A concert is not a live rendition. It’s a theatrical event… 🎭✨
"We’ve been slagged in the press for our flamboyant stage show. We think a show should be a spectacle. A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrical event.
In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew."
- Freddie Mercury
#FreddieMercury #Queen 👑
Freddie’s mum wrote the foreword 'Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words.' ✍️
"This book is about my boy, Farrokh Bulsara. Of course, he became better known to the world as Freddie Mercury.
But through everything he never stopped being a loving and affectionate son and family member.
I miss him hugely, but thanks to his music he is never far away from me.
The Talent and intelligence of this unique man—and much loved son—will ensure his memory lives on for generations to come.
So, I do hope you enjoy reading his own words, for they illuminate the wonderful man he was."
- Jer Bulsara (2006) 🥹
#FreddieMercury ✨✨✨
Dave Grohl, from the Foo Fighters, brought this kid up on stage.
He asks him what song he knows how to play on guitar and he starts playing “Enter Sandman”.
The crowd goes wild.
This concert was unbelievable. He starts the whole show by walking on stage alone with a little cassette-playing boom box, hits "play", and the show never stops for two hours.
Otis Redding died in a plane crash just three days after recording "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". Since he had not yet finished the lyrics, he ended up whistling the ending, and this whistling was in the official version. Steve Cropper completed the songwriting after his death.
Released as a single in January 1968, it was Otis' first and only single to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent four weeks at the top. The song won two posthumous Grammys and became one of the greatest classics in soul music.
"I didn’t even know dad was that famous until I was about 10. I knew he played music and I grew up with the sound of drums coming through the walls, but it wasn’t until he dragged me and my mate out on stage with him at a gig that it really hit me. Have all these people come to hear my dad play the drums?
Bloody hell!"
- Rufus Taylor
#RogerTaylor 🥁 #Queen
"Drive" is from the album Heartbeat City (1984), the album that led The Cars to the height of commercial success. It was one of the songs on which Benjamin Orr sang as lead voice, he sang about 15 songs while Ric Ocasek sang about 50. The success of the track showed that the band could go beyond dance synth-pop.
Released as a single, it reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a huge radio hit.