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blur for music life magazine (1995)

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Thom Yorke for Music Life, June 1997

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London, UK, November 1975, Roundhouse studio, Camden - Queen pose during a photo session for the cover of Japanese rock magazine Music Life

📸 Photo by Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music

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JT article from Japanese "Music Life" magazine, 1985.

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s.e.s / music life - january issue [1999]

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This song is the post. It’s crack in this song.

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Hotel nights.

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Radiohead for Music Life, June 1997

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February 1981, during Queen's 'Flash Gordon Japanese tour' - #FreddieMercury at an interview for Music Life Magazine

📸 Photo by Koh Hasebe

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Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song

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A Report Of Music Life’s 1976 Panel about Queen

Written by 走路带风的Mia (1) (2) (3) (4). Translated by me.

1976. After the second Japanese tour, Music Life held a special panel and invited several people who worked closely with the band during their visit to Japan to share all kinds of anecdotes about Queen. The panel was chaired by Kaoruko Togo. The attendees included the accompanying translator Kazuko Teramura, the head of security Hisao Itami, and Queen’s publicity person Masafumi Kato. The text version was published in the magazine's temporary supplement in 1976. I will not follow the original word by word. I will write as I go:

During this visit to Japan, apart from Freddie, several people bought parts for cameras and lenses. Brian and John are especially proficient in mechanics. Brian understands lenses better, and John is more familiar with tape recorders. Roger is responsible for asking them both about all kinds of things. Freddie: not interested in mechanical things whatsoever.

John was very excited during their visit at the Sony factory in Shinagawa. They have very good memory and even remembered the clerk of the camera shop they visited last year, and it seemed that the clerk also remembered them. On the second day in Japan, John first proposed to the translator Teramura that he wanted to go to the camera shop they visited last year. After going there, John found the clerk and asked him if he could give them the same discount as last year. Teramura emphasized that the discount is 30% off, which is a very good bargain, and there are several camera shops in the city. If they had not gone to the same shop they visited last time, they would not have gotten that discount. At the time, Roger also wanted to shop, and Brian was considering if he should get a fisheye lens. They went on to discuss various cameras, lenses, and prices.

When I read this passage, I thought to myself, no wonder John is the one in charge of business in the band. He remembers faces well and has a good memory. He must have better learning ability than the average person. Being able to remember details, he would easily have the upper hand in striking business deals, although he also could exhibit some confusing behaviour.

After the show, the band would stay backstage for an hour or so, and they would talk about the day's performance on the way back. Everyone would express their opinions frankly and openly. From the perspective of the translator Teramura, sometimes it would amount to arguments, but at the end, the four would go back to normal. Teramura believes that although Roger is typically recognized as a rock star, it is surprising that he is very careful about his physical condition. He is always said to be fun-loving, but at a party, he ended up as the first one to leave.

It is difficult to organize everyone to leave for the next destination. For example, someone would be washing their hair right before leaving, and someone else would be taking their sweet time. Brian and John usually got ready quite early, and the latest always seemed to be Roger, who would take his time in his room, and sometimes he would forget his keys. John would put his luggage neatly aside, as if signalling some kind of determination, a look of eagerness to go home, muttering: I hope my kid hasn’t forgotten what I look like. Or repeating "I'm not homesick" while always saying "it’d be nice to go home, it‘d be nice to go home."

I'm curious: who is the one still washing their hair when it’s time to leave!

I have to say that there really are crazy fans at any point in time, although it also shows that Queen has always been very popular from the flip side. Brian is the kind of person who is obviously the most cordial and friendly, as well as gentle and pleasant. But he also has the most explosive temper that could be triggered by one single thing.

Speaking of this tour, the fans as a strong offensive were quite astonishing. At the airport, Brian was very excited in the face of crazy fans at first, but he was quickly provoked, as he was mobbed by the besieging fans in the aisle and lost one of his shoes in the process. After returning to the hotel from the airport, he was so angry that he gave up on the other shoe. The bodyguard Itami said with amusement: "He probably kicked it away." Later, a fan returned his shoes. At this point, he had regained his composure and thanked the other party.

Brian has an impatient temperament, and the translator Teramura said that once his fuse is lit, he would very quickly return to normal. After the performance, he went to the hotel bar. The bar would be open until 1:00am. It was about 1:15am or somewhere between 1:15 and 1:20am. He suggested that everyone should go for a beer together, but they were refused reception with the reason being the bar closes before 1:15am. Of course, the bar manager’s English choice of words was also very rude and especially condescending. Brian was so angry that he couldn't go out, that he yelled at the manager to get out. Later, in front of everyone, he explained that he was actually so ashamed of yelling just now that he wanted to cry, making himself sound very lowly and despicable.

But when he really couldn't tolerate something anymore, he would still explode. In the returning journey to Tokyo from Fukuoka, some fans called at 5 or 6 in the morning, and later even went to his door and rang the doorbell, which finally made Brian so furious that he kicked the door. Teramura said she was resting in the next room and was just wondering if something had happened. She happened to see Brian at breakfast the next day. When she asked him, she realized that Brian had rejected the fans several times. As a result, they went over, and all arrived at his door. In the end, he had to berate them as a last resort.

In addition, my guess is (I’m almost certain but I have no evidence), 80% chance that what Brian was wearing when he got off the plane were his clogs, and that’s why he so easily lost them being mobbed.

Masafumi Kato, in charge of publicity for Queen: "Freddie is very friendly and can be said to be the most adult-like, mature and cultivated, with the ability to be like a commander, and he really feels like a leader. He also seems a little bit vain.”

Bodyguard Kyuo Itami: "I was born in the same month as him (Freddie). I am a week younger, his birthday is on the 5th, and I'm on the 12th. I'm not in the circle, and I don't know what he is like as a musician. But in terms of personal contact, I feel like he's a lot more mature than me.

“In regards to him being a leader, his leadership as a musician is very good, and it feels like he always keeps himself in an optimal state. Others, such as Roger or John, are a little bit more open about their emotions, or would stay out very late. Only Freddie always seems like he makes sure to adjust himself in his own headspace.

“He had a masculine kind of tenderness and was very caring to us. I felt a camaraderie that goes beyond a work relationship in the second year [as Freddie's bodyguard]."

Kaoruko Togo: "So far we have come into contact with many rock musicians, but Queen still feels a little different. Among them, only Roger has the characteristics that rock musicians we are familiar with usually possess, and the other members, especially Freddie, stand out a lot. They’re an interesting band in that sense."

Some of my personal opinions: I did not choose to translate these paragraphs to promote the idea that Freddie was the leader of the band, but similar statements have been said in ML magazines plenty, especially during the first two Japanese tours, so I think it is a topic worth discussing. In fact, both the Japanese world and the English world have remarked on the equality and democracy in the band. All matters are always decided by the four of them, and that is a fact. Freddie himself has emphasized it many times. I remember clearly in an interview in Brazil in 1985 where he said "I'm not the leader, everyone says I'm the leader, but I'm just the lead singer". I think he does have strong leadership skills and coordination ability, or as the above passage discussed: he was the oldest and the most mature. He knew what he wanted from a young age, he was also good at motivating others to help him achieve his goals. In his interviews, when talking about his bandmates, as long as he was not joking, he undoubtedly fully showed his respect for his bandmates. I think he is a great cohesive force, a coordinator, a catalyst of charisma in the band. But a band is like a table; to be stable, all four legs have to be equal in length and strength.

Personal opinions are temporarily written here, and everyone is welcome to express their own opinions.

#@bye-bye-miss-american-pie here you go bastard #excuse the grammar and tenses I did this pretty quickly on a train #four aging queens #anecdote #music life #1976 #queen band #brian may #freddie mercury #roger taylor #John deacon

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Rumiko Hoshika e Hiroshi "Koh" Hasebe (de la revista musical japonesa "Music Life") estuvieron presentes en la sesión de grabación de "Butterfly" en Septiembre de 1967.

'Los Hollies me dijeron que podrían venir a Japón en Noviembre. Eran todos guapos y maravillosos. Aquí están grabando una nueva canción en EMI Studios. El título es "Butterfly". '

Imágenes y texto tomados de la revista "Music Life", la edición de Noviembre 1967.

#My scans #The Hollies #Allan Clarke #Graham Nash #Tony Hicks #Bernie Calvert #Bobby Elliott #Rumiko Hoshika #Koh Hasebe #Music Life #Japan #1967 #British Psychedelia #Butterfly