School friends? He was not in a band, right? Why was it filmed? Just for fun? It must have been a special occation because not mnay had a recorder at the time. Anyone know more about this footage?
Colour cameras exist in Britain since early 60's. Film schools had them, most likely including Ealing (which I assume had a film department considering it was an arts & media school AFAIK), so all it'd have taken was for one of them to borrow one from college and try it out.
No need for a special occasion, no need to be tycoons or multi-millionaires. Just some students having fun... mobile phones and iPads have made those kind of things far more common but it doesn't mean they didn't exist in the late 20th century.
It's so nice to see this man this way. It almost makes him more real. Sometimes I feel he's become a phantom. So omni-present in our daily lives, but yet so far, far away. Almost like a legend of a hero from the past.
Costa86 wrote:
It's so nice to see this man this way. It almost makes him more real. Sometimes I feel he's become a phantom. So omni-present in our daily lives, but yet so far, far away. Almost like a legend of a hero from the past.
Totally agree. The image of him with his fist in the air, in that yellow jacket feels almost like Nike's "Just do it" logo or something. His real persona got hidden even almost deeper, because of all this over-exploitation of Wembley and Live Aid imagery. Very good documentary.
Here's the actor to play the young Freddie if that movie were to be made soon link
Or, if it gets made 15 years from now, he'd be perfect for the '80s Freddie.
inu-liger
"hopefully we can get this garbage removed"
Well the United States of Government are working on this issue, and Canary Wharf and in particular, 8, Canada Square E14 is the first target but there are many others in Zone 2 and Zone 1 of London.
Graham David Bruton
Shocking! Amazing! He was really good looking then, eh?! His skin seems to be have been much darker. I guess he literally lightened up. I guess I've heard things like this happening that did not include anything like vitilego that Michael Jackson had. Fascinating video for all sorts of reasons, eh?