Hi guys. The days are winding down to the Official Freddie Mercury birthday party in Montreux. I will be doing some filming there for my Freddie Mercury film and I wanted to reach out to fans to see if they have any questions they'd like me to ask Phoebe.
Just the usual stuff about Freddie's artwork. Why hasn't there ever been a collection of his college work/personal published in book form?.
Probably a question for Jim Beach though.
Phoebe's never answered it on his blog as far as I know. I've seen the few snippets in the untold story but that's about all.
Oh and what's with the missing photo he references in his book? (I'll try to look up the page he indicates it)
Maybe ask whether Freddie was ever approached to do a song for a soundtrack in an animated film. I totally coulda seen Freddie become part of that 90's Disney soundtrack mastery.
Be interesting to hear if Phoebe heard anything, at the time, about possible live dates being arranged or at least talked about around the release of The Miracle.
Hello, I would like to know how the friendship with Dave Clark was and how come he never got mentioned but it seems that he was alot of times with Freddie, especially in the last years.
Thanks
Freddie was friends with a lot of people, but very very few got mentioned by name by Freddie at any time. Names and connections came to light after FM's death because other people named friends in books etc.
Dave Clark was known to be someone Freddie knew, but why single him out.
Vocal harmony wrote:
Be interesting to hear if Phoebe heard anything, at the time, about possible live dates being arranged or at least talked about around the release of The Miracle.
This would be an interesting one. I'd love to see if they had even hoped at one point to do some TM shows.
mooghead wrote:
Ask him if he has ever considered a proper job since his meal ticket died more than 2 decades ago.
I generally really like Pheobe, but it does amaze me how he's managed to justify making a living virtually just through his having known Freddie, even after all these years.
Phoebe is a hanger-on. He has managed to make damn good money because he was one of Freddie's maids. He makes money to sign his autograph and showing slide shows of cats! He wrote 2 or 3 books about Freddie that he made money from. The man is obsessed and I have yet to see any female pRtner in his life.....ever
Shuler266 wrote:
Phoebe is a hanger-on. He has managed to make damn good money because he was one of Freddie's maids. He makes money to sign his autograph and showing slide shows of cats! He wrote 2 or 3 books about Freddie that he made money from. The man is obsessed and I have yet to see any female pRtner in his life.....ever
He's definitely making money off having known and worked for Freddie, which I guess is, moralistically speaking, slightly shady. But I think that, apart from appearing in that awful documentary "Freddie's Loves" and saying in it that Freddie had a big appendage, he's generally always shown a lot of respect towards Freddie's memory.
And he is satisfying a 'want' - the need which fans have to get more info on Fred. So he's carrying out a legitmate service which has a market. He also seems to be a genuinely likeable guy. And his angle on most things is more neutral than say Mary's, or the one Jim had, since these had a different type of relationship with Freddie - a romantic one - which tends to skew the way you see a person.
I don't know what him not having a woman has to do with this though. We all know he's gay.
Because he denies it. I think we're in a time where he doesn't have to try so hard to hide it but he does. I just don't like the fact that he makes money from showing kitty slideshows and following Queen tribute bands around. There comes a time when u have to stand on your own instead of riding coat tails. He has yet to do that. Anywho- This question may have already been answered- why does the British Government keep his medical files so secret? After so many years they can be released in the United States. I would think there's information in them that would stop lots of speculation.
