“But why if the band was so successful did they stop touring when he died?”
Cue me bashing my head into the wall for the 8572nd time.
Because you don’t just replace Freddie Mercury. The man was a once in a lifetime talent, he was charismatic, original, strutted sexuality, and had grace and humor.
Only Elvis could have not been blown off stage on Freddie’s terms.
This actually happened. I saw my mother love the song Bohemian Rhapsody for the 857th time on some television talent show and had to have a Freddie Mercury intervention.
She hadn’t seen the song in full, and she certainly hadn’t seen Freddie or anything close to him.
Romi Malik is whatever. I don’t care if he’s great or not, but he’s lip syncing something not even close to Freddie for animated people because they need to spend $30 million or whatever to play to people’s ego’s and ignorant need to see something new.
If you come away from the movie loving Freddie Mercury and wanting to find out more about him, and see him really sing that is fantastic. Maybe by the time you drive home from the movie you won’t be able to tell the difference, but you could have saved time and money by watching a documentary about Freddie and seeing the entire real Live Aid performance (which was one of the biggest charity flubs of all times in terms of feeding people, although it led to lots of bull shit knights), which blows whatever the hell went on it that movie and perhaps anyone who has ever stepped on a stage away like a skinny dork in the middle of a hurricane on a high wire.
That won’t happen 90% of the time. You will just tell people how clever you were to score tickets to the new movie, which makes Freddie seemingly beg to come back into the fold before his performance. They spent years trying to replace him and failed. They spent years arguing about this movie and how much credit the other band members would get with one absurdly having Freddie die in the middle as the others sought redemption.
The Buddy Holly story was fantastic. Gary Busey sings and plays, but there wasn’t footage of Holly to see in color like that. The movie is very misleading and wrong. It’s still worth watching. This movie may be worth watching, but not if you don’t have the time to at least have seen Freddie at Live Aid first. It’s free on YouTube.
Think that’s amazing? No, Freddie did that in his sleep.
Look at the joy and ecstasy he evokes from raising the rest of the band to his level every night. Brian May and the others were fantastic. No Freddie no Queen. Freddie would have done fine without the others. It would have been different, but he’d still have been Freddie somewhere.
Look at how ecstatic everyone is when someone supremely talented like George Michael approaches him here.
Another guy who was gay and is sadly gone.
Look at him sing here with yet another supremely talented singer/songwriter like Elton John who is time and again willing to shed the spotlight and share the stage.
These people are wonderful gifts to humanity who worked hard to gain and express their passion for us all, but this generation of vain, whining ignoramuses seems to need to be able to call themselves special for discovering themselves.
The movie comments on how out there Bohemian Rhapsody was as a song, but in no way shows you and makes the group seem like amateurs who got lucky in the studio. That’s not true. What is true is that millions make statements daily judging artists non-artistically.
There are lots of movies that suck I see because I’m a completist and watch them all. I’ve seen Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison ten times at least, and he’s ok – the movie is silly but I sort of like it anyway. Jim Morrison did not spew “get no higher” into the camera during Light My Fire on the Sullivan show; he sang it as if he had forgotten the threat and dismissed it which he had – much cooler than Val and proves my point.
You’ll see not even close to what happened and the real deal didn’t give a single fuck about Ed Sullivan or returning – much cooler – All praise to the Lizard King – again I’ve seen it 10 times and sort of like it.
Malik was ok. He made Freddie look goofy, not charming and funny and in control at all times, and the singing was nowhere near up to Freddie. Why see him lip sync to digital people when you can see the real thing and they in no way show how wild the actual song was on release. They gave no real info on how the band really rose to power. It was confusing as hell, and I don’t think Freddie begged to get back in Queen. Not as bad as this, but this happened 100% and makes me sick.
Discover Freddie Mercury in your own way, but discover as much as you can and do your best to say.
I mean why not just get Quello watch the entire documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender there for free and on YouTube and then cancel?
Man, that guy was a gift from God, and do your best to make sure the next one is on stage lifting us higher and not being buried under the egos of everyone else. Give the credit to Freddie.
