Sorry if this has been posted b4 but i was just wondering what you think would have happened to Brian,Roger,John and Freddie if Queen hadnt worked out like it did eg; if they hadn't made it big when they did?
I think Roger would have eventually fronted his own band, which may have made it in the industry. Brian would have been grabbed by some other band, experiencing rock success along another path. Deacon, I think, would have bounced around in hopes of finding the right fit. Freddie would have made it big in spite of any obstacles along the way.
I think Smile could have had a career, but likely would have disbanded at some point, kind of like they did.
Freddie would have bounced around a bit, been largely ridiculed for his pomp in the local music community and given up on music in 1973. His depression would have caused a strain on his relationship with Mary, who would have left him in late 1974. Not foreseeing any success in life, the burden of dealing with his sexuality with his traditionalist parents would have led to his eventual suicide by pills in 1975.
Brian would have graduated university a doctor of astrophysics, had his kids with Krissy and would have gone on to be a professor at University College London. They'd still be semi-happily married and he'd be retiring in 2008.
John would have tripped and become a quadraplegic on a stairway at King's Cross station, but gone on to become a self-imployed chartered accountant. Due to paralysis, he would have only fathered 2 children though.
You really don't want to know about Roger.
Roger may have continued to train as a dentist
Brian would have completed his doctorate
John would be an electrician
Freddie would have been a graphic designer and kept trying to be famous seen as he knew all along he would be a legend.
Thats what I think anyway...
Like, this is all nice and everything, but don't you think theres no need to be asking that sort of question? They made it, because there is some sane people who have good taste and reconise it when they see it! Now relax and enjoy the music.
<font color=Pink>Celtic Princess wrote: Yeah i do!
Alright, well, you know how Roger once had a shag with Freddie? Had rock stardom not put so much gash on his plate, he would have developed a taste for men. In 1978, he would have had an encounter with a transient man named Clinton Gowery who was suffering from an extremely rare form of chlamydia called lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV.
This horrible disease causes scarring of the anus and bowels to the point where incontinence is inevitable. Anyway, Roger would have become so enraged by this infection and the social stigma associated with the loss of his bowel control that at a later attendance of early gay pride organizers, he would bar the doors and open fire with a semi-auto shotgun, eventually killing 14 men and seriously injuring 10 others before sitting on the barrel of the weapon and using his big toe to discharge it into his own ass as a final gesture of frustration to the constantly itching and festering wounds. This would have killed him not-so-instantly.
The media coverage would have been considerable, and he would have forever been known in the UK as "Buckshot Taylor", the "Homo-cidal Maniac", and sniggeringly in bar circles as "Double-ought Rog" Quite sad.
Anyway, you asked.
Easy, 7 seas, easy. The glam rock era was confusing for many young men - just watch the movie Velvet Goldmine with Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor for a look at what it was like. Roger apparently had a very short bi-curious phase, and was rumoured to have gone to Freddie to have his gay experience.
Roger was always very open-minded and non-judgemental, remaining a soul-mate of Freddie's from beginning to end, even through Freddie's man-crazy shag-a-thons, sometimes in the same hotel suite with Roger stuck listening to it in the next room.