Budapest. Photo from the TikTok of aube.vie. Plain text under the cut (I did my best, some of these words were illegible to me. If anyone can decode them please be my guest)

“I thought I'd just scribble a few lines in between munching an extra large chip butty. I hope this finds you in the pink of health, and I needn't ask about your sexual pleasures of late, as your kinky perverted mind will have led you to obscenities and [variations?] never before performed in [?].

How are you taking [?] air back there and has your lordship got a job yet or is that a perpetual stupid question? We've moved into our [?] acquired abode and it's more than satisfactory.

My job is getting to be a big drag and as I've managed to turn up late every morning, they've threatened me with the sack! By the way this happens to be my very first attempt at writing this so called letter, and I haven't had any rejects as yet.

Saw Led Zeppelin at the [?] last Sunday and they were excellent. Plant was orgasmic. John Bonham on drums was really incredible and that's putting it mildly. Roger was knocked out as well. Bonham must have done about a hundred double upside-down [?] [?], half a dozen inverted jellyrolls and dozens of [...perradiddles?] and daddles and [castrated?] rolls all at the same time. (And I know you can do better).

By the way I hear from several sources that you've informed them that I've turned into a fully fledged queer. You'll just have to watch it next time you're down here 'cause you're going to get de-flowered. Meanwhile I'm making do with John.

As far as gigs go, we've got one on the 14th Nov (but it's not definite) at College of St. Mark and St. John. Mike says he's got one in Liverpool soon. We might also be playing at the I. C.[?] Carnival late Nov. and with Smile on Dec. 16th (definite). Ealing College we play in about 3 weeks.

By the way Peter (roadie) is going to book a rehearsal room for us for the 26th Sun. so I'm hoping you and Mike can come down. Mike says he will anyway so it's up to you, and manager Peter Abbey wants to see us. I've entered us (Wreckage) for the Melody Maker group contest. We're being sponsored by some big shit from Q.E.C. The top group gets loads of equipment and money. So we definitely need a thorough practice. I've written all the words to the new songs, titled 'Green,' 'Cancer on my Mind,' and 'Without You.' Smile are playing with the Taste on Saturday and I'm going to ponce along.

I bet you're up to your eyeballs in fish and chips and that's not all you're up in. I'm hoping to by a [Unisphere?] in the near future. Hope to see you down here, so write back and tell me about proceedings. Josephine sends her regards and says you're worth a screw. Give my love to Barbara and Carroll. All the best, Fred."

[debdarkpetal]

Freddie and John live on stage, 1979.

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[soundsofmyuniverse]

Happy Birthday BRIAN MAY // July 19, 1947.

[fredretrograde]

i don't understand how after 6/7 years of having my freddie mercury pinterest board i still only have 1400 pins of him. if i ever see any othe pinterest boards of him its always like 10,000 pins lmao

am i just picky

[musyc007]

Queen_ beginning times

[myfairyqueenmercury]

Freddie Mercury-Hutton

[thecalmerllama]

"Oh mary was the love of his life he said mary was the love of his life he's bisexual he's bisexual he had so many flings with women!!!"

Who? Genuinely. Who?

Because if you mean Rosemary, his first girlfriend.. she said that he was always far more interested in her male friends than her and always thought he was gay.

If you mean Mary... the woman he only dated for like 3 years at MOST and broke up with because he was cheating on her with men.. and who lied about their relationship for years... and who disregarded his sexuality.. and his boyfriends... and his HUSBAND.. yikes.

If you mean Barbara... yes yes the german pornstar that was cut out of Freddie's life personally because he figured out she was the one going to the press and making up wild stories about illicit affairs and escapades..

If you mean Winnie? You know he was a man, right? Or do you just hear a female sounding name and assume???

"Oh but in LAJ's book-" no. I don't want to hear it. That woman obsessed with Freddie's one longterm relationship with a woman to erase his entire queer identity, to straight wash him; to bad mouth all credible sources that would speak up about Freddie's true sexuality.. "oh Brian was so jealous of Freddie cause he ended up with Mary, and and Deaky was always too coked up to know what was going on and Roger's always too busy womanising, Mary was the only one who understood him". Do you know how many fake quotes of Freddie's exist because of LAJ and Mary's team work? Do you know how many of Freddie's boyfriends were erased because of them? Do you know the amount of people that believe Freddie was only with Jim because he was abusive and wouldn't let him leave?? LAJ is the reason so many people believe that Jim was lying in Mercury and Me. LAJ is the reason people now believe Freddie had a secret daughter (who shockingly only lived long enough to help promote LAJ's new book). LAJ is the reason, and only reason, people believe Freddie was Bisexual.

This is not Bi-Erasure... this is just plain fact. Freddie Mercury was a Gay Man.

[goodold-fashionedloverblog]

Happy Birthday to The Game!!! One of my favorite Queen albums, it’s so underrated. Let’s show it some love

Fave Song from The Game

Play the Game

Dragon Attack

Another One Bites the Dust

Need Your Loving Tonight

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Rock It

Don’t Try Suicide

Sail Away Sweet Sister

Coming Soon

Save Me

Bonus B-Side: A Human Body

Voting ended onJul 3

[fredretrograde]

quick question is there a photo out there of freddie with his hair tucked behind his ears or did he never do that

[fredretrograde]

why show two of freddie's partners whilst the rest of queen only have one partner shown

just put a picture of freddie and jim considering jim was the one he was with when he passed away and he broke up with mary fifteen years before he passed lmfao

[fredretrograde]

quick question is there a photo out there of freddie with his hair tucked behind his ears or did he never do that

[royaltyisshe64]

So, I'm sure some of you folks have seen the articles reporting on Lesley-Ann Jones's new biography of Freddie Mercury and its ~revelation~ about Freddie having a Secret Daughter.

I'm going to go ahead and point out all the things - setting aside the pure fanfic-iness of the story; like, seriously, read what she says happened and TELL me that's not an AO3 or Wattpad summary field, lmao - that make this version of events... well, really Convenient, let's put it that way. Oh, and also not make any sense.

This daughter was allegedly conceived in 1976, which is about as late as you could manage in Freddie's life without having to factor the potential for HIV into the picture.

If the woman involved was the wife of a close friend, this helpfully explains why she was unable to just. beard for Freddie. If nothing else, his parents would have been fucking delighted and it could have made his life a bit easier on that front.

Unless these SEVENTEEN VOLUMES OF HANDWRITTEN JOURNALS NO ONE REMEMBERS FREDDIE WRITING (a point unto itself) were delivered to his daughter, like, one by one on completion or in a bundle before Freddie died, there is no fucking way, given that there was no provision for this (or literally anything about this child) in Freddie's will, that Mary Auction cheerfully complied with a verbal, non-legally binding instruction to hand the diaries over to another party. She didn't let Jim, Joe, or Phoebe leave the fucking house with anything she could conceivably dispute as their property! In what universe is she Totally Chill with Freddie's Secret Daughter???

I'm guessing that Paul Prenter was, during his tenure, close enough to Freddie and sufficiently involved in the logistics of Freddie's life that he would know about this kid. So... how did this not come up when he sold his story to The Sun??? Likewise, if Barbara Valentin was Freddie's bestest friend in the whole wide world and the Other Love of His Life (besides Mary, obviously, Hallowed Be Her Name), as LAJ has previously asserted when reporting Barbara's fever dreams as fact, surely she was aware??? And she didn't mention it to LAJ before because????

In addition to her absence from Freddie's will, @delumieres states - with receipts - that "B" is also nowhere to be found in either of Freddie's parents' wills.

She just like. DECIDED that David Bowie's mother had syphilis (!! ??) and that his eye anomaly was thereby congenital - even though there are literally pictures of him before the schoolyard fight that actually caused it where... he does not have it. (This is made Extra Insane bc she also purports to have been a childhood friend, so... why would you not know this??? Even I know this about David Bowie, and I do not know an awful lot about David Bowie.) (She is also super inclined to wait until people are dead to publish things they allegedly told her, like Bowie apparently confiding that he and Freddie had sex on a couple of occasions - and then no one can dispute it! Hm!)

(This is also why I don't rate her claims about things Linda told her in the '80s or whatever terribly highly.)

I would not inherently discount the possibility of Freddie Mercury having a kid out there somewhere, by the way - and I'm not saying that in a bi-truther sense. Back when Freddie was still trying to Not Be Gay, he did have sex (quite possibly unprotected) with women on the road, probably chiefly in the US and Europe. I think it's markedly less likely that, if such a child existed, he was aware of and/or terribly involved with it. The latter assertion is mostly due to the incredibly unlikely nature of every single person who had to be in on the secret (including people who subsequently told and/or sold their stories) keeping quiet for nearly 50 years. No one ever papped this girl who looked a bit like Freddie coming or going from Garden Lodge in the last years of his life, when the press were camped outside 24/7??? Is the implication also that "B" currently has no contact with Kash or any part of QPL??? And possibly never has??? (I would like to state for the record that, unless "B" was a real piece of work, I find it almost impossible to believe that Jer, Kash, and/or Brian would not have a desire for a relationship with any scintilla of Freddie left on this planet.)