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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played with a few local bands in the West Country, where I grew up, but when I was 18, I moved to London, which at that time was probably the most exciting musical city in the world. I was supposed to be studying dentistry, but all the time I was looking for a band to join.
- Hearing Aids
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.
- Butt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I had an important role.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'We Are the Champions' is meant to be 'we,' as in 'all of us,' collectively, not us the band. It's a shame that some people understandably had the wrong take on that. 'No time for losers' is not the kindest line, but it's really more of a 'we all of us.' It's a celebration.
- Musician
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a musician, always a musician.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, 'Queen,' in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals - it is amazing I passed.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
One Christmas, when Freddie and I were flatmates in Kensington, we were trying to cook Christmas dinner, but all we had was a packet of bread sauce that you make with water. We used to dream of a can of beans.
- Art College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band on vocals after Tim left in 1970.
- Geez
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- Nov 07, 2020
When hearing aids were first mentioned, I pictured myself as that old geezer at the back of the church with the whistling ear trumpet, but you can't see these Phonak hearing aids, and people don't realise you've got them in.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fancied being a lead singer. I've always done a lot of vocals, but obviously, Freddie is the lead singer.
- Diva
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been fairly eclectic in our time, and we did branch out. Whenever we got a little bit too far out, people started to moan and groan a bit.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to stay out of politics, really.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's got an opinion, and I was just lucky enough to have an outlet for mine.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the Queen tributes, some of them are very funny, and some of them are really not funny at all. The terrible ones are cheesy and pantolike, more about dressing up in a Brian May wig and a Freddie Mercury moustache, and what they're missing out is the fact that the music is quite complicated and actually not easy to perform.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I've got is that the ring fingers on both my hands have a little arthritis in each. It's a worn out joint because of too much exertion and stress. But it doesn't affect my playing, which is good.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want impersonators playing our music badly.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020