| hachiman 16.02.2014 09:50 |
From the 29th April 1991. it's small though so it can't be read. :/ |
| thomasquinn 32989 16.02.2014 10:12 |
Not especially rare. Very infamous, though. This is a perfect illustration of why The Sun, its owners and everyone who works there is immoral scum. Rupert Murdoch belongs in jail. |
| hachiman 16.02.2014 12:36 |
If it's not rare, where else could you find this? I got this from this site. link |
| Thistle 16.02.2014 13:18 |
Is it the article itself you're saying is rare, or the photo? As we can't see the text, I can only imagine you're pointing out the photo - which has been circulated literally hundreds of times on the net over the past couple of decades and is an infamous one here, as TQ has mentioned above. A simple search for "Freddie Mercury, The Sun 1991" on google brings up several hits for this photo, as well as lots of similar images around the time. Tbh, I find it all very ghoulish, so only did that search to find out where else this could be found. I don't know why anyone would want to see this morbid shit. |
| hachiman 16.02.2014 13:31 |
Sorry, I meant the article itself, I know the photo isn't rare. |
| Thistle 16.02.2014 13:39 |
^ btw, I just re-read my post above and realised it looks like I'm taking a swipe at you...I apologise for that as I wasn't :) Agreed that the article itself is hard to find - could only find the photos, but not the text. My research skills ain't what they should be, but I defo couldn't see anything bigger than what you've posted. Just the usual "Freddie's Dead" pages, and funeral shots. Gives me the creeps just looking at it - especially this piece of shit. I know it's fake, but just the idea that someone could attempt passing it off as Freddie's last shot: |
| hachiman 16.02.2014 17:40 |
Saw that on google. Horrible. :( |
| noorie 16.02.2014 18:01 |
Walter White wrote: Gives me the creeps just looking at it - especially this piece of shit. I know it's fake, but just the idea that someone could attempt passing it off as Freddie's last shot:That is just ghoulish! And disgusting! |
| hachiman 16.02.2014 19:51 |
Btw, I only joined yesterday so it's still getting used to. :) |
| Thistle 16.02.2014 20:04 |
^ welcome to QZ :) |
| musicland munich 17.02.2014 22:33 |
I think that photo was taken when Freddie and Terry went to a yard sale ( or what ever you call those second hand outdoor markets). The photo was also released in german newspapers around that time.I agree with Walter the article itself is hard to find. As a( former) collector of snippets / reports I was more focused on concert reviews / Tour reports / Studio gossip etc. The hunting on Freddie begans in 1986 when he returned from a Japan( September if my mind serves me correctly) trip and the press confronting him that two of his ex-lovers died of Aids. |
| hachiman 18.02.2014 09:43 |
Well that site has the photo of the article said that it was taken when he was walking around in his garden. |
| noorie 18.02.2014 19:21 |
noorie wrote:Walter, I did not mean your comment was ghoulish. I meant the horrible pic of an 'aged' Freddie. I just wanted to clear that up. :)Walter White wrote: Gives me the creeps just looking at it - especially this piece of shit. I know it's fake, but just the idea that someone could attempt passing it off as Freddie's last shot:That is just ghoulish! And disgusting! |
| Thistle 18.02.2014 20:04 |
^ LOL. I know! Never thought it for a minute! ....or else there'd be bother ;) |
| noorie 18.02.2014 20:43 |
^^^^ Phew! Lots of bother! You ARE the danger! |
| Thistle 19.02.2014 04:23 |
^ avatars are great. In real life, I couldn't fight my way out of a wet paper bag :) |
| noorie 19.02.2014 09:29 |
^^^ Same here... I need to get me a real kick-ass avatar! |
| brENsKi 20.02.2014 10:44 |
Walter White wrote: ^ avatars are great. In real life, I couldn't fight my way out of a wet paper bag :)true ^^^ i can't fight either and even i beat the living sh*t out of you and noorie in the same fight.....you were both wailing like toddlers when i finished with yer :-) |
| noorie 20.02.2014 12:25 |
You are a tough man, brENsKi! I love reading your comments, but with a lot of trepidation. Especially if they are directed at me! :) |
| Thistle 20.02.2014 13:22 |
I still have the scars to prove it ;) |
| brENsKi 20.02.2014 16:18 |
noorie wrote: You are a tough man, brENsKi! I love reading your comments, but with a lot of trepidation. Especially if they are directed at me! :)I'm sure "big brave Walter White will protect you....maybe not :-) Walter White wrote: I still have the scars to prove it ;)yeah, you never did quite get over losing a whole months' worth of lunch money at school.... :-) |
| noorie 20.02.2014 16:25 |
brENsKi wrote: I'm sure "big brave Walter White will protect you....maybe not :-)Well Walter, can I count on you? :) |
| brENsKi 20.02.2014 16:44 |
noorie wrote:that would be foolish :-)brENsKi wrote: I'm sure "big brave Walter White will protect you....maybe not :-)Well Walter, can I count on you? :) |
| Thistle 20.02.2014 16:51 |
I'm sorry, but after the last time there's no way I'm going near that Brenski again. Not until I get the Ricin. |
| noorie 20.02.2014 23:06 |
Ricin? Walter! Now I am scared stiff of both you and Brenski! QZ is getting a bit too dangerous for me! I better stay in your good books.... |
| ParisNair 21.02.2014 00:39 |
Yo Mr White, you ran out of the last risin capsule..remember? Lily of the Valley should do the job again, though. |
| Thistle 21.02.2014 07:38 |
^ "Yo"? Fucking "Yo"? What the fuck have I told you about "Yo"?? LOL. I ordered more Ricin on Amazon. Got a great deal - although it looks like someone's undercutting us on the meth: link |
| Thistle 21.02.2014 07:40 |
noorie wrote: Ricin? Walter! Now I am scared stiff of both you and Brenski! QZ is getting a bit too dangerous for me! I better stay in your good books....I think we're all getting a bit too carried away with this hehe. I'm going back to being Thistleboy1980 - he was mild and timid ;) |
| noorie 21.02.2014 10:09 |
Yes, we have completely hijacked this topic! Sorry OP! Walter and brENsKi how do you like my new kick-ass avatar? Intimidating enough? Walter, there is no going back to Thistleboy. Once you choose the dark path, you're hooked! |
| Thistle 21.02.2014 12:24 |
Noorie's avatar - sexy or intimidating? |
| noorie 21.02.2014 12:36 |
Walter, you are such a ---a--- GUY!!!! Do you not see those eyes viciously glaring at you? Catwoman could eat Walter White for breakfast and casually spit out the chewed up bones! Oh gosh! Having a scary avatar is turning me psycho! :) |
| Thistle 21.02.2014 13:12 |
Yes I am, and yes I do - it's great. But I reckon Walter would have some explosive gasses ready for such an event ;) What was this all about again? LOL. |
| noorie 21.02.2014 13:44 |
Walter White wrote: What was this all about again? LOL.Honestly I don't have a clue! But I am sure it is all brENsKi's fault! |
| Thistle 21.02.2014 14:02 |
^ amen. Irish rogue that he is. |
| hachiman 22.02.2014 10:23 |
link |
| Thistle 22.02.2014 14:25 |
LOL Hachiman. I'm making this later. Not that I didn't know already. I'm a chemist. |
| hachiman 08.04.2014 08:24 |
Found a close up of the article even though it's not great, but here. link |
| Costa86 25.04.2014 08:19 |
What's that crap in that article about Freddie being bald? He had a receding hairline by then, but he certainly wasn't bald. What rubbish.
hachiman wrote: Found a close up of the article even though it's not great, but here. link |
| hachiman 25.05.2014 13:08 |
First bit says "AILING rocker Freddie Mercury takes a rare stroll in public - a tragic shadow of the party loving superstar his fans once knew. |
| FreddieCat 01.06.2014 11:19 |
Gawd, am I the only organism on the planet that thinks the aged Freddie does NOT looks horrible and ghoulish? The content of the article is ghoulish and horrible, the writer, the publishers of the paper, yes. But Freddie? No. To me he looked real, like a distinguished next door neighbor. The superstar party lover did not appeal to me so much but served to bring adoring fan's attention to him and to Queen. People need that playboy image and so that one is ok too. I liked the beard better than the stash and to mme his face with all its pain, was still beautiful to the very end. |
| noorie 01.06.2014 11:53 |
FreddieCat, I think there is a bit of confusion here. We were all referring to the horrible weird 'skeleton in a rocking chair' internet picture supposedly of an ailing Freddie. Check out the attachment added by Walter White. (NOT the image in the OP's article.)That image is truly ghoulish and disgusting. |
| FreddieCat 01.06.2014 12:40 |
Got it! Yes, it is horrible! |
| kdj2hot 21.06.2014 05:49 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Not especially rare. Very infamous, though. This is a perfect illustration of why The Sun, its owners and everyone who works there is immoral scum. Rupert Murdoch belongs in jail.Stupid people are funny. The guy had AIDS you moron. The paper were doing their jobs, which is something you probably know nothing about, the word job. A quick refresher. That's were you do a paid task in exchange for money bit I digress. Dummy, I dont think Rupert Murdoch was setting in the meeting with the editor saying stalk Freddie Mercury and catch his emaciated mug. But obviously that's the way it happened in your mind due to your low intellect. |
| thomasquinn 32989 21.06.2014 07:23 |
Unaware that Murdoch and his cronies have recently faced legal prosecution for their many illegal activities in the course of their third-rate journalistic undertakings? And you dug up an old topic simply to make yourself look like an enormous ass by supporting the convicted felons of Murdoch's media empire for "doing their jobs"? It's clear that *somebody* in this topic is the victim of their "low intellect [sic]". |
| kdj2hot 21.06.2014 07:26 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Unaware that Murdoch and his cronies have recently faced legal prosecution for their many illegal activities in the course of their third-rate journalistic undertakings? And you dug up an old topic simply to make yourself look like an enormous ass by supporting the convicted felons of Murdoch's media empire for "doing their jobs"? It's clear that *somebody* in this topic is the victim of their "low intellect [sic]".Dummy, I was reading a post and responded. Taking a picture and hacking phones are polar opposites and that certainly shows the level of your intellect to correlate the two. |
| thomasquinn 32989 21.06.2014 07:38 |
Ok, I'll just split this into two parts: 1) Are your reading skills so poor that it takes you over FOUR MONTHS to read a topic, or were you so busy creating the acoustic torture you call music and thinking up some fresh über-lame slurs? 2) Not that it would ever get through your thick skull, but a little more than 'taking a picture' was involved. We'll save the details for discussions with adults whose mental faculties exceed those of a lobotomized hippopotamus, i.e. anyone on this forum who isn't you. |
| kdj2hot 21.06.2014 08:07 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Ok, I'll just split this into two parts: 1) Are your reading skills so poor that it takes you over FOUR MONTHS to read a topic, or were you so busy creating the acoustic torture you call music and thinking up some fresh über-lame slurs? 2) Not that it would ever get through your thick skull, but a little more than 'taking a picture' was involved. We'll save the details for discussions with adults whose mental faculties exceed those of a lobotomized hippopotamus, i.e. anyone on this forum who isn't you.1. I usually don't pay attention to posts I don't make. I'm very vain and arrogant like that. I don't apologize. 2. The topic of this thread involves a picture of Freddie Mercury from nearly 25 yrs in public that's not illegal and I just thought it was an idiotic comment you made that's all. |
| Hangman_96 22.06.2014 14:58 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Ok, I'll just split this into two parts: 1) Are your reading skills so poor that it takes you over FOUR MONTHS to read a topic, or were you so busy creating the acoustic torture you call music and thinking up some fresh über-lame slurs? 2) Not that it would ever get through your thick skull, but a little more than 'taking a picture' was involved. We'll save the details for discussions with adults whose mental faculties exceed those of a lobotomized hippopotamus, i.e. anyone on this forum who isn't you.Don't bother talking to him, let alone explaining something. It's like talking to a wall. |
| SkyeTV 22.06.2014 18:19 |
kdj2hot wrote: 2. The topic of this thread involves a picture of Freddie Mercury from nearly 25 yrs in public that's not illegal and I just thought it was an idiotic comment you made that's all.You're right. It's not illegal for someone to show a picture from 25 years ago, but that's not what Mr Quinn said. You just missed the point. It was the means of obtaining the photo, 25 years ago, that was the point. Try and let your brain catch up with your fingers before you post. |
| kdj2hot 22.06.2014 22:02 |
SkyeTV wrote:Well you almost got my point. I didn't say showing the picture isn't illegal. If I typed that it was a typo. I meant it's not illegal to take pictures. They weren't in his house, it was a picture taken outside. No one owns outside except God...so there. If greedy paparazzi types wanna take pictures of dying people who refuses to admit they're dying thus making them fair game and newsworthy than they have as much right to take the pic as you or me have to breathe.kdj2hot wrote: 2. The topic of this thread involves a picture of Freddie Mercury from nearly 25 yrs in public that's not illegal and I just thought it was an idiotic comment you made that's all.You're right. It's not illegal for someone to show a picture from 25 years ago, but that's not what Mr Quinn said. You just missed the point. It was the means of obtaining the photo, 25 years ago, that was the point. Try and let your brain catch up with your fingers before you post. |
| SkyeTV 23.06.2014 17:08 |
That's incorrect. If you wish to challenge a picture being taken of you, and published, you can. Despite many papers doing it on a daily basis, it is illegal to publish pictures taken without your permission, unless it is a picture of a busy street and you're unlucky enough to have been snapped passing by. |
| SkyeTV 23.06.2014 17:22 |
That said, that's from 1998 laws, so wouldn't have covered Freddie in '91. Perhaps another law would have, but I'm unclear on that. It's still immoral and unethical, though. It may have been a public street, but it's still about someone's private life. Clearly, it wasn't a "public" appearance, but a quick transfer from home to car. |
| Day dop 26.06.2014 22:47 |
I remember clearly, back in 91, being in the newsagents and seeing that photo and headline plastered across the front of that piece of shit tabloid. |
| hachiman 11.04.2015 13:21 |
Looks like you can get it from ebay now. link |
| hachiman 24.04.2015 19:06 |
link |
| Costa86 27.04.2015 10:31 |
Somebody bought it for £16... and 7 quid in postage... |
| musicland munich 27.04.2015 11:32 |
Costa86 wrote: Somebody bought it for £16... and 7 quid in postage...I'am NOT guilty, Sir ! |
