| PainPleasure 04.08.2005 20:31 |
Having Aids, might be the answer, but it seems that by avoiding them, he fueled the machine that creates rumour...Freddie was very interesting in interviews, so it's kinda sad he didn't tried to act as everything was fine... |
| dragonzflame 05.08.2005 05:24 |
Yes, but he hated doing interviews anyway, I thought. Wouldn't you hate them even more if you knew tricky questions about AIDS, more tours (which you knew would never happen) etc. were inevitable? |
| brENsKi 05.08.2005 06:24 |
plus they had difficulty covering him up with makeup for B&W videos (IGSM) and doing out of focus stuff to mask his obvious visible ill-health - the Sarcomas were facially visible as far back as 1988 - Montserrat had said as much ' she wondered what they were' there's no way he'd sit down face-to-face with some journo who would no doubt turn the whole thing into a 'observation piece' about his health rather than a genuine interview |
| Regor 07.08.2005 09:46 |
There's a CD out there containing the great interview with all of them from '89 - Mike Reid, Radio One I think. It's uncut and there are some great and interesting passages. And with the benefit of hindsight, the part following Reids question "Are you going to tour ?" has almost a sort of tragic feel to it. Freddie is trying to explain why he doesn't want to tour, Bri and John say nothing and Rog is almost begging that someday they will go on the road again. I can imagine that after that Freddie wasn't to keen on explaining it over and over again. And the sarcomas of course stopped him from appearing in the public as well. |
| john bodega 07.08.2005 13:01 |
The very last thing he'd need is some guy sitting in front of him, obviously wondering why Fred is getting so thin and why he's wearing makeup (or inversely, what the scars are). It would've just been unnecessary. As the boys were so fond of saying, they spoke with their music. There is no Last Interview where Fred pours his heart and and talks about his AIDS. That lies in his music. And it's not a literal thing, it's more a feeling. All of it is much easier to understand when you stop thinking 'what does this mean?' and just listen to the songs. |
| queenlegends 07.08.2005 21:37 |
I also noticed this on the 2nd greatest hits dvd disc, where on the magic interiews freddie is nowere to be seen. |
| PainPleasure 26.08.2005 00:12 |
queenlegends wrote: I also noticed this on the 2nd greatest hits dvd disc, where on the magic interiews freddie is nowere to be seen.False. On numerous times Freddie is interviewed. |
| Penis - Vagina 26.08.2005 02:33 |
That 1989 Mike Read interview is probably my all-time favorite Queen interview. They're all there, all in good spirits.. making witty comments.. just a great interview. You can still find the "Queen Collection" set in which it was included on Ebay or from an Amazon seller, places like that. Queen won't get any royalties of course, since it's out of print. It also includes the version of 'Thank God It's Christmas' with a proper intro. Hey, I've got an idea! Let's try to sell some more copies of 'The Miracle' album! Here's that out of print promotional interview for radio now: link The whole thing in less than 19 MB! Cool. Queen will be pleased that this promotional material is still being heard and potentially gaining sales for the Miracle album. |
| RohemianBapsody 26.08.2005 16:42 |
Thanks Jeffrey for that. I remember coming back from a local carnival early to get this interview. I have had the copy on casette for years, but haven't played it for ages, also as I didn't want to bugger it up. |
| PainPleasure 26.08.2005 17:40 |
Ravenetta wrote: did anyone notice that when theyre shooting for "i want it all" that someone asks freddie a couple times if hes ok? its the scence where theyre about to shoot the beggining clip.Yeah and they were saying: "when you're happy". |
| _Amie_ 26.08.2005 17:57 |
Wow thanks for that interview:) its really interesting!! |
| kdj2hot 28.08.2005 15:08 |
Jeffrey Todd wrote: That 1989 Mike Read interview is probably my all-time favorite Queen interview. They're all there, all in good spirits.. making witty comments.. just a great interview. You can still find the "Queen Collection" set in which it was included on Ebay or from an Amazon seller, places like that. Queen won't get any royalties of course, since it's out of print. It also includes the version of 'Thank God It's Christmas' with a proper intro. Hey, I've got an idea! Let's try to sell some more copies of 'The Miracle' album! Here's that out of print promotional interview for radio now: link The whole thing in less than 19 MB! Cool. Queen will be pleased that this promotional material is still being heard and potentially gaining sales for the Miracle album.Thank you, I love you right now. I said I'll never get married (and definitely not to another male) but right now I'm seriously considering proposing to you. I've been looking for this interview for a while now, a transcript would've even quenched my thirst then you go and post the mp3. Man, you rock. |
| L.Cooper 29.08.2005 00:48 |
He was dying for God's sake! |
| RohemianBapsody 29.08.2005 11:25 |
Queen generally hated the press due to the lack of respect and the crap they wrote. Why take part in interviews when there is a much better way to use your last remaining time? |
| s.m. 29.08.2005 16:34 |
thx jeffery this is great stuff i´ve never heard it before what do you say about when freddie says there are about 30 tracks to chose from i know about hijack my heart, or my life has been saved are from that period, but what about other 15?? |
| Suigi 29.08.2005 21:53 |
Jeffrey Todd wrote: That 1989 Mike Read interview is probably my all-time favorite Queen interview. They're all there, all in good spirits.. making witty comments.. just a great interview. You can still find the "Queen Collection" set in which it was included on Ebay or from an Amazon seller, places like that. Queen won't get any royalties of course, since it's out of print. It also includes the version of 'Thank God It's Christmas' with a proper intro. Hey, I've got an idea! Let's try to sell some more copies of 'The Miracle' album! Here's that out of print promotional interview for radio now: link The whole thing in less than 19 MB! Cool. Queen will be pleased that this promotional material is still being heard and potentially gaining sales for the Miracle album.My kudos are yours, Jeff. This wouldn't happen to be the same thing that's on Queen Talks, would it? |
| LIZAWITHAZ 30.08.2005 08:58 |
During this time period, Freddie was extremely ill with many side effects from the early drugs, as per Peter Freestone's book, he was mostly at home since he was unable to work many times during both The Miracle and Innuendo albums. During the Miracle he was already tired and feeling worn out. As many of his inner circle already knew how sick he was and even some of his good friends were either dying or already dead but I will not go into that, it has already been played like a broken record. David Wigg was invited to conduct a last interview with Freddie and I believe the full interview exists somewhere maybe on the Solo Collection as I am unsure I cannot truthfully say yes or no. Brian May and Roger Taylor at this time (and as always) did conduct the bulk of the interviews for The Miracle as Innuendo albums. As John Deacon started at that time (at least that was the impression one had) removing himself from public views and media. Cheers, David |
| Penis - Vagina 30.08.2005 09:32 |
Thanks for all the thanks :) Suigi, the bonus CD this comes from is called 'Queen Talks', yes. But it's totally different than the 'Queen Talks' b-side track which is just a short collection of snippets from different interviews. |
| pcgenius9 30.08.2005 14:17 |
did anybody notice that in the budapest vhs freddie says: "Interview? Oh don't be rediculous" and walked off. |
| kdj2hot 30.08.2005 23:12 |
barn wrote:If it's the interview I'm thinking of where he talks about AIDS, I noticed that someone else mistook that as a "final interview" on another message board. I believe it was taken in 1987 on Freddie's birthday. He doesn't speak as a man with AODS, but as an observer of how AIDS was effecting lives on that interview, I believe thats the interview on the solo set (I dont actually own the set, combination of being broke and not listening to cd's anymore). Freddie goes on about dying (I think when asked something about being 70, withoutr hesitation he says he would be dead then goes on and explains himself after the interviewer asks what he meant and says it would be boring to be 70.) I could see how someone not listening or reading the transcript closely can misinterpret it.LIZAWITHAZ wrote: During this time period, Freddie was extremely ill with many side effects from the early drugs, as per Peter Freestone's book, he was mostly at home since he was unable to work many times during both The Miracle and Innuendo albums. During the Miracle he was already tired and feeling worn out. As many of his inner circle already knew how sick he was and even some of his good friends were either dying or already dead but I will not go into that, it has already been played like a broken record. David Wigg was invited to conduct a last interview with Freddie and I believe the full interview exists somewhere maybe on the Solo Collection as I am unsure I cannot truthfully say yes or no. Brian May and Roger Taylor at this time (and as always) did conduct the bulk of the interviews for The Miracle as Innuendo albums. As John Deacon started at that time (at least that was the impression one had) removing himself from public views and media. Cheers, DavidNo, there was a mistake on an interview David Wigg made in the mid-80s, and Freddie stopped making newspaper interviews for good (it says so in the damn Freestone book)... and David Wigg worked for a newspaper. And Freddie never did an interview with him again. |
| LIZAWITHAZ 31.08.2005 12:51 |
Sorry Barn but there was another interview and maybe one day it will be published. |
| gihona 31.08.2005 15:18 |
god. this interview is amazing, thanks a million for sharing that, Jeffrey, i've never heard it before. the part where they talk about touring is literly heart rendering, the way fred's suddenlly really uncomfortable and Roger is like - "until we're ready to sort of ehh... to maybey perform again... till all of us are ready, y'know maybe we won't... but hopefully we will, at some point..." and i'm thinking - by that time they must have known that Freddie is seriously ill and they will probably never tour with him again, yet some part of them was kinda hoping some miracle will occur, some divine intervention perhaps, that will allow them to go back on the road. and the ironic thing is that Mike Read is asking Freddie if the others resent him for not wanting to tour... man, that part made me really sad. |
| Suigi 10.09.2005 15:55 |
Good to know that the file still works. Which means I don't need to re-upload it. :P |
| nicktehbrick 13.06.2007 01:27 |
yeah, the file is no longer availiable, can someone please upload it again ? |
| RafaelS 10.10.2014 11:04 |
Sorry for bumping a very old thread, but since at the time they were working with DoRo and they must have been suspecting something about Freddie, he should have said don't ask me tricky questions and film me from very far or in black and white. |
| matt z 11.10.2014 01:43 |
gihona wrote: by that time they must have known that Freddie is seriously ill and they will probably never tour with him again, yet some part of them was kinda hoping some miracle will occur, some divine intervention perhaps, that will allow them to go back on the road.I never wanted to bring this up. But it always seemed to me that much of the optimism showing in Freddie's work of the time AND the titular THE MIRACLE were based on an onset of grief and trauma that can trigger times of "mania". I hope none of you guys witness the grief involved in a terminal case. The emotions run high and low like nothing you could ever experience or even want to believe. Having witnessed it and lived with it, I tend to think that THE MIRACLE was a beautiful heart song to triumph whether it existed or not. Positive thinking. It will come. It WILL happen. There's so much depth to the work they created. Each with differing sentiments all becoming in separate pieces, a collective human psyche. Brian - the debatable analytic, the worried wanderer Roger - the free spirit cynic, making do John - the quiet contemplative one, high emotions, dreams, fragility Freddie - the full dreams, dramas and tragedies lived out. It's a dynamic team. Incredible bunch. So few people leave such effectual work. Maybe slightly off tangent. But it WAS Brian musing about the loss before it happened. FREDDIE on the other hand.... jovial and even sadly joking about it. (Khashoggi's ship demo/ Delilah demo) |
| tomchristie22 11.10.2014 02:17 |
So sad.. I've never really thought that deeply about his state of mind leading up to death, struggling to come to terms with it and all. What's the morbid line in the Khasshogi? I can't make out what he says on 'best years of my life...' |
| brENsKi 11.10.2014 05:08 |
edit: dbl post |
| brENsKi 11.10.2014 05:27 |
tomchristie22 wrote: What's the morbid line in the Khasshogi? I can't make out what he says on 'best years of my life...' although, I'd have said more "in denial/defiance" than "morbid" here you go: Who said that my party was all over I'm in pretty good shape, The best years of my life are in no way over, Uh-huh, I'm in pretty good shape, |
| thomasquinn 32989 11.10.2014 05:48 |
brENsKi wrote:Nice interpretation, but the lyric is (and the booklet confirms this):tomchristie22 wrote: What's the morbid line in the Khasshogi? I can't make out what he says on 'best years of my life...'although, I'd have said more "in denial/defiance" than "morbid" here you go: Who said that my party was all over I'm in pretty good shape, The best years of my life are in no way over, Uh-huh, I'm in pretty good shape, "Who said my party was all over, huh, huh, I'm in pretty good shape, The best years of my life are like a supernova, Huh, huh, perpetual craze" |
| Hoopsie 11.10.2014 06:03 |
Is that interview available anywhere now? Is it this "Queen For An Hour?" link |
| brENsKi 11.10.2014 06:08 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote:Casper, I was referring to the DEMO version - which the poster couldn't make out the bit after "best years of my life"brENsKi wrote:Nice interpretation, but the lyric is (and the booklet confirms this): "Who said my party was all over, huh, huh, I'm in pretty good shape, The best years of my life are like a supernova, Huh, huh, perpetual craze"tomchristie22 wrote: What's the morbid line in the Khasshogi? I can't make out what he says on 'best years of my life...'although, I'd have said more "in denial/defiance" than "morbid" here you go: Who said that my party was all over I'm in pretty good shape, The best years of my life are in no way over, Uh-huh, I'm in pretty good shape, look at the end of matt z's post - he clearly says "demo", which is what i assumed tomchristie22 was referring to. - because the "alternative line to supernova" is just audible...have a listen t the demo, you'll see i heard it right |
| thomasquinn 32989 11.10.2014 06:13 |
Yeah, I'm not so sure. I have the demo, and it seems to me that the lyrics are identical but get smothered a little. |
| Chief Mouse 11.10.2014 06:19 |
For those who don't have the demo - http://www.mediafire.com/download/nw0jzewvkzm/Khashoggi%27s+Ship+%28Demo%29.mp3 |
| brENsKi 11.10.2014 06:30 |
thomasquinn 32989 wrote: Yeah, I'm not so sure. I have the demo, and it seems to me that the lyrics are identical but get smothered a little.well up loud and with the graphic adjusted i can hear "are in no way over" with a bit or protraction /emphasis on "in" and "no" and there's definitely no "supernova" in there no way is the last line "perpetual craze" (as per the album) 1,000,000% it's a repeat of "i'm in pretty good shape". |
| Oscar J 11.10.2014 11:03 |
"in no way over" is definitely right. |
| matt z 11.10.2014 22:54 |
Oh. I was referring to the one that was leaked from a convention. I always thought that that version must have predated the song PARTY which may have been an afterthought. I always heard this "Who said that my body was all over? " And then later "no one loves my body. No one loves my body. No one no one no one. ... no good" But much is inaudible as someone tape recorded it. Delilah "you make me smile when I'm just about to die" |
| tomchristie22 11.10.2014 23:58 |
Yeah - he definitely doesn't sing 'supernova' on that demo. 'In no way over' sounds right. I always thought he said 'Who said that my body was all over?' even on the final version. It says 'party' in the booklet, but sounds more like body. Body also makes more sense with the next line 'I'm in pretty good shape'. |
| tomchristie22 12.10.2014 00:00 |
matt z wrote: Delilah "you make me smile when I'm just about to die"I noticed that one. :( |
| matt z 12.10.2014 05:56 |
Thanks chief mouse. The one I had must have been closer to the speakers. Much more audience badger. *typo from SWYPE but I'm leaving it. * banter |
| matt z 12.10.2014 05:57 |
....... I've got a FEVER. ... and the only prescription is. .... MORE BADGER! |
| RafaelS 12.10.2014 10:10 |
Why people are talking about songs and demos instead of talking about Freddie's lack of interviews? |
| brENsKi 12.10.2014 10:56 |
RafaelSomma wrote: Why people are talking about songs and demos instead of talking about Freddie's lack of interviews?firstly, it was a 7+ year old long-dead thread revived by matt z. secondly, he mentioned the miracle demos in the last line of his post. conversation isn't rigid. and surely it's good to find a new avenue if it's related to the subject at hand. Nice revival Mattz. and as per your comments re: losing someone to terminal illness - yes I too understand exactly what you mean. profound loss is (ahem) profound. my father and brother died more than five years ago...and every day i miss them more. The pain doesn't disappear - you just get used to feeling it. |
| matt z 12.10.2014 18:48 |
Yeah^ I wasn't the one to revive it however. I just saw it in queue again and assumed it was new. (The previous post was) Hmm. Debating starting a new thread in the PERSONAL SECTION pertaining to loss and the supernatural. But as for this. I think it was primarily Freddie who was dodging the conversation and was the impetus for the transcendent MIRACLE which praised miracles great and small. ..so much as to possibly come from a yearning or thought tangent on the terminal situation. The lyrics mention doctors... Open hearts and surgeries Test tube babies being born, mothers, fathers dead and gone. It really is a "swell" (leave it to beaver lingo) song |