#my guitar god love

[astrophysicist-guitar-god]

Behind the scenes pictures of Queen on iconic I Want to Break Free music video gives extraordinary glimpse into closeness of the band

The fascinating pictures show the band fooling around on the video shoot 

By DAN SALES

Published: 03:42 EST, 24 September 2023 | Updated: 04:20 EST, 24 September 2023 (x)

Never-before-seen pictures of Queen making the trailblazing I Want To Break free music video shows the incredible bond between the band members. Candid images - all shot by veteran photographer Simon Fowler - show the sheer joy and fun of the group during the now-legendary filming of the promo. The video stunned music fans when it came out and had the rockers dressed up as housewives in a suburban home. In one of the newly-revealed pictures the band are shown in hysterics, with one crewmember wiping away tears of laughter as Freddie Mercury fools around behind a bewigged John Deacon. Freddie appears to be pretending to be a hairdresser as John chuckles in his seat, as Brian May beams by a back wall as they stare into the mirror at their new look. Later Brian can be seen clutching his curlers as he gazes into the distance as he is captured on film. Roger Taylor also looks to be having a ball in one of the archive pictures, pouting in his schoolgirl-style costume. Photographer Simon, who took pictures of the group throughout their career, opened up his archives to allow MailOnline to publish some of the incredible shots.

The band are seen having a great laugh backstage as they get ready to shoot the video promo

Roger Taylor in costume pouts as his picture is taken on the set of I Want To Break Free in 1984

He said he had no idea the theme of the video before he had turned up at Limehouse Studios in London to take the pictures. Simon recalled: 'On Break Free I didn't get any idea of what it was going to be. I turned up and saw them and thought "Whoa, what is going on?". 'It was obviously a pastiche of Coronation Street. I remember on the day everybody was just fooling around laughing. 'It was so much fun that I was amazed that they actually got a video done. 'They had no concerns about doing anything that was unusual - they would just do it. 'They were just messing around in between the filming. I remember one funny moment when they were trying the stuff on and asking each other "what do you reckon of this wig?". 'That was the great thing about it, you have got Freddie with his big old 'tache, giving it all. 'It was without doubt the most fun shoot I have done. 'Every time I think about it I smile, the day just went so fast because everyone was having such a good time - it just whizzed by.

Simon revealed that the band preferred to be photographed all together for their promo shots

Brian May looks like he has awoken from a deep sleep with the curlers in this of Simon's shots

'When you get there I didn't know the story and the PR told me and I thought "that sounds great". 'I went backstage and the first thing I saw was them getting all their clobber done.' Simon had photographed the band before after getting a phone call during the recording of their Hot Space album. That record spawned the Under Pressure anthem and at first the photographer admits he had no idea who he would be going to shoot. He recalled: 'I got a call out of the blue to do a job and originally thought they had said Cream at the time, which I thought couldn't have been right. 'Back in those days you would get millions of calls. I only realised later it was Queen and I was told I would only get ten minutes with them and it turned into three hours. It was for the album Hot Space. 'I think we just got on pretty well - I wasn't expecting much time at all and it was brilliant. 'Roger actually got me to do a bit of tapping when they were recording. I like to think I'm on Hot Space somewhere. It just went from there really.' The band loved his work so he was invited back and ended up doing numerous shoots with them.

John Deacon - whose character in the video was miserable - laughs in a moment of down time

Freddie Mercury poses up on the set, leaning on a cabinet as he looks to the side of the room

But he counts his work on I Want to Break Free as one of the most exciting jobs of his career. He admitted: 'I knew when I got called in for it, that it was going to be interesting. 'They wouldn't scrimp on stuff with the videos, they were big productions. If CGI was around then I am sure that would be what they were doing. 'When you were on set you would have to have eyes in the back of your head in some of the bigger productions, where there were cranes and stuff going round.  'When we went for lunch Brian was on the catering bus talking to me. He was still in the outfit with the curlers. 'I remember thinking "that's Brian May opposite me". It was so surreal. 'At the end of the day we saw the cut and it just looked great. 'I remember John taking a nap during the day, which he would have needed because the reality is they would have got there very early. 'They were trailblazers with videos, they really were. Queen were so unique in whatever they did. Brian with the sound and the guitar. I loved every minute of it 

Veteran music photographer Simon Fowler is selling prints in aid of the Mercury Phoenix Trust

'Freddie was a trooper right up until the end. One of the things people don't notice about pictures of Queen is that you could never often get them out of the line-up 'They would not often move out of all four of them together for pictures. 'I think that's because they were a band but they were also incredible close friends too. 'They all had each others backs, none of them thought of themselves as the star - they were all equals.' The behind-the-scenes pictures were brought back into the spotlight as Simon as he compiled Fine Art Prints of Freddie, Brian, Roger and John from The Miracle shoot. They are being sold to help the fight against HIV and AIDS, with 50 per cent of proceeds going to the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Simon added: 'I was thrilled to do this and just give something back and help a really great cause. 'I was delighted by the response and hope it can keep helping people.' (x)

Prints of Freddie, Brian, Roger and John from The Miracle shoot can be found here 

#Brian May #my guitar god love #before anyone gets too excited .. this is from 2023 #found this while I was *hoping* to find the unreleased pics mentioned the other day #GOOD ARTICLE! #Roger Taylor #John Deacon #Freddie Mercury #Queen #Queen: Academia #once again I am wishing for a time machine

[princessg3rard]

FRAY CHEMISTRY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND <333

#yea this is 90% current fray bc im in love #also im obsessed with the highet difference #17cm between them !! #i love their friendship sm #they’re literally peak bestie dynamic #cool mum and feral raccoon #thats them #scraggly rat my beloved #emotional support guitar god #fray chemistry save me #frank iero #ray toro #mcr #my chemical romance #mcr rox #i am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure

[loonarmuunar]

So what do I do with this?

#ZORCHARLES ENJOYERS RISE #me: oh my god this song is so them (it does Not fit Zora) #okay my thought process is. I feel like before Bliss Ocean Zora was kinda self isolating herself #but now that she has bliss ocean (and Charles) shes. kinda unsure #happy! but unsure of how to process this #and her new bonds and relationships #epithet erased #my art #zora salazar #charles foxtrot #wolftrot #zorcharles #timeless love #they make me crazy they make me insane RAGH #anime campaign #ee zora #ac charles #ee charles #zora has guitar calluses. btw. that fact is very important (to me) #the calluses aren’t as clear under the shading BUT THEY’RE THERE!!

[twelve-raccoons-in-a-trenchcoat]

God I love imperfect art. I love imperfect music. I love voice cracks and string noise and buzzing and gasps for breath. I love seeing the human underneath the lights and the image and the sparkle. I love songs that sound like they're recorded on a ten year old iPhone. I love songs with no drums just a guitar or piano and a voice. I love singers who say they aren't singers. I love people who think they aren't good so they pour their heart into everything they do to make up for it. God I love the imperfections in art because in the cracks of perfection leaks the beauty of humanity.

#i love to keep little imperfections in my recordings #i know some people who think its just me half assing everything #but god i love it it feels so real #i don't care if the imperfection eats me alive the only person who really needs to understand is me #music #personal vent #no one will see this #but thats fine #guitar #musician #acoustic

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OOH YEAH BABY! PARTY TIME BABY! MUSIC! DRINKS! SOCIAL PRESSURE & A PSYCHEDELIC BREAK DOWN! WELCOME TO VAMPIRE SOCIETY MOTHERFUCKER! ARE YOU SCARED? DO YOU UNDERSTAND YET? ITS OKAY IF NOT. FIRE DISSOLVED IT! ITS ALL GONE NOW. HAVE FUN!

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #jrwi suckening spoilers #RRAAHH IM IN LOVE WITH THIS SHOW SOOO GOODDAMN MUCH!! each o these characters has STOLEN my HEART!!! #LIKE EMIZEEELLL i love emizel so much.. runnin around announcing that HE isa PRINCE while shiloh FINALLY quietly clicks the pieces together #nathan hanover you MADMAN!!! that slow dramatic guitar riff as emizel makes that announcement was so fuckin COOL UGHHHH #MR HANOVER DOES IT AGAIN just creating tracks that absoultely WORM into my MIND and HHEAARRT UUGHHGHH #emizel is so cool and so funny and so adorable UUGHH ill gush abt him more when i finally post my emizel n soda doodle page #ARTHUR FUCKING BENNET. i totally get why grizz has a hard time playing him. hes cool and stoic n its not easy to play a man o little words #BUT BBOOOY DOES HE DO IT WELL!! arthur DOES come off as so stoic n cool & it just makes his lil misfortunes all the more charming #like falling into the red fear or confrontin edward twilight or accidentally doing lsd. I LOVE THATS HES THE BAD LUCK GUY. #okay uhhu uhh i have limited room here what else should i say uhh. THE NPCS. MY GOD THE NPCS. CHARLIE U WONDERFUL MADMAN #edward twilight is SUCH a funny fucking antagonist. and supposedly his magic stuff is super scary?? SO EXCITED TO SEE MORE OF THAT #ill ramble abt mr deacon keller later eheh i have a. uh. a doodle page in the works. so in the meantime DAYBRINGER SOLOMON!! #“HERE COMES THE SUN MOTHERFUCKER!” “ILL SEE YOU IN HELL. NOT. IM GOING TO HEAVEN. BITCH.” like come on now. oh my god. i need him #BIG POWERFUL BEAST AND EVERY WORD HE SAYS HAS ME CRACKING UP. THE MUFFLED VOICE IN THE DARK BROKEN BY “LIGHT!” #TRULY HILARIOUS AND YET TRULY HORRIFYING. I FUCKIN LOVE CHARLIE NPCS SO MUCH. I HOPE WE SEE HIM AGAIN OHH MY GOOOODDD #OKAYokay. im normal now. ill talk abt the piece. if u read my tags this far then u get special secret knowledge abt the artistic process #IM VERY HAPPY WITH MY COLORS! i know they were hallucinating on drugs so i just recalled the times i did drugs & used that as my influence #REMEMBER KIDS! acid is totally fine if ur safe and responsible about it. do acid and then stare at my art for a bit trrruuust me. IT MOVES! #anyway i think thats all my thoughts here. thank you for looking at my art n thanku if ur one o the ppl that says nice things in the tags #U are LITERLY my life blood i pick up each of u n kiss u so sweetly on the head. remember to try acid!!!!

[brutalitybunny]

bitchy klav and loungy daryan

#ace attorney #klavier gavin #daryan crescend #And they were coworkers....(oh my god they were coworkers) #i loved the idea of a daryan who cant get on a scene for some reason and hes liek #(goes to klavier in 'mom i frew up' sort of way) #and just noodles on a guitar while he waits for klav to finish scolding them help.

[shima-draws]

Actually OBSESSED with this edit. To the point where I watched Rio again just to hear the song even tho I hadn’t seen it in like 10 years

#ALLLLL THE BIRDS OF A FEATHER!!! (WHOAAA-OH) #DO WHAT WE LOVE MOST OF ALL (OHHH-OH) #MOON AND THE STARS. SUN AND GUITARS. THAT’S WHY WE LOVE CARNAVALLLLLL #This song feels SO Wano to me even tho I’m not even at Wano yet. LMAO #One Piece #Also the editing for this is PEAK #There’s another one that’s to My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark and they have FIGHTING NOISES TO THE BEAT OF THE SONG #It’s fucking BONKERS bro #Like sword clashes and punches. TO the song beat #God video editors out here be wildin. #Shima speaks #Video #Anyway I downloaded the remix and edited it bc all the ones on YT were the wrong pitch. So I have the right pitched one now lol #Instagram

[m0e-ru]

P4G Anime Adachi’s car - Lexus/Altezza IS200

P4 Dojima’s car - Land Rover (idk the exact model really it's a standard japanese right hand drive with a left side tailgate tire apparently)

P4G Anime Marie's guitar - G&L Telecaster Blueburst

P4 Visualive Attendant's shoes - Bapesta Nigo era Orange-Black Halloween limited edition 👍

#p4 #persona 4 #p4v #ゲッー #tohru adachi #ryotaro dojima #marie persona #⛽️🌫 #moel gas station attendant #// 'what kind of miscellaneous trivia is this' stuff that rotate in my mind for seven hours a day #// why would you need this you ask. um . if you want a really specific way to describe how adachis car crashes or something idk #// spent another hour trying to look for dojimas exact land rover model i straight up just gave up #// me when im modeling for a ps2 game and nobody'll care anyway lol #// no i didnt find all of this on my own just ask a resident geek about cars and guitars but found the SHOES on my own #// like damn this looks like a knockoff nike /looks up knockoff jp nike brand/OH MY GOD #// i think it's silly i showed them the guitar and they straight up just glanced at the headstock and said 'g&l telecaster' oakay #// i love you guitar freaks and your headstocks i will never know what a lespaul is though sorry #// straight up. exhausting my post count i did this to stop myself from posting OH WELL

[avaryy]

ryan ross, live in chicago 7/?: behind the sea

#ryan ross #spencer smith #jon walker #panic at the disco #patd #panic! #panic! at the disco #p!atd #fever #mine #my gifs #shut up avary #ryan #pretty.odd. #pretty odd #pretty odd era #live in chicago #brendon urie #unfortunately #love you guys #god i am so happy to be done with fever footage #whoever filmed this concert deserves a kiss fr #ryans surf green guitar #literally my favorite little guy #panic

[astrophysicist-guitar-god]

(x)

#Brian May #my guitar god love #pic by Peter Hince from his upcoming book #Queen Uncovered .. available for preorder will be released this October #256 pages #I'm sooooooooooo tempted #AND! #a birthday present to myself #yes.

[viralarcadian]

so the impmon in liberator has a slightly different evolution line from normal

#eric andre WHAT IF IT WAS PURPLE meme #digimon #digimon liberator #bur srsly i love this so much #they used the phantom of the paradise helmet for the perfect stage and its a nice callback to beelzemon #ph my god the wings on the ultimate are GUITARS and the perfect has subwoofers instead of missile launchers

[whiskeyswifty]

I’m Phoebe ignoring the crowd of 80k people to gaze lovingly at her.

#god I can’t imagine standing there next to her like singing WITH her #I’d collapse #I’d forget my own verse #also i can’t sing or write songs or play guitar so lmaoooo #my friend and I being like ok we’re gonna just pretend she was mouthing that to Phoebe and they’re the ones in love thanks byeeeeeeee #once again don’t be weird make joke have fun keep scroll

[grapejuicegay]

whoever edited love senior ep 4 [3/4] i just want to talk

#ACOUSTIC COUNTRY MUSIC OVER MANAOW'S ELECTRIC GUITAR #THE LACK OF SUBS FOR THE INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION BETWEEN GYOZA AND P'PURE #i'm sure there's more but i had to stop at 1:37 to make this post #because oh my god??? #love senior #love senior series

[sparrowsortadrawzzz]

"I TOLD YOU COME WITH MEEE, BUT YOU LEFT ME IN THE SILENCE WHERE THE NIGHTINGALES SHOULD BE"

WHAT????? GIRL????????? HOW DID CHXRLOTTE MANAGE TO BE SO CONCISE YET HEART WRENCHING IT IS PAINING ME-

#AAAAANGELLLLLLL #WOOOOoOoOoOOOOO #GOD ITS PAAAAAIIINFULLLLLLLL TO LOVE YOU LIKE I DOOOOOOSKGJDJHJDJHJ #distant sound of me getting my guitar #the sparrow squawks #we could have been us #chxrlotte #good omens #gos2 #Ineffable divorce #underrated artist #good omens song

[fudgecake-charlie]

currently living a coming of age movie because I sent my apartment neighbour(s, there are two of them) a letter one night under their door to say "Hi, sometimes life is real hard but I got to hear you and your friends have genuine fun singing to music and playing your acoustic guitar, thank you for reminding me that there can be good things everywhere, have a good night"

and then they slipped a note under my door saying "thank you! we loved hearing from you! we were celebrating a birthday, our friend who plays guitar is very happy, we hope the music was good for you, have a good night as well" and now we are having a back and forth recommending songs to each other!

literally the coolest fucking thing ever i am glad strangers can be kind

#we CAN have love in this world! there is good here! there is compassion! #Reblog if you want! #this has taken the span of about 4 days so far #we put little drawings on the front of the letters about relevant things #and so far ive been recommended Concorde by BCNR and a poem called MOON-WHALES #Oh my god great timing the guitar playing is back!!! #the words of a fudgecake

[azumasoroshi]

the shizu-chan song

just discovered the shizu-chan song by none other than johnny yong bosch. help me

id transcribe if i didnt have a final in 10 hours. maybe when i get back

oh nvm someone already wrote them out

this has similar energy as the bro duet song but like. in reverse bgskjdghjkgsd the no homo is for real

plus an animatic version and amv version because holy hell this is old

#i hear there's another shizuo song by johnny yong bosch according to the comments from 2017 but ill have to wait until yt recommends me it #anyway this makes me want to make a bro duet animatic for shizaya #which would be hilarious because. they're not bros #the ship dynamic of 'two guy best friends who maybe kiss sometimes' is very good but very not shizaya #so the spontaneous love confessions just come out of fucking nowhere during one of their fights #it would be really funny. trust #and probably better than the angst and self-denial festival i would make animating the actual shizu-chan song #i can already see the half-smiling-to-himself half-looks-like-he's-about-to-cry pining semi-regretful izaya face at the last shizu-chan #also. izaya guitar player headcanon hello #if someone can make an artist hobbyist izaya au i can make a guitar hobbyist izaya au #tbh izaya's more spontaneous and i feel like he wouldnt like all the hard work and practice time that goes into learning an instrument #like his main hobbies like parkour and switchblade throwing are stuff he gets to put into practice all the time and are more 'useful' #but instrument practice it's just him and his thoughts and callused hands for hours at a time #feel like he'd get frustrated pretty easily in that way #anyway wouldnt it be hot if izaya played the guitar LMFAOO fuck my characterization and let that man play fingerstyle #izaya playing piano is a somewhat popular headcanon anyway #god i have the worst habit of putting the entirety of my post into the tags. must be the incorrect lov joke bits spilling over #shizaya #shizuo heiwajima #izaya orihara #durarara #Youtube