2021-11-24 - 30 Year Anniversary [All Discussion]

there's too much "hindsight" being falsely applied to what people think they're "seeing".

Sorry, but it just isn't the case. I attended lots of gigs between 79 and 87 and both indoor and outdoor gigs the singers always looked hot, sticky, sweaty and knackered. those lights were hot and there was lots of running around. I remember seeing both Bowie and Elton live in 83 (similar ages to Freddie) and they both looked a bit "shagged out" too.

Fan since '75 my mum got me "Opera" for xmas...& grew up with them...so they've been in my life constantly & their music has helped through some tough times & made me happy in others & always kept me company,seen them many times...how I cried that night when Freddie passed. He was as others have said ' like a family member' to me, always missed & I shall be thinking of him even more so today. A true Legend. R.I.P Fred.

I was three when Freddie died, so it wasn't until years later that I discovered Queen. But I will definitely be marking today with some of Queen's greatest music.

I was 8 and we were living at my grandparents’ after my parents divorced. My mom was in her room working, and I was feeling sad about not living in our own house anymore, so my mom told me to sit with her while she worked. She had on VH-1 and they were reporting on the death of some strange looking man wearing star-shaped sunglasses, singing a song that my school friends and I sang all the time but didn’t know was a real song.

I asked my mom about this strange looking man, and she told me about this band called Queen. She told me what she could about them, then handed me a cassette of Hot Space and shooed me out of her room (I had likely tested her patience with all my questions). I remember looking at the tape, putting it in a drawer and forgetting about Queen until two years later… but that’s a story for another day…

Can’t believe it’s been 30 years. Fuck me.

The greatest rock singer of all time, and one of my biggest inspirations.

I'm working on a list of my 30 favorite Queen songs and my heavens this is a tough exercise.

What can i say... well.. i miss him too much! I was a kid (10 years old) when he died... i remember the tapes of the miracle and innuendo running on my player...
I repeat, miss him too much.

I don't know what to say, I'm feeling a very complex set of emotions about this day. On one hand, it's a celebration of one of the greatest musicians in music history but on the other hand, it's the day that he died.

Either way, I'm happy that he got to help make 2 more albums before he died (and one more posthumously) of that terrible disease, and that he got to live and make music in the first place

Each anniversary of his passing I just wonder on what more the group could of achieved if this awful situation hadn’t happened.

What new firsts?
What new direction (if any)?

I started feeling very emotional reading all the social media posts this morning (particularly those written by Jim Jenkins and Jacky Smith). But I quickly reminded myself that today should instead be a day of celebration. Because I'm grateful that he was alive and left us with an incredible legacy second to none. He's one of the single biggest inspirations in my life.

it's possibly aguish - which roughly means - sickness caused by repeated suffering, usually to do with feverish conditions like malaria. but that cap looks more like a brand name than a statement.