Interview of Freddie Mercury (1985)
Freddie Mercury’s 1985 interview with David Wigg catches him under pressure around the Live Aid year: fame, work, and a less guarded tone.
Top 10 Most mind-blowing concerts in music history
Ten landmark concerts with dates and venues: Nirvana at Reading 1992, Queen at Live Aid, Dylan going electric at Newport, Bowie retiring Ziggy at Hammersmith.
Queen – Somebody to Love
Queen’s Somebody to Love (A Day at the Races, 1976): Mercury gospel stack, three voices as choir.
Top 10 Accidental songs that took over the world
Ten chart hits that began as B-sides, warm-ups, dreams, or accidental studio moments rather than planned A-sides.
Live Aid 1985 – Queen
On the afternoon of 13 July 1985, Queen walked into a Wembley Stadium that had not bought tickets to see them.
Queen – Stadium theatre with studio craft
In July 1985 at Wembley, Freddie Mercury led the Live Aid set at Wembley and pulled 72,000 voices into the chorus.
Afterlife Interview with Freddie Mercury
Riffs and Beats finds Freddie Mercury backstage in a fiction of Wembley lights, yellow jacket still on, treating the afterlife like overtime.
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
On 24 August 1975, at Rockfield Studio 1 in Wales, Queen began Bohemian Rhapsody with a gap left for the opera section.
Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
In August 1978, at Super Bear Studios in France, Freddie Mercury cut Don't Stop Me Now at the piano.
Queen – A Kind of Magic
Roger Taylor wrote A Kind of Magic from a line in Highlander, and Freddie Mercury rebuilt it while Taylor was in Los Angeles.
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