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Post by Egietje on Mar 24, 2021 14:40:01 GMT
Hello all, I just came across this video on Freestone's YouTube channel about the album Innuendo. It was uploaded about a week ago, so some or many of you might not have seen it yet! It seems to contain some interesting bits about Freddie around the Innuendo era and the album. (although the 'background' music is a little annoying) |
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Post by Steve on Mar 24, 2021 17:45:59 GMT
Really enjoyed that. Thanks.
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Post by martinpacker on Mar 25, 2021 9:03:44 GMT
That was a great episode and, if accurate, clears up 1 or 2 things. One thing it makes me question is whether Peter Straker was involved in the lyrics of IGSM - as has been claimed in the past.
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Post by emrabt on Mar 25, 2021 11:33:29 GMT
One thing it makes me question is whether Peter Straker was involved in the lyrics of IGSM - as has been claimed in the past. Sometimes Peter says he and Freddie spent the night thinking up one liners and it turned into IGSM, other times Peter says Freddie cut him out of his life the year before he died because he asked about AIDs. If he was involved it was obviously very early on. |
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Post by oreno on Mar 25, 2021 13:04:01 GMT
No reason all accounts can't be accurate. They'd started work on IGSM in late 1989. And Peter Straker was one of many who were 'cut out' of Freddie's life in the last year (after Innunedo was complete anyway), matching what Phoebe says about Freddie wanting certain friends to only remember him at his 'best'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2021 17:50:36 GMT
Straker himself flat out denied having co-written those lyrics.
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Post by Chief Mouse on Mar 25, 2021 18:37:49 GMT
Lovely video! Agree about the background music.
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Post by Chopin1995 on Mar 26, 2021 14:13:38 GMT
That was a great episode and, if accurate, clears up 1 or 2 things. One thing it makes me question is whether Peter Straker was involved in the lyrics of IGSM - as has been claimed in the past. Peter's answer to that (20m03s): |
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Post by toon86 on Mar 27, 2021 8:05:16 GMT
Jim Hutton says Freddie and Straker wrote alot of the IGSM lyrics during a vodka fuelled night in Garden Lodge. He also wrote Freddie cut Straker out after he turned up drunk at a cafe in Knightsbridge. Lots of conflicting stories around this period of time
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Post by The Real Wizard on Mar 29, 2021 7:11:23 GMT
That was a great episode and, if accurate, clears up 1 or 2 things. One thing it makes me question is whether Peter Straker was involved in the lyrics of IGSM - as has been claimed in the past. Peter's answer to that (20m03s): His hesitation speaks volumes. Looks like a bit of revisionist history to me.
Mercury cutting him out of his life was clearly a painful experience, so he just doesn't want to elaborate on that period - it's understandable. But there's not a chance that was a conclusive "no".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2021 10:53:50 GMT
His hesitation could've been merely a case of trying to remember which song that was. He's not one of us: he hasn't got all the catalogue in his head, ready to quote back lyrics or point out dates, studios used, who engineered and what model of synthesiser was used.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Mar 31, 2021 22:11:04 GMT
His hesitation could've been merely a case of trying to remember which song that was. He's not one of us: he hasn't got all the catalogue in his head, ready to quote back lyrics or point out dates, studios used, who engineered and what model of synthesiser was used. Exactly. I can't even tell you what I had for dinner last night, let alone what I did on day X over 30 years ago.
Plenty of guys in bands don't even remember which songs were on which albums, never mind the finer details. When Jason Newsted was asked about his favourite songs on Load, he said he couldn't tell you which songs were on Load or Reload.
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