If you want to see Freddie 'updated', then see the It's a Kind of Magic tribute show - it's going to Hamilton, and Ottawa Canada this week. Even though Freddie is the absolute greatest for me, Craig as Freddie is just more updated, more intentionally sexy than Freddie was. His mannerisms on stage and his perfectly gorgeous surfer body.... If anyone has seen a better tribute band (this one and another one, right?) I'd love to hear about it... They don't like to call themselves a tribute band by the way. They are just keeping the music of Queen alive.
Search Craig Pesco if you want to read how he came to be Freddie, and how the tarot Magician card influenced him...
Meh, Craig Pesco does looks like Freddie but I wouldn't say he's sexier. For one.. I'm pretty sure Freddie never had an ear-ring. Also his moustache was wonky and he stuffed the 'day-ohs' up...he couldn't make it to the ultra-highs that Freddie did.
Nice guy though. Had a good ol' yarn with him.
It's true no one can/will ever sing AS beautifully as Freddie... but other things go to making someone sexy. My impression is that Freddie 'posed' to please himself, which is a big part of what Freddie was about, while Craig's aura is more about pleasing the people he has in the palm of his hand. He still pulls off the big ego thing on stage, but his body and the way he moves has me dreaming of the new Freddie 'spirit' wrapped up in a different body.
God Love Freddie Mercury!
There's more to it than that... don't take my jet-lagged muddledom for the whole story. Anyway, how can you like Queen if you don't believe in "fancy"?
Reincarnation was never the issue. Someone just threw that in there. Of course there will never be another Freddie. But there are other things of beauty in this world than Freddie.