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March 27th, 1992 - Start rehearsals Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
March 1992, London, UK - David Bowie (1947-2016) and Annie Lennox rehearsing 'Under Pressure' for "The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert"
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March 22nd, 1984, in these days - Queen Story!
London, UK - Queen videoed "I Want To Break Free"
🔸 The video for this song parodies a popular British television soap, Coronation Street. The opening sequence features all the band members in drag (Mercury as a housewife, Deacon as grandmother, Taylor as a schoolgirl, and May as a housewife). This confused many people who didn't catch the reference. Brian May was asked in an interview with Q magazine March 2011 whether each band member's character in the video was an accurate reflection of their personalities?
He replied: "Of Course! Everybody thinks that was Freddie's idea because it looks like something that he would love to do but it actually came from Roger's girlfriend at the time, strangely enough. It was her idea to pastiche the Coronation Street women."
Location Docklands Limehouse Studio
Directed by David Mallet, with hundreds of fan club members dressed as miners as film extras
Freddie Mercury was all set to shave off his trademark mustache, but director David Mallet put a stop to it: "I said, 'No, the one thing you musn't do, the funny thing is that your mustache is there and you're in drag!' To this day, when he comes around the corner with that hoover I laugh." In this video Mercury is surrounded by the Royal Ballet in a nod to the French ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune and its clean-shaven Russian star Vaslav Nijinsky.
🔸 This song became an anthem for the ANC in South Africa in the late '80s when Nelson Mandela was still in jail and the white government's apartheid policies were still in place.
(source ➡️songfacts.com)
📸 Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon on the set of this promo video
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Today, on March 25th, 1947 was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in the town of Pinner in Middlesex, England, UK.
Happy Birthday Sir Elton John!!🎉
🔸Elton remembers Freddie fondly - while he didn’t “get” Bo Rhap, he got” the singer straight away. He recalls: “From the minute I met him, I loved him. He was just magnificent. Incredibly smart and adventurous. Kind and generous and thoughtful, but outrageously funny.”
But Elton John thought Bohemian Rhapsody was “absolutely ridiculous” when he first heard it
👉Full Article: https://amp.radiox.co.uk/artists/queen/elton-john-bohemian-rhapsody-absolutely-ridiculous/
📸 Pic: 1980, House of Commons, London, UK - Freddie Mercury with his friend Elton John
👉 Elton and Freddie were very good friends
Everything started in 1975. Queen and Elton John had the same manager, John Reid
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Today - March 25th, 1977 - Queen Story!
'Teo Torriatte' bw 'Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy' released in Japan
Taken from album 'A Day At The Races', 1976
- 'Teo Torriatte' (Let us Cling Together)'
Written by Brian May
🔸“Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)”, which features a chorus sung in Japanese. The band offered the song for inclusion on the charity album Songs for Japan, a compilation of recordings by international artists put together to support people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.
👉 The song was originally included on the band’s fifth album, A Day at the Races, released in 1976. It was apparently Mercury himself who had the idea of including Japanese lyrics on the track. When the band came back to Japan for another tour, Tōgō says, “Freddie wrote down the lyrics by hand and asked the woman who was working as their interpreter to translate them into Japanese.”
- Tōgō Kaoruko, music critic and journalist Music Life magazine
➡️ Full article↘https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00703/let-us-cling-together-queen%E2%80%99s-special-ties-with-japan.html
(Originally published in Japanese on May 31, 2019. Interview and text by Itakura Kimie of Nippon.com.)
- 'Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy'
Written by Freddie Mercury
🔸Freddie Mercury: "It’s called 'Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy', and it’s in my ‘ragtime’ mood that I get a chance to, (laughs) to do on every album and this time, this is something I’ve come up with this time around"
Kenny Everett: "Right, a little frilly number from the pen of Fred."
- Mercury interview
November 1976, Kenny Everett Radio Show
📸 Japanese Sleeves
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Japan, March, 1976 - Queen while drinking tea during their 'A Night At The Opera' Japan tour
👉 It was the band's second Japanese tour
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March 24th, 1987💫💫
👉 Hotel Ritz, Barcelona, Spain - Freddie Mercury met Montserrat Caballé
“I walked into the room.
Freddie’s hands were so cold, and I was very cold too. So I thought, he is nervous too, that is good, because when people are nervous that means they are expecting something from the other one. So, later we stand up from the table and went to the corner of the room to the piano, and he was playing, and I was beginning to see his ideas. We could have gone on for hours and hours and hours. When we finished, we look at each other, and I knew it; that he has conquered me!”
- Montserrat Caballé talking about their first meeting at the Ritz Hotel in Barcelona on March 24, 1987
Pic (not from this day): 1987 - Montserrat Caballé (1933-2018) with Freddie Mercury
📸 Photo taken by ©David M. Benett
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London, UK, 1974 - Mary Austin (23 years)
📸 Photo by © Mick Rock (1948-2021)
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🔸Oh Freddie was so funny!
When they were filming 'I Want To Break Free', the dressing rooms were upstairs in the film studio, and all you could hear for a while was Freddie's screaming laughter as they all got ready! Then he appeared at the top of the stairs to come down, and they were metal stairs. He was wearing the PVC skirt and pink top and wig, and really quite high heels. He tottered to the top of the stairs, took one look at them and said "I cannot possibly do stairs in these 'effing' heels darlings, I'll break my neck"! He flounced back in the dressing room and appeared moments later in heels of a far more sensible height!
- Jacky Smith, runs the Official Queen fan club for almost 30 years
Interview 2011
👉 Full Interview ↘
http://www.queenonline.com/features/jacky-smith-interview
Pic: 1984 - Queen Promotional Video 'I Want To Break Free'
Director David Mallett;
🔸Filming Location: Battersea, London, Limehouse Studios, London (now destroyed warehouse next door)
🔸Written by John Deacon and taken from 'The Works' album released in 1984
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Today - March 23rd, 1976 - Queen Story!
Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
'A Night At The Opera Tour'
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Today - March 22nd, 1984 - Queen Story!
London, UK - Queen videoed "I Want To Break Free"
The video for this song parodies a popular British television soap, Coronation Street. The opening sequence features all the band members in drag (Mercury as a housewife, Deacon as grandmother, Taylor as a schoolgirl, and May as a housewife). This confused many people who didn't catch the reference. Brian May was asked in an interview with Q magazine March 2011 whether each band member's character in the video was an accurate reflection of their personalities? He replied: "Of Course! Everybody thinks that was Freddie's idea because it looks like something that he would love to do but it actually came from Roger's girlfriend at the time, strangely enough. It was her idea to pastiche the Coronation Street women."
Location Docklands Limehouse Studio
Directed by David Mallet, with hundreds of fan club members dressed as miners as film extras
Freddie Mercury was all set to shave off his trademark mustache, but director David Mallet put a stop to it: "I said, 'No, the one thing you musn't do, the funny thing is that your mustache is there and you're in drag!' To this day, when he comes around the corner with that hoover I laugh." In this video Mercury is surrounded by the Royal Ballet in a nod to the French ballet L'Après-midi d'un faune and its clean-shaven Russian star Vaslav Nijinsky.
This song became an anthem for the ANC in South Africa in the late '80s when Nelson Mandela was still in jail and the white government's apartheid policies were still in place.
(➡️ source: songfacts.com)
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Queen Live Performance! Freddie Mercury on stage - Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Budokan, March 22, 1976
'A Night At The Opera Tour'
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Today - March 22, 1974 - Queen Story!
Canvey Island, UK, The Paddocks
'Queen II Tour'
📸 Photo by Paul Bird
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March 22nd, 1975 - Queen Story!
Queen perform at the McFarlin Auditorium, Dallas, USA, during 'Sheer Heart Attack Tour'
🔸Killer Queen Slay America!
"It has even got to the point where the audience dress and look like me to a tee.
They're very faithful and it's beautiful.
On this tour, in Dallas, there was even a fan dressed with black makeup on one side of his face and white on the other, and it was simply marvellous"
- Freddie Mercury
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Today - March 21, 1981 - Queen Story!
São Paulo, Brazil, Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo
'S. America Bites The Dust Tour'
"I'm losing the range, believe it or not. I've lost the power I began with. But I've become a stronger singer so maybe my framework is diminishing but within that I can sing better than ever.
My voice can do amazing things now"
- Freddie Mercury - Melody Maker
👉 In the following months Roger will record his first solo album, "Fun In Space"
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São Paulo, Brazil, Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, March 20/21, 1981 - Freddie Mercury soundcheck
'South America Bites The Dust Tour'
📸 Photographer Peter Hince
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Today - March 21, 1976 - Queen Story!
Queen at Press Conference and after Elektra Records held a reception for the band in Tokyo
👉 Queen arrived in Tokyo, Japan, to start their second japanese tour, 'A Night At The Opera'
Pic1: 📸 Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music
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Today - March 21, 1976 - Queen Story!
Queen at Press Conference
👉 Press conference and after Elektra Records held a reception for the band in Tokyo
👉 Queen arrived in Tokyo, Japan, to start their second japanese tour, 'A Night At The Opera'
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