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 THE UNSUNG WRITING ‘PARTNERSHIP’ OF MERCURY-MAY

I think what you’ve got with Queen is the Lennon-McCartney, the Buckingham-Nicks, the Townsend-Daltrey… You’ve got the two people in Freddie Mercury and Brian May who actually couldn’t really have done it on their own and needed each other — Trevor Dann

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Ok in an interview (maybe from 2011?) Brian was asked this; forgive the quality from his old, crusty website:

[in case you can’t see:

Question: What does QUEEN mean to you?

Brian: A White Queen and a Black Queen. Pleasure and Pride. Stress and Pain. A sword in my hand and a chain around my neck.]

There are a few things to unpack but...the two colored queens were always his thing with Freddie. Brian wore white nail polish, wrote “White Queen”, and often wore his white Zandra Rhodes outfit on stage, while Freddie wore black nail polish, wrote “March of the Black Queen”, and more often wore black outfits on stage. Fans used to paint their nails a certain color to support Freddie or Brian, so this color motif was only their thing.

Here’s what strikes me. First, Brian’s response to what Queen means to him is essentially “me and Freddie.” Second, this stopped being a real thing on stage by the mid-to-late 70s and I’d guess most casual fans don’t even know about this dynamic, especially nowadays, but it was the first thing to pop into Brian’s head. This dynamic meant so much to him. I am Emotional

Compilation of Lewis talking about/consoling George after the race because I saw someone on one side saying George needs to be Lewis’ doormat and he’s ruining his races, and on the other, someone saying Lewis doesn’t appreciate George enough

Dude is so fucking proud of his teammate, even when he makes a mistake, and it’s something George returns week in week out. I couldn’t be prouder of them both, for the insane race they pulled off, and for how they talk about each other

It impress a me sometimes how people can be so willing to just ignore what Lewis says- BOTH sides. Ignoring Lewis is shit max fans do, some of them need to do better.

💥 Freddie's gift to Brian 🖤

Pls, someone just give him a bicycle😭

Freddie Mercury gives a radio interview after their show in Detroit, January* Boston, February 1977.

It's so lovely oh my god 🥰 He's so toughtful and soft-spoken, chuckling to himself saying "oh dear, oh dear"! Also, the mic must be so close to him! I listened to it with headphones and it was like he was speaking directly into my ear.

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Some interesting bits (time stamps approximate):

6:10 - talking about being business savy and learning from Smile's experience getting ripped off

14:40 - Freddie got the idea of playing the entirety of BoRhap live while rehearsing for the tour in Boston

18:30 - Roger has books about the Marx brothers and Freddie sees some parallels between their and Queen's approach to their art (meticulous)

23:15 - "That's the whole fucking point of doing it!"

23:50 - they weren't confident initially to play the lighter stuff (Freddie at the piano etc.) on stage when they were just starting out, focusing on the hard rock aspect instead

24:45 - Freddie is being served tea

26:30 - They want to do Long Away live and have rehearsed it, but don't feel it's quite right yet [spoiler: they're never going to play it live *cries* I wonder who'd have sung it, Freddie or Brian...]

27:40 - Somebody to Love is 'nerve-wrecking' and 'a killer': "The first time we ever did it we did it so fast - we just wanted to get it over with."

27:36 - "You want some tea?"

29:10 - Freddie munching on a biscuit?

36:30 - How to keep an accurate picture of yourself with all the things written in the press. Lovely bit.

40 - How they write their songs and approach album recording.

43:15 - They are quite rudely cut off because Roger and John are sitting outside waiting for their turn (Brian already had his turn)

Also, this is the interview where Freddie forgets the name of Brian's 'vaudeville' contribution to ANATO (Good Company) and tries to remember it for a whole blessed minute (forgot to note the time stamp).

(Yes, the others' interviews are also on Youtube, and I'll spend the rest of my day listening to them 😊)

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*It seems the date and place on the vid is wrong, since Brian implies in his interview that they're in Boston.

Interview with Brian

Interview with Roger

Interview with John

if it not too much work could you maybe make a list of your fave queen interviews?? I really love your gifs and i always wanna see the interviews but sometimes i cant find them

ok so i went a bit overboard lmao theres like 60 links so im gonna put it under a read more 

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