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Old 11-24-2010, 12:41 PM
 
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Another rocker that died young Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) of Queen passed away on this day in 1991. A fantastic entertainer with a voice that had a range of four octaves!
Freddie died of Aids complications, something that we all know was controllable only a few years later.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUJztI884M

He was a great live entertainer! To this day seeing Queen in '83 was probably the best concert I have ever been to.
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Old 11-24-2010, 05:50 PM
 
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Very sad - a relative of mine died from Aids a few years earlier than FM did... it is a horrible devastating disease.
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Old 11-24-2010, 06:02 PM
 
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I just listened to "Bohemian Rhapsody" the other day, remembering him. It seems like it
was a lifetime ago that Queen sang that....I'm sure many miss him..
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Old 11-24-2010, 07:22 PM
 
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Freddie was a top notch performer, as well as a great singer.

He died way too young!

I saw Queen perform several times back in the 80s.

And till this day, there really is nobody who could fill Freddie's shoes as a lead singer for Queen.

I think Adam Lambert (American Idol) would have been one of the best possibilities. Even members of Queen were considering him.

But the guy Queen chose for a new lead singer, Paul Rodgers from Bad Company, didn't do it for me.

Queen just isn't Queen without Freddie.

Freddie's incredibly gifted voice is what made Queen special.
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Old 11-24-2010, 11:49 PM
 
Location: Happy in Utah
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Very talented Man and the rest of the group was talented also. I was listenning to some of their live stuff and noticed how it was as good as the recorded stuff. I dont think many performers can do that today.
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Old 11-25-2010, 03:18 PM
 
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Brian May besides being a PhD, built his signature guitar, WOW!
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Old 11-25-2010, 06:34 PM
 
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I ♥ Freddie Mercury. I really miss him and sometimes listen to some of Queen's music and watch videos of Freddie and Queen on You Tube.

He was one in a million.

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Old 11-26-2010, 02:35 AM
 
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The music world lost a great talent when he passed. I would have loved to see him live, I have heard he was amazingly charismatic onstage. He was still young, who knows what incredible things he would have done had he lived, it's such a shame.
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Old 11-27-2010, 08:05 AM
 
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I just listened to "Bohemian Rhapsody" the other day, remembering him. It seems like it
was a lifetime ago that Queen sang that....I'm sure many miss him..

I sing Bohemian Rhapsody at kareoke lots of times. I just love that song. Freddie must have written it after he learned he had AIDS? The lyrics are how he got it and a goodbye message to his mother. I get chills listening to it. I have never heard a song with SO much of a singer's "being" and emotions in it. I would have loved to see him perform that one live. Don't agree with the lifestyle but man, oh man, it sure gave us one of the best songs I have ever heard. He was a wonderful singer and performer. Aren't recordings wonderful? That person will "live" forever.
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Old 11-27-2010, 08:19 AM
 
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I remember BR being popular in the 70s? Is that right? I think I was still in grade school, in HS is when the "we will rock you" came out because I remember that always was gonna be a sports-event anthem from then on...

1983/84 is when Aids was first hit in America when they all started dying
and no one knew why or what the disease was ... Remember Ryan White - that little boy?
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