Freddie Mercury Fans

2 links for the faithful fans

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:14:45 GMT

Posted by: egret

British news bit on a Feltham memorial garden for Freddie. Kashmira and Brian attend.

Article about Bohemian Rhapsody (the song) in Rolling Stone because the song is now 50 years old. Brian remembers himself, Roger, and Freddie going inside the echoing caves of Cornwall to practice their harmonies, which I have never heard mentioned before but is a charming image.

I hope all the Freddie Mercury Fans are well and happy.

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Secret daughter ????!!!!!

Sun, 25 May 2025 00:45:17 GMT

Posted by: egret

Here is the archived version of the article from the Daily Mail. (Does not give them clicks.)

I do not believe this far-fetched story because 1. I don't see Freddie as a faithful diarist and 2. Unless there are also secret recordings, he never wrote songs about this beloved child, or about beloved children, or about children. He wrote songs about cats. He wrote songs about Mary. He wrote songs about men. No "secret child of my heart" song? 3. Entire story of secretive child who wants this news out there while remaining private is ridiculous.

I sort of wish it was true. I will probably read the book anyway. But I really can't believe it.

What about y'all? Am I being too skeptical?

x-posted by accident to my own journal.

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checking my bank account balance

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:04:55 GMT

Posted by: egret

Anyone got the cash for Garden Lodge now that it's for sale?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/style/freddie-mercury-home-london-sale-intl-scli/index.html

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Freddie at the 2023 Pride parade (AI art)

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 21:50:10 GMT

Posted by: egret

Saw this over on Reddit and thought you would like it.

There are more at the Reddit post.

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Sotheby's auction

Wed, 24 May 2023 21:48:51 GMT

Posted by: egret

Did people have feelings or thoughts about the upcoming Sotheby's auctions?

https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own

I am hoping to buy an exhibit catalog.

They're doing an exhibit of some of the things at Sotheby's NY in early June and I'll try to go.

I feel sort of sad that everything's being auctioned off instead of being made into an archive, because I think Freddie was a great artist and deserves an archive, but of course there is money to be made.

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I Guess We're Falling Out

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:52:45 GMT

Posted by: swordznsorcery

Demo from the collector's edition release of The Miracle. I love this!

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Face It Alone

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:02:02 GMT

Posted by: egret

Well? What did we all think? We can't not discuss it.

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Crackle comes through

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 08:45:03 GMT

Posted by: egret

I have neglected this community, as I have neglected DW in general, for which I apologize.

Last month I watched the BBC documentary "Freddie Mercury: A Life in Ten Pictures." It's pretty good, as these documentaries go. It's streaming for free (with ads) on Crackle in the US.

Did anyone else see it? Thoughts?

Also, how is everyone doing? Are you even still on DW? <3 <3 <3

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Freddie as jumping spiders!

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 19:59:42 GMT

Posted by: swordznsorcery

A bit of fun from Twitter earlier. There's been a trend recently amongst zoologists and palaeontologists on Twitter to do these threads, where they "compare" famous people to their subject of study, based on colour, pose, or attitude displayed in a picture. And here's one for Freddie.

Not suitable for the very arachnophobic, though I promise, the spiders are very cute!

https://twitter.com/UrbanAstroNYC/status/1291773603093110784

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Freddie has had a street named after him!

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:27:59 GMT

Posted by: egret

Thanks to the World Zoroastrian Organization! His sister Kashmira was there for the signpost unveiling. The street is near where they lived when they first moved to England. Here is the story from Reuters.

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I fixed the header

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:16:04 GMT

Posted by: egret

I finally found a new header image that doesn't have a photobucket watermark. I changed the colors to make everything brighter. Sorry I haven't been posting in here; I need to get back to it.

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Spike Edney interview

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 06:15:24 GMT

Posted by: egret

I apologize for not posting up about the recent birthday. I meant to but first week of classes was a lot. Also, I still haven't fixed the layout. Sorry Freddiefans! It's on the to do list.

All I've got is this Rolling Stone interview with Spike Edney, which was pretty interesting.

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Birthday

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 23:07:40 GMT

Posted by: heartonsnow

.......................So yeah...............................

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the header is problematic

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 03:56:22 GMT

Posted by: egret

I see that photobucket has ruined the image I was using as the header for this community. I will try to fix it before the end of the summer. If anyone has any photos that would make good header images for this community, add them in a comment.

Communities need interior design too!

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Killer Queen cover by 5 seconds of summer (audio only)

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 03:54:17 GMT

Posted by: egret

This is not a video, just audio. This came out almost a year ago but I only heard it the other day in the bodega. I like it! Perhaps you do too. It feels like there is only 5 seconds left of summer, but enjoy them!

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The newly released outtake. He sounds beautiful.

Sat, 22 Jun 2019 05:54:49 GMT

Posted by: egret

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you gotta be kidding me

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 04:14:36 GMT

Posted by: egret

According to Uproxx.com, hardly the paper of record, there may be a sequel to the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.

Rolling Stone is already making fun of it.

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DJ comment

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 15:06:52 GMT

Posted by: egret

I was driving home from work on Thursday and BoRhap came on the radio. Of course I sang along. After it was over the DJ started chatting about Queen's new popularity in the wake of the film, which is about to make $1 BILLION. The songs are back on the top of the charts. And he furthermore believes that this film alone has brought more young people to appreciate Classic Rock and more listeners to the Classic Rock radio station from whence he spoke.

Then he predicted that many young people are buying tickets to the new Queen tour fully expecting Rami Malek to come out on stage and they are going to be really confused when it's Adam Lambert.

I was really struck like this because I don't think I've really taken on board the immense popularity of the film. Are people excited for the new tour?

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Mon, 28 Jan 2019 01:17:48 GMT

Posted by: spiderhoby

Okay, I barely have any clue how to use Dreamwidth but have a Freddie Mercury and a Roger Taylor phone background.

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"Can you go a bit higher?"

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:26:26 GMT

Posted by: swordznsorcery

Clip from the movie posted on the official Queen YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeKLI-n-Ezw

Looks fun. :) Only sixty seconds, admittedly, so may not be too illustrative! But fun.

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Movie soundtrack listing announced

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:32:04 GMT

Posted by: swordznsorcery

http://www.queenonline.com/news/press-release-bohemian-rhapsody-soundtrack-october-19th

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Thor Arnold and his unfunded book

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:01:04 GMT

Posted by: egret

So I don't know if everyone saw this. Last summer Freddie-friend Thor Arnold engaged in reminiscing about Freddie on the Queenzone forums: http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1480243/clarification-of-thor-arnolds-role-in-freddies-life.aspx

He says perfectly nice things about Freddie there.

So this summer he is hawking his memoir/photobook of hanging out with Freddie in the early 1980s. No word yet on if this will ever be published but fingers crossed. https://www.gofundme.com/freddiemercury-bk-w-50-unseen-pics

I took a chance and sent him money because I *do* want that book; I want *all* the Freddie books. But it may never happen and may be a waste of money and I accept that risk.

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Bo Rhap: The Film

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:40:19 GMT

Posted by: swordznsorcery

Keep meaning to post this. The trailer has arrived for the much vaunted film of Freddie's life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN10tfVW0UY

Nothing too controversial there. It's been confirmed that Freddie's personal timeline has been rewritten, however, with him discovering that he's HIV+ before the Live Aid concert (in order to give the film a suitably climactic ending, apparently). This annoys me for reasons that I'm finding hard to articulate. We all know that historical details get altered for films, and there's nothing wrong with that generally. Apparently this film also mixes up which songs were released when, and that doesn't bother me much. That's movies. Changing when he found out about his diagnosis seems like too big a thing for me though. Whilst we'll never know when he became HIV+, it seems unlikely that he found out about it prior to 1987. Having him find out in 1985 feels very wrong. Sadly this isn't a big enough community to get a proper collection of responses, but I'd be interested in other's opinions.

The trailer actually looks quite entertaining, but I've very much lost interest in the project now, I'm afraid.

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First look!

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:35:54 GMT

Posted by: scaramouche

First look at Rami Malek as Freddie in Bohemian Rhapsody!

The Mr. Robot star is preparing to play Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (out Dec. 25, 2018), the Bryan Singer-directed film that chronicles Queen from 1970, when Mercury teamed with Brian May and Roger Taylor, until the band’s performance at Live Aid in 1985, six years before the singer died of complications from AIDS. Malek channels Mercury’s look from that global-concert event.

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the movie controversy is no longer confined to fannish whining

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:19:34 GMT

Posted by: egret

Now it's in the popular news sites.

Anyway, here is an article link: "Keep Sex, AIDS, and the Closet in Freddie Mercury's Biopic." The author Tim Teeman seems to recycle a lot of published stories as if they had been told to him personally, which I dislike. His overall point about changing cultural attitudes towards AIDS and what makes for a good biopic are on point.

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