philip storey 26.06.2010 08:18 |
God bless dear Freddie ! Do any of you think that Queen would still be touring and making music,or would they have broken up and Freddie would have become a stripper or a cha lady !!! Any views or ideas ??Also do you think Fred would have let their Hits be rehashed agin and again ? |
andreas_mercury 26.06.2010 10:27 |
i think of that they would not have remained as a band for all of those years un interrupted ... there would of been even a break here and there and freddie would of taken to other passions or interests, but they were (and are) smart guys ... the band would always have come back in some ways |
lifetimefanofqueen 26.06.2010 11:02 |
I think John would not have left, and they would still be writing songs as a band, and having lots more hits, and still doing live concerts. That would be so cool if Freddie lived and they all stayed together, not that they're not still together as a band but John. :( Thay are still cool though :) |
Bo Rhap 26.06.2010 16:11 |
I dont think Queen would have been touring.I think Freddie would have given up on touring a few years ago,had he had been living. They would have been making albums though. |
brENsKi 26.06.2010 17:26 |
not a chance. the direction of their musical tastes coupled with the widening gap in song-writing styles would've meant queen would be no more by at least 1993/4. I could see Freddie & John maybe workign together regularly and maybe roger/brian working together.....but not as a group. |
lalaalalaa 26.06.2010 18:48 |
The Miracle and Innuendo would probably be different. |
theCro 26.06.2010 18:59 |
lalaalalaa wrote: The Miracle and Innuendo would probably be different. not probably, but 100% sure. and yes, they would still be touring and recording.. ah.. What good is life, if in the end we all must die..There must be more to life than this |
lalaalalaa 26.06.2010 19:37 |
theCro wrote: lalaalalaa wrote: The Miracle and Innuendo would probably be different. not probably, but 100% sure. and yes, they would still be touring and recording.. ah.. What good is life, if in the end we all must die..There must be more to life than this This is one reason why I'm a Christian. It would be kind of pointless to just be here to make inventions for our own purpose just to die and pass them on through generations. |
Sebastian 27.06.2010 07:37 |
They'd be touring with Paul Rodgers. He was Fred's favourite singer after all (or that's what Maylor said before the tour and you know it's utterly impossible for them to be lying). |
Holly2003 27.06.2010 08:53 |
If he was still around I'm almost certain he'd start numerous gorse and brush fires every summer, then lay low in Montreux over the winter, before renewing his inevitable cycle of pyromania the next year. |
Jean_Luc2000 27.06.2010 11:29 |
I think Queen by the time of Freddie's death were on a second wave of popularity in the mainstream charts they would have had at least one more big studio album that they would have done before calling it day. And by calling it a day I mean take a long break and do other things and not touring as much, Brian would have done his solo stuff, Freddie would have been doing something artistic (painting perhaps or more solo music), Roger would have been in competition with Rod Stewart trying to pull as many leggy blondes as possible and John spending time with his family. By now Queen would be a historical band, showing up for the odd concert now and again and maybe doing another album and following a similar to path as The Who and other older bands that are still about. |
brians wig 27.06.2010 13:15 |
I think we'd have had at least 6 more albums by now and we wouldn't have had 3 solo albums from Roger in the 90's. Touring - they'd have maybe toured for The Miracle, but i seriously think they'd have given up a long time back - maybe only doing what Twisted Sister do and play at a few BIG festivals each year where they'd be in demand and earn a shit load of money. |
peterkoz1 27.06.2010 14:16 |
watchin the world cup and shouting at England but now i think he will be supporting Argentina !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
dougie 27.06.2010 20:26 |
Queen would have broken up in 1988 and John would have retired from the music profession ever sooner. |
steven 35638 27.06.2010 20:59 |
Well, let's look at their history... Queen in the eighties was different from Queen in the seventies. In the seventies, the band was much, much closer and practically spent the entire decade touring, then making an album, then going back on the road again, and back to the studio for yet another follow up album. In the eighties, the band grew tired and disgusted after Hot Space and took a year or so to regain freshness. They finally released The Works, which personally, was a smash, but then needed to regain freshness again. Heck, they didn't plan on doing much until the director of Highlandmer confronted them. Then after A Kind of Magic they seperated for yet another two years before going back in the studio. It just seems that they were beginning to grow tired of each other and constantly needed time to refocus and recharge their batteries. What would have happened if Freddie hadn't of caught AIDS and died? Well, let's see what Freddie has to say... "The biggest challenge is trying to keep the band going, when everybody says it's breaking up. Everybody thinks the band is going to break up. There came a point where I, we, were all getting very despondent and we wanted to do different things. And when you have that in your bloodstream, as it were, the slightest thing that happens, or that's said...you just need the slightest excuse to break up the band." "After all these years of playing together, sometimes we can get bored of each other, to be honest, and sometimes you want to do something other just Queen, Queen, Queen. I like Queen very much, but I want to do something different otherwise I'll get too damn old and be in a wheelchair and it'll be too late for anything else." "We can't live as a quartet all the time, so you feel like every time you make a move it's like a four-headed gorgon, or something. Do you know what I mean? I like to feel that I'm an individual. That break is very hard to achieve. It's horrible to just be thought of as one quarter of some entity." "I'm dumbfounded that we've stayed together all these years. All the other bands have always broken up or changed personnel, but we are about the only four grande dames that have actually stuck together. We all have our ego problems, but we never let it get too much. Long may we reign!" "We are four. It's a strong quartet. We are going to stay together until we fucking well die. It's got to the point where we're actually too old to break up now." "If we ever think we are on a decline, we'll just give it up. No-one is ever going to tell me I've had my day, had my innings, now do something else." "I don't get up every morning and ask myself what I'd do if Queen decided to end. I'll take it when it comes. We're as serious about our work as a lawyer. I can't predict whether we will go on, but as long as we keep breaking new ground, the fire will remain in Queen. I don't think we've reached our peak. Within the band there's still a lot left to be done. Queen is still around. We've had no disorder or any bad vibes recently. I think everybody's quite happy at the moment. The four old ladies are still rocking away!" "Through anything, we will just carry on until one of us drops dead, or something, or is just replaced. I think if I suddenly left they'd have the mechanism to replace me. Not easy to replace me, huh!?" |
plumrach 28.06.2010 02:46 |
I dont think they would of split up for good, maybe they would go off and do their own things and get together for special events perhaps even do a set at glastonbury Eitther way they have nothing to prove to anybody, they are one of the biggest selling music artists of all time and that speaks for itself |
plumrach 28.06.2010 02:46 |
sorry double post |
freddiefan91 28.06.2010 03:58 |
If they were still together permanently that would be fantastic but I think it would of been unlikely but if they were, perhaps there would be the occasional album and tour or festival appearances |
roy_fokker 28.06.2010 05:07 |
Hard question: Innuendo is one of Queen's best albums ever, but surely it wouldn't have come out with such an intensity of feelings and such a majesty if there hadn't been on the background the situation of Freddie's illness. We can probably think of 'tendencies' trying to imagine what was already evident in the '80s. I personally imagine that Freddie and Queen would have still made studio albums together, and that Freddie's solo activity would have evolved the post-romantic and almost classical field that he explored with The Great Pretender and, later, with Barcelona. Barcelona wasn't only an experiment, IMHO. It was the outcome of a style that was already 'in nuce' in many of Freddie's compositions.. so I imagine that he would have done lots of other things with Symphonic Orchestras, maybe another experiment with classical music, who knows. Surely, Queen lost Freddie at the top of his compositional skills, and someway it was like a Supernova. Now, another question: after the Queen+PR experiment there's a huge silence around Brian and Roger.. 2 world tours, one studio album, and now.. nothing. Brian takes care of wild animals, Roger announces records that no-one knows if they'll come out or not. Do you think that this is the end? Roy. |
plumrach 28.06.2010 05:17 |
Also i swear i read somewhere that Freddie had another solo album ready to make after the Barcelona album but he got too sick to do it in the end I dont think its the end for Queen+PR though, maybe in a year or so we might hear they are going back on tour |
Micrówave 28.06.2010 05:41 |
Freddie would've kicked Brian out of the band by now. |
freddiefan91 29.06.2010 02:43 |
Why? |
steven 35638 29.06.2010 13:54 |
Well why not? |
andreas_mercury 30.06.2010 23:59 |
they obviosly would still be celebrating the cure for aids that they found just in time ....... |
matt z 08.07.2010 16:00 |
A bunch of men .... at the same time. (sorry, i just noticed that nobody else chimed this one in)... Hey, c'mon... i'm not knocking him... I just think it's funny. |
GratefulFan 08.07.2010 23:23 |
matt z wrote: A bunch of men .... at the same time. (sorry, i just noticed that nobody else chimed this one in)... Hey, c'mon... i'm not knocking him... I just think it's funny. ==================================== You, sir, are a weak man. I resisted making naughty gay/baseball themed jokes for the ENTIRE 'Did Freddie Have Perfect Pitch' thread. The entire thread! It was very hard, and in some ways I'm still recovering. :) |
thunderbolt 31742 10.07.2010 20:16 |
I don't think they ever would have formally split, but I doubt they'd be touring together much anymore either. All four had interests other than Queen, and my guess is that those would have overridden the band itself at some point shortly after the Magic Tour. They probably would've continued releasing albums on an ever-more-infrequent scale until the mid-to-late '90s while focusing more on solo projects. A few years after what would've ended up as their final album was released, the questions about Queen that had previously been answered with, "We're taking a break from that," would have slowly started to be answered with, "We haven't exactly broken up, but we're enjoying our solo projects right now and aren't in any real hurry to record another Queen album." And we'd have a freaking anthology box by now. |
matt z 14.07.2010 13:47 |
GratefulFan wrote: matt z wrote: A bunch of men .... at the same time. (sorry, i just noticed that nobody else chimed this one in)... Hey, c'mon... i'm not knocking him... I just think it's funny. ==================================== You, sir, are a weak man. I resisted making naughty gay/baseball themed jokes for the ENTIRE 'Did Freddie Have Perfect Pitch' thread. The entire thread! It was very hard, and in some ways I'm still recovering. :) =============================================================================== Y'know, you're right... and BESIDES... the post was directed at the WHOLE band, not just FM... Perfect Pitch... yeah... i could see how that MIGHT allude to it... OK,...a REAL response: Brian: Would have been cast into the role of music production for a couple of children's or sci-fi films.. (maybe with the odd appearance of Rog playing drums or timpani) Roger: What would he be doing?... After an endless stream of wives/ex-wives, mistresses, dates with supermodels etc... he'd be the one to reunite the band after they almost parted in 1995 after they'd toured the states (USA) in 1993 following the success of Bohemian Rhapsody and renewed interest. the BAND would have released something in 93 or 94, it wouldn't have been the best. It might have trudged some formulaic stuff at times, BUT it would have had the best spirit in the making of it. (a positive one...my guess is with more 90's layered acoustic rock with a heavy lead) John: ....DOING ALRIGHT. Fred: Would be doing a bunch of men...at the same time. after that... He'd probably become some strange oddity, walking social graces with even stranger and stranger get ups, until he became a fixture/comedienne on British TV. Only occasionally to come out of seeming retirement to play some gigs after 95. That's just how i'd see it.. I figure Bri would maintain his workhorse/rock status... and eventually they might have kept playing and done some monstrous QUEEN + FOO FIGHTERS tour...and we'd have already had a Bio Pic in the works as of 2001. They'd just be so damned utterly successful they might have taken a few years off here and there just to sit down and appreciate it... that's just my guess. |