Rudi Dolezal's DoRo TV (Youtube channel)

queenchat.boards.net/thread/1030/interview-never-happened-rudi-dolezal

This is the thread about the last interview that never was.

So here's the vid I watched the other day. Watch the full thing for detail and context etc but here's the main things to take away (at risk of repeating myself) -

Queen the untold stories DACAPO



For the One Vision video, Rudi took the footage away to assemble a rough cut, but on getting the final song mix, realised he had no footage for the harmony vocal parts (recorded after he'd left). So they had to build a replica of one corner of Musicland in a studio in London, as by then the band had all left Munich and there was apparently only one day they were all free to film (I guess in the time frame they's set to release the single). Since they were reconvening just to film the vocal harmonies, this inspired Rudi to recreate the Bo Rhap image. 

This is cool because it also explains why the "I had a dream" and other parts reuse footage from Rio and so on.

During the These are the Days of our Lives shoot, apart from reiterating what we know about Freddie's bad foot, Rudi states he was asked to limit the number of takes. Usually he would do multiple takes until he had something special, but this time he was asked not to demand too much of Freddie.
Even so, having done Freddie's "close ups" which Rudi was happy with, Freddie himself quietly asked if Rudi could do another (second?) take. This time he dropped the performance at the end, laughing to himself, then doing his iconic "I still love you" before his little hand flourish and exit. Rudi states that only in the edit did he twig what Freddie had been up to. 

There's much more in this video - how Freddie came to do the Great Pretender solo TV performance in Germany, hi jinks with Barbara Valentin, who was going to be in the Slightly Mad Gorilla.. but I can't/won't write it all up, you'll have to watch yourselves

 Still I'll try to summarise the real "gems" when I have time. Maybe I will try to post one a day. Enjoy!

Something I never knew until now, The invisible Man was one of the rare times the concept for a music video came from DoRo Rather than the band.
He's told that story about having to shoot Freddie in "tatdool" first due to not knowing how long Freddie had left before.

Yes it's cool to skip through as the videos are pretty long. I enjoy watching them all though, you get an interesting sense of Rudi's relationship with the band and their work, and his utmost respect for them (and certain other artists) that is missing if you just skim through it. It's all good though, thanks pg for doing that.