| mickyparise 09.11.2012 18:57 |
Freddie Mercury is always on Brian May's mind Brian May has revealed his late Queen band mate Freddie Mercury is ''always in [his] mind'' and he feels proud to sing the legendary musician's songs on tour. Freddie Mercury is always on Brian May's mind. The Queen guitarist is currently on a UK tour with theatrical singer Kerry Ellis - whose album 'Anthems' he helped pen - and admitted not a day goes by when the legendary singer isn't in his thoughts as he is so ''proud'' of their work together in the band. Speaking about Freddie's influence on his life, he said: ''As well as being the perfect frontman, he was the perfect catalyst to channel the band to the audience. ''He's always very much in my mind and I feel very proud and I'm proud of what we did together. ''I grieved a lot and it does strange things to you because it's like losing a family member, but I'm very joyful about what he created.'' Brian also hopes to carry on Freddie's ''wonderful'' legacy by raising funds during the tour for the Born Free Foundation to help protect endangered species. He explained on ITV1's 'Loose Women' chat show: ''His life was dedicated to just doing wonderful things and not only did he have a great time himself, but he helped other people to have a great time. ''I love singing his songs and we do a lesser known song by Freddie which is called 'Life Is Real'. It's really beautiful and soulful and different from the flamboyant stuff.'' Tickets for Brian and Kerry's 11 date Born Free tour have already sold out and Brian said in a statement on Queen's website: ''We have found that the two of us just working live off each other can distill the very essence of a song - and that's what we hope to bring you in these dates. ''After all, if you have great songs and a great singer, what more do you need? Well, maybe just a little bit of guitar!'' link |
| PrimeJiveUSA 09.11.2012 21:53 |
Brian truly loves Freddie. His performance of songs like "Love Of My Life" and the absolutely gorgeuos rendition of "Life Is Real" would have made Freddie proud. I think Kerry would be a great singer for Brian and Roger...maybe do an "unplugged" type of tour of Queen songs. I love her interpretations and I love Brian! |
| PrimeJiveUSA 09.11.2012 21:56 |
"gorgeous" rendition |
| john bodega 10.11.2012 00:45 |
It might be the laudanum talking, but I'd honestly be happy just seeing Brian do something like this on his own. Roger too, for that matter. |
| Heavenite 10.11.2012 05:32 |
I like Kerry Ellis. She's no Freddie Mercury, but she is a lovely singer in her own right. I especially liked that acoustic version of "Once I Loved A Butterfly" that Kerry and Brian put on the internet a year or so ago to promote "Anthems". I also enjoyed the album quite a bit too. Its no Queen album, but sadly it doesn't seem like there will be any more of those. Have fun to all those who got tickets. I would definitely go to these gigs too if I lived in the UK. |
| Holly2003 10.11.2012 05:42 |
Her voice doesn't do anything at all for me, which is sad because I've always wanted to hear a girl sing some Queen songs and this unplugged stuff would be great if only I liked the singer. It's not that's she's bad, just a personal taste thing for me. But by accident I will be seeing her a few weeks from now as she's appearing in the Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds musical I'm going to see. oooooo-laaaaaaa! |
| brENsKi 10.11.2012 06:00 |
i think there's a huge exploitation angle to this "Freddie always on my mind" statement. using freddie's name helps to promote his tour...so he mentions him. if freddie really was on his mind always, then how about he show some respect and stop using his name as a walking advert for whatever he's promoting? if he had such courage in his own tour, there's be no need to name drop. here's a novel idea brian, do an album of reworkings of "freddie-only" compositions..then you'll get no writer's royalties, and then i'll believe you're genuine |
| Missreclusive 10.11.2012 08:09 |
I like the novel idea brENsKi. I am skeptical with regard to Brians "Freddie's always on my mind" however, I really cant say for sure. None of us can really know. I do believe there has to have been an element of jealousy on B's part due to the level of fame Freddie reached...even after death. Brian is a very talented man and could have reached his own heights if only... |
| The Real Wizard 10.11.2012 13:20 |
...if only he wasn't in a band with Freddie Mercury. Nobody on this forum knows what it's like to spend 20 years conquering the world with someone. Without a doubt Freddie is on Brian's mind constantly, and he certainly doesn't just mention him when it's time to market something. There is far too much cynicism on this forum. |
| The Real Wizard 10.11.2012 13:21 |
Zebonka12 wrote: It might be the laudanum talking, but I'd honestly be happy just seeing Brian do something like this on his own. Roger too, for that matter.The latter certainly might happen. The solo album seems to be on its way. |
| PrimeJiveUSA 10.11.2012 15:41 |
@The Real Wizard I woleheartedly agree...there is too much cynicism around here. Even moreso over at Queenonline. Brian's a genuinely good person and I think he is deeply grateful for his association with Freddie. I don't sense any ulterior motives when he voices his love for Freddie. He's rich enough...he doen't need to "exploit" Freddie to make a few more bucks. He is always very much more ready to talk about Freddie than himself. He's very unpretentious. |
| PrimeJiveUSA 10.11.2012 15:42 |
"wholeheartedly" |
| brENsKi 10.11.2012 16:57 |
cynicism can also be correctly placed some of the time. being cynical about stuff like this prevents you from getting "sucked in" personally, i think brian is far more calculating about things than we realise - after all, we are talking about the guy who teamed up with "leftie with no principles" ben to write that dire musical....just another calculating way to keep milking the cash cow and as for "not exploting freddie" how about he makes the musical without any freddie compositions in it - then see how many tickets he sells.....fact is, until Roger got in on the act, freddie wrote the vast majority of queen's hits actually, on second thoughts i take it back. Freddie probably is always on brian's mind, - as in "how can i make some money out of his memory" |
| Holly2003 10.11.2012 17:58 |
Quote: Brian May has revealed his late Queen band mate Freddie Mercury is 'always in my mind' He must have ripped off that phrase from Willie Nelson. That was a joke. A bad one. Back on topic, I agree this criticism is too harsh. Perhaps the journalist addressed the question directly to Brian. What was he supposed to reply? "No, I never think about Fred any more, I'm only interested in badgers now." We'd be the first to jump down his throat. At times he's in a "can't win" situation with fans, especially the older, more jaded fans (like me!), although he is partly responsible for that. |
| The Real Wizard 10.11.2012 18:37 |
brENsKi wrote: and as for "not exploting freddie" how about he makes the musical without any freddie compositions in it - then see how many tickets he sells.....fact is, until Roger got in on the act, freddie wrote the vast majority of queen's hitsYou're kidding, right? Brian and Roger are exploiting Freddie if they use any of his compositions to keep the band in public consciousness? Indeed, Freddie wrote most of the biggest hits, but the other three still played on them and were very much part of the creative process. The whole was greater than the sum of its parts. Sounds like you're a Freddie fan, not a Queen fan. In fact, back in 2005 when Q+PR had only four Freddie songs in the setlist, people complained, insisting that Freddie was clearly the centrepiece of the band and that they couldn't exist in any way without him. The same people also complained that it was a "greatest hits" setlist. Hilarious. Should the remaining members of Pink Floyd not be allowed to profit from more records sold or some other avenue? How about Chicago? Led Zeppelin? These acts should all die simply because one of the key players died? You are usually a pretty bright guy, but this is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. |
| john bodega 11.11.2012 02:42 |
Trust me, Brian can't win. Ever since Freddie died it's either been 'not enough Freddie!' or 'he's trotting Freddie out for his own purposes again!'. Bollocks to the lot of it. Is he cashing in on the old fella by mentioning him in an interview? That's anyone's guess. But the actual fact of it is that he would be very unlikely to have a day where he didn't think of Freddie at least once. We don't seem to have those days, and we didn't even know the guy or work with him. That works out to be at least a 75% chance that he's not milking Freddie here. Move along! |
| brENsKi 11.11.2012 03:23 |
The Real Wizard wrote: You're kidding, right? Brian and Roger are exploiting Freddie if they use any of his compositions to keep the band in public consciousness? The whole was greater than the sum of its parts. Sounds like you're a Freddie fan, not a Queen fan. Should the remaining members of Pink Floyd not be allowed to profit from more records sold or some other avenue? How about Chicago? Led Zeppelin? These acts should all die simply because one of the key players died? You are usually a pretty bright guy, but this is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.no. i'm a queen fan. but i haven't liked anything since 1995. i am not against bands carrying on - it's their band, their name - their right to carry on. but at least do it with some dignity and class. your argument doesn't hold up. le's take the two biggest comparators that YOU cite: floyd? - ok - well they didn't have a frontman - in fact vocals and stage fronting was generally shared between waters and gilmour - depending on the songs. so it's easier for floyd to carry on with either. zep? they have definitely NOT carried on. aside from one reunion concert in 2007 and a live aid appearance - they have not used the zep name for any gigs or new recordings. in fact quote from Jimmy Page (Mojo - dec 2012 issue) re a possible tour or record: "well if jason, john paul jones and i were playing afterwards then, sure, we were willing to go beyond the element of the O2. But we couldn't do anything that was a led zeppelin reunion unless the singer was there. quite clearly we're there, but he's not, so what's the point of playing games with it?" and:- "hey listen, if i was going out on my own i'd do led zeppelin material, but i'd do yardbirds too, but if we had come up with some kind of conccotion wtht the three remaining members we wouldnt call it led zeppelin would we?" brian may could learn a lot from this.in a nutshell. those comments show dignity and class and a refusal to milk the cow in any crass way. liking zep much more these days than i ever did. |
| john bodega 11.11.2012 08:41 |
Some of the Plant Page stuff from the 90's really was a reunion in all but name. The omission of JPJ and Jason Bonham was probably just to try to avoid the topic, but in musical terms they were totally thinking 'reunion'. I can totally see why they did it the way they did. |
| AlbaNo1 11.11.2012 11:19 |
Brian constantly acknowledges Freddie when talking about anything he does with Queen material currently. Thats fair enough. He knows he cant artistically top what he did with Queen, and he knows a lot of that was down to Freddie. |
| The Real Wizard 11.11.2012 12:17 |
brENsKi wrote: your argument doesn't hold up. le's take the two biggest comparators that YOU cite: floyd? - ok - well they didn't have a frontman - in fact vocals and stage fronting was generally shared between waters and gilmour - depending on the songs. so it's easier for floyd to carry on with either. zep? they have definitely NOT carried on. aside from one reunion concert in 2007 and a live aid appearance - they have not used the zep name for any gigs or new recordings.Yes, fair play. But your argument was against Brian using Freddie's songs in the Queen musical, not creating new material or touring. Just looking for some consistency here... |
| Sebastian 11.11.2012 14:00 |
Fact is, we can't read thoughts. If Fred's always on Brian's mind, or if he isn't, that doesn't change anything, IMO. |
| GratefulFan 11.11.2012 17:34 |
I've heard and read him express this many times. Always on his mind, still part of the band. It's become a stock answer I think, sometimes given preemptively. I don't draw any conclusion from it at all other than the fact that it has to be a burden of sorts for an intelligent man to constantly have interviewers trolling for pat, emotional bits on Fred and feel torn between your duty to the memory of your friend and bandmate and the fact that it has been 20 years since he died. They benefit from that imposed sentimentality and lionizing of course, but all things considered I'm sure they'd rather have their friend and co-creator with them and their interviews to themselves. |
| brENsKi 11.11.2012 17:41 |
The Real Wizard wrote:if you look at my original reply - i was stating that Brian is using freddie as a tool for anything he's promoting...brENsKi wrote: your argument doesn't hold up. le's take the two biggest comparators that YOU cite: floyd? - ok - well they didn't have a frontman - in fact vocals and stage fronting was generally shared between waters and gilmour - depending on the songs. so it's easier for floyd to carry on with either. zep? they have definitely NOT carried on. aside from one reunion concert in 2007 and a live aid appearance - they have not used the zep name for any gigs or new recordings.Yes, fair play. But your argument was against Brian using Freddie's songs in the Queen musical, not creating new material or touring. Just looking for some consistency here... so i have been consistent. FIRST REPLY: stop using his name as a walking advert for whatever he's promoting? if he had such courage in his own tour, there's be no need to name drop. SECOND REPLY: and as for "not exploting freddie" how about he makes the musical without any freddie compositions in it - then see how many tickets he sells.... THIRD REPLY: i am not against bands carrying on - it's their band, their name - their right to carry on. but at least do it with some dignity and class. like i said - look at zep's legacy (post bonham) and queen's (post mercury) ...no contest - and i'm not a zep fan |
| john bodega 12.11.2012 02:01 |
Thing is, I don't think Zeppelin (or Queen) have legacies really - not ones that didn't already exist at the time that the bands ceased to be. Neither of them really did anything worth remembering in the time after they lost a member of the group. (I'm speaking as a member of the public and not a fan of the bands - I'm well aware of all of the stuff that each group has gotten up to since 1980/1991 respectively). The Cosmos Rocks was neither here nor there, musically. No one (again, I speak of ordinary people) really gave a crap. There was this panic among fans that they were 'ruining Queen's legacy' by making it, and then it was released, and forgotten, and here we are. The band Queen that existed from 1973-1991 is not alterable by anything that comes after. That part of the book was already closed many years ago and is unimpeachable. People who think the well is being poisoned by some easily-forgotten album a few years down the line have some serious insecurity issues that they need to deal with. |
| brENsKi 12.11.2012 13:26 |
zep haven't got up to anything since 1980. that's my point. and i think Jimmy Page's point. 50% of the original zep want to continue, but because plant doesn't then 50% isn't enough...and that's with a drummer who's the original drummer's son. queen too have 50% of original band wanting to carry on..and have. i would suggest that zep's inaction (save liveaid and the O2) has maintained their status (as was) prior to bonham's death...whereas "half-queen" have continued to produce output of substandard quality - both as queen+ and queenminus. consider the viewpoint of the outsider: prior to the deaths let's say both bands had output that was 80/20 good bad since the deaths zep still look 80/20 queen look more like 60/40 |
| john bodega 12.11.2012 14:24 |
That'd be a valid point if the general public knew or cared about anything Queen has done post-1991. It just hasn't been good, bad, or noticeable enough. The Q+AL gigs are a great example. All of that hooplah on Queenzone, and all of the idiotic comments being posted by Lambert fans on the videos - what did it amount to? I've basically forgotten about it already, and I'm one of the people who actually pays attention to it! It took this discussion to jog my memory. Queen = dead duck. |
| brENsKi 12.11.2012 16:47 |
couldn't agree more ^^^ which again makes the point about zep even more profound. definitely a case of "less is more" i can still remember seeing the made In heaven album for the first time. (in 95), looking at the track listing and thinking "i had no idea that queen actually recorded these tracks,even in demo form" imagine the disappointment of hearing the tracks and realising they'd lifted freddie's vocals from the masters of his own solo stuff and produced a queen "backing track"...nice as it sounded, it was a disappointment. that's where the rot started for me |
| gerry 15.11.2012 12:32 |
Aww bless Brian, you know im very very proud of the four members in Queen, cos they helped me gt through my teenage years, particularly freddie. i knew i was a gay man too, and freddie got me through all the prejudice and homophobia i went through at school and later in life. ive been an ardent Queen fan for 40 years, and always will be. QUEEN is branded in my heart, god bless you guys! |
| brENsKi 15.11.2012 16:19 |
i'm happy that queen helped you. but i don't understand the relevance of your post to this thread |
| matt z 15.11.2012 17:18 |
I still expected someone from QZ to make the comment that the rest of the statement from Brian was... "I think about Freddie all the time..... i wish he had left us more songs. The well's pretty dry these days,.... i mean...damn" but it never happened!... Ah well. Yeah, you're probably partially right about an advantage to having used his name in an article etc. But what are the chances he's gonna be asked about the Queen legacy in an interview anyways? 100% or 99%? It's gonna come up naturally. Reporters will spice it up by using something like that as the lead in quote. It happens with Michael Jackson every day and he's dead as well. Just simply putting "MICHAEL JACKSON" in a headline or story, or any really dull reference... is a guaranteed automatic 200,000 hits to someone's page. try it to market your next effort. Say for instance... if you make a canned soup. "Report: Chef had thoughts of MICHAEL JACKSON while PERFORMING his creative feat" the misapplication of words can lead those keywords to figure prominently in ANY search engine |
| gerry 16.11.2012 05:30 |
my reason for leaving a reply on this site was after i read about Brian, always thinking about Fred, it made me think about how Freddie helped me too, with my sexuality, and Queens music got me through a panicky time in my life as my confidence was very low. I always knew Freddie was gay, and i connected with that straight away. freddie kind of you as well, this thing with mary was just a cover up, freddie was always gay. even at boarding school he had boyfriends. i love Freddie with all my heart , he is a knockout! |
| Missreclusive 16.11.2012 11:59 |
EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| tomchristie22 16.11.2012 21:11 |
gerry wrote: freddie kind of you as well, this thing with mary was just a cover up, freddie was always gay. even at boarding school he had boyfriends.Whoah, whoah. For the record, I completely support you and am glad that Queen has meant so much to you, but isn't that a bit much? Freddie truly loved Mary as far as I can see, he'd probably be pretty insulted to have someone call her 'just a cover up' for his own sexuality which he was starting to question around 75-76. I've heard of Freddie having girlfriends in his schooling but not boyfriends, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from either. |
| gerry 17.11.2012 02:42 |
yes its well documented that freddie had quite a few gay affairs at boarding school. when mary once asked freddie if they could both have a baby, freddie was horrofies and said "oh darling id rather have another cat"! he knew he was gay. Thats why back in 1971 he knew what the band was going to be called "Queen" yes very flamboyant, very showy and totally freddie!! i know freddie and mary had the kind of relationship of brother and sister, although for a while he did try to play it straight but the gay feelings were overwhelming and it was men that fred loved. i would honestly say that freddie was 95% gay and 5% straight! And lets face it if he had been 100% straight we wouldnt have had this wonderful outrageous strutting peacock that we had in Queen! No Straight man could have ever pulled that one off. Freddie and jim looked so happy together, more so than when he was with mary, he was more comfortable in his own skin with jim, and too be honest, jim was a good catch, he was gorgeous!! |
| The Real Wizard 17.11.2012 12:54 |
gerry wrote: yes its well documented that freddie had quite a few gay affairs at boarding school.No, just one biography contains this claim, and it has since been written off as a piece of shit book. An author who would tell revisionist history to sell books? Colour me shocked. |
| Holly2003 17.11.2012 14:06 |
From this week's Private Eye magazine (UK). |
| The Real Wizard 17.11.2012 16:36 |
Ha, that's fantastic. |
| YAFF 17.11.2012 21:49 |
PrimeJiveUSA wrote: Brian truly loves FreddieI don't think there's any question that all three did. I'm sure they went through a range of emotions, denial, fear, horror, heartbreak, anger, etc. The loss of Freddie meant Queen was in reality dead. Perhaps to us losing your band is no big deal but when you've rocked 70,000-plus stadiums and were on top of the world it must be hard to being second rate from then on |
| tomchristie22 18.11.2012 01:26 |
gerry wrote: when mary once asked freddie if they could both have a baby, freddie was horrofies and said "oh darling id rather have another cat"! he knew he was gay. Thats why back in 1971 he knew what the band was going to be called "Queen"-sigh- Where is the logic? I don't want to have a baby right now, so I guess that means I'm gay right now. The band spoke many times in their run about the gay connotations of their name, and none of those times did they agree that it was supposed to have any such implication. So there you go. |
| gerry 18.11.2012 03:24 |
Firstley to your reply, are you really a Queen fan, cos you are finding what i say as very difficult to accept! Mary pointed out in a documentary that freddie was gay! she knew there relationship had been a lie, although freddie cared for her very deeply. i agree that Brian, john and Roger were not fussed about calling the group Queen, but it was Freddies idea after all, (does that ring a few bells) QUEEN, and fred just happened to be gay! Freddie said he thought it was funny that no one had twigged when he cheekily decided on the name Queen, yes he said it was grand, pompous, dandy, but we were!! Also back in 1974 freddie dedicated "killer Queen" to Ed Hall who worked with band and EMI records, Freddie fancied him, but Ed was playing hard to get so freddie dedicated the song to him, so ed says in a Queen documentary. |
| brENsKi 18.11.2012 03:45 |
and there was me thinking that "being a queen fan" might actually be about liking the music. not all this rubbernecking sensationalist , "who shagged who" whether "freddie was living a lie" when "freddie caught HIV" and whether he was "postman or letterbox" shit idiot. |
| tomchristie22 18.11.2012 03:46 |
I'm as much a Queen fan as anyone else here is. I'm not saying at all that Freddie wasn't gay - he was. I'm just saying that not every aspect of his life (early life in particular) and everything he ever created was driven by this homosexuality, as much as you might like to think so. Perhaps Killer Queen was really about Ed Hall, but then you have to take it with a pinch of salt - that documentary was tremendously biased. A bunch of Freddie's bitter ex-lovers getting him back for leaving them out of his will when he's no longer there to defend himself or determine the validity of certain statements. |
| gerry 18.11.2012 05:05 |
hey what about freddies boarding school mates, even they confirm that freddie was gay even back then, so maybe freddie was really doing what so many men do and hide behind a woman cos he was too frightened to "come out" at that time. he had to spill the beans eventually to mary, and as freddie says there was tears on both sides. in reply to your offensive reply Brenski, been a Queen fan is about liking the music, but beacuse we love each and every band member we wanna know more about them, and i am not an idiot as you pointed out in your pathetic reply. i know more about Queen than you do in your sleep! 40 years of knowledge, darling! |
| The Real Wizard 18.11.2012 12:18 |
Just what we need here, another self-proclaimed expert on Freddie's innermost feelings telling revisionist history. Nothing to see here, folks.. |
| GratefulFan 18.11.2012 13:33 |
Expressing connections to the band members, even speculative ones, are for some people simply another means of expressing their emotional experience of the music and its importance to them. Contemplation of personal lives, even speculative contemplation, can be springboard for things people want to express about themselves or a gateway to bigger ideas and questions, or to building relationships and history on the boards. There are a couple of you that in my opinion really have to wise up to how poisonous your bully routines are to certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants. |
| AlbaNo1 18.11.2012 17:01 |
GratefulFan wrote: Expressing connections to the band members, even speculative ones, are for some people simply another means of expressing their emotional experience of the music and its importance to them. Contemplation of personal lives, even speculative contemplation, can be springboard for things people want to express about themselves or a gateway to bigger ideas and questions, or to building relationships and history on the boards. There are a couple of you that in my opinion really have to wise up to how poisonous your bully routines are to certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants.Never a truer, or more eruditely put, post made |
| brENsKi 18.11.2012 17:05 |
wrong on so many levels firstly, if the "trolls" are allowed to voice these oft-repeated inane themes and their opinions are allowable, then so equally are the opinions of those who see it as regurgitated crap. if i didn't know better, i'd say you've been on some workshops lately...but whatever the case...YOUR repeated preaching at the alleged "bullies" makes you a bully. what you're basically saying is "only my way is the correct way" sorry, but no one died and made you God. so while you continue to lecture normal people with normal opinions, i will continue to oppose the mindless trolls who post vacuous crap. |
| AlbaNo1 18.11.2012 17:24 |
I think Brenski, ,from reading your posts is that you have a great knowledge of rock music, particularly 70s, and a lot of points I would agree with but you are pretty hard towards "certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants"as Grateful Fan has expressed. So you could tone it down a bit if someone is posting something that might mean a lot to them. Im the cold light of day you surely cant say calling someone an idiot is a a good argument. |
| brENsKi 18.11.2012 18:13 |
so basically you and GF are tellign me that these people can say what they want...but i can't? guess again |
| The Real Wizard 18.11.2012 22:57 |
AlbaNo1 wrote:Indeed.GratefulFan wrote: Expressing connections to the band members, even speculative ones, are for some people simply another means of expressing their emotional experience of the music and its importance to them. Contemplation of personal lives, even speculative contemplation, can be springboard for things people want to express about themselves or a gateway to bigger ideas and questions, or to building relationships and history on the boards. There are a couple of you that in my opinion really have to wise up to how poisonous your bully routines are to certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants.Never a truer, or more eruditely put, post made But that post has nothing to do with this thread. The post I was responding to wasn't "contemplation" of Mercury's personal life. It was outright falsehood. This is the same kind of mentality that allows political opinions unfounded in reality to count as much as empirically proven truth. In other words - "live and let live" simply isn't good enough. When fact gets blurred, people who see through the smoke and speak up should not be silenced under the guise of "free speech." If we do not distinguish between fact and conjecture, our quality of dialogue goes to shit, and we might as well throw all of our non-fiction books away and rename truth to truthiness like Stephen Colbert, where the truth in your gut is as good as truth. |
| john bodega 19.11.2012 01:57 |
"you have to take it with a pinch of salt - that documentary was tremendously biased" The thing that came to mind the first time I watched that documentary was that a lot of it could've been (and probably was) true, but it's truths that Freddie probably wouldn't have wanted known. Not because they're shameful or embarrassing but because it's his own business and people should have something better to do than soak up all of the minutiae of the life of some guy they'll never meet. The whole thing (factual or not) was in bad taste. And the narrator was a stupid cow, too. |
| gerry 19.11.2012 04:54 |
wow, quite a heated debate going on here! Sorry to everyone if i was on the wrong thread, but i have every right to use free speech, and there is no need for bitching. why yous people get so heated about freddies personal life i dont know! The world knew about freds personal life so its no big deal, i suggest Brenski and co get there heads out of there asses and cool down a bit. |
| brENsKi 19.11.2012 10:47 |
gerry wrote: wow, quite a heated debate going on here! Sorry to everyone if i was on the wrong thread, but i have every right to use free speech, and there is no need for bitching. why yous people get so heated about freddies personal life i dont know! The world knew about freds personal life so its no big deal, i suggest Brenski and co get there heads out of there asses and cool down a bit. i've already responded elsewhere in this thread to state that if "these people" can say as they feel then under the same "free speech deal" then surely i have the same rights? FYI - i've highlighted where YOU seem to indicate that only people that agree with you have this right. cheeky fucker. and hypocrite. |
| gerry 19.11.2012 10:59 |
Well Brenski you say what you want, but we are not listening dear, so go and spout off on girls aloud website, you arrogant liitle pond life! scaramouche!!!! |
| brENsKi 19.11.2012 11:17 |
gerry wrote: Well Brenski you say what you want, but we are not listening dear, so go and spout off on girls aloud website, you arrogant liitle pond life! scaramouche!!!!that says so much about you ^^^. you dismiss opinions as them being pond life. as i said - free speech for you, but not anyone that disagrees with you. mind you, i'd rather be accused of being pond life - than being the mouth-breathing, right-wing bully that you appear to be. btw - won't be replying to YOU again on this thread - as even us "pond life" have standards, and there's some mouth-breathing cretins that are well below my standards....count yourself in that club |
| gerry 19.11.2012 11:28 |
Well you know theres a few guys on here youve bullied, and im here to tell you that you wont drag me down with your over blown opinions darling! now instead of been all rightous go and get out there and save a few badgers dear!! anyway the wind blows!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxx |