QueenZone discussion #1543949
Tony Pike Scoring Drugs for Freddie
| MiracleTour1989 10.03.2019 18:48 |
link So Tony Pike has died. That guy lived quite the life. Tony says in here that he helped Freddie find cocaine in 1990. Which seems surprising to me. I thought Freddie cut out all the nonsense by 1989 or so. On one hand, you could say he didn’t have much time left in 1990 so maybe it didn’t matter. On the other hand, I do wonder if Freddie cut out smoking and recreational drugs when diagnosed if that would have bought him more time. |
| bucsateflon 10.03.2019 19:06 |
Cocaine can be used as medicine |
| MisterCosmicc 10.03.2019 19:29 |
Interesting. |
| mika251 10.03.2019 21:09 |
Rudi Dolezal spoke about Invisible Man video shooting that there was some delay and the band waited for 7 hours until everything was ready. and there was some cocaine as well. As they were finally ready, everybody was on scene except for Freddie. Rudi found him in dressing room on his knees looking for a small package of drug which got lost in a fluffy pink carpet. Lost some of my ideals about Freddie too ?? Source: Dolezal backstage, to be found on YouTube in German. Apologize for my horrible English |
| mooghead 10.03.2019 21:15 |
Stickell's will see to that... |
| miraclesteinway 10.03.2019 21:48 |
It's highly possible that Freddie did take the odd line as late as 1990 or 1991, but it's also possible that Tony Pike got the year wrong. Was Rudi being absolutely truthful about Freddie? I mean, it's not surprising if this happened since we know he liked cocaine. It's quite possible that while he was unwell, a little hit of cocaine helped him get through a shoot? Who knows? Who cares? |
| oligneisti 11.03.2019 08:55 |
If you know that world and you need to manage pain I can see how it would be easy to try something you are used to. Also to get energy levels up. So it is not as ridiculous as it sounds at first. |
| matt z 11.03.2019 14:07 |
link Hahaha ^how's any of this ridiculous? It's just something one prob does in that business. Depending on appetites Dunno if this repeats information. My phones a dinosaur and won't let me read the first article |
| matt z 11.03.2019 14:24 |
Oh FFS! IT'S THE EXACT SAME ARTICLE (*only with a more recent header photo) My mistake folks. But *AT LEAST THE LINK WORKED! (i had to adjust it twice in edit) |
| The Fairy King 11.03.2019 15:41 |
"On his 41st birthday in 1987, Mercury, just diagnosed with HIV, asked Pike to organise “the biggest birthday bash of all time”, which it turned out to be, at least at the time. The 700 guests included actor Tony Curtis, rocker Jon Bon Jovi, entertainer Grace Jones (“the greatest lover I ever had”, Pike said), Naomi Campbell, Boy George, Julio Iglesias and Spandau Ballet." Are there photo's? |
| Holly2003 11.03.2019 15:44 |
I seem to recall Fred wrote and performed some music? Does anyone know anything about this? |
| doughnut 11.03.2019 17:41 |
Freddie gave up alcohol and drugs around 1990 according to Peter Freestone. The Dr's told him that if he stopped he may life longer so it was enough to make him stop |
| doughnut 11.03.2019 17:48 |
also I'm pretty sure Freddie didn't go to Pikes Hotel in 1990. The last time its recorded he went to spain, he stayed in Rogers villa as it gave him more privacy seeing as the press was after him at the time . This is a news paper report so I'd take it with a pinch of salt. I have this before and he didn't name the person he got the cocaine for. |
| mika251 11.03.2019 18:15 |
Speaking about cocaine, in one of the documents somebody mentioned Freddie never took coke during recording sessions because it affected his voice. What do you think? And what about the gigs? There were another people speaking about cocaine in doll's house. I'm not naive and i know that it was as normal asi smoking, I'm just curious. Are you able to distinguish between sober Freddie and high Freddie? |
| Sweetandtenderhooligan 11.03.2019 19:14 |
I highly doubt he was doing coke in 1990. He wasn't even smoking or drinking at the end. |
| cmsdrums 11.03.2019 19:35 |
mika251 wrote: Rudi Dolezal spoke about Invisible Man video shooting that there was some delay and the band waited for 7 hours until everything was ready. and there was some cocaine as well. As they were finally ready, everybody was on scene except for Freddie. Rudi found him in dressing room on his knees looking for a small package of drug which got lost in a fluffy pink carpet. Lost some of my ideals about Freddie too ?? Source: Dolezal backstage, to be found on YouTube in German. Apologize for my horrible EnglishWasn’t The Invisible Man video filmed on Roger’s birthday, and throughout the day they got more and more drunk celebrating? (See the video for evidence) |
| people on streets 11.03.2019 19:54 |
Rip Tony. A life well lived. |
| miraclesteinway 11.03.2019 22:21 |
The other thing is in all of this, as for news reports etc, Freddie Mercury is a name that people of a certain age like to drop, since he was a major celebrity and also very much the man about town before he became so reclusive later on. Tony Pike could have misremembered the year in a conversation, saying something like Freddie's birthday in 1990 instead of 1987, or all sorts of other things could have gone on that weren't Tony Pike getting cocaine for Freddie, and somehow the press has turned it in to that. It's equally possible that Tony Pike supplied a 43-year-old rock star with a little bit of cocaine, although given how frail Freddie looked even at the Brits in early 1990, I'm almost convinced a hit of cocaine would have knocked him unconscious at that time at the very least. I don't know. It's just a story in a paper. |
| MisterCosmicc 12.03.2019 03:18 |
Freddie could have done cocaine. There was a guy, Miki Zone, from a music group called Man 2 Man, who was doing coke frequently until he died, and he had full-blown AIDS. People underestimate what people with AIDS are capable of. |
| Costa86 12.03.2019 08:44 |
Tony Pike might have gotten the year wrong. He might have been thinking of 1987, during the time of the birthday party in Ibiza. For us Queen fans who are familiar with the timeline of major events, it might seem strange to make such a mistake, but for someone like Pike - who was likely on the older side when he told the coke story - it would be relatively likely for him to get a date a few years off. Or else it could be that Freddie was indeed taking the odd line in 1990, although I do find it quite hard to believe that he'd go to Tony Pike for that if it happened in the UK. Living in London, he could easily have gotten coke from just about anywhere given the connections he had. |
| Panzerwerk 12.03.2019 09:10 |
Quite a coincidence, but yesterday there was a Dutch programme called 'the most beautifull girl in the class'. It depicts the life story of the girl who everyone thought was the most beautifull during high school. One of them was a girl who lived in Ibiza during the late 1980-ies and dated the son of Tony Pike. She mentions playing tennis with Freddie and doing her first line of cocaine with him. Who better to do it with the first time then Freddie Mercury. This should have been around 1987. |
| Star* 12.03.2019 14:20 |
Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon because Freddie Mercury is in vogue at this present time! I think many of these stories are drivel. |
| miraclesteinway 12.03.2019 16:05 |
I had lunch with Freddie Mercury in 1976. We had cocaine pancakes, with maple syrup laced with cocaine. We drank the finest 1952 vintage champagne that cost at that time nearly £800 per bottle. John Reid paid for the whole dinner. After dinner we went back to Freddie's apartment, played scrabble, and he asked me for some ideas about "My Melancholy Blues". I told him I didn't like it in D major, and for his voice E-flat would be better. I advised him that We Are The Champions would never be a hit. How wrong I was. The strangest thing about the evening is that I wasn't even born yet, but there I was, high as a kite, not even a glint in my father's eye, giving advice to Freddie Mercury. It's funny how things turn out. Brian May came around and was fascinated that Freddie could communicate with discarnate unborn spirits. I explained to Brian about how I'd been travelling around in astral dust for about 23 years since my previous life as King George VI. He didn't believe the King George VI part, actually, and I still can't prove that, except to say that "The King's Speech" has parts in it as truthful as "Bohemian Rhapsody". |
| Star* 12.03.2019 17:21 |
Sorry to let you know but you are a nutter mate. |
| stevelondon20 12.03.2019 17:47 |
Blimey. He is a proper Fruitcake! |