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Brian May's gay Freddie shock
08 February 2008
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Queen guitarist Brian May didn't know Freddie Mercury was gay.Brian noticed the late Freddie, who died from an AIDS-related illness in 1991, was "flamboyant" but was too focused on his music to realise anything else.He said: "It was only in the 1980s that he started bringing men backstage who had that particular Adonis look."When I shared a room with him on tour in the early days I can assure you it was girls who generally stayed overnight."But he seemed to be what these days you would call metrosexual. He was into his hair, his clothes. He definitely led the way with regard to preening."Brian also claims that Freddie was the shyest member of the band, whose hits include 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Another One Bites The Dust' and 'Radio Ga Ga', despite his extroverted reputation.The 60-year-old musician added to Q magazine: "Contrary to how it seemed, we were all quite shy. Freddie was probably more shy than any of us. His way of coping with that was to act like a god onstage."
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by Michael 09 February 2008
Apparently, research sucks. Freddie didn't write Radio Ga Ga, Roger did.
by Wilki Amieva 09 February 2008
IMHO, "whose" is because of the personification of the band - it is not in reference to Freddie
by Andrea 09 February 2008
...and "Another one bites the dust" was written by John Deacon.
They just had it right one among three...
by Annie 09 February 2008
Where does it actually say he wrote these songs in the article? Not having a clue or a care about who wrote them, I simply read it as these were hits that he sang.
by Patrick 13 January 2011
I'm gonna have to call B.S. on this one. I saw Queen live in 1977 in San Francisco And it was nothing less than obvious that Mercury was totally comfortable in woman's spandex leotards ... Read More